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  • Kevin Chiu 11:58 pm on April 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    China Pollution update 

    Yay: To clean air, aid climate, China looks to end polluters’ perks.

    I think central china could host some pretty huge solar farms. With the right technology, products, and education, solar power might be able to displace coal as the main source of energy.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 4:43 pm on April 27, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Time Capsule 

    The University of Washington is preparing a time capsule.

    The new capsule will be filled with digital media, carrying images of graffiti and video and focusing on “communication from a global perspective,” said Coma Te, a 20-year-old senior who was one of six students who created the new capsule. – Komo TV

    Digital media? Will people still have the technology to play h.264 files 50 years from now?

     
  • Kevin Chiu 6:57 pm on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Biodiesel 

    I drove behind a biodiesel Volkswagen Jetta today.

    It smelled like a French Fry on Fire.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 11:18 pm on April 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    China Pollution 

    The only thing preventing me from hopping onto a plane and making a long-term excursion to China is the extreme pollution problem they have.

    And oddly, that’s the huge motivation to go as well — to bring the rampant environmental disaster under control.

     
    • Emma Hill 1:56 pm on May 1, 2010 Permalink

      i always use Biodiesel on my car to help the environment. Biodiesel is cleaner and is reneweable.*:’

  • Kevin Chiu 3:27 am on April 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    I was partially correct! 

    It seems Dr. Baily of Northwestern University has provided supporting evidence for the hypothesis I presented concerning gender and attractiveness.

    Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation…”

    The New York Times (user: nobugs, pass: nobugs)

     
    • Chris Govella 4:53 pm on April 12, 2007 Permalink

      your magazine rack observation is partly correct….mass media supposedly reflects the public’s interests in their content, ….but also I think there are larger forces at work, such as marketing and advertising, and a general bias towards selling items and selling images of beauty/attractiveness etc. I’m not entirely convinced that by putting women and men on the cover of ‘women’s interest’ section magazines equals ‘women are interested in men and women’ so much as ‘the people who write these magazines think/say women are interested in men and women’.

      of course i may be reading too deeply into something that is merely a lighthearted blogpost.

    • Kevin Chiu 7:05 pm on April 13, 2007 Permalink

      Yeah, it was lighthearted blog post.

      Anyways, now that you bring up the issue, we have a chicken and egg problem. Do people like fashionable things because they’re told to like them, or do they like things without being told, and then fashion professionals pick up on that?

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