So my mother and I have this off-and-on discussion–it’s been going for years, and usually it works out to my main criticisms of New Age conceptions of the world being, well, arbitrarily descriptive without any rigorous demands for evidence, and my mom’s criticism of science is that it “only looks at the surface of things, and not the deeper levels”. Much as I love my Mom, this really frustrates me.
Month: November 2006
Harry Potter in 1 Minute
Zuper Kim
Hilarious, even if it’s also a little disturbingly close to reality. (Via the esteemed Marmot.)
A Riot in North Korea?
Andrei Lankov reports what little is known, and why it might be significant.
Korean Women and the Upper Limits
Jodi’s posted on The Glass Ceiling in Korea. Excellent as usual. Go read. Also on the subject, Lost Nomad pointed at this article. Ah well, at least adultery by wives in on the rise in Korea, reports Marmot. During dinner with an old friend, I was discussing the fact that red light districts are so well-known and out-in-the-open here, and she told me that many women know their husbands are going to those places, and just accept it as the way things are. It’s reassuring to see them being duplicitous in return… maybe. Or something. I mean, maybe if more …