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| 2010-1-5 | windsuit flying | ||
<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/1778399">wingsuit base jumping</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/aabbas">Ali</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> | |||
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| 2010-1-2 | ZT: James Cameron's Avatar | ||
James Cameron's Avatar delivers a powerful message of connectedness with Mother Nature If you see just one film this holiday season (or even this year), make it James Cameron's Avatar. It's a powerful, inspiring film that demonstrates movie-making at its best, and it delivers a crucial message for our time: That all living beings are connected and that those who seek to exploit nature rather than respect it will only destroy themselves. Much of the press about Avatar has focused on the special effects, the motion capture and the 3-D presentation. These are modern filmmaking marvels, for certain, but the film succeeds for a far more important reason: Its story -- and its message. Others have reviewed the film in a more critical light; notably Alex Jones who sees it as more of a propaganda.. | |||
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| 2009-6-8 | [转载] extraordinary vs. ordinary | ||
Everybody is after being extraordinary. That is the search of the ego: to be someone who is special, to be someone who is unique, incomparable. And this is the paradox: the more you try to be exceptional, the more ordinary you look, because everybody is after extraordinariness. It is such an ordinary desire. If you become ordinary, the very search to be ordinary is extraordinary, because rarely does somebody want to be just nobody, rarely does somebody want to be just a hollow, empty space. This is really extraordinary in a way, because nobody wants it. And when you become ordinary you become extraordinary, and, of course, suddenly you discover that without searching you have become unique. In fact, everybody is unique. If you can stop your constant running after goals for even a single m.. | |||
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| 2009-2-22 | [转载] 孩子成长到底需要什么 | ||
关于孩子的教育，可能一直是海外华裔父母头痛的问题。我们配做父母吗？想想我们曾经受过的教育，想想我们是如何一天天变得平庸的。 说起来,教育孩子,父母和社会都有责任,但是,现在教育的主要症结在于，大多数的父母,都希望孩子按照自己希望的那种模式去发展而不尊重孩子的天性和潜能。 在开始踏上社会生活前的短短十几年中，孩子到底需要什么教育呢？大量的专家学者给了我们无数的答案。在大陆任教的日子里，我曾和一位来自台湾的心理学家讨教，那次谈话的内容，至今还给了我极大的启发。 其实，孩子除了温饱外，最要紧的莫过于的是以下的教育需要。 第一，孩子需要学习语言，这是语言的教育。 婴孩一出世，最迫切需要学习的，就是语言。生下不久，父母一抱上孩子便对他说话，其实就是教他语言。学习母语，对一般孩子来说，都不成问题。正常的孩子，不到7、8岁，都能运用母语应付日常生活中遇到的各种状况。除了母语，孩子还应学一门外语，精通外语可以扩大一个人的视野，提高一个人成就的上限。学习外语显然也和学习母语一样重要和迫切，因为语言是一种很奇怪的能力，愈早学习，学习的效果愈好。晚学，不只是辛苦，而且很难学好。还有，对幼年孩子来说，是游戏，同时学习多种语言，不会互相干扰。对孩子来说，每一种语言都是外来语。 第二，孩子需要认识生活环境，这是环境的教育。 孩子所有能接触到的人、物和现象，他都好奇。最早，孩子对环境做到能区别就够：这个人是妈妈，这个人是爸爸，那个人是叔叔，那个人是阿姨；这是桌面，这是椅子，那是床；这是汽车、这是火车、那是飞机、那是船……孩子逐渐长大，对环境的认识增多了：妈妈陪我的时间最长，爸爸只有晚上出现……孩子的好奇心扩大得很快，有些孩子还未认识家、学校和他的国家，他就要认识地球和宇宙了；孩子还会好奇过去和未来；好奇森林里的鳄鱼和蟒蛇，也好奇要靠显微镜才能看到的细菌和原子。孩.. | |||
