Blue Green Planet

Red Rose, White Rose, and all the goddamn tragedy of sunken, misfitting lives. Eileen Chang , how can you do this? From wondrous fragments o...

How amazing would it be if for California's next act, we showed the world how to build advanced, high-performing, environmentally-sound ...

I'm cleaning this computer, which must go back to the university, and found a note from May 30: The island of lost happiness.  What...

I was searching through old notes, and I saw that I jotted this in July 2012, a full five months after Opening's last performance. It se...

The next pair of pandas shipped out from China should be called 「自由」 and 「平等」。If they have a cub we'll call it 「民主」。 下一對運出的大熊貓應該叫「自...

I had a dream last night where I was in Roble Dance Studio. The object of the lesson was to practice grace and musicality. In groups of thre...

Already you seem a memory: a distant voice, a faint melody, a faded photograph. The sensation of far away, a dream; no more corporeal...

At the Tech4Dem conference today organized by the National Democratic Institute, exploring trajectories for democracy and how new technolog...

Gabby Giffords raises her torch  in The New York Times  after the failure of a gun safety bill to get past the Senate. While 54 senators wer...

Musical quiz time! Can you guess which composers and/or what era the following songs are from? Sample 1: Sample 2: Sample 3:

The theme for Stanford's Big Dance this year: We are taking pre-orders for Big Dance shirts! Get Fire Nation Red or Water Bend...

"In Dream College Rankings, Harvard University Is Unseated" the Huffington Post reports . Myriad Facebook statuses gleefully echo ...

Equality: because folks have waited long enough.

I have been reading the Constitution of the Republic of China promulgated in 1947, and these two articles in the section on culture and educ...

I was inspired by my friend Yang, who made an amazing Wordle of the Chinese (People's Republic of China) Constitution: A single im...

The "luftpause" is a breath mark, cloud-floating, wing-fluttering:     air ... air ... air ... (inhale) The transcendant lift ...

The March from Beethoven 9 makes me want to parade down the street swinging my arms -- a spring in my step, an added touch of flair. It'...

Return to your rooms with portraited walls, Rejoice as you pass through our hallowed halls. Restart the gears turning! (obedient learnin...

Early Viennese Ball Photos (c. 1979) We are definitely part of a lineage, dear friends! From Todd Doersch: "For...