“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.” ---J. H. Poincare A graduate student at U. Hawaii asked for help with her first research paper. I recommended my eight Blog articles on “ ...
According to Hawaii Foodbank, it provides food to 183,500 different people each year, including 55,000 children. In Hawaii, 1 in 7 people are in need of food assistance. The foodbank is very effective at collecting donations. For example, they print ticket-like coupons of three different f ...
I wanted to write about this topic for a long time, but of course it was a matter of time, or the lack of it. Nowadays, one may be a post doc at one place (or one country), and move on to another post doc at another place (or another country), and on and on and on. I ...
How do we know if a field in China is strong or weak (relative to other nations)? Here, lets exclude those fields that we Chinese dominate, such as Chinese medicine, Kung Fu, Mahjong, etc. I would go check out the publication record of a few ...
I know there are loads of problems with Chinese colleges, but things are getting better slowly, such as switching major in collegesomething I never dreamed of doing. (Ok, the progress is not fast enough. I agree.) An undergraduate student told me that he is thinking of ...
I wrote Introducing Physical Oceanography for a young woman, who is trying to get into a graduate school. I also gave a presentation at a college in Hangzhou, entitled Your future is in your hands. The audience was seniors in Physics and Math. I t ...
We all know the Gao Kao in China is grueling on the students, the parents, and even the grandparents. So, does it sound too good to be true, if one can skip the Gao Kao all together? Sure, if your parents can afford to send you to the U.S.; you can do so even without taking SAT ...
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