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On Education and Research (13) - replies to questions (1)
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) This is my first response to requests and questions raised by readers to my blog article “A question to younger readers http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=45325 ”. First, the r ...
- Only in America
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) You can listen to the concession and victory speech by Obama and McCain for their inspiration and grace on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1102 ...
- A question to younger readers
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Looking over the 200 blog articles I have written over the past one and half years, without question the most popular ones ( in the sense of high visit count) are those given professional advice to ...
- Showing Up
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) is the world’s largest engineering organization. Its flagship monthly publication “The Spectrum” is sent to every member every where i ...
- George Soros on
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Next to Warren Buffett, George Soros is probably the next well known financier and philanthropist. Unlike Buffet, he became well known and rich via speculation and making huge risky bets. He was famous f ...
- A curious question of Etymology
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Over the years since I began learning English some 60+ years ago, a question of the origin of a Chinese and English word puzzled me. I have made informal inquiries with friends I know without getting a s ...
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The American Presidential Election, CA Political Organizatio
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (Note added 10/27/08: This morning's South China Morning Post has an interesting article about Chinese-American running for national office in this year's election. 80-20 was menti ...
- Did you know . . .
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (Note added 11/28/2010. There are now many did you know short videos on YouTube. All worth watching) An URL worth two minutes of your time http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=x ...
- Wall Street Crisis (III).
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) If you wanted to understand how the world got into this mess in a simple “man-in-the-street” explanation, two British comedians (=中国相声) in 2007 before anyone has even heard of the crisis did a come ...
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Baseball and America at her best
- (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) It is difficult for foreigner to imagine and appreciate the American devotion and loyalty to their native sports and sport teams. Baseball is the national sport of the US, not football (also an Americ ...
