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“The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.10.29
“The Two Cultures”: Science and Literature, or Science and the Humanities? — Reflections on Liu Bing’s Lecture
Today Teacher Liu Bing’s topic was “STS and Science Communication in Drama and Fiction.” He first introduced some background on what Snow called the “two cultures,” and then discussed three dramatic works: *Life of Galileo*, *The Physicists*, and *Copenhagen*. There wasn’t time to talk about the fiction section, and the presentation was mainly a display of examples rather than a line of argument, so I’ll write my reflections on one issue from the background material. When Snow spoke of the “two cultures,” he meant scientific culture and literary culture. Teacher Liu mentioned that nowadays we more often speak of “science and the humanities.” “Humanities” is much broader in meaning than…
culture science Confucianism science communication
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2010年10月29日
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)

Life & Notes2008.11.29
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
http://www.lirazelscastle.net/choir%20royal/Concerto%20No.%206%20in%20B%20flat%20major%20I%20[Allegro].mp3 Although the effect of the new MP3 player is not ideal, in basic terms it is still quite good. After testing, it seems that only some music files produce obvious popping noises during playback, while others can be played smoothly. Broadly speaking, the Flac format is better than APE, but some MP3 files are very choppy. I bought a pair of headphones that cost about as much as an MP3 player, and indeed there is a difference! I only hope they will live a long, long life. The MP3 player is truly a marvelous invention (of course, its earlier ancestor was the Walkman), and it provides a way…
everyday life music ontology life
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2008年11月29日
Finally Done with the Interview~~

Life & Notes2007.09.28
Finally Done with the Interview~~
Was asked questions by Teacher Sun for quite a while; the other teachers basically didn’t ask much. Teacher Liu didn’t come, and Teacher Su arrived only after the questioning was over. The other three people who got guaranteed admission: one from the Medical School studying medical English, one from Yuanpei studying physics and having a great interest in Buddhism, and one from Beijing Institute of Technology studying management. They were all male. Latest Comments mist 2007-09-28 19:40:58 Anonymous 211.166.9.17 [Reply] Logic does have a female student… Suiyuan 2007-09-29 09:14:13 Anonymous 124.17.16.94 [Reply] How did the written exam part feel? There shouldn’t be any problem, right? But the results…
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2007年9月28日
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)

Life & Notes2007.06.05
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln.mp3 Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in the style of a Tibetan folk song) http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musictxt/wangsheng.asp The one posted above is incomplete; the one below is long enough, though it’s a bit large, and it stuttered in the middle: http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln2.mp3 This installment of music continues the journey eastward; after the guqin, let’s go farther west and find a piece of Tibetan music. Tibet has always been one of the places I most yearn for. I seem to have posted a Tibetan folk song before. This time I originally wanted to do “A Sister Drum,” but listening to the “Six-Character Great Bright Mantra” inside A Sister Drum, I thought it would be better to…
everyday life faith music Buddhism
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2007年6月5日
On Music and Poetry

Culture & Public Commentary2007.04.13
On Music and Poetry
I know very little about music, and I don’t listen to much of it either. But that is not to say that I seldom have music on. In fact, whether I’m reading or writing, online or wandering about, I generally have music playing. In terms of time spent, I certainly don’t listen to music less than other people. The thing is, I often only need to listen to a few pieces over and over again; they rarely grow tiresome, and I’m often too lazy to switch them out. I may well spend months repeatedly listening to the same set of music, so all told the number of pieces I’ve listened…
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2007年4月13日
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.24
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
This article was a small paper for Teacher Shangzhou’s “Selected Readings in Buddhist Original Texts” course back then, but I felt it was written awkwardly and in a complete mess, and I was too embarrassed to post it on my blog at the time. However, looking at it now, since my blog already has plenty of lousy text, one more piece of that sort hardly matters. I had originally been quite interested in Buddhism and Buddhist studies. Besides being deeply impressed by the philosophical depth of Primitive Buddhism (atheistic Buddhism), I was also rather interested in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. Back then I found a number of audio recordings of…
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2007年3月24日
You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong

Life & Notes2006.08.11
You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong
A true brave person will not regret the choices he made on his own; a coward, by contrast, is just the opposite: he finds it easier not to regret the choices someone else made for him, because in the end he can always dump the responsibility on somebody else. Weigh the options yourself, choose for yourself, decide for yourself, and bear it yourself. Listen appropriately to other people’s opinions, but never “seek help” from others, and even less should you depend on other people’s opinions. If the final result turns out as you wished, go thank those who selflessly offered you advice; if the final result is less than satisfactory,…
freedom autobiography self responsibility
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2006年8月11日
[U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.10
[U.S.] R. P. Feynman: “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
[美]R·P·费曼：《发现的乐趣》，张郁乎/译，湖南科学技术出版社2005年 P143-144 ……Scientific knowledge is a kind of capacity: it can do good things, and it can do bad things. But it does not by itself tell people how to use this capacity; obviously, this capacity has value—though that value may perhaps be denied on account of what he does. On my trip to Honolulu, I learned a way of formulating this universal human problem. It was in a Buddhist temple there. The caretaker gave visitors a brief explanation of Buddhism. Then he told the audience that he had some words to say to them, and he wanted them never to forget these words—he ended his speech with them, and…
book reading notes philosophy of science scientific spirit
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2005年12月10日
Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra for Destroying All Evil Destinies
oṃ namo bhagavate sarva durgati pariśodhani rājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyaksaṃbuddhāya tadyathā oṃ śodhani śodhani sarva pāpaṃ viśodhani śuddhe viśuddhe sarva karma āvaraṇa viśodhanāye svāhā.
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2005年7月31日
The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2005.07.31
The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
The annotations were lost in the original YiKu webpage; they have been reinserted according to the original doc.
philosophy China Confucianism Buddhism
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2005年7月31日