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[Day 46] Sir Tom Devine on UK leaving EU and what it means for Scotland

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Guys, I met a Knight. He shook my hand twice to demonstrate how the Queen shook his hand when he was knighted. The knight and I took a selfie–he made a funny face for a knight and I just used that ugly face I always have. You can scroll to the end to see the pic.

Today, Sir Thomas Martin Devine was our guest lecturer. In case you don’t know (tbh if you’re not Scottish then why would you), Sir Devine is regarded as the leading authority on the history of modern Scotland and its diaspora. He was knighted in the 2014 for “services to the study of Scottish history”, the first scholar to be so honored for this reason.

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[Day 46] Sir Tom Devine on UK leaving EU and what it means for Scotland

[Day 45] British print media still doesn’t know what happens with #Brexit

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As millions of British youths woke up this morning to the crippling terror that the UK is no longer part of the EU, the Brit print media was still struggling with one question:

What’s it? Are we gonna leave the EU or nah?

Below are the front page of few major print newspapers in the UK as of this morning, Friday, June 24 2016.

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[Day 45] British print media still doesn’t know what happens with #Brexit

[Day 42] 10 amazing landscapes I have seen

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In the last few years, I have been very fortunate to have seen some truly magnificent landscapes. No, I’m not rich. I just really like traveling and I work hard to be able to travel. Sometimes I take the photos and just put them away. Today, I was cleaning my hard drive when I found these photos and thought to myself: “Let’s make a list.” Below are my 10 favorite places for landscapes. Most of the photos are taken by me or I hold copyright, and I have to admit I didn’t do these places justice.

1. Bagan, Myanmar

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Bagan, Myanmar

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[Day 42] 10 amazing landscapes I have seen

[Day 32] London vs Silicon Valley

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Disclaimer: I live in Palo Alto and even though I make frequent trips to San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, and the surrounding cities, a lot of things I mention below might only apply to Palo Alto.

It’s always fascinating for me to get out of Silicon Valley. I have been there for so long that I have almost forgotten how ridiculous it must be like to people outside the bubble. Even though both London and Silicon Valley are multiracial, they are like two different worlds.

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[Day 32] London vs Silicon Valley

[Day 30] Human history is a sad history

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As a tourist in London, of course, I went to see some of its hundreds of museums. They taught me a lot about the arts, nature, and human history, but they also made me really sad. We all try to create happy memories, but have you ever thought about how our history is made up almost entirely of sad ones? When we learn about history, we learn about wars, crusades, holocausts, slavery, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, epidemics, sultans murdering their younger siblings to consolidate power, powerful nations imposing their rules on the less powerful.

Changes are not driven by happy people dancing in the village squares. They are driven by people in chains, in pain, in famine. Revolutions are not driven by people who still have a lot to lose. They are driven by people who have lost everything.

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[Day 30] Human history is a sad history