This watch has been dubbed the “Accurate” not so much for its abilities to keep accurate time, but for its reminder about our inevitable demise. Following in the tradition of memento mori, the Accurate watch continuously alerts us to the...

Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was reelected president of the country Saturday morning at the ongoing session of the 11th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature.Hu, born in 1942,...

Things are starting to blow up in Tibet now. In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news, check out the links in the other post to read about protests turning violent, bullets, fires, beatings, arrests, and tanks. This seems to be the crossroads...