What if age is a mindset?
The first part of this article in the NY Times magazine is interesting. It describes how a group of old men were brought to a monastery that was decorated as if it were a building from their youth....
View ArticleWhy American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas
Thanks, H., for sending this: Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas. It seems that there are cultural reasons for this. And so, for Jews, the chop suey palaces and dumpling parlors of the...
View ArticleHow to Fall in Love With Anyone
Fascinating article here. To summarize, a writer learns of a psychologist named Arthur Aron who, 20 years ago, was able to make two complete strangers fall in love in a lab experiment. The experiment...
View ArticleHow to overcome overcomplication, and how to make progress
One of the big problems with extreme Leftist thinking in the modern age is overcomplication, also known as paralysis by analysis. Someone will say something constructive like, “Black people need...
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Mathematics and the mind of Terence Tao
I’ve always thought mathematicians were really cool. Terry Tao is one of the top mathematicians in the world. He was a child prodigy who completed eleventh grade math when he was seven years old, and...
View ArticleFighting to change (back) language
Here’s an interesting article. Vanessa Ruiz is a news anchor for 12 news in Phoenix. She is a Latina from a bilingual household, and she rolls her R’s and pronounces things the way the Spanish...
View ArticleMovies Without Mandonese
Mrs. WOWO and I have recently been watching Chinese movies on Hulu. Many of these movies are following the popular trend of cross-market casting. To sell the movie in Korea, for example, they’ll use...
View ArticleSimultaneous interpretation
Thought some of you bilinguals might enjoy this article: How To Translate Spoken Language. I’ve always been super-impressed by interpreters who can interpret and listen at the same time (simultaneous...
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San Toy Laundry
Michael Huang, Photo credit: Hilary Swift for the NY Times This is a really beautiful story of a Chinese laundry in New York: He Irons. She Stitches. It’s a story about two working-class Chinese...
View ArticleProtection dog videos
I’m going to drop off my ballot (and Mrs. WOWO’s ballot) today, so our civic duty will be done. It’s all filled out and ready to go. I don’t feel like talking about politics. I’m tired of all the...
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