There is of course no doubt that what America needs most of all is neither Clinton, nor Obama, but Amitabh Singh Bachchan (somehow I managed to get his name wrong the first time around) for president. I don’t think I will ever really understand the racial relationship in the US between blacks and whites, but […]

There has been a ton of mashups of speeches from the American primaries, but here are three amusing ones - two Latino songs about Obama, and one where he (surprisingly) performs a Bollywood hit. America needs a president that can perform Bollywood song and dance numbers to restore its standing in the world!

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Sometimes the world seems to be going in the right direction. The sun outside is beautiful, even in the cold Toronto weather, and I just found out that Obama won all three primaries along the Potomac, and the Harvard faculty voted yay to institute the first faculty-initiated open access mandate.
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I have only visited New York once before, a few days in the summer a few years ago. Both then and now my time was spent trying to meet up with a few friends living here, and pounding the sidewalk in Manhattan to get an idea of the city. This time I was hoping to […]

Update: I removed the inline-link to the trailer, since it didn’t look nice in Windows browsers. Quicktime.
I came across this documentary on Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA player that has made, and found it quite interesting. I knew that Yao Ming was an important role model to Chinese in the US and in China who […]

Update: I apologize for a) posting a broken link and b) taking so long to fix it. Thank you to those who pointed it out, and please try again, it’s worth it.
I just found out that the excellent documentary on the sit-in at Harvard, that I mentioned in the last post, is available online! I […]

While researching what would end up being a poorly written essay on modernization theory and Laos (don’t ask), I came across the Journal of Higher Education, a topic that interests me verily, and I read a few articles. One that stood out was a comparison between the US and Canadian university systems in terms of […]

This ia weird little story, that I don’t know all the details of. I am just researching an essay about Laos, a country I visited twice in the past. (Reading the history is very useful, and makes me realize that many of the judgments and assumptions I made about the country when I was there, […]

Just a quick one, and unfortunately I don’t have an English link (yet), but according to an article in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, American NGOs have been combining missionary work and aid distribution in the areas hit by the tsunami in South-East Asia. According to a report made by the Swedish and English Save the […]

I have written before about access to education, distance learning and so on. Today I idly flipped through the 300 channels of our kind host in Idyllwild, after having checked that the float we visited for the Rosebowl made it through the rain. After checking out a few news programmes, a Spanish talk shows and […]