(from cntv.cn)
If virtual shooting is too violent for you, how about a virtual hug? From London to Singapore, one science project is taking the world by storm. It’s the virtual “Like-a-Hug” class assignment, produced by a joint MIT-Harvard course last year.
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WASHINGTON, July 24, 2012 (PRNewswire) — In an exclusive interview with AARP The Magazine, Hollywood legends Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones discuss the often taboo subject of mid-life sexuality. It’s the theme or their new movie, the highly anticipated Hope Springs, which focuses on a couple embarking on an entertaining yet poignant adventure to regain their sexual passion. The indomitable icons speak about their upcoming project, finally learning to live for the moment and why “nobody can tell [them] anything.”
Meryl Streep & Tommy Lee Jones In “Hope Springs”.
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By Virginia Payne (施幼菱)
As one of the leading centers for music and culture in the US with more than its share of famous musical institutions, Boston has a plethora of talented musicians of national and international renown. Yet, it’s not every day that one encounters a musician with an unusual and diverse background as Mr. Chi-Sun Chan (陳志新).
Chi-Sun Chan conducts at the 2012 GBCCA Chinese Music Ensemble annual concert on May 19. (John Tsou photo)
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By David Li, translation by Li Tan
Graham Rong is the chairman of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Under his leadership, the CIO Symposium has become one of the most influential forums for the IT industry, attracting CIOs and other top executives from numerous major international corporations to this annual conference. On December 9, 2011, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Dr. Rong at his office at MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) center.
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By Anping Shen, ED. D.
Jason was born in China and went through from pre-‐school to graduate school in the United States. During his junior year at the Newton North High School, Newton, MA, Jason was selected as a member of the USA National Man’s Junior Gymnastics Team. In 2009, Jason was a co-‐captain of Stanford Man’s Gymnastics team, which won both the NCAA man’s gymnastics national championship and academic championship titles (the first team in the history of man’s gymnastics to win both titles in the same year). Upon his graduation from Stanford in 2009, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the Stanford Daily newspaper company and then worked as a sales rep for a startup in Silicon Valley. He co-founded an online company (www.ridejoy.com) in San Francisco in May of 2011. He was back visiting his parents recently and talked to his father about his (real) company and passion for a healthy, competitive and purposeful life.
Jason Shen was competing in a recent triathlon event.
“You Should Realize That There Is No Point Of Living Your Life to Meet Other People’s Expectation. It’s Not Their Life, It Is MY Life.”
-Jason Shen
By David Li, translated by Alice Liu
In June 2011, I visited the Oak Meadow Montessori School which is located in the town of Littleton, MA. Although locals from the town know the school very well, they may not be familiar with the history behind it. Dr. Maria Montessori was a distinguished Italian doctor and educator from the late 19th century. Dr. Montessori founded a “multi-sensory learning” teaching system which has had a profound impact on early childhood and elementary education. Schools established based on the Montessori philosophy are called Montessori Schools.
Headmaster Dave Stettler welcomed me in the entrance of the school, and made a cup of coffee using the coffer machine. He had been headmaster for Oak Meadow for the past six years and would leave for another position soon. In his office, Stettler talked about education philosophy of the Montessori Schools and commented on the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
There was another Lin working hard at Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital when Jeremy Lin was playing basketball for Harvard.
In December 2011, journal Science published a long research paper titled Npas4 Regulates a Transcriptional Program in CA3 Required for Contextual Memory Formation, which revealed the key controlling factor of the Npas4 gene for short-term memory converting into long-term memory in the brain. This paper helps further understanding of mechanism of how short-term memory turning into long-term memory in the brain, and will have far-reaching impact on the research and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other neurological disorders.
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