On Social Experiments 2024-11-14

On Social Experiments In human civilizations, we establish governments to organize and rule over society for the common good of the human populat ...

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On Coincidences 2024-11-05

As an example.  Why Do We Always Seem to Run Into People Abroad? https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/science-behind-chance-encounters-abr ...

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Activities I used to enjoy but can no longer do 2024-11-02

As one age, one finds that activities I use to enjoy but can no longer do. Number one on the list is skiing which I first learned to do  in 19 ...

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[转载]State of Chinese Amercians in 2024 2024-11-01

A survey conducted by the Committee of 100  Committee of 100 and NORC Release Full Report: State of Chinese Americans National Survey ...

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Why are abortions such a passionate controversy? 2024-10-30

Why are abortions such a passionate controversy? A specific example illustrates this: A women desperately wanted to have a family and give birth ...

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Corruption, Favors, and Human Relationships 2024-10-26

It is not an overstatement that the entire world runs on human relationships  - implicit contracts, accepted social behavior, quid pro quo, and ...

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Guest Block Article from my First and Best friend in the US 2024-10-23

The first friend I made upon arriving in the US in 1950 was Willian (Billy) Lee. He was similar to me in biological and academic age. I was at MIT an ...

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Blowing my own horn 2024-10-21

Nowadays hardly a day goes by wihtout notification by Academia.com or Research Gate that one or both of the following publications of mine were cit ...

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[转载]Five early signs of dementia 2024-10-14

Financial problems Sleep Issues Personality changes Difficulty driving Loss of smell Read more below: https://www.nytimes.com/2024 ...

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My physical fitness 2024-10-10

Everyyear in October, our senior retirement community offers physical fitness test for all residents. Records of individual performances in eight cat ...

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Scams and Fraud Targeting Senior citizens (II) 2024-10-02

I have written earlier about this topic and my own experience with it https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=1565&do=blog&id=1446 ...

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Another example of inflation over the last 3/4 of a century 2024-09-21

When I first arrived in the US on 9/1950, the cost of mailing a simple letter is 3 cents. Over the years, the cost of a letter gradually rises to ove ...

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Best State to Live in and other useful information 2024-09-14

A recent study ranks Massachusetts as the best state to live in the US as measured b y education, helath care and low crime rate. Having live here fo ...

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My view of the future of our world 2024-09-05

This is my view of the future of our world and American society even though I won’t be around to see it happens or not – a bifurcation of our hum ...

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Infrastruicture Buildiing 2024-08-29

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 no ...

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Report of the 2024 control workshop and birthday celebration 2024-08-24

As accounted in my previous blog article here is the official report of the conference.celebration. It consist of : 1. Event report :. It is made b ...

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Good things to come 2024-08-19

I have reported in the past of my good fortunes of having my 50 Ph.D students and my life time employer, Harvard University, helping celebrating my ...

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Scams and Fraud Targeting Senior citizens 2024-08-13

There are a large number of fraudulent activities on the Internet. Many are specifically aimed at senior citizens since this group is most suscepti ...

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