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- New Hampshire Foliage
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (Notes added 10/14/08: three new photos added today at the end of this note) New Hampshire is one of the smallest states of the US. It has only two of the 412 congressional districts. Its claim to fame ...
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Report on the NAE webcast.
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I don’t know how many of you were able to listening in on the webcast reported in my previous blog article. In any case, I did for the first 90 minutes. And here is a summary of my impression of what ...
- The U.S. National Academy of Engineering Webcast of the Grand Challenges of Engi
- I posted a blog article on Feb 27, 2008 about the Grand Challenges of Engineering as defined by the US National Academy of Engineering. (see http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=16365) A symposium on the subject will take place on Oct.6 Monday Eastern Daylight T ...
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为专业团体志愿服务（原文及译文）
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Volunteer Services to Professional Societies (Additional Information included at the end of this article 7/29/09) In every young professional’slife opportunities will arise for vol ...
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The American Broadway Musical, Nostalgia, and memories from 1949-1961
- The Broadway Musical is a unique American invention. Like classic opera ( 古典歌剧 ) itis done in music and songs. But unlike operas which sometimes require a knowledge of Italian or Germanand classical musicology to ...
- How many English readers are there on ScienceNet ? – A Guesstimate (Language and
- When Editor-in-chief Zhao Yen first gave me permission to write my blog on ScienceNet in English, I wondered how many readers will read English language blogs. True, almost every educated person in the world nowadays reads some English. When I was growing up in China , English education start ...
- Wall Street Crisis (2)
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) ( Notes added 9/28/08. For readers interested, today's Sunday NY Times has a long, detailed, and fascinating account of the events that led to the 85 billion dollars bailout of The Am ...
- Wall Street Crisis
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) It was 13 month ago I wrote my piece on “ Hedge fund and the Current Wall Street Money Crisis http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=5847 ” . Apparently, human greed is not limited to ho ...
- Electric Power generation and distribution
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) The National Academy of Engineering in the US declared around the turn of this century that the greatest engineering achievement of mankind in 20 th century is “ELECTRIFICATION of our civilization” ...
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数学、分析与工程学（2）（原文及译文）
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Mathematics, Analysis, and Engineering (2) Below is a guest Blog by Professor Xiren Cao of the Science and Technology University of Hong Kong. This article further clarifies and artic ...
