Oh my god. I love bluegrass, I love Chinese instruments, and I love cultural globalization. (And, yes, I’m doing my bluegrass dance as I type this.) [via Jeff via Ingrid and John]

I first saw Lokman Tsui in 2006 at a conference on the “Hyperlinked Society” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenburg School for Communication, where he is a graduate student studying the internet’s impact on society. We also had the chance to briefly exchange ideas at the 2007 meeting of the International Communication Association in San [...]

From 1945, when Germany was divided into East and West, until 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War power dynamic defined international relations. The term “Third World” was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy to refer to those countries in South Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania that were unaligned with either [...]

Even something like that, just the sun setting behind a hill, that’s something you never see in the city. – Revaz The Western side of the DF-to-Queretaro highway fell in perfect gradient from a light blue overhead into a deep magenta, and then ended abruptly with the busty silhouette of the rolling hills of Mexico’s [...]

We rented a scooter, my sister and I, and decided to ride the damn thing all the way from Candidasa on one side of Bali to Ubud, almost all the way on the other. On the way my lower back began to ache and, to my eternal frustration, my sister was determined to knock her [...]

It is the G5 Summit, Mexico Edition. Soundtrack kindly provided by Too Short and Ani DiFranco … we figured it was about time those two got on a video together. De La has posts on my voracious taco eating, our night with some red light friends, dinner plans gone wrong, and a collection of photos [...]

What were once 5,000-word essays have been distilled down into 500-word blog posts, which in turn are compacted into pithy statements of 140 characters. What can be said in 140 characters? This sentence, for instance, is exactly 140 characters long, which you can see, ladies, isn’t nearly enough space to essay much of a theory. [...]