According to the New York Times, the U.S. government considers more than 60 micrograms per cubic meter of particles less than 10 microns in diameter in the air to be unsafe. In Shanghai today, the amount was 68 micrograms. And today was not by any means a bad air day in Shanghai - although the […]

A very cool new Google maps mashup that measures the walkability of your (American, Canadian or British) neighborhood, by figuring out how far you are from the necessities of daily life. I was pleased with my checks: my old Minneapolis neighborhood (anybody here from Seward tonight?) got a “very walkable” 83/100, and of course our […]

OK, with much tedious backing and filling Half In Half Out now has a new, more unblocked domain name, new blogging software and a new look! Well, the look will continue to be adjusted, but we hope the blogging can now move ahead freed of the base technical issues which have dogged us for the […]

The perfect morning, on vacation with HIHO Shanghai’s parents in Dalian.
After a very early awakening with the baby, who is coughing, we left him to his grandparents and went back to bed. Waking a second time around eight, I crept out to a silent house. Grandmother was sending our nephew to day care, and grandfather […]