For new readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first Climate Change: Tragedy vs. disaster A disaster, whether earthquake, typhoon, or fire, is often localized in geographical terms. While human deaths in a disaster can ...
For new readers and those who requ[pest to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first The MIT Compton Lectures On October 1 2018, my favorite NYT columnist, Thomas Friedman, was invited to give the MIT Compton lecture https://compton.mit.edu/thomas-l-fried ...
For new readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first This summer our three chidlren and daughter-in-law hiked the famed Appalachian Trail along the East Coast of the US for three days. Below is the account fo their advanture at el ...
For new readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first I remember when young the advice from parents and elders in China always was “learn a useful skill so that you can earn a living”. So engineering instead science b ...
For new readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first The Ho Academic Family Reunion 2018. Since 1994, my former students have showered me with all kinds of gifts, special parties, and workshops honoring my birthdays, ...
For new readers and those who request to be “好友good friends” please read my公告 栏 first The latest issue of Technology Review (MIT’s flag ship publication) features Shelia Widnall who spent her entire career at MIT from 1960 to now, except for three yea ...
For new readers and those who request to be “好友good friends” please read my公告 栏 first The Happiness Course at Yale University The most popular course at Yale University is known by the nickname The Happiness Course and taken by a quarter of the st ...
Happy Holidays 2017! Some nine years ago, we stopped sending out Christmas card greetings due to advancing age. While we do reply to individual letters and e-mails, the task of addressing and writing each individual letters several hundred times became daunting. Instead we ask our frie ...
For new readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first Fifth in a series of guest blogs by my friend Dr. Art Chen GaoKao ( 高 考 National College Entrance Exam ) in New YorkCity, a Look at Stuyv ...
My friend, Dr. Art Chen, obviously encouraged by the popularity of his three guest blog articles on his MIT experience has now written a fourth about his Chinese-American experience which is posted below. Personally this blogger think his writing has hit a sweet spot and he should be e ...