About me
I am a graduate of Grinnell College with a degree in Biological Chemistry. The name of this blog is derived from the name I use in Chinese, 孟柏民 (Mèng Bómín).
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
A pleasant surprise
I subscribe to the White House Blog RSS feed via Google Reader, but most of the time I only skim through the posts. However, today there was a post that really caught my eye. “A New Year, A New Beginning” … Continue reading
Why I’m glad Pluto’s not a planet.
This is a thoroughly stale topic, but it manages to come up again and again. In 2006, through a perhaps rather questionable procedure, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the word “planet” in such a way as to kick Pluto … Continue reading
Epic fail: Apple’s new shuffle lacks buttons, still no screen
Someone must have threatened Apple’s “smallest music player” claim for their iPod shuffle brand, because its hard for me to think up a justification for this new batch of idiocy they just cooked up. This: is the new iPod shuffle. … Continue reading
The craziness is higher up
Apparently, it wasn’t only a Brazilian archbishop who thought that saving a raped nine year-old’s life by aborting two embryos that she was too small to carry to term was a reprehensible act: A senior Vatican cleric has defended the … Continue reading
Brazil’s president is sane
But the high clergy of the Catholic Church there are not. Apparently, they are upset over a recent abortion performed on a nine-year old girl who was allegedly raped by her stepfather. In fact, they were so upset that they … Continue reading
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