Hooray! We have a blog.

Okay, this coming Tuesday, October 20, everyone will be reading the New York Times insert in the Lian He Bau (United Daily News) which came out on October 13. As usual, I have the cover story. This week's cover feature is called "Invasive Humans" -- a good title for 7 billion people on the Earth today, but especially apt for the Galapagos Islands, located about a thousand miles off the coast of Ecuador.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3A1pagos_Islar for a general view of the islands.

You may also enjoy this short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCIacOeB9cs

In the future, student may add information they find interesting by posting comments. For instance, if your weekly article concerns the Afghanistan war, you may want to post some additional information on the country, the war, the number of casualties, or websites you think are important about the topic. You do not have to do that, however.

I'm not sure why the school has asked us to make this blog, actually, but it has. Let's find ways to use it profitably. If you have any ideas, post them as comments or just bring them to class.

WARNINGS: Do not expect me to look at the blog daily. Students have my e-mail address and can contact me with questions that way. Whatever you post here will form a (more or less) permanent record of our activities. Post only what you want the whole world to read, and especially what would be interesting to our class.