We, the denizens of the modern world, live in the 1 percent, where all our art, our books, our economic value, our money, and our languages reside. The rest 99% never made it, did not survive, and/or were forgotten. See https://www.aier.org/article/the-one-percent-principle/ A ...
Here is a three part broadcast about Antitrust laws and free market business competition in the US. Each part is about 25 minutes long. The first two parts dealt with history from the Standard Oil monopoly that started everything to the breakup of ATT and IBM in the second half of the 20 th ...
Asian Hate, The AI intelligence revolution, my grand children’s future, The US system of government. This is a diverse set of topics and observations based on my 70+ years of living in the US. While they are interrelated, it is difficult to weave them into a coherent and smooth e ...
As an animal species, human being need to sleep about 1/3 of every day. Sleep deprevation lowers productivity asmong hourly-paid workers. Recently, I heard of a large scale experiemnt on public radio concerning: Sleept efficiency - the % of time you actually sleep while in bed Does naps actua ...
By chance I learned something new on National Public Radio yesterday about finance on the subject of Private Equity Fund (PEF). This is my takeaway: PEF are pool of money assembled by a small group of people that manage and invest this pool of money for the participant (or share holders). In th ...
I was trying to watch two old movies simultaneously on TV last night (one, The American President , I have seen many times over decades but want to re-live the expereince since it was one of my favorite, the other, Grantorino , I have not seen before).by swtiching back and forth between two ch ...
William (Billy) MS Lee is the first friend I made when I arrived in the United States in 1950. We were initiated into the same Chinese Student Fraternity, FF, in 1951. There after we maintain contact over the next 70+ years as our friendship remain s meaningful in our ...
Social and medical professions have long known that human being is a social animal. Except for a very small percent of the human spcies, Long term isolation and solitude are not healthy for the mental and physical survival of a human being. On the other hand, for most of the population, we spent so ...
I have often in the past gave links to worth while reference in my blog articles. However, with the passage of time, those links no longer works. One must do some extra wrok in order to reach the linked content. Let me give an example. I wrote an blog article about the unsung heroines of the Scienc ...