Yet another reason why we should only eat “real” food.
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I’ve just come from my upstairs balcony, where I spent the last 15 minutes listening to the sounds of thousands of frogs who are sublimely happy with all the rain we’ve been getting. I wasn’t happy about the rain today, as I sat inside the apartment, enduring power cuts every 10 minutes or so. I [...]
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Get ready to squirm! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ch6aI3f7ZI] In the South China province of Hunan, field mice are taking over. They are escaping the flooding of Dongting Lake, looking for food and shelter. All I can say is, ewwww. Over at Global Voices, Chinese bloggers are discussing the situation, and wondering what will become of the mice. Will [...]
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I have cycled through the busy streets of downtown Toronto, the sleepy airport of Shijiazhuang, China, and the mayhem of Linyi, China. I am all for bike culture. Want to reduce your carbon emissions and fuel bills? Get a bike! Paris has introduced a pilot bike rental program to decrease traffic congestion in the city [...]
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I just don’t know what to think of you! I like you a lot, most of the time. You make me laugh. You make me ponder. You make me curious. You make me question many things about myself and others. You also make me question you and your people. Sometimes I can’t stand you. You [...]
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Blogging is difficult in China. My blogging platform, WordPress, is banned in China. For me to be able to update, I have to launch a program called Tor which allows me to bypass the Great Firewall of China. It is slow, and sometimes it just doesn’t want to work. I’ve maintained a mirror of my [...]
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No doubt you’ve heard that China is exporting all sorts of exciting chemicals in normal household products and foods, in order to liven things up a bit. I mean, who wants regular old toothpaste when you can have toothpaste that shares ingredients with anti-freeze?! You can even get it in your cough syrup! Why feed [...]
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Imagine the horror… The China Meteorological Administration is reporting on their website that a small village in Southwest China is fighting a “relentless battle” against an army of toads. The toads, spurned on by the heavy rainfall and desire to conquer the tormented village, began their invasion a few weeks ago. Although the villages feared [...]
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Beijing is trying to clean up its act before the 2008 Olympics. I’ve been to Beijing multiple times (in fact I’ll be there tomorrow!) and all I have to say is: Good luck with that!! No Spitting on the Road to Olympic Glory, says the New York Times. The article discusses some common issues that [...]
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With Pink! It’s peach blossom time in China and the countryside around Linyi is covered in pink flowers. A few weekends ago, we took a day trip with our friends D. & L. and their family to have a closer look at the blossoms. We went to a small village that was celebrating a peach [...]
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