Geography and all that Jazz

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A 'virtual colleague' of mine visited the 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium at the weekend for an athletics meeting that was held in the stadium. Here are a few pictures that he sent me. Many thanks Alex.

CHINA RESOURCES My copy of Joe Bennett's " Where Underpants Come From " arrived today. A nice opening chapter... May's National Geographic Magazine was dedicated to CHINA too, and had some excellent articles. Go to the C section of the ARCHIVE to access the articles, and some of the images from the magazine. Also a CONTENTS PAGE here... CHINA BY NUMBERS article is useful too... Also, while we're on books, can I recommend this one, which was recommended to me by a poet friend of mine (John Burnside is a poet and author...) Lots of landscape-related imagery in this gripping book: And the bowls season started for me yesterday with a victory in the cup. My 'block' won 28-14 thanks to some inspirational captaincy... ;) Wonderful Photoshop trickeried image by Flickr user VROG in Bristol

A busy day in London yesterday. Down to see David Attenborough speak at the Royal Geographical Society as part of their monday night lecture series. He was talking about Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise. A great occasion to be involved in. Popped into the V&A to see the CHINA DESIGN NOW exhibition A new exhibition is due to open later this week at the Science Museum. Popped in to see the preparations for the SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL: 2050 . Click the image to play the game.

On sale now... Or head over to the ECONOMIST website to view a number of special report pages. Thanks to Anne Logie for the tip off....

Paul Merton in China Just caught up with my Sky plused programmes in this entertaining series. Some good geography hidden away amongst the travelogue, some funny lines and refreshingly honest 'grumpiness'... Check out the FIVE.TV website for some clips. An interesting Guardian Blog Post and comments... He visited SOCK TOWN . I was particularly interested by THAMES TOWN. Also just watching / listening to this as I meander through some online back alleys....

Thanks to Ollie Bray for guiding me to this Slideshare presentation comparing the USA, India and China, and looking at global shift and the impact of China and India's huge populations on a future global economy.

You'll be pleased to know that I've checked this blog with the site above, and you can read it in China ! Does your favourite site pass the firewall test ?