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» THE CHEMISTRY OF LOVE
by Brian Awehali The first time you kiss somebody, you may well be caught up in romance and various libidinal tides, but your brain and olfactory system are hard at work, gathering information to...
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» THE CORPSE WALKER: Conversations with China’s Lower Strata
by Brian Awehali This is the first of several posts on LOUDCANARY about Liao Yiwu. To read my long-form profile of Liao, “Dangerous Words,” click here. To read recent (July 2011) updates about Liao’s...
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» HOW THE NOSE KNOWS: Vibrations?
by Brian Awehali Fifth-Century Greek philosopher Democritus, the putative founder of modern science and atomic theory, who laughed constantly and lived more than one hundred years, once had occasion to...
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» THE DEFINITION OF SCARY: China’s Cancer Villages (癌症村, Aizheng Cun)
by Brian Awehali I woke up this morning and considered going outside. Lately, I have been avoiding the outdoors here in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, because I fear the industrial haze and the cough I...
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» HERE COMES THE OCEAN (and the Triumph of Slime)
by Brian Awehali Climate change is causing the sea to rise far faster than scientists once expected, a meter or more by 2100. Perhaps that doesn’t seem so dire to you. Perhaps you read that sentence...
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