I 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 …