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.
On January 23, 2010, Chinese magazine “Astronaut” announced its selection of “Top 10 manned space exploration news in 2009″ (2009年十大载人航天新闻). It is the first such activity by a combined committee of Chinese astronauts and experts in manned missions. The committee of 48 people includes; Lu Shanguang(陈善广), Liu Yu (刘宇), Qin Wenbo (秦文波) and six Chinese astronauts. Yang Liwei (杨利伟) read the announcement. The result is:
The Russian trained aerospace scientist Wang Yongzhi (王永志) is the general architect and designer of China’s first manned spacecraft Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. A recent news report from People’s Daily pointed that it was Qian Xuesen who picked him up as the chief lead of Chinese space exploration. The title of the report is “Wang Yongzhi recalled: Qian Xuesen picked me as the chief lead of the second generation of space exploration”.
As many bloggers said, Google will officially steps into cell phone market by introducing its Google Nexus One. A preview shows that this device is pretty impressive.
This reminds another advertising company: Younexus. Younexus is a small but aggressive company that provides online advertising solutions. Unlike many other similar companies, Younexus it does not collect any information or change IE browser setting at all. In my opinion, this should be the way to go for the sake of protecting privacies. I hate those that collect my personal information, install applications on my company, and/or change my settings.
After reading “13 Popular Posts” (why 13?), I thought I should find out my popular posts of 2009 too. This is provided by admin’s blog statistics page. Here are my top 15 posts:
Polyhedral Meshing
Triangle mesh has the advantage of flixibility. Quadrilateral mesh is good for finite different scheme. What about generatl polyhedral Meshes?
According to news from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团公司), a new book series on missile and space exploration (导弹与航天丛书) finished its publishing after 26 years. It contains 156 volumes and 65,000,000 Chinese characters, authored by more than two thousand experts. The series includes the following seven topics: Liquid ballistic missiles and carrier rockets, solid ballistic missiles, air defense missiles, cruise missile, satellite engineering, solid propellant technology and aerodynamics, covering the design, development, production, testing of missile, launch vehicle and spacecraft and other aerospace products.
Source: China News
I reported a herb root that looks like a human body before. Now another one appeared on China News. This time, it looks like a western man. As I said before, this is scientifically called polygonum multiflorum or “he shou wu” (何首烏) in Chinese.
