I am deeply saddened by the story and images that came out about a pharmaceutical company (its shared publicly traded) in Shanghai that exploits black bears for the fluid from the gall bladder, for profit . I would shudder at the idea of these black bears spending their whole short lives living in a tight [...]
Continue reading about Laws are Called for to Ban Animal Cruelty in China
Twitter tends to be thought of as a casual/trivial way of keeping in touch with virtual or real friends. Although I am only one week into twittering, I realize there are many uses for Twitter that the its creators never intended it for or even thought of, some of which are rather serious. The list [...]
I started to feel the symptoms of a flu earlier last week, probably last Wednesday. I sneezed a lot, and my nose often runs clear water, feel a little different. I cancelled the dental appointment for the coming Monday as I don’t want to have any complications. It’s rescheduled to April 6, Monday, at 9:00am. [...]
This week has been a busy week working on the “Turndown Service” project moving it from the DVD format to web elearning resource, revising the design for Amrita’s corporate learning plan, writing the revisions to the Integration Design Document for Simon, and other smaller requests to help with video and graphic design, and the final [...]
From a Darwinian evolutionary point of view, it can be explained by the advantages that cheating gives to the survival of the genes carried by the cheaters. For one, cheating tends to give more chances of offsprings. The more offsprings one has, the more likely that one’s genes will pass on and survive through harsh [...]
