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[Eng] Thomas Marent: “The Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.02.14
[Eng] Thomas Marent: “The Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps”
[Eng.] Thomas Marent: "Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps" Xingding posted on 2007-02-14 21:49:20 [Eng.] Thomas Marent: "Rainforest—A Photographer’s Footsteps," translated by Hao Xiaojing, Hope Publishing House, October 2006 http://www.joyo.com/static/lll_061107_bk_rdyl.asp?source=w-90003370 I quite like books like photographic collections, though they’re usually expensive, so I rarely buy them. This book was an impulsive purchase, and it is very good-looking. The rainforest is a marvelous place. In the rainforests, which cover 6% of the Earth’s land area, live more than half of the world’s species; on a warm and humid night, in a not-too-large patch of rainforest, you can hear 80 different kinds of frogs croaking, while all of Europe has only 53 species of frogs;…
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2007年2月14日
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore

History of Science & Scholarship2006.11.21
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth Highly recommend this film. A documentary about global warming. Starring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (the same one who ran against George W. Bush back then). It’s deeply shocking. Even though I already had some awareness of the environmental crisis, I was still very shaken. For some people who remain unmoved by the environmental crisis, or who keep speaking in vague and equivocal terms, it is truly “their duty” to watch this film. Screenshot: the upper line shows changes in the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 650,000 years, as examined through Antarctic permafrost ice cores, while the lower…
book reading notes environment responsibility
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2006年11月21日
Application for “Friends of Nature”

Life & Notes2006.06.30
Application for “Friends of Nature”
I had wanted to join for a long time. At first, though, it was simply because I thought the organization’s name was badly chosen, and figured that if I didn’t join, so be it; then I thought about it again and realized there was nothing I could do about it anyway—if it were up to me, I wouldn’t be able to come up with a better name either. Later I found remitting payment troublesome, but recently I’ve often been ordering books by mail from Kongfuzi, and I’ve come to feel that remitting money isn’t all that troublesome after all. In the end, I was put off by the trouble of…
philosophy everyday life philosophy of science environment
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2006年6月30日
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
1. Enumerate the major achievements attained by early Holocene Chinese ancestors in the realms of social economy and spiritual culture, and, on the basis of the several stagewise leaps in the development of human productive forces, attempt to demonstrate why human society thereafter entered an era of accelerated development. The early Neolithic cultures of China in the Holocene were spread across the country, including dry-farming cultures in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Liao River and Hai River basins, irrigated rice agriculture in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as hunter-gatherer zones distributed throughout the country. China is the place of…
everyday life culture China history
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2005年7月31日