Iceland is beautiful and lives up to all the hype. Plan a visit soon if you haven’t yet been! Buy a red jacket, too; it makes for nice panoramas.






Iceland is beautiful and lives up to all the hype. Plan a visit soon if you haven’t yet been! Buy a red jacket, too; it makes for nice panoramas.
A few photographs from a recent visit to Italy this summer
A couple of clips this week from The LA Times, WSJ, and Bloomberg:
Dispute Arises Over ‘No-No Boy,’ a Classic of Asian-American Literature With a Complex History
John Okada’s 1957 novel about a Japanese-American draft resister has been republished by Penguin Classics, raising questions over its ownership.
“I worked harder at getting this book published than getting my own books published,” said Shawn Wong, a University of Washington professor who helped resurrect “No-No Boy” in the 1970s.
Shawn Wong holds an original 1957 copy of “No-No Boy,” right, atop the edition that he helped republish.
Read the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/us/politics/fbi-domestic-terrorism.html
Boeing Field in Seattle has a surprising amount of Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked there while they are banned from the skies … Boeing 737 MAX airplanes have been grounded following two fatal crashes in which 346 passengers and crew were killed in October 2018 and March 2019. More images here.
What a beautiful plant. Who knew they could get five feet tall?
The 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium was inspiring, informative, exhausting, and entertaining as usual.