Growing pain (floaters or 飛蚊症)

虞左俊 2015-4-9 05:37

I thought growing pain was for young people, but began to realize it may be more serious for old people. As we age (say pass 40 years old), our vision starts to remind us that we are no longer young. Two days ago, I looked up at the blue sky over Hawaii (as I do daily), and suddenly I saw (b ...

个人分类: Health & Health-Care System|2835 次阅读|没有评论

海水淡化，你懂的

虞左俊 2015-2-7 05:16

内容被吃了。 Try again! I am checking the translation of Chapter 11 of book Water 4.0. It is about how to get drinking water from the sea. If you are in the field, please drop me a line?

个人分类: Scientific Translation|2256 次阅读|没有评论

Water 4.0 (a book on drinking water)

虞左俊 2015-1-3 06:06

http://www.water4point0.com/reviews.html If you have read this book, or if you are using this book for teaching, etc., would you be kind enough to leave me a message? My colleague is translating this book into Chinese. We could use some help. Happy New Year!

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Mac one-to-one lesson (8): Email "memory" and other clean-up

热度 1 虞左俊 2013-12-11 12:53

My Mac desktop is clean. There are only three folders and four files on it, leaving the sandy beach (background) visible. (You know what I mean. One of my colleague's Mac deaktop is COVERED by icons, which would stress me out working on such a Mac.) Still, I know there is a problem with ...

个人分类: iLove Mac|3082 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1

A story about T-shirt

虞左俊 2013-12-10 12:26

All of us have a T-shirt, or a dozen. Right? Do you know how a T-shirt is made, from cotton seeds? Do you know which country is the cotton king(dom)? Do you know 90% of the cotton grows in the US is GM-ed? Do you know how little these women make each day working long hours at a ...

个人分类: Education|3127 次阅读|没有评论

科普：海平面上升 和夏威夷

热度 1 虞左俊 2013-11-21 06:24

“全球变暖” 会导致海平面上升，这有什么好科普的？ 想想也是。所以，加上“夏威夷”，至少ZZ和贾伟老师有可能会“到此一游”。 因为我想在夏威夷扎下去，有机会就问好友是否也在夏威夷买一套住宅，好有个伴。好友会问一下这里的房价，也许，还会担心 “全球变暖”，把夏威夷给淹了。好在我是学海洋的 ...

个人分类: 中文博客|5254 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1

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