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- An unexplained and unexpected blessing for my health
- 热度 1
- For nearly a decade I was bothered by a skin condition that has psoriasis covering 100% of my body skin. How that condition came about is another story for another time. But this is most unpleasant due to constant skin shedding, itch and pain, as well as unsightly. I was prepared to live with thi ...
- Luck do not arrive in pair, Misfortunes never travel alone
- This is the famous Chinese wisdom about the vicissitude of daily human lives. My current slow recovery from flu infection fully illustrated this. A few days ago, while still in recovery I was hit with a painful GOUT attack in the ankle joint of my left foot. While the cure for gout is well known an ...
- The Physiology of a 91 year old body
- The average human heart bea 365/24/7 for 3 billion+ times in a normal human life of 78.5 years - what human technology has invented to rival such a machine? In my case of 91.5 years, the count is.3.5 billion + A health body at 91 year of age due to good genes may still function in a healthy way bu ...
- The 250th birthday of the American Republic
- 热度 2
- A country's birthday is a big event in any nation's history. This year is the 250th birthday of the US. My home town, Lexington is arguably the birthplace of the country where the first shot that was heard around the world was fired in 1775 on April 19th. These facts was taught in ...
- A reunion with students (Re-post with changes)
- I have stated earlier that my lifetime output of teaching can be presented by the 53 Ph.D. students I supervised from 1961-2007 with Harvard (47) MIT (3) and Tsinghua (3). Of these 53 students, 30 of them are of Chinese ethnicity from various parts of China including Taiwan, Chinese Mainland, and H ...
- Lessons from my life experience of 91 years (II)
- This article is an addendum to my first article on this topic https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1474060 First, learn to be your own financial adviser: This is because the task is really not that complicated and can beco ...
- Lessons from my life experience of 91 years
- For yourself 1. Start saving early – I started as soon as I started working after 46 years what I put in becomes 10 times more when I retired. 2. Buy-Diversify-Hold. Don’t trade - Compound interest works wonders in th ...
- Academic corruptions
- When I started climbing the academic ladder beginning in 1960, the cardinal academic sin is plagiarism . After all, publications and your peers’ judgement of them is what an academic lives on and the only worthwhile currency in the profession. Half a century later according to a NPR radio program ...
- Not a Good Practice for Students (II)
- Not a Good Practice for Students (II) First of all, read my blog six years ago https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-218436.html . Apparently a new generation of students were not taught this accepted academic practice. Instead, because of the chaos and suffering in China from 1850-1950 due to wa ...