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| 2009-2-8 | [转载] 顾城谢烨悲剧的反思 | ||
——婚外情酿成的悲剧 文 昕 （该文是我为《人生》杂志写的特约专稿，发表于该杂志2000年4月号） 顾城谢烨悲剧的反思 历史的尘埃渐渐埋没了人们当初乍听顾谢海外悲剧事件时的震惊,一切似乎已经归于平静。6年过去了,顾城的墓地上已是春复秋来,草木依稀。我竟然还是会时时被当年的往事所困扰,而由此引来的反思也使我不断地回顾起遥远的过去。 虽然在这个悲剧事件发生的当时,作为他们的朋友和知情人,我写了一本书《顾城绝命之迷》力图向世人讲清许多造成顾谢悲剧的真实原因,但是这么多年过去了,重新反思这一事件,我依然心痛难忍──两条活生生的生命就这样一去不复返,年幼的孩子成为了孤儿,一个好端端的家庭不复存在…… 越往人性本身的深处探索,我越能清楚地感觉到人类自身的某些弱点,它们存在着,在每一个人的心底里悄悄潜伏着。顾谢的悲剧并不偶然,我们每一个人其实都可能犯和他们同样的错误。同时他们遇到的也是我们都有可能遇到的现实问题──在婚姻的过程里,如何面对婚外出现的另一份感情。 顾城，一位年轻的天才诗人，他的哲学思想以及他的才华影响了许多人；谢烨一个美丽善良才华出众的女人，身为顾城的妻子是她的骄傲和幸福。他们的婚姻一度为 文学圈里的人们羡慕、尊重，他们虽然清贫，但生活却充满浪漫甜蜜。然而，世事却如此难料，他们的婚姻竟以悲剧而告终，绝望的顾城打伤了自己的妻子，尔后自 挂于树上结束了自己的生命。几小时以后，他曾经深爱过的妻子因抢救无效、死在奥克兰的一家医院里。而英儿，这位不顾一切闯入顾、谢婚姻并导致悲剧发生的女 孩，面对使料不及的一切该作何.. | |||
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| 2008-11-5 | 童言趣语 | ||
（一） 昨天下午儿女放学回家，四年级的女儿告诉我班里进行了总统选举，每个人写个纸条折好给老师，并写出决定的理由，最后统计结果奥巴马赢了。女儿选了奥巴马，我问为什么，她答：I want to give black people a chance.  我去问一年级的弟弟，快六岁了，他说如果他参加会选奥巴马，I asked why, he said, "John McCain is older than my grandpa, i think younger people are smarter. "  （二） 女儿今年开始讨厌上中文课，教学形式刻板，是中式的，不是美式的，作业也枯燥无味，其中有个要求用‘练习’造句，她毫不犹豫地写下：“我决不练习中文！”。 | |||
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| 2008-9-27 | [转载]有关“小国寡民“ | ||
国家要小，人民要少。即使有效率高达十倍百倍的机械也不使用；使人民爱惜生命，不向远方迁徙。虽然有船和车，却没有地方要乘坐它；虽然有武器装备，却没有地方去陈列它。使人民再用结绳的方法来记事。使人民对他们的吃食感到香甜，对他们的穿戴感到漂亮，对他们的住宅感到安适，对他们的习俗感到满意。邻近的国家互相望得见，鸡鸣狗叫的声音互相听得见，而人民直到老死也不相往来。 《老子》第八十章：“使有什佰之器而不用；使民重死而不远徙。虽有舟舆，无所乘之；虽有甲兵，无所陈之。使民复结绳而用之。甘其食，美其服，安其居，乐其俗。邻国相望，鸡犬之声相闻，民至老死，不相往来。”描述了老子理想中的“小国寡民”的社会图象。 《老子》一书文约义丰，后世各家注解，往往大有出入；兼之流传既久，乖误日多，更给它的解读带来了极大的困难。往往因个人理解的不同，会得出不同的结论。“小国寡民”思想是老子政治思想的核心所在，而前人对此曾作出过不同的理解与评判，但多是简单地批评其为复古与倒退，很少能对其合理性做出较为深入的分析与探讨。 以往学者对老子“小国寡民”思想的评价，明显地带有那个时代留下的印记，往往简单地以唯心、唯物进行界定，得出“小国寡民”的思想是与当时的历史任务背道而驰的……小国寡民的实质，反映了没落的贵族阶级知识分子在社会经济发展洪流和新生事物面前的消极退缩的心情”这样的结论。这样的论点无需进行太多的辩驳，很容易就可以看出其草率与机械。（高定彝曾对这一点进行了批驳。参见高定彝：《老子道德经研究》，第424页，北京广播学院出版社1999年6月版。）但是关于老子“小国寡民”思想的内涵，却仍需要作较为深入地探讨与分析。 首先，老子主张“小国寡民”，并不是要复古或倒退，他的一个重要出发点是在追求一种淳朴的民风。正如冯振甫所云：“老氏称上古之治，莫非要求‘见素抱朴，少私寡欲’，莫动干戈而已。这样，才能遂.. | |||
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| 2008-9-11 | Eternal recurrence (wikipedia) | ||
Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur in exactly form an infinite number of times. The concept has roots in ancient Egypt, and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the notion is supported in the book of Ecclesiastes.[1][2][3] With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse, though Friedrich Nietzsche briefly resurrected it. In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no "reincarnation", but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical. The basic premise is .. | |||
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| 2008-9-7 | 科普：从大爆炸到黑洞--史蒂芬•霍金的宇宙观 | ||
