Monthly Archives: January 2009

Perpetual Rooster Coop

The White Tiger Aravind Adiga Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group October 2008 ISBN-13: 9781416562603 A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent to exist in perpetual servitude. The winner of 2009 Man Booker Prize, … Continue reading

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Happy Year of the Ox

My 4th blog on on Chinese New Year. I reflected back when the years of Rat, Pig, and Dog came. This is a tradition now. A Chinese cycle, similar concept to century, is 60 years. This coming one is the … Continue reading

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Nematode

Today, January 19, 2009, she did it. It took her 209 days, at the speed no less than ferocious. I knew that I could never achieve this for the rest of my life. I am simply not in the same … Continue reading

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Solution to the Global Warming

It is actually quite simple. Instead of producing less greenhouse gases. We cool Earth down. High up there, there is a layer of very, very cold air. At the top of Troposphere, about 12km above the sea level, the temperature … Continue reading

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Outliers

Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company (November 18, 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0316017923 When I grew up, elders told stories of famous and successful people in the history. Quickly, we learned the pattern: this calligrapher filled the … Continue reading

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Infected

Coming back from the holiday, my computer was sick. No, did not download anything, just simple web surfing, by myself and family members who are all computer savvy. It became sluggish, extremely. It froze at random time. When it unfroze, … Continue reading

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Life on a Young Planet

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Andrew H. Knoll ISBN13: 978-0-691-12029-4 Princeton University Press (March 17, 2003) Joe Kirschvink, of CalTech, conjectured that Earth was once a snowball. When glaciers crept below … Continue reading

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