When I was young, I remember we were first taught to read time on a clock or watch face. Then we learned to flip or cross off dates on day/weekly/monthly calendar. Now in old age and retired, we often forget what day of the week today is since every day is the same. Because of such needs, a new dev ...
Size difference between the original and the current iPad - I must have an iPad of the first generation. Recently I was given an iPad case to contain the iPad and help make it stand up on a desK for viewing convenience. But I found my iPad was a half centimeter longer than the current iPad. ...
On at least two other prior occasions, I have partial evidences that the government monitors my e-mail communications with other as well as my blogs. Not that I have anything to hide but here is another example I encountered recently. Starting in April 2025 I find that my social security payment we ...
The Chinese title of the this blog above translated into English says: The scene of a setting sun is so beautiful except the duration is so short. This is just another example of the 80-20 rule which says that if your life is 80% perfect, we need the other 20% to keep you in perspective. 100% ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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