Category: Diary
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Myth, Hype And Nonsense: Days Before ‘Doomsday’
NASA has released a video intended to put the world’s mind at rest about Dec. 21, 2012 — the much hyped end-date of the Mayan “Long Count” calendar. Titled “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday,” the video does a sound debunking of the misinformation being bandied about by doomsayers trying to make a fast buck […]
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Fotopedia Launches China iPad App on iPad-in-China Day
Just in time for the new iPad’s arrival in China, Fotopedia, which publishes iOS-based photo and travel apps, has introduced a new iPad app geared toward China. The free app, called Fotopedia China, features high-res photos of various provinces, regions and cities throughout the nation, as well as descriptive captions, maps, Wikipedia entries and recommendations […]
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Han Han sues Fang Zhouzi for claiming his books were ghost-written
Fang Zhouzi, who is known as the “science cop” for exposing pseudoscience and academic fraud, said the suit against him by the young Chinese writer Han Han will not stop him continuing his analysis of Han’s work. “Suing me is his right, but it will also attract more attention,” Fang told China Daily on Sunday. […]
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Crash raises doubts about China’s fast rail plans
BEIJING — Doubts about China’s breakneck plans to expand high-speed rail across the country have been underscored by a bullet train wreck that killed at least 35 people. Railways Minister Sheng Guangzu has already apologized to the victims of Saturday’s crash, and their families. A train rammed into the back of another one that stalled […]
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Is the Japanese Earthquake a sign of “2012”?
Strong earthquakes hit the Tohoku Region in the afternoon of March 11, triggering several meter high tsunami waves that caused massive destruction and loss of human lives in areas along the Pacific coast of eastern Japan, especially in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima Prefectures. The earthquake itself caused major damage in areas close to the epicenter, […]
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Facebook, Skype keep Japanese citizens in touch
Facebook, Skype, and Twitter are proving to be the best way for people living in Japan to communicate as the nation struggles to deal with the effects of a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake in northern Japan and subsequent tsunami. At least 300 people have died in the disaster so far and there are more than […]
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True Friendship Only Exists Between Good Men
But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men. I do not, however, press this too closely, like the philosophers who push their definitions to a superfluous accuracy. We mean then by the “good” those whose actions and lives leave no question as to their honour, purity, […]
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Shanghai high-rise inferno death toll hits 53
The death toll in the towering inferno that scarred the Shanghai skyline on Monday has risen to 53, according to Chinese officials. This is a conservative number compared with the 79 deaths reported by the Xinhua News Agency, which authorities said was inaccurate, The Associated Pres reports. Twenty-six of the 53 have been identified, which […]
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UCD 2010 annual meeting with lovely colleagues
October 30, 2010 in Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, UCD 2010 annual meeting successfully held.This meeting is one of the most famous meetings of the industry in China,I am very fortunate to attend the meeting with my lovely colleagues such as @Jessica @bunny @fisher @Jeannie @dunhilljj ,you are all too cute! UCD’s full name is ‘User Centered […]
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Finally,I got an iphone 4!
September 30, 2010 , I got an iphone 4 from Apple Sotre, Pudong.This is my first time to use IOS and MR.Jobs did not let me down as expected.Forgive me that share this happy thing with you so late!Please allow me to tell you about the features of iphone4 even everybody knows: Facetime: People have […]
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