Gong hay fat choi!
- I hope the Year of the Dog is a big happy golden retreiver, and not the biting type.
- An explanation and history of the Chinese New Year and Lunar Calendar. I’m an Ox, what animal are you?
- Google, censorship, and the Great Firewall of China. Care to make an alternative search engine ala the Red Pill, Greg?
- After several sightings, the hunt is on for Malaysia’s Bigfoot. Run, Snaggle-toothed Ghost, run! Article with footprint photo.
- Perhaps it’s related to the Yeren, surprisingly protected by Chinese officials who closed parts of the Shennongjia Nature reserve, banning wildman tourists and hunters.
- A review of Elin Kelsey’s Strange New Species: Astonishing Discoveries of Life on Earth (Amazon US or UK).
- A Singapore team was told to postpone it’s expedition to search for the Malaysian Bigfoot.
- This villager thinks he’s found footprints of a large hairy bipedal beast with large buttocks.
- Did a guard who reported a security breach inside the USA’s second-largest chemical weapons depot see Bigfoot? Greenies are usually hairy and unwashed.
- Deforestation by humans is a direct cause of the catastrophic collapse of orangutan populations, according to a new genetic study. We won’t appreciate what we had until we’ve lost it.
- Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed. If that wasn’t enough, sea level rise is also accelerating.
- Car manufacturers aren’t doing enough to develop green alternatives to petrol (that’s what you call gas if you’re not American).
- In a positive step, a bio power station is being constructed in the UK.
- I’m moving to Schwarzenegger-land. California has become the first US state to classify second-hand tobacco smoke as a toxic air pollutant.
- Did an octopus attack a submarine off the coast of Vancouver because a crewman refused to butt out his cigarette?
- Here’s a photograph of the recently discovered black granite statue depicting Akhenaten’s mother, Queen Tiye.
- Archaeologists excavating a pyramid complex in the jungles of Guatemala have uncovered the earliest example of Mayan writing ever found. Here’s a photo.
- Gold and jade objects were among the artifacts excavated from a 600-year-old Ming tomb.
- On the outskirts of Xian, Chinese archaeologists have discovered a large-scale relic site estimated to be 2200-years-old.
- The discovery of stone tools in a palaeolithic quarry near Hong Kong has pushed the date back for human habitation in the area from 7000-years-ago to more than 35000-years-ago.
- Mongolia is looking to its past to create a future industry of native archaeologists and scientists.
- An excellent interview with explorer and cultural historian John Belezza, and his decade-long search for Tibet’s lost civilisations. Highly recommended.
Quote of the Day:
Past scholars studied to improve themselves;
Today’s scholars study to impress others.
Confucius
