Tonight I attended a ceremony and dinner to commemorate an honorary Lao Consul on the Woosong University campus. During dinner, when it was learned that I am the author of four books, I was asked when I was going to write a book about Laos, which got me thinking. I really should at some point. [...]
Archive | April 17, 2012
The rich get richer–and stingier
There’s a great article in this month’s Scientific American™ which talks about how less compassionate people become the more money they have. But why would wealth and status decrease our feelings of compassion for others? After all, it seems more likely that having few resources would lead to selfishness. Piff and his colleagues suspect that [...]
“I love the smell of tear gas in the morning….”
It smells like a demonstration. Back in the day, in this case, back in the early 1990s, one sure sign of spring in the air was the smell of tear gas in the air. This photo was taken of riot police wearing their Darth Vader-like helmets at a demonstration in Chongno outside of the [...]
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