What Do I Know?

This is one of those historic moments when the world will pull back from the bring of disaster or go crashing into a new world of callous de...

There are lots of details here that make it difficult to  report this clearly and painlessly.  And there are various loose ends that need to...

I found this information because I was curious about how long the US-]Mixico border was. First you have to guess the countries that have rea...

 Wikipedia tells us that  "Dawn is the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan and the country's newspaper of rec...

[UPDATE:  Here's a link to a great site about birding and other wildlife in Beijing and beyond:   https://birdingbeijing.com .] When I t...

David Pogue (@Pogue)  tweeted a link too Radio.garden .  You get to a page. Click open and  you then  get the world, literally.  Each green...

 This LA Times article offers a Cliff Notes review of President Xi Jinping and China's role in the world.  Since Trump has sucked all th...

Today it was announced that Israel and Bahrain have agreed to diplomatic ties.  This follows a similar recent arrangement between Israel and...

Governments suppressing stories that make them look bad are not new.  When my son taught in China he mentioned one day that the Chinese have...

 A friend alerted me to this article in Counterpunch . It begins like this: "On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that ...

When you live in a different country you have to adjust to different ways of doing things.  I don't mean a two week vacation and staying...

I was hoping to post pictures of flowers or something like that today.  Australia is burning because we can't give up our luxuries to fi...

A couple of links that might be of interest.  Both are examples, in their own way, of how people's understanding is influenced by how fa...

Amidst all the serious issues the Trump administration is causing, the really big issue facing everyone is global warming.  But the IPCC rep...

This month's Citizen Climate Lobby meeting was this morning.  Groups from all over the US (representing 85% of all Congressional distric...