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- Activities I used to enjoy but can no longer do
- As one age, one finds that activities I use to enjoy but can no longer do. Number one on the list is skiing which I first learned to do in 1953 and our family enjoyed as a group every winter in NH and/or on vacation until 2010 when the danger of broken bones and being laid up became a serio ...
- Why are abortions such a passionate controversy?
- Why are abortions such a passionate controversy? A specific example illustrates this: A women desperately wanted to have a family and give birth to a child. After many attempts she was finally pregnant. However, she had her routine 20 week prenatal test a bit late, and it showed that the baby h ...
- Corruption, Favors, and Human Relationships
- It is not an overstatement that the entire world runs on human relationships - implicit contracts, accepted social behavior, quid pro quo, and yes, corruptions. We do things for family member that we would not do for strangers because family members have done the same thing for us in the past ...
- Blowing my own horn
- Nowadays hardly a day goes by wihtout notification by Academia.com or Research Gate that one or both of the following publications of mine were cited by another published paper. Two of my publications: Simple Explanation of the No Free Lunch Theorem (published in 1992) Applied Optima ...
- [转载]Five early signs of dementia
- Financial problems Sleep Issues Personality changes Difficulty driving Loss of smell Read more below: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/well/mind/dementia-signs-symptoms.html?campaign_id=190emc=edit_ufn_20241013instance_id=136752nl=from-the-timesregi_id=11694710se ...
- My physical fitness
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- Everyyear in October, our senior retirement community offers physical fitness test for all residents. Records of individual performances in eight categories are kept and is compared with the averages for ones age group as well as with the same for previous years. I just had mine today and found tha ...
- Scams and Fraud Targeting Senior citizens (II)
- I have written earlier about this topic and my own experience with it https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1446301 Apparently, the sophistication of this type of scam knows no end. Scammer can learn and adapt once you respond (since I while cautious still ...
