I realize reading this article, “A Dangerous Surplus of Sons?”, that while I thought I was being negative about the sex-imbalance in Asia—the fact that there are going to be far too many more men than women in places like China and India—I was being a little too optimistic, in fact. One question occurs to […]
A review of Brian Green’s latest physics popularization by Freeman J. Dyson. I have a book in my bookshelf waiting for me to read, by this Green guy. Hm. I wish I had more books by Dyson, actually. He’s fascinating. Especially The Sun, The Genome, and the Internet, which I think is the title of […]
There are a lot of wonderful things to say about Christianity and Christians. I’ve said some of them before. So now I’m going to sternly warn a small segment of the population that is not-so-wonderful. For its own good. Among the many sane and normal and wonderful Christians of the world, there is a specific […]
Not sure to what degree any of this is true, but here are a few lines that occurred to me and I may (or may not) use it in that essay I’m writing about interracial relationship politics in South Korea. Criticism of this is welcome and invited; and I am thinking I need to borrow […]
You’re sitting in the theater waiting for the Turkish movie to begin and the two Korean guys sitting next to you hear you talking to one of the film festival volunteers in simple Korean and decides to strike up a coversation with you, and it’s actually mostly comprehensible both ways. One guy’s a waiter and […]