Hi from Philadelphia, PA.
“Blasphemous bras, heretical heels, yoga and me,” a funny opinion piece by Julia Suryakusuma for The Jakarta Post (Dec. 3, 2008) on a not-funny subject:
Yesterday morning I woke up early as usual and got ready for my early morning meditational yoga. It’s something I’ve been doing since 1981, clearing my mind and reinvigorating myself for the day ahead. It’s like getting your cell phone recharged, as simple as that.
But then I remembered reading that the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) is thinking of issuing a fatwa declaring …

Exciting new and improved feature on this blog!! Finally, a way to kill more time for you.
An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life. From the NYTimes. (Link thanks to Suhit.)
DR. E.O. WILSON: I’ve been in systematics and the mapping of biological diversity all my life. And a little more than ten years ago, I thought the time had come to undertake a complete mapping of the world’s fauna and flora.
Because remarkably–and this is little known even in the scientific community–we’ve only begun to …