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Of Banks and Dinosaur Fossils in Taipei

By On October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Almost directly across from the National Taiwan Museum entrance at 228 Peace Memorial Park is the Land Bank old building. Now, I know what you’re thinking:
“A bank. How exciting.”

It is. First off, it’s a great example of colonial-era architecture of which there are not many. More importantly, there is a large exhibition hall inside…

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Happy 99th Birthday Taiwan. Sort Of.

By On October 10, 2010 · 7 Comments

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October 10th is National Day in Taiwan and is celebrated as “Taiwan’s Birthday”. In reality, it’s the anniversary of the founding of the system of government that overthrew the Imperial Chinese [...]

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World Chocolate Wonderland, Taipei, Taiwan

By On July 18, 2010 · 5 Comments

From July to September the National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC) in Taipei is playing host to exhibits from the World Chocolate Wonderland. The World Chocolate Wonderland is a new (opened January of this year) theme park in Beijing, PRC and I suspect that this is an attempt to drum up nearby international tourism. [...]

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Taiwan Storyland, Taipei

By On June 10, 2010 · 6 Comments

It almost sounds like the name of a fantasy-themed amusement park, doesn’t it? Even the entrance, pictured above, invokes mental images of fairies flitting about in an enchanted forest. I fully expected to encounter scenes based on the Monkey King and other figures from Chinese children’s mythos.
But i didn’t. In fact, it became clear at [...]

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Taipei Astronomical Museum

By On April 13, 2010 · 2 Comments

Yes, I’m a science geek. I love learning the broad strokes of how things work and the future possibilities of what’s just on the scientific horizon. Of course, I’m not interested in all forms of science. Any dicipline that involves a lot of math in order to get just a basic grasp doesn’t work with [...]

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POTD – Mommy? How old does a tortoise get?

By On May 20, 2009 · 1 Comment

From the temporary children’s discovery area at one of my favorite places in the world, the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles.

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