I overheard a customer at the local boardgame store looking for a gift for “an adult that likes history, politics and high interaction games with bluffing”, the salesperson recommended several new-ish SF&F games while STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO A PILE ‘DIPLOMACY’ BOXES. 🤷

A nice interview with Tong Yang-Tze on her calligraphy in general and the works at the Met in particular.

(In Chinese with English subtitles)

m.youtube.com/watch

This is an interesting list of papers from the EHR “that have exerted an important influence […] on their own thinking, or on their fields of scholarship”.

What would you put on a similar list for sinology / China Studies?

academic.oup.com/ehr/advan…

The tools for data science (R + markdown, CRAN, tidyverse, ggplot, emacs, Zotero) are really nice. Data ingestion, mangling, writing, pdf-export Just Work™, even when I complicate things by using emacs instead of RStudio. I could get used to working with this…

Too bad I’m not a data scientist.