Suixuan

Year: 2007

  • The legendary CET-6~~

    Life & Notes

    The legendary CET-6~~

    Exam type: CET-6  Admission ticket number: 110010071210419    Your total score: 453     Listening: 124     Reading: 205     Comprehensive: 36     Writing: 88  I made it through! Hahahahaha~~~~!!!!! PS: I’m already back in Beijing. All sorts of things have only just started to normalize, and the renovation is nearing completion; it’s just that one door that still hasn’t been installed. However you look at it, it should all be complete by next week~ Latest comments   Yiwu 2007-08-18 23:03:35 [reply] Oh!  Oh!!  Oh!!!  Oh!!!!  ………Congratulations! Haha!!!!!!!!!  You’ve got to treat us!!! Hahahahaha!!  A low-probability event actually happened!!!! Haha!!! Congratulations! Congratulations!………    Gǔbó 2007-08-19 15:39:56 http://epr.ycool.com/ [reply] I really do…

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  • What Is the Olympics?

    Culture & Public Commentary

    What Is the Olympics?

    My many acquaintances in the world of science and culture are rather indifferent to the Olympic Games. They point out many problems, such as excessive commercialization, and the fact that high-intensity athletic training is often a brutal assault on athletes’ bodies rather than a form of exercise. Rather than pouring massive resources into the vanity of chasing Olympic gold medals, it would be better to invest more in building up basic sports, in promoting public exercise, and in work that fosters health. Here, I disagree with those teachers. I think this line of thought is, in fact, pragmatic and utilitarian. On the one hand, I certainly acknowledge that the spread…

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  • On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”

    Philosophy & Thought

    On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”

    This famous saying by Bishop Berkeley, the philosopher of idealism, is one we all know by heart—of course, as one of the famous targets mocked and criticized in high school “philosophy” class. Berkeley was not only an idealist philosopher, but also a bishop, and so naturally became a negative example for political science teachers to disparage and ridicule. I remember that when we got to this point in political class, I had already read quite a few popular science books on modern physics, and had already begun to dimly appreciate the profundity of Berkeley’s remark. If a sentence like this can be refuted simply by saying, “Didn’t your mother exist…

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  • [Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing

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    [Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing

    http://www.gmw.cn/01ds/2007-08/01/content_648751.htm More than 60% of academic book sales are carried out by privately run bookstores, and they largely determine whether academic books can survive. But at present, most of these bookstores are facing a survival crisis. Privately Run Academic Bookstores and the Publishing of Academic Books Beset by Crises Ye Zhi The scope of the objects discussed in this article is limited to privately run academic bookstores in provincial capitals. For a long time, they have been the main force in academic book sales. The reason I am discussing the crisis of the privately run book trade together with the predicament of academic publishing is that more than 60% of…

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  • James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

    History of Science & Scholarship

    James Lovelock: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

    [English] James Lovelock: _Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth_, translated by Xiao Xianjing and Fan Xiangdong, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, June 2007, 21 yuan Preface, page 1: The word “Gaia” comes from my friend and neighbor—the novelist William Golding. He believed that such an idea should be named after the earth goddess in ancient Greek mythology. Preface, pages 12–13: Ancient belief and modern knowledge fuse together in an awe-inspiring and exciting way. With this fusion, astronauts, with their own eyes, and we through television, witness Earth’s full splendor and charm as it appears against the backdrop of the blackness of space. Yet however intense this feeling may be,…

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  • This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

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    This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

    http://hyl510.googlepages.com/CivIIIAncEurope.mp3 I still haven’t played any games since the start of this summer vacation, and I’m really depressed…… The long-awaited Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Hammers of Fate still hasn’t appeared; Sword and Fairy 4, which I had preordered early on at Amazon.cn, has already been delivered to Beijing, but now I’m in Shanghai…… As for Civilization, I’ve been playing it far too much…… Today I discovered that GooglePage has been restored, and for the time being I couldn’t find a place to upload music. I noticed that there were already two background tracks from Civilization uploaded there, so I’m just casually posting one of them here. This piece…

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  • A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School

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    A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School

    I shelved this for a full year without continuing it. Several times I almost forgot about this unfinished thing; several times I meant to resume it but gave up halfway. Probably by then the mood that had made me want to review my own growth had already vanished… Still, let me at least finish the high school stage. Huadong Normal University Second High School was originally in Putuo District, next to Huadong Normal University, and rather run-down. By the time I was in the second semester of my sophomore year, it had moved to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Pudong, and the new campus was indeed beautiful. Although both campuses were…

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  • A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification

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    A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification

    Quoting Lao Yang, my characteristic is “as addicted to books as to life, buying books by the mountain”; the books I have piled up already number beyond counting, and it seems that, like our universe, they are actually still expanding at an accelerating rate…… Many teachers and senior students had long since tried to persuade me that there was no need to buy so many books, because in the end these books would all be useless. They told me that once one has entered the proper track of scholarship, the more important readings are original foreign-language works; Chinese books are, on the one hand, unlikely to be of the highest…

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  • Back in Shanghai~

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    Back in Shanghai~

    Yesterday, while eating dinner, I decided to head back to Shanghai, and now I’m here. The renovation is already in its latter half; most of the design decisions that needed to be made have already been made. What’s left is just watching that gang of renovation workers dragging their feet. I’ve left Mom there to supervise the work, and I’ve come back to visit family～～ Why is Shanghai so hot!!!!!!!!! BTW: please don’t send me text messages recently; my phone is with my mom~ Latest Comments mist 2007-08-02 17:29:53 Anonymous 124.17.16.85  A junior sister asked me to pass a message to you. I think I’d better just post her original…

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  • Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays

    Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
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    Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays

    Suixuan Two-Year Anniversary Selected Collection Gu Chu posted on 2007-07-31 10:34:36 Suixuan Two-Year Anniversary Selected Collection Science — Pursuit of Knowledge Constellations, Easter Island, and the Predicament of Science Popularization ★A Casual Talk on Science pp ☆Putting Chaos on Display with Excel! Trusting Science and Finding a Wife ☆Similarities and Differences Between Modern Science and Classical Greek Science Philosophy — Love of Wisdom Draft Text for the Philosophy Popularization Display Board ★Preserving Commonality While Seeking Differences — A Pluralist View of Dialogue A Supplement to “Preserving Commonality While Seeking Differences” A Brief Discussion of Philosophy Popularization (Final Published Version) ☆Negative Ontology — A Review of Kant’s Ontology Religion — Hope…

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