Links
This is a list of interesting articles and websites that I will maintain.
The Manpollo Project, Greg Craven
The Manpollo Project is the homepage for a series of videos created by Greg Craven, a high school teacher, that explores deep into the debate of global warming. He puts forth a convincing argument for action, while at the same time, lectures about the nature of science and the importance of proper research with humor and flair. Oh, and now he is writing a book on this matter.
China’s Way Forward by James Fallows
Idle factories, moored container ships, widespread bankruptcies, massive migration back to the hinterlands, strangely clean air—the signs of depression are everywhere in China. Because it makes so many of the goods the world isn’t buying now, China stands to be worse hit than the rest of the world —just as America was during the Depression, when it was the world’s sweatshop. But like America then, China will use tough times to design innovative products that will get it the high profits and the high-value jobs Americans kept to themselves for decades. And that is very bad news for the United States, unless it uses tough times to reinvent itself, too.
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth by Michael Parenti
Buddhism and the Dalai Lama aside, what I have tried to challenge is the Tibet myth, the Paradise Lost image of a social order that was little more than a despotic retrograde theocracy of serfdom and poverty, so damaging to the human spirit, where vast wealth was accumulated by a favored few who lived high and mighty off the blood, sweat, and tears of the many. For most of the Tibetan aristocrats in exile, that is the world to which they fervently desire to return. It is a long way from Shangri-La.
Tibet Through Chinese Eyes by Peter Hessler
“Many Chinese working in Tibet regard themselves as idealistic missionaries of progress, rejecting the Western idea of them as agents of cultural imperialism. In truth, they are inescapably both.”
Life After Deng by Tom Grimmer
As I was casting about for some way to sum up the 30 years in China since the start of the open-door policy, George H..W. Bush saved me the trouble. In a recent interview with the China Daily, an official newspaper, he said: “I think it’s not even questionable that people have more freedom than they used to have. Now some people [in the United States] don’t understand that. They still regard the Chinese as a bunch of communists.”
When Pigs Fly by Demonbaby
The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide
Moral Dilemma by Mirko Bagaric
If Victorians are now bloated with human rights why are we so grumpy as a result of ‘trivial’ water and electricity deprivations?
Game Theories by Clive Thompson
Online fantasy games have booming economies and citizens who love their political systems. Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one?
BBC: Climate science: Sceptical about bias by Richard Black
Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely the most damaging is that science itself is biased against them.