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Just got back

Thanks to all who commented on the Dahn Yoga story, and on the Taiwan trip. I'll be writing more about Taiwan over the next week. I'm back a few days…
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Random encounters

(All the Chinese words are my own spelling.) There are a lot of other akward, geeky white guys in Taipei, but apparently not too many because I find I am…
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Nearly heaven

This picture represents one solid component of what heaven will be like (you'll notice that there is no beer tap present, which is why this is only a partial view…
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Technical problems: cache

Hi all. The links to the KIBS psychic experiment will work, once they actual stories appear on their scheduled dates. They won't work for the parts of the series that…
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The Great Far East Mission of 2009

I'm winging my way---squeezed into a seat the size of shoebox---to the Far East. Taiwan, specifically; Formosa as was. My mission there is highly classified and secret. I'll be on…

Nobel prize in medicine here I come!

From Sense about Science comes Celebrities and Science Review 2008. This article in The Independent explains it in more detail (originally linked on Instapundit). The Sense about Science report looks…
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“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…