Identifying the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: The Tamarisk and Date-Palm (via )
Michael GallagherI am relatively proud of this post and thankful that I do this sort of thing for a living. An interesting post on the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World…
A Turkish Red to Dye For (via )
This post had me thinking about how the cultural associations we place on color (red, for example) is often influenced not only by aesthetic taste as it is by (economic)…
To Live and Dye in Korea at the end of the 19th century (via )
I am perhaps a bit more amused by the post title than I am anything else, but I love this kind of blogging. Pseudo-academic, ephemeral, fast, and enough left over…
Ernest Henry Wilson and early encounters with Quelpaert, aka Jeju, Korea (via )
For those of you who like their Korean history (as I do) and those early turn of the century (last) encounters as Korea plunged headlong into modernity. Generally at the…
The Medicinal Uses of Plants by the Akha in Northern Thailand (via )
Since I wrote it and spent more time than I should have researching it, I decided to report it to my blog ahead of a trip to Thailand I will…