The Irrawady Dolphin is almost extinct !

It is part of the way of life here, throwing and dumping everything in the river ! From domestic wastes to industrial ones, the water no longe holds even a muddy aspect, it is inderscribable. It sends shivers to the spine to think of the huge amount of toxic materials [...]

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Too bored to save the planet !

Maybe we’re all too bored to bother saving the planet

LISA PRYOR
June 13, 2009

Boredom is going to kill us. Wait. Too dramatic. Let me put it more boringly. Boredom, and our collective inability to endure it, is going to compromise our capacity to tackle the challenges of our age in a way that is productive [...]

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Rice In Vietnam – in all colours

When one greets another in Vietnam, it is always about asking whether ‘ you have eaten rice?’
Rice is a sacred commodity, it is present in all forms shapes, at all occasions and at any time of the day or night.

From disastrous times when it struggled to feed itself, Vietnam has become the [...]

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I have lost my hits !

For some obscure reasons, some of my hits have disappeared in cyber space. I was celebrating crossing over 1000 hits a couple of days ago and even since I saw the new numbers this morning – 999 !
What is this conspiracy ?
Waiting for WordPress to fix it.

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Two Mad men who still haunt us !

As an attention-grabbing gesture, cutting off your ear is hard to beat.
It’s weird and gruesome enough for a work of crime fiction: “The Case of the Artist’s Missing Ear” as Arthur Conan Doyle might have called it. In the denouement, Sherlock Holmes could have revealed that, in fact, the bloody deed was performed by a [...]

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