Miss those last-minute goals
A legend of our time departs. Out of all the great things people say about Fergie, I like two the most. Reporter: “what do you think you will miss the…
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Current Reading: On China By Henry Kissinger
The dilemma for someone who strives to become a global citizen while at the same time taking pride in his/her own unique cultural heritage is that one often faces choices…
Notes on Lecture Notes: Maths Part 2
The previous post dealt with the question of what maths to learn. This post will deal with how to learn efficiently. In a casual discussion, Steven Gortler mentioned that books…
Notes on Lecture Notes: Maths
I audit three classes with heavy maths this year: one is L. Mahadevan’s ES220 Fluid Mechanics; another is Jocob Barandes’s PHY232 Advanced Classical Electromagnetism; the last one is Steven Gortler’s…
Book summary: Ignorance: How It Drives Science
I first read about the titular idea in an essay in Scientific American last year: What Science Wants to Know. I was attracted to what seems to me then an unconventional idea….
Cover Design: Spin of a Nanotech Spin-off
Original: Alas, skewed proportions. Wiley people… Read the paper here.
Cover Design: Silicon Nanocrystal OLEDs
They never get all the smooth color transition right in the final published cover. Read the paper here.
“In youth we learn; in age we understand”
Curious thing is a person’s memory. Stuff that one never paid any attention to in childhood just keeps coming back when one gets older. 人之初，性本善，性相近，习相远。 Men at their birth are…
Washington DC and “The Need to Create”
“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!” – Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit The flight to DC…
Washington DC: In (the Appearance of) the Presence of Grandeur
Follow the links for photos. Day 1: White House, WWII, Lincoln Memorial, FDR Memorial, Jefferson Memorial Day 2: National Gallery of Art, and Sculptures. Day 3: Spy Museum, National Portrait…
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