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A Blond Scientist in India

the completed blog of my adventures through India with my sister, life on the March to Tibet with the snow lions and my short exploration of Cape Town

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

fast bullfrogs at slow speeds or : fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride

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Lex Pelger
NYC, United States
An American scientist who moved to Mumbai, switched to journalism and wound up on the March to Tibet. After a quick stop in South Africa, he finally made it back to the Big Apple. pelger@gmail.com
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my articles on the march

  • Reality Sandwich
  • Tibetan World
  • Brooklyn Rail
  • marcher biographies
  • radio interview for Tibet Connection part 1
  • and part 2

Like No Other

  • Boingboing - my favorite blog, "a collection of wonderful things"
  • Postsecret - my first Sunday activity, people mail in their secrets on postcards
  • Strange Maps - a collection of interesting maps
  • Improv Everywhere - "We cause scenes" - improv jokes on unsuspecting people
  • Jan Chipchase's Future Perfect - an anthropologist for Nokia who finds people's elegant solutions to small problems during his travels
  • Rules of Thumb - helpful little rules on a crazy array of topics
  • Dezeen - excellent design blog
  • Mod Blog - not for all eyes/stomachs, piercings and much more
  • English Russia - because something interesting happens every day on a 1/6 of the world's surface
  • Morbid Anatomy - "Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture"

Politics & Economics

  • Nicholas Kristof - one of the leading journalists of this generation, instrumental in bringing the Sudan genocide to the world stage
  • Jon Taplin's blog - my favorite for analysis of economics
  • Open Congress - open source info on every bill in Washington
  • Daily Kos - the liberal blogger
  • Instapundit - Libertarian
  • Wonkette - dirtiest (and funniest) mouth in political blogging
  • Phayul - the Tibetan news source
  • Danwei - excellent source for internal Chinese news with a daily summary of Xinhua's top stories
  • TIME: China blog - excellent analysis, a must-read if interested in China

Comics & Fun

  • Everything is Wrong With Me - the funniest blog I read, not safe for work
  • XKCD - my favorite comic
  • Fireland - a twitter feed (144 chars or less) of funny and twisted lines, makes me spit up milk
  • Fig Crumbs - funny poetry
  • Qwantz - dinosaur comics with a philosophical bent
  • Indexed - comics on index cards
  • Drinking for Two - funny and disturbing observations
  • Wondermark Comic - Victorian engraving comics, much funnier than it sounds

Science

  • Evolgen - molecular population and evolutionary genetics
  • Genomicron - exploring genomic diversity and evolution
  • John Hawks Anthropology blog - paleoanthropology, genetics, and evolution
  • Pharyngula - "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal"
  • Richard Dawkins - a link list to atheism and science news by the man himself
  • ScienceBlog - links to new research in all disciplines
  • Wired Science - has the mag's unique taste for cool

Friends

  • Dad's book and business, be his friend on facebook
  • ConstructionKnowledge.net - Dad's construction encyclopedia
  • Prependuum - David Goligorsky's excellent design blog
  • green, how i want you green - Nadia's blog with her writing and excellent photos from her worldwide travels
  • Goodtymes, Bad Times... - email the lazy bastard and tell him to keep writing
  • The Wreck of the Mary Murray - my trip to an abandoned Staten Island Ferry

the past

  • Oct 2008 (1)
  • Aug 2008 (6)
  • Jul 2008 (11)
  • Jun 2008 (8)
  • May 2008 (29)
  • Apr 2008 (33)
  • Mar 2008 (30)
  • Feb 2008 (42)
  • Jan 2008 (25)
  • Dec 2007 (19)
  • Nov 2007 (13)
  • Oct 2007 (2)
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