Ecological Evolution Group 生态进化组
Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 24th, 2009
Just a couple of direct quotes from Alfred Russel Wallace, which are found within a few pages of each other. They illustrate his wisdom and his outlook on life. discussing the king bird of paradise, one of the most remarkable birds in the world, with its elaborately beautiful tail feathers- “I thought of the long [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 23rd, 2009
Almost finished re-reading ARW’s Malay Archipelago. I first read it over twenty years ago and I appreciate it much more now, after having visited many of the places he went and have done a wider variety of research. He is enormously impressive and his life and adventures exemplify the most noble and honest curiousity in [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 23rd, 2009
Just finished Isaac Asimov’s “The Gods Themselves”. Bought it earlier this year in Malaysia at a used book store and read it cover to cover in just a few days. Asimov is a master at sci-fi, packing a great deal of imagination and creativity and scientific plausability into 300 pages of rather large text. He [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 19th, 2009
A friend told me to get back to work on this blog, so here I am. It’s rainy season now. Rather suddenly last week, it started raining. It comes in great downpours. This morning at 5 AM, it started with a quick crescendo and continued heavily for about an hour. The rest of the day [...]
Posted in News on May 19th, 2009
copied from http://en.xtbg.ac.cn/n614c46.aspx As part of implementing the scientific outlook on development, the People’s Government of Xishuangbanna held a special meeting to absorb advice and suggestions from XTBG on April 24. The meeting brought together about 100 officials and cadres from the local government to listen to reports made by Prof. Chen Jin, Prof. Chuck [...]
