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Hey mothers (and fathers)
Someone linked me to this website.
I suspect some of you would want to do this.
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/11/07/mom-turns-her-infant-sons-nap-positions-into-awesome-activities-with-a-pen/
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Come at me, bro
We can figure what an imprisoned octopus actually thinks through interpreting movements of her tentacles. A significant scientific breakthrough in human-cephalopod interactions.
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Music Monday
Taking a break from traditional Chinese music because I don't have as much time to do the research today. So today, Chinese (mainland) poprock. But not just any poprock, but a poprock that actually got really famous because 2 amateurs taped their version and put it on the web. You can see the number of hits it got. This "demo tape" landed the duo ( Read more... ) -
Music Monday
We're still in the string instrument family this week, in our stroll through traditional Chinese instruments. This week we are looking at 二胡 (erhu) which literally means a boxed-string instrument with 2 strings. In the West, it's sometimes called the "Chinese fiddle" or the "Chinese violin," although from the wiki entry, you can see that they're ( Read more... ) -
Music Monday
So to continue from last week's entry, we will hit a second traditional Chinese instrument. It is another string instrument, more similar to a lute or a guitar, called 琵琶 (pipa). Here's the wiki entry on pipa. It is apparently a 4-string (I always thought it had 8, owing to the similar in sound to the number 8 in Chinese), with 12-26 (26!) frets ( Read more... ) -
Music Monday
This week I am bringing you a piece of music performed in the traditional Chinese instrument called 古箏 (Gu-zheng), called zither in English. You can read the wiki entry on this, which is certainly more than what I know ( Read more... ) -
This is what makes me angry
People who are eligible for vaccines but who choose not to vaccinate, either for themselves or their children.
Just watched a broadcast from my professional society of a panel discussion on the outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) in California, 2010, and which eventually spread nationwide. You can watch here: ASM videoThis outbreak caused the ( Read more... ) -
Music Monday
Well, I feel like posting this song. So much misogyny on the board lately. I totally sympathize with Balefont when she said that reading Res Ipsa Loquitur's post makes her wants to rip her own uterus out. I'd feel the same if I had a uterus ( Read more... ) -
There is so much wrong...
.... in that one post by Lyreiania ( Read more... ) -
Music Monday
Here's an entry: 張震獄 (Zhen-yu Zhang) 秘密 (Secret)
Only when I close my eyes,
do I see you.
This is what I hide in my heart,
I love you secretly.
( Here be Video )
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