The State Department has released six years of hourly PM2. From the US Embassy in Beijing. Here are some initial discoveries and thoughts based on a few hours of playing around with the data. The Best and the Worst.

Thursday, August 21, 2008. What Olympic tourists take for granted is in fact something rather special for us Beijingers. Dirk Eschenbacher is executive creative director at Tribal DDB. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Thankfully, the Indonesian government .

Navigating the wilderness of multiculturalism from Belgrade, to Los Angeles, to my own bilingual backyard. Great Serbian Blogs and other Belgrade Weblinks. Bilingual Baby and the Mother Tongue. Like many American kids, I studied Spanish in elementary school, but my understanding of the language is pretty limited. Is it because they are surrounded by so much English all around them that this becomes more dominant in their brains? At a kids birthday party recently.

Personal opinions on the events of the day, brought to you Live From Bikini Bottom. Retweeted three anti-Muslim videos from a far-right group based in Britain. Spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the phone.