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“You’re giving up your rights. Your rights matter because you never know when you’ll need them. People should be able to pick up the phone and call their family, should be able to send a text message to their loved one, buy a book online, without worrying how this could look to a government possibly…

I’m lucky to live near what is probably one of the coolest stationery stores in North America. I get to try out all these different, unique models of pens and notice even small subtleties in they way each performs. I recently found this pen above and it has quickly become my favorite writing implement. One…

Now that inflationary B-modes polarization signals have been teased out of CMB data, confirming inflation theory, it makes me think. I’m not an astrophysicist but I still love to think about these things: What if the Big Bang is something that continually happens? We think of the Big Bang as being an event that occurred…

Documentary about Uighur city of Kashgar and challenges it is facing. I’ve been writing a number of posts related to Xinjiang recently. Its a huge provence of far western China where ancient caucasoid mummies were discovered not long ago with haplotype R1a which is distinctly European. Some of the mummies had textiles that were a…

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A tourist’s camcorder got taken by a monkey in Bali and it filmed itself. So cute! I wish there were monkeys here where I live. I think life would be happier.

It looks like Ukraine is fucked no matter what: …this does not mean the start of systematic democratic change, or that the new government is in any way going to challenge the root of pervasive corruption in Ukraine: poverty and inequality. Moreover, it is likely only to aggravate these problems, putting the burden of the…

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