那天在网上查找少儿科普知识晚上准备讲给小孩听，无意看到这篇，对四年级女儿来说，太深了些，中学生或成人读来也算有趣，刺激一下好奇心。 从大爆炸到黑洞--史蒂芬•霍金的宇宙观 （一）？？？ 圣经说：上帝创造了宇宙。 当代物理学家说：宇宙从大爆炸中诞生。 梵蒂冈说：大爆炸理论符合圣经。 史蒂芬•霍金说：大爆炸和黑洞是不可避免的宇宙奇点。 史蒂芬•霍金说：黑洞并不黑，它不仅看得见，而且是白炽的。 史蒂芬•霍金说：在经典物理框架中，黑洞越变越大，但在量子物理框架中，黑洞因辐射而越变越小。 史蒂芬•霍金说：大爆炸到黑洞的周而复始，便是宇宙创生与毁灭并再创生的过程。因而上帝对宇宙的贡献消失殆尽。 史蒂芬•霍金与照顾他十几年并且笃信天主教的妻子离婚。 有人说史蒂芬•霍金是继爱因斯坦之后最伟大的天才，也有人说他是疯子。 史蒂芬•霍金是谁？ （二）史蒂芬•霍金 史蒂芬•霍金是英国理论物理学家，他的生日是1942年1月8日，这一天刚好是伽利略三百周年的忌日。1959年，17岁的霍金开始就读与牛津，并在剑桥跟随导师邓尼斯•西阿玛作博士论文。 然而就在这时，霍金被诊断患上一种叫做"肌肉萎缩性侧面硬化症"的疾病，这种病至今仍不能治愈乃至于控制它。史蒂芬•霍金最终只能永远坐在轮椅上并且失去了语言能力，一切生活完全依靠他的妻子简•瓦尔德照顾。但这位据称全身只有三个手指能动的残疾人，却依靠惊人的毅力，完成了一系列惊人的关于大爆炸和黑洞的理论，对量子物理作出了巨大的贡献，将宇宙伟大而神秘的背景展现给世人。他被广泛尊崇为继爱.. | |||
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| 2008-6-26 | humorous quotes | ||
A cigarette shortens your life by 2 mins .. a beer shortens your life by 4 min.. But a working day shortens your life by 8 hours!!!! --- in the last few months, a working day shortens my life by 15 hours , i am working too hard for a ridiculous project  | |||
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| 2008-6-22 | John Francis, a 'planetwalker' who lived car-free and silent for 17 years | ||
John Francis, a 'planetwalker' who lived car-free and silent for 17 years, chats with Grist How long could you survive without your car? For the many Americans who think nothing of driving 10 blocks to buy a gallon of milk, the answer is obvious. But before any of you dedicated pedestrians and die-hard cyclists start feeling smug, try this question: How long could you survive without talking? Chances are, nowhere near as long as John Francis did. After a massive oil spill polluted San Francisco Bay in 1971, Francis gave up all motorized transportation. For 22 years, he walked everywhere he went -- including treks across the entire United States and much of South America -- hoping to inspire others to drop out of the petroleum economy. Soon after he stopped riding in cars, Francis, t.. | |||
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| 2008-3-17 | [转载]How to Get a Runner's High | ||
Runner's high is a term given to the feeling of euphoria that is induced by distance running. You don't have to be a world class athlete, or even a distance runner per se to experience this elevated state of mind. This wiki explains how any person can achieve a runner's high and dramatically improve his or her fitness while doing it. The steps below are based on a 30 - 45 minute run. 1. Start out slowly. It is very common for people to feel fatigue within the first minute of running. To make it over this initial hump or avoid it altogether you should set your initial pace extremely slow taking small steps. 2. Pick up the pace, slightly for just a few minutes. This lets your body know that there is work to be done. Your body will respond by doing all sorts of neat biological responses th.. | |||
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| 2008-2-2 | a beautiful video, great music | ||
our beautiful planet ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzQOztMaZ4 | |||
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