Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.

“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”

Tourism in Burma? A journey through Asia’s most anesthetized state.

On the future of Myanmar.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.