The Telegraph has a funny story today about city landscape officials in Chengdu spray painting the grass green. In China’s sprawling smog-blanketed cities, life can sometimes seem a little grey. But Chengdu’s officials hit upon an easy solution to cheer up their city’s appearance: specifically, a chemical solution called Top Green Turf Greening Agent. Chinese […]
An Impromptu Road Trip
Yesterday as I was eating lunch with my mom and sister, a friend called from Arizona, asking me if I would be willing to fly to Las Vegas immediately (as in later in the day). He was planning to drive his parents’ car from there to Minnesota, but had just gotten a call that his […]
