Article on battery workers in Bangladesh

Check out this very moving article about the horrible working conditions for workers who recycle batteries in Bangladesh--most of them child laborers: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/28/what.matters.dust/index.html#cnnSTCText

Happy Birthday to me!

Here's a photo from my birthday party, that I shared with my friend (and Salma's resident dadi [grandma]) Roushan. Roushan is from Bangladesh! She lives in Stillwater, and is a retired OSU professor.