Niniane's Blog

"The truth shall set you free." -- Caltech

Thursday, October 31, 2024

architect of country and hearth

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Me: "Why is there so much talk about the Founding Fathers? They created a great system but they've been dead for centuries." A...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

a touching story and song

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I'm so touched by this month's Atlantic article about a breakthrough in cystic fibrosis treatment .  In the fall of 2019, Trikafta w...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

books and treks and mortality

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I've been confronting my mortality for the past couple years. It started when I saw that according to a census table, I was past the mid...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

no Buddhist McMansions

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I'm watching Tsinghua University lectures about Chinese architecture over the past 5000 years. Me: [to Aff] "One of the professors ...
Friday, January 05, 2024

the emperor's new dress

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 I love this post by talented writer Sarah Miller : I thought a lot about my lying review of that racist, boring, laughable, pseudo-intellec...
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I was born in Beijing and moved to the US at age 5. When pronouncing my name, the "e" is silent.
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