Went to China for a conference and decided to stick around a bit to see some off the eastern part of the country.
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Starting the trip in high speed – taking the Maglev from Pudong to the outskirts of Shanghai
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Traveling in East China
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A 7:20 minutes trip with a top speed of 430 – the Maglev is amazing!
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So true!
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xkcd: Tradition
Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/988/. Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tradition.png. The 20 most-played Christmas songs (2000-2009 radio airplay) by dec…
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Pretty awesome picture!
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The Bund in the Rain
This is the older British part of Shanghai. On the night I took this, it was rainy and cold — that kind of wet cold that still runs through you even when you are under an awning. It's the kind of cold that can only make you think of a big warm blanket at home…
BTW, did you see our Google+ Discovery Photographer Finds of 2011? See this thread: https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/aqBu1kJBkD5
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from Trey Ratcliff at http://www.StuckInCustoms.com – all images Creative Commons Noncommercial
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Good article with a pretty funny twist at the end in the direction of the Daily Mail!
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On bad genetics reporting « Genomes Unzipped
On bad genetics reporting. 05/12/2011 Categories: In The News Written by Daniel MacArthur. This short article on the Independent's website may not be the worst piece of genetics reporting ever, bu…
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Interesting blog post about the student demonstrations at Berkeley
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2 UC chancellors, 2 police assaults, no coincidence
I teach at UC Berkeley and my brother teaches at UC Davis, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied trying to figure out why our two campuses have all of a sudden become ground zero in the institutional repression of student speech. Is it some kind of accident that both Berkeley’s Chancellor Birgeneau and Davis’s Chancellor Katehi decided to insist on a zero tolerance policy against students putting up tents and give police carte blanche to enforce it? I don’t think so.
The UC administration – the chan…
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