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The Rainbow Beside Me

Life & Notes2007.09.08
The Rainbow Beside Me
At noon today the sun was blazing overhead, and it was hot enough to be excruciating. I was riding my bike across campus. As I hurried along, I happened to see a couple by the roadside, embracing and looking at something. Following their gaze, I glanced over and saw that it was the automatic sprinkler in the landscaped area, spraying water. I had complained about this thing many times before; it was truly a waste of water resources. Besides, it was just sprinkling grass, not putting on a decorative fountain display—what was there to look at? Just as I was about to ride out of that stretch of road, I…
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2007年9月8日
[American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.09.07
[American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”
[US]Liang Lederman, Dick Teresi: The God Particle—If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, translated by Mi Xijun, Gu Hongwei, Zhao Jianhui, and Chen Hongwei, proofread by Yin Chuanhong, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2003, 33.5 yuan This book is one of the Gold Fleece series. At 400,000 characters, it is far too long for a popular science book; still, since it is a popular work by a Nobel Prize winner in physics, it is rare enough. The theme of the book is humankind’s quest for the “atom” (the basic element of the world), from Democritus, Newton, Dalton, all the way to modern physics. Of course,…
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2007年9月7日
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered

Life & Notes2007.09.05
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
Now, ordinarily I don’t go around meeting junior male and female students, but I heard that a direct junior female student of mine had arrived, and she was also a guaranteed-admission student from the science track at the Second Affiliated High School of Huazhong Normal University. However you look at it, I ought to go meet her. She really does make one feel that the younger generation is formidable; or rather, since she came out of our Second Affiliated High School, she’s just plain impressive… even scarier than last year’s junior student from Shanghai~~ Feeling emotional…… Actually, I’ve always wanted to say that science-track guaranteed-admission students with an interest in…
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2007年9月5日
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.08.31
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton — A Collection of Zhao Lin’s Lectures (1)”
Zhao Lin: “Between God and Newton—Zhao Lin Lecture Collection (1),” Dongfang Publishing House, May 2007, 21 yuan Zhao Lin is indeed quite good. I hear he has also appeared on the Lecture Room program; that kind of venue really ought to have more talks like this. This collection gathers lectures Zhao Lin delivered at universities around China. The audience was neither students in the philosophy department nor ordinary TV viewers, but rather people with a certain knowledge background who enjoy thinking through questions—or, to put it another way, ordinary university students. Taken as a whole, these talks are essentially popular introductions to philosophy and Christianity, the most elementary sort of…
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2007年8月31日
Platonic Love

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Platonic Love
Someone may ask, “Do you believe in Platonic love?” Questions like that are baffling. Is it really so hard to believe that Platonic love exists? Only the childish sort of person who imagines that everyone thinks exactly as he does would disbelieve it. Since we can believe in the existence of all kinds of unreasonable people, and even believe in the existence of all kinds of perverse feelings, why would we not believe in the existence of a certain kind of love? The question really worth asking is, “Do you approve of / recognize / long for Platonic love?” Of course, before that, we also need to make clear what…
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2007年8月29日
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.29
Bits and Pieces, Episode 1
Thinking of things in passing from time to time, it seems not bad to jot down a few stray words and phrases. However, if I were to post every little paragraph as a separate entry, my blog would inevitably become cluttered and fragmentary, so I will wait until each collection of stray words has accumulated more than a thousand characters before posting it. Below is the first entry. l If one gives up Darwinism and believes that survival and reproduction are not necessarily the most important, or even the only important things. Then, for a nation or a culture, seeking to live and survive is certainly important, but by no…
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2007年8月29日
On “To Exist Is to Be Perceived”

Philosophy & Thought2007.08.04
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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2007年8月4日
A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: East China Normal University Second Affiliated High School

Life & Notes2007.08.02
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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2007年8月2日
Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays

Site Matters2007.07.31
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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2007年7月31日
[Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.28
[Eng] Brendan Wilson: “A Brief Introduction to Philosophy”
[English] Brendan Wilson: *A Brief Introduction to Philosophy*, translated by Weng Shaojun, Shanghai People's Publishing House, June 2007, 26 yuan Recently, a number of introductory books on philosophy and the history of philosophy have appeared on the market again. I have always been very interested in this kind of book. At the same time, perhaps I also hope to help later readers “verify” things a bit and improve my recommended reading list. Up to now, the introductory philosophy books I still place first are the three published by Guangxi Normal University Press—*The Tree of Philosophy*, *Big Questions*, and *An Introduction to Philosophy*—and this book has not surpassed those three. This…
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2007年7月28日