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 ...
This article is an addendum to my first article on this topic https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1474060 First, learn to be your own financial adviser: This is because the task is really not that complicated and can beco ...
For yourself 1. Start saving early – I started as soon as I started working after 46 years what I put in becomes 10 times more when I retired. 2. Buy-Diversify-Hold. Don’t trade - Compound interest works wonders in th ...
It was right after WWII, plastic was newly invented and introduced in China. I was a young teenager living in shanghai. Plastic was heralded as a miracle kind of glass ( 玻璃 ). Every thing was labelled with glass or 玻璃 as an adjective . There were Miss 玻璃, 玻璃 stockings et al. ...
When I started climbing the academic ladder beginning in 1960, the cardinal academic sin is plagiarism . After all, publications and your peers’ judgement of them is what an academic lives on and the only worthwhile currency in the profession. Half a century later according to a NPR radio program ...
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