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[转载]Advanture Tourism
何毓琦 2023-10-13 19:15
These Vacation Activities Will Scare Even The Biggest Thrill-Seekers https://explore.informationvine.com/these-vacation-activities-will-scare-even-the-biggest-thrill-seekers/50?utm_source=combobreaker-pushutm_campaign=AMG-Programmatic-Auto-US-Wed-1300-234572rch=pu744pcid=AMG-Programmat ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1298 次阅读|没有评论
My 91st year
热度 1 何毓琦 2023-10-10 19:58
In 2.5 months, I'll enter my 91st year of existence on this earth. Thus the past week we pre-celebrated my 90th birthcay and birth year when a number of Sophia's family was here for for their parents' weekend visiting their children at the local Tufts University. Then during the c ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1875 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1
[转载]How does it feel to win the Nobel Prize?
何毓琦 2023-9-28 20:44
Given the special place of the stature of Nobel Prize in the minds of the public, particulary in China, it may be interesting to read the in person interview of seven scholars at Harvard University who enjoy that distinction. See https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/we-asked-7-lau ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1229 次阅读|没有评论
More detail about our retirement communities
何毓琦 2023-9-25 22:30
I am never ceased to be surprised by the detialed attention to the design of our living condition in this retirement community. This place is equiped with large swimming pool next to the exercise facility. Unlike the usual swimming pool which has a deep and shallow end, instead it has deep and sha ...
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On Legal Assisted Suicide in the World
何毓琦 2023-9-24 20:14
People all over the world committ suicide for a varied of reasons. The means for carrying this out are often brutal, desparate, and most probably very painful. Thus, a practice had developed when the end of a life is clear due to terminal illness, physicians can step in to help so that the de ...
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[转载]The One Percent Principle
何毓琦 2023-9-4 22:42
We, the denizens of the modern world, live in the 1 percent, where all our art, our books, our economic value, our money, and our languages reside. The rest 99% never made it, did not survive, and/or were forgotten. See https://www.aier.org/article/the-one-percent-principle/ A ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1372 次阅读|没有评论
Passing of another giant in Control system theory
何毓琦 2023-8-30 04:12
Another memeber of clun 34 passes from our world https://www.eecs.mit.edu/sanjoy-mitter-interdisciplinary-explorer-dies-at-89/
个人分类: 生活点滴|1618 次阅读|没有评论
A diverse, complex, but interconnected set of problems
何毓琦 2023-8-19 22:38
Asian Hate, The AI intelligence revolution, my grand children’s future, The US system of government. This is a diverse set of topics and observations based on my 70+ years of living in the US. While they are interrelated, it is difficult to weave them into a coherent and smooth e ...
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Productivity vs sleep vs.Naps
何毓琦 2023-8-14 19:39
As an animal species, human being need to sleep about 1/3 of every day. Sleep deprevation lowers productivity asmong hourly-paid workers. Recently, I heard of a large scale experiemnt on public radio concerning: Sleept efficiency - the % of time you actually sleep while in bed Does naps actua ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1916 次阅读|没有评论
Private Equity Funds in a Democracy
何毓琦 2023-8-8 20:54
By chance I learned something new on National Public Radio yesterday about finance on the subject of Private Equity Fund (PEF). This is my takeaway: PEF are pool of money assembled by a small group of people that manage and invest this pool of money for the participant (or share holders). In th ...
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