I am not talking about the richest one percent of the world population. I am talking about persons who were born between 1930-1946 - only 1% of them are still iving. My wife and I are thus the one percenter. An unknown person by the name of Jim Dunn assembled a set of interest facts about this grou ...
The Nobel Prize winning Economist Robert Solow died recently at the age of 99. Back in the 1950s, he created the Solow model of economic growth of a nation. The model is almost like a nature law such as that of Newton and Einstein excedpt it deals with the economic law of growth and has noting to ...
Four Genrations together under one roof is a well known Chinese phrase of blessing. Our family just had an occasion to experience this for four days in Scottsdale AZ - all 15 members at a large AirBnB for the Christmas holidays. Imagine this all started on Valentine's day in1959 when I pr ...
In this increasingly globalied world, every nation, institution, group of human beings, and individuals are concerned with relationship with other human beings unless you live alone in the high Himalayas or deep in the amazonia forest isolated from other human beings. As the saying goes :you want t ...
While disaster hapeens rarely, they can be deadly or very inconveinent when they involve you. Most of us will be caught unprepared whena disaster happens. For example,: how to get electrical power, find someone nearby and ready with medical training where to get food and water where are ...
I just learned the two term/phrase of the title of this article. First a definiton of the more familair term -POST MORTEM:- an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death. However, this term has often been used to examine the reason of a failure of a mission or task to find ...
On Nov.6 2023, Both my wife and I woke up with cough, sneezing and runny noses. The nurse at our local resident health center came and tested us both. We were informed at noon time that both of us tested covid poisitive. Because we have had the full series of covid vaccine shots including the lates ...
Under the same link as in the previous article, https://brookhavenatlexington.org/residents-website/recorded-events/ you can find the URL for a series of five lectures given at our senior living community which explore the least understood but most important part of our body and our existie ...
Earlier I wrote about the very successful mid-autmun festival show at the senior living community where my wife and I currently reside https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1406756 . A video of the show is now available at https:/ ...
Another healthcare thing our senior living community does for resident is a 30 minutes voluntary physical fitness test every year. Your perfromance on the test is compared to the same from last year and evaluated/explained to you for any suggested steps the resident should take to improve his/her l ...