I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but I'd rather not (c'mon, you guys, I have a Chinese midterm, give me a break :P), so instead, I'm going to write about evolution.  One of my classes this year is an upper-division biology class, Experimental Ecology & Evolution (E3, for short, and I love it more than any class ever), which is giving me uppity ( Read more... )

Chinese is an awesome language, which is going to basically destroy my soul sometime soon, but hasn't done yet. One of the more interesting...features of Chinese is the tendency to take a famous proverb, cut it down to four characters, and make that word mean the moral of the entire proverb. Obviously, these make very little sense if you don't ( Read more... )