Illiteracy and Innumeracy – Why Quantitative Reasoning?

热度 5 何毓琦 2011-2-13 21:54

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. The problem of ILLITERACY is obvious to everyone. It is one of the most important, if not the most important problem, any developing nation tries to solve. The proble ...

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[转载]More Selective than Harvard: China's Hamburger U

热度 2 何毓琦 2011-2-8 00:21

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. February 3, 2011 at 9:00AM by Katie Robbins | Comment http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/more-selective-than-harvard-chinas-hamburger-university ...

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A personal experience with the Cold War 40+years ago

热度 2 何毓琦 2011-1-31 23:09

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. I’d like to relate an amusing (by hindsight) personal experience with the Cold War 40+ years ago involving international espionage and real spies. But first a bit of ...

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[转载]The Science of Networks: A Series of Documentary Films

热度 3 何毓琦 2011-1-25 07:11

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. From Northeastern University in Boston: Documentary showing of….. CONNECTED – The Power of Six Degrees DATE Wednesday, January 26th at 5:30 ...

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Two Famous Harvard Dropouts

热度 5 何毓琦 2011-1-22 22:28

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. It just occur to me that during the time I was at Harvard (from the spring of 1961 to my last paycheck in July of 2007), the university produced two world famous dropouts ...

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Why Chinese Mothers are Superior?

热度 4 何毓琦 2011-1-12 23:50

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. This was the title of a Wall Street Journal article written by Amy Chua, a 48 year old Chinese American female Harvard graduate and Yale Law School professor, and publishe ...

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The Four Waves of Chinese Immigration to the United States

热度 1 何毓琦 2010-12-26 02:36

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Last month the local Lexington Historical Society (LHS) of my home town asked me to give a talk with the above title. It was standing room only and well rece ...

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Is Going to an Elite College worth It?

热度 1 何毓琦 2010-12-19 22:11

Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. This is the title of a page one article in the Sunday New York Times Week-in-Review section dated Dec. 19, 2010. With increasing number of Chinese students going to US unde ...

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