by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Very useful historical perspective and analysis of the current recession in the West. Summary: with the “rich” taking a wildly disproportionate cut of many countries’ income, the “middle class” (non-rich, non-poor) have run out of avenues...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
I was surprised that I hadn’t really thought this through before: we clearly do things to babies that we would not tolerate doing to adults without their permission (e.g. take blood, deny them property rights). I understand that newborns would find it hard to...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading, Science, View
NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps. So sad that a large part of the era of manned space exploration is temporarily on hold. The pictures are gobsmacking.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Reading
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? The answer certainly wasn’t what I had imagined.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
SPIEGEL Interview with Henry Kissinger: ‘Mao Might Consider Modern China to Be Too Materialistic’. Some good stuff in there around a model for the CPC based on Mexico’s PRI, that we can’t claim to understand China’s 4000 year history and...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Confessions of a Chinese high school student | Danwei.
