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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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Initial reactions (cont.)
In 1992, in what was widely publicized as the first incident of a man taking child care leave from a private company in Japan, Mutsumi Ota took 3 months off from his job and wrote about his experiences for Japan … Continue reading
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Initial colleague reactions
Although I had already talked with the jinjigakaricho about child care leave, I resisted approaching the head of the English department, Professor K, until the middle of November. One reason was that I felt that waiting until a less stressful … Continue reading
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