Sunday, 22 June 2014

Chinese etymology and the logic of the modern language

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Or, perhaps, "Chinese etymology vs. the logic of the modern language". On Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4rKt8Sv1g
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Poverty and Participation

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Currently, Taiwan hovers around 4% unemployment (and people complain that it is not 3%). That is an amazingly low number from a Europea...
Sunday, 15 June 2014

The Many Strange Uses of the Meat Radical

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On Youtube: Chinese isn't vegan (the many strange uses of the meat radical). Click: http://youtu.be/Z9neHifdGbc
Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Measuring Poverty Through Overcrowding

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The overcrowding rate is an extremely useful statistic, even though the subjective notion of what "overcrowding" really means w...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

How I Ended Up Learning Chinese (Part Three)

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How I Ended Up Learning Chinese ~or~ Divorce and Consequences. Divorce can mean different things in different circumstances.  When I...
Thursday, 15 May 2014

How I Ended Up Learning Chinese (Part Two)

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How I Ended Up Learning Chinese ~or~ Divorce and Consequences. So we arrived in Canada with a plan.  Soon enough, we’d leave witho...
Wednesday, 14 May 2014

How I Ended Up Learning Chinese (Part One)

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How I Ended Up Learning Chinese ~or~ Divorce and Consequences. I couldn’t come up with a good way of putting this into a video, a...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Corruption in Contemporary Buddhism

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[佛教中的貪腐] Three anecdotes in ten minutes, involving Japan [日本], Thailand [泰國], and Laos [老窩/遼國]. On Youtube:  http://youtu.be/qI7lgVULW...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Richard Dawkins Endures Buddhist Chanting

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Just the first 30 seconds of this video... just 30 seconds, I promise you... A nice moment, expressed both through the narration and the exp...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Listening to Abenakis, an extinct language

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I just listened to the two audio-recordings of Abenakis being spoken from the top of this web-page. I could, indeed, recognize several wor...