Back in February I wrote a post about
a new study that finds that Democrats and Republicans ignore information that contradicts their own point of view. By monitoring the brains of politically active individuals on both sides of the spectrum, the study demonstrates the lack of reasoning and the strong role bias plays in partisan decision-making[.]
I [...]
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Well, it looks like it was definitely the People’s Republic of China that banned my blog, and not GoDaddy (the company that hosts my blog back in the US). After discovering that GoDaddy routinely blocks people in China from seeing its sites, I began to wonder whether it was them who banned me. Anyway, I [...]
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John Darling, a nice Australian who just happens to read my blog, once told me a story about his time in Malaysia (then Malaya) with the military many years ago. He said something about seeing a strange creature somewhere, something like a yeti. I thought it was probably just an orang utan—literally person of the [...]
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So here I am, having to use a proxy to get to my own blog from China, thinking the government has blocked access to my domain for whatever reason. And I keep trying to think of the exact reason they might have done that, a reason which up to this point still eludes me. However, [...]
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My dear friends (and family too), it appears M A C V A Y S I A has been outlawed by the government of the People’s Republic of China.
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I mentioned a couple of posts back that storytelling is a tradition in my home. Anyone who’s read anything I’ve written about my grandfather will know that. Well, recently I found a site where some members of a certain extended family back home are sharing their stories.
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Chinese Friend (closing the door and lowering his voice): Can you do a favour for me?
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Storytelling is a big tradition where I come from. And also, it seems, in a certain market in Marrakesh:
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