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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Under the same link as in the previous article, https://brookhavenatlexington.org/residents-website/recorded-events/ you can find the URL for a series of five lectures given at our senior living community which explore the least understood but most important part of our body and our existie ...
Redently the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) sponsored a talk on the details and demonstration of the capability of the software Chat GPT. The speaker Max Li is an expert on the subject and gave the talk entirely in Mandrain Chinese. Many ScienceNet reader may find t ...
In this age of AI, jobs are being destroyed and created. I just learned a new job classification nemed PROMPT ENGINEERING. What prompt engineers do is this: 1, Generative AI such as Chat GPT-x is a vast lanquage model which can search vast data base quickly for answer to questions p ...
Here is a three part broadcast about Antitrust laws and free market business competition in the US. Each part is about 25 minutes long. The first two parts dealt with history from the Standard Oil monopoly that started everything to the breakup of ATT and IBM in the second half of the 20 th ...
I have often in the past gave links to worth while reference in my blog articles. However, with the passage of time, those links no longer works. One must do some extra wrok in order to reach the linked content. Let me give an example. I wrote an blog article about the unsung heroines of the Scienc ...
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