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Plastic vs. Glass
热度 1 何毓琦 2025-1-30 23:41
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. ...
个人分类: S and T|5035 次阅读|5 个评论 热度 1
Modern survellance technology
何毓琦 2024-12-19 00:18
The current murder case of the United Health CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Magorine brought forth the advance in modern survelance tehcnology. The minute by minute time line capture by various survelance camera in midtown Manhattan trace the start of the shooter from his hostel, to the shooting, to h ...
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[转载]The success of aquaculture
何毓琦 2024-12-13 01:28
Read or listen to this inspriing story https://www.ted.com/talks/gibran_huzaifah_the_aquaculture_revolution_is_coming/transcript?user_email_address=b2b86f91d6286348e35a69f5415e6995lctg=62d1b7d95473360814551365subtitle=en
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On Coincidences
何毓琦 2024-11-5 03:00
As an example. Why Do We Always Seem to Run Into People Abroad? https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/science-behind-chance-encounters-abroad?ueid=b2b86f91d6286348e35a69f5415e6995utm_source=Sailthruutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Thrillist%20Daily-%2011/4/24utm_term=Thrillist%20 ...
个人分类: S and T|6219 次阅读|2 个评论
Infrastruicture Buildiing
何毓琦 2024-8-29 09:10
I arrive in the US on September 2nd 1950. I remember the first car ride I had from NYC to Boston took ten hours going through every town along the northeast coast. Nowadays the same drive takes only less than four hours. This is of course due to President Eisenhower's INTERSTATE HIGHWAY p ...
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The Revolution in illegal drugs
何毓琦 2024-6-10 18:06
It is worthwhile to take note of the technological, social, and commercial revolution taking place in illegal drugs. In the olden day when opium first became avaliable, you need a pieice of land to plant the crop that can be used to produce opium.You need to own the land, to protect (i.e., paying f ...
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Climate Change, Home Insurance, and the Plastic crisis
何毓琦 2024-5-22 07:01
As a result of climate change, wide fire in Westerm states became numerous. Many home owners find their home are no longer insurable (i.e. their poilicy was dropped by their insurance company and cannot find another company to insure them against fire damage). As a result they were force to join a ...
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There are no magic learning pills or free lunches
热度 1 何毓琦 2024-5-19 20:47
Often influenced by Kung-Fu novels where a person accidentally found a magic instruction book and overnight became a expert in martila arts, young scholars starting out in their career try to find the same magic pill or secret instruction which enable them to acquire wisdom instantly and achieve wo ...
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A life of the mind
热度 2 何毓琦 2024-3-4 05:16
This may be self rationalizing or 20/20 hind sight. Looking back of my life endeavor of some 65+ years (since my first published paper in 1955), I am what the world would classified as a scientist or engineer. But with a couple of exceptions I have not done a single experiment or practical ap ...
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