Two Interesting questions that I encountered recently 2026-01-16

Here are two questions on current events that I have come across:   1  The first is a lecture given by the President of the Boston Mu ...

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What a beginning for 2026!!! 2026-01-05

This new year started with an unprecedented big bang: TW 3 : T hat W as T he W eek T hat W as You guess the rest (for fun) MMR ...

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Immigration vs Emigration 2025-12-31

I just heard on the radio a historic statistic for the past year of 2025 - more immigrants left the US than immigrant who came to the US. This stat ...

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Solution of two major crimes in New England last week (III) 2025-12-25

Recent radio-TV reports (last two days)  basically confirmed my own interpretation of the motivation of the killer in my previous blog article, ...

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Solution of two major crimes in New England last week (II) 2025-12-22

Since my previous blog article on this crime episode https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-1515066.html , couple of things that were bothering most r ...

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Chronology and solution of two major crimes in New England 2025-12-19

One week ago, a major violent crime happened at the well known Brown University in Rhode Island where two students were killed and several other inju ...

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I LOVE YOU CHINA 我爱你中国 – An intimate musical gathering 2025-11-27

I mentioned in an earlier post and talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrW9rz-rag) the name of one of the two local Chinese American Commu ...

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The 80-20 principle 2025-11-19

I know there are books with this title. But I collected the material for this article over the years and do not claim originality. It is posted here ...

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Facts are stranger than Fiction 2025-11-06

My wife and I just had dinner with a person and his wife whom we have never met or have heard before until 4 days ago. Yet we almost lived entirely p ...

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Money - Your financiaql Life 2025-10-31

  It is not an overstatement that MONEY is a great invention of modern economics. It frees us from the inefficient barter economy and let ...

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!0,000th Dunkin Donut shop 2025-10-15

I arrived in the US in September 1950 in Boston, MA. In the same month, year,  and same location the first Dunkin Donut shop opened. Today the m ...

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How Lucky Can one Get?! 2025-07-31

Two days ago, I went to a medical appointment at the BILH headquarter which is shaped like a circular arc with the multilevel parking structure situa ...

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Two Great but Old ,Movies 2025-07-26

Another advanatage one emjoys living at a CCRC sucxh as Brookhaven is the periodic offers of showeing great but old movies on site every a couple of ...

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Blowing Our Own Horn 2025-07-05

Our family lives in the US for 70+ years (1950-2025) Starting in September 1950 (for Larry) and 1955 (for Sophia) we came to the US as teenagers alon ...

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The March of Time 2025-06-29

When I was young, I remember we were first taught to read time on a clock or watch face. Then we learned to flip or cross off dates on day/weekly/mon ...

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What my and the younger gernation each did not know: 2025-06-18

Size difference between the original and the current iPad - I must have an iPad of the first generation. Recently I was given an iPad case to ...

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Big brother is watching you! 2025-06-13

On at least two other prior occasions, I have partial evidences that the government monitors my e-mail communications with other as well as my blogs. ...

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夕陽無限好，只是近黃昏 2025-06-08

The Chinese title of the this blog above translated into English says: The scene of a setting sun is so beautiful except the duration is so short. ...

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An unexplained and unexpected blessing for my health 2025-05-17

For nearly a decade I was bothered by a skin condition that has psoriasis covering 100% of my body skin. How that condition came about is another s ...

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Luck do not arrive in pair, Misfortunes never travel alone 2025-05-05

This is the famous Chinese wisdom about the vicissitude of daily human lives. My current slow recovery from flu infection fully illustrated this. A f ...

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