In which we collect news and stories of interest from the internet, so you can sit on the couch and pretend to “work” on your laptop versus cleaning up or helping out in the kitchen. Wait, that’s me.
AAPI(ish)
In China, bird flu is back in the news. (Voice of America)
For a local’s take, TWP covered it here.
San Francisco had a day of air quality worse than Beijing, and then everyone was all like, APPLES AND ORANGES. (SFist)
Murder on the Roof of the World: My Travels Along the China-Pakistan Border (The Atlantic)
Writer Li Chenpeng praises Taiwanese democracy, sees trees for forest? (Li’s Sina blog, in Chinese)
And beyond
15 scary, beautiful scenes of skeletons (Salon)
This seemed to be a very social-services focused week for me: The Invisible Child (The New York Times), which will win something for sure, and The Welfare Queen (Slate)
Lose more time in the Wiki wormhole with the Wikipedia Advent Calendar. (Noah Veltman)
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