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China doesn’t care about the rest of the world — except when the rest of the world criticizes it
“When they did that design, they should have stopped and thought, ‘you know, that’s going to leave a big chunk of debris in orbit, we should change the design of the engine’,” McDowell says. “But they didn’t. This is real negligence.” https://www.inverse.com/science/long-march-5b-uncontrolled-reentry Four years ago, China’s first space station landed in the Pacific Ocean between […]
Scientists detect small pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water in a meteorite dating from the early solar system
“This assumption is consistent with recent theoretical studies of the solar system’s evolution that suggest that asteroids rich in small, volatile molecules like water and carbon dioxide formed beyond Jupiter’s orbit before being transported to areas closer to the sun.” http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=585 Just announced by my workplace! And no, I don’t teach in that department. However, […]
Still very much a work in process!
Apologies to readers for the weird mix-up in chapter numbering. I’ve been (slowly, painfully slowly) writing Bringer of Light on Scrivener…which I forgot to update on my desktop PC, which led to some sort of weird misnumbering of chapters in two different versions of the file. Anyway, I have begun to finish up the story […]
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Where no toddler has gone before…
Now that our daughter has stood up on her own (albeit for seconds at best), and has shown signs of beginning to walk, my wife and I started “baby-proofing” the apartment. We were particularly worried (of course) about the kitchen, … Continue reading
Posted in child safety, day care, parenting
Tagged child care, child safety, child-raising, Japan, Japanese, Paternity leave
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