I came to the United States as a graduate student in late 1980s with my broken English and $100 in pocket. And I was put into a classroom in front of American students one week after I landed here. I was their TA for Calculus II. One of the students was Charles Smith. It was at the University of Houston.
Charlie was not a teenager student. He had worked several years before he decided to go back to school and to get his bachelor’s degree. He was a very nice gentleman.
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Chinese local government officials in Shenzhen built an umbrella for this tree. Why? Because it was planted by the Chinese president Hu Jintao.
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The above is a math question for a Chinese elementary school. See if you can solve it. Characters in the first row are aliens and the second row non-aliens. Pick up the alien from the third row.
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Students at Liaocheng University (聊城大学), Shandong (山东) organized a blessing ceremony for the victims of Sandy Hook shooting.
Chinese researchers claimed that small nucleic acid molecules microRNA-214 was found to lead to bone loss in astronauts. Their paper “miR-214 targets ATF4 to inhibit bone formation” is published in “Nature Medicine” on December 9, 2012.
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On the other day, someone asked this question: “How to teach times tables to students?” on linkedin “Math, Math Education, Math Culture” group. A few answers the song option. What it means is that children remember the multiplication table as a song (or poem) before school age. They don’t even know what it means, but they can speak out answers right away. Unfortunately, this option is not available for English speakers.
If you don’t read Chinese, you might be surprised by the above photo. Did the boy do something wrong? No, not at all. To the contrary, he is a well-behaved boy. The reason that he was tortured was that his teacher wanted to take this picture. The teacher Yanhong Yan (颜艳红) enjoyed taking this kind of pictures. Many children in her class had to be her stage properties. See the images below.
Fake pregnant belly is popular in China these days. Some use it to avoid being laid-offs. Some others use it to get seats on bus. The price range is from 400 to 2800 yuan (US$60 – 420).
I reported “Beijing’s Traffic Jam on Sept. 18, 2010“. This worst scenario happened again after almost exact two years.
Beijing’s Traffic Jam on Sept 26, 2012
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This scene occurred at Hope Elementary School, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province (浙江慈溪市坎墩街道太阳希望小学). There male students talked in class and punished to run with loosing pants. The teacher assigned two female students to watch them as well. These photos were posted at a local forum and was removed three hours later. But it had reached out to other websites already.
It is said that this is a real road plate pole in Haikou City (海口), China.
