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A Problem with all Electric vehicles
何毓琦 2024-1-25 22:14
This winter a previously unemphasized problem with all electric automobiles surfaced in the US that caused inconvenience with owners of these all electric vehicles. During winter months in North America, a large portion of the US can have freezing temperature all day long. Apparently the batteries ...
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Martin Luther King Day in Lexington 2024
何毓琦 2024-1-16 19:36
Martin Luther King is the only American citizen besides Presidents who has an annual national day of celebration name after him. His life is well known and no need for me to repeat here. Many cities in the US also use this holiday to remind and reinforce voting rights, citizenship, and volunte ...
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[转载]The One Percenter
何毓琦 2024-1-3 06:01
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 ...
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The Genius of Robert Solow
热度 1 何毓琦 2023-12-31 04:55
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 ...
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A Grand Family Reunion
热度 2 何毓琦 2023-12-29 21:46
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 ...
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Push vs Pull Strategy for Public Relations
热度 2 何毓琦 2023-12-14 20:44
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 ...
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Disaster Preparation-one more advantage of community living
何毓琦 2023-11-30 09:09
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 ...
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PreMortem and the Museum of Failures
何毓琦 2023-11-20 22:01
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 ...
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Our Covid positive experience
热度 2 何毓琦 2023-11-10 04:42
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 ...
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Video of the Mid Autumn Festival at Brookhaven Lexington
何毓琦 2023-11-3 21:31
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:/ ...
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