Updated 06 Feb 2009 from New York Times article: “A Columbia University scientist who studied the quake has said that it may have been triggered by the weight of 320 million tons of water in the Zipingpu Reservoir less than a mile from a well-known major fault. His conclusions, presented to the American Geophysical Union [...]

On 12th May 2008, a mega earthquake hit the middle west China, and it was devastating. As it happened in the afternoon around 2:30 local time, most of the students were inside the school building, and many buildings were collapsed.

I read an article called ‘Angry China‘ from a respectful british journal:The Economist. It speaks right to the heart of various issues related to Olympic Torch Relay happened in last month, i.e. April. (attached behind) I totally agreed with the writer that the anger that triggered by the torch rely, further encouraged by the chinese [...]

阅读了一个小文叫《朱熹、费正清、戴震》，里面列举了儒家经典《大学》的一段话作为中国传统学问家缺少逻辑的例子： 《大学》里的这段话，影响了上千年中国知识阶层的思路，也是费正清多次引用、说明传统中国学问缺少逻辑的例子：“古之欲明明德于天下者，先治其国，欲治其国者，先齐其家；欲齐其家者，先修其身；欲修其身者，先正其心；欲正其心者，先诚其意；欲诚其意者，先致其知，致知在格物。物格而后知至，知至而后意诚，意诚而后心正，心正而后身修，身修而后家齐，家齐而后国治，国治而后天下平。自天子以至于庶人，壹是皆以修身为本。” 后面有位朋友提出这样的疑问：逻辑？什么是逻辑？逻辑＝＝＝形式逻辑？我能够以一个聪明人的资格向你质疑你的“逻辑”吗？而我能够不寻常的比多数人幸运吗？ 这是我的回复：

I just read an article called “The Olympics, Tibet and China’s dictatorial regime“, from Kaalhauge’s blog. He is an excellent economist from Denmark. And his blog is main focused on various issues of China. I really enjoyed reading this article. It is very insightful. I more or less have similar ideas but was not be [...]