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发帖数: 6973 | 2 (1) Well, the turning point was Midway, which place, a year before
Guadalcanal Campaign (Aug 7, 1942-Feb 9, 1943).
George Will, On Lybia, Too Many Questions. Washington Post, Mar 9, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08
("The tide-turning defeat of Japan's navy at the Battle of Midway occurred
June 7, 1942 - exactly six months after Pearl Harbor")
(2) I recently read a book review on the sea clash of Guadalcanal Campaign.
Ronald Spector, Near a Small Island, a Gig... 阅读全帖 |
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发信人: yliu5038 (Ying Liu), 信区: USANews
标 题: 代表cnn打官司的这个律师非常牛逼
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Nov 13 13:51:55 2018, 美东)
> Olson argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court prior to becoming
Solicitor General; In one case, he argued against [federal sentencing
guidelines]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Sentencing
_Guidelines); and, in a case in New York state, he defended a member of the
press who had first leaked the [Anita Hill story.]https://en.m.wikipedia... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 4 > Olson argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court prior to becoming
Solicitor General; In one case, he argued against [federal sentencing
guidelines]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Sentencing
_Guidelines); and, in a case in New York state, he defended a member of the
press who had first leaked the [Anita Hill story.]https://en.m.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Anita_Hill) Olson successfully represented presidential candidate
George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case [Bush v. Gore]... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 5 Glenn Collins, MAo and Kahlo: A Marriage Made for Vegas; For his new
restaurant, the Spanish chef Jose Andres pairs China with Mexico. Wontons
and Guacamole, anyone? New York Times, Oct. 13, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/dining/13andres.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=peking%20duck&st=cse
Note:
(1) bedlam (n; Bedlam, popular name for the Hospital of St. Mary of
Bethlehem, London, an insane asylum, from Middle English Bedlem Bethlehem):
"a place, scene, or state of uproar and c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 6 Ligaya Mishan, Ramen's Refined Cousin Lets Loose. New York Times, May 11,
2011 ( in the column of "$25 and Under").
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/dining/reviews/cocoron-
on-the-lower-east-side-nyc-restaurant-review.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=soba&st=cse
Note:
(a) Cocoron 心温
http://www.cocoron-soba.com/about.html
* Note the logo in the left upper corner of the web page.
* Japanese:
kokoro 心 (n)
on 温 (n)--for example, ondo おんど 温度
* Yoshihito KIDA 喜田 義人
(b) dishevel (vt; back-formation from disheveled)... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 7 Will Friedwald, Tracks to Our Music Heritage; The Library of Congress takes
a serious step toward making historical recordings available online. Wall
Street Journal, May 26, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023
04066504576343394046637256.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Note:
(a) National Jukebox; Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
(" available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings
from the extraordinary collections of th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 13 Will Friedwald, Tracks to Our Music Heritage; The Library of Congress takes
a serious step toward making historical recordings available online. Wall
Street Journal, May 26, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023
04066504576343394046637256.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Note:
(a) National Jukebox; Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
(" available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings
from the extraordinary collections of th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4298 | 16 再给你个好玩的，慢慢研究智能设计吧，哈哈
Klinghoffer: Better Things To Do Than Science
Posted on 6-February-2012 | 22 Comments
We often wonder what motivates the neo-theocrats at the Discovery Institute
‘s creationist public relations and lobbying operation, the Center for
Science and Culture (a/k/a the Discoveroids, a/k/a the cdesign
proponentsists).
For some of their low-level functionaries, it’s probably just a job that
pays the bills. For those at the top, we suspect it’s a raging fury driving
them toward chang... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 17 (A) 中国造船迅速扩张 政府扶持功不可没. VOA Chinese, Feb 21, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110221-China-Ship-Building-116624988.html
("跟踪全球货运的英国网站Metal Liner合伙人兼助理编辑斯图尔特·伯恩斯(Stuart
Burns) * * * 举例说，液化天然气运输船(LNG)被业界公认为技术含量最高、附加值最
大、同时制造难度也最大的船舶。而日本和韩国正在这个领域向欧洲船坞的传统优势发
起挑战")
Note:
(a) The VOA report cites
S Korea reclaims world's top shipbuilder spot in new orders. Xinhua, Feb 5,
2011.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world
/2010-02/05/content_9436761.htm
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发帖数: 6973 | 19 (2) Paul sonne, Last in the Line of Succession, Ms. Vogel Is Glad She Isn't
Queen; Descendant of Sophia of Hanover, She Would Rule Britain if 4,972 Die.
Wall Street Journal, Apr 27, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
052748704889404576276502793788310.html
Quote:
"The U.K. succession rules date back to the 1701 Act of Settlement. Princess
Anne, a Protestant, was destined to die with no heir, and the English
Parliament wanted to prevent a Catholic from seizing the throne upon her
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发帖数: 4334 | 20 一说到日本的战争，特别是日本战国历史，经常会听到一种的声音，说日本大名之间就
是村民械斗，言下之意就是日本战争的规模很小，人数很少。不知道这说法是谁最先提
出来的，是当年明月吗？
且不说战争中是否人数很重要，战略战术和战斗规模之间的关系，其实欧洲古代史上很
多战争的规模也并不大。但是津津乐道欧洲战史的同学们，却很少说欧洲战争是村民械
斗呢。
就单从人数方面来说，我们来对比一些战争的规模：
传统欧洲史上大书特书的图尔战役（Battle of Tours，公元732年），号称抵挡住了伊
斯兰攻势的决定性战役，根据wiki，战斗规模为墨洛温法兰克：15,000–20,000人；回
子：20,000–25,000人【1】。
我们再来看看比图尔战役略早的，可谓改变了东亚局势的白江口之战【2】，唐和新罗
联军拥有压倒性的人数优势，但是倭军依旧达到42,000人，很显然战斗规模明显超过欧
洲人所津津乐道的法兰克-摩尔人之间的图尔战役。如果说这个例子还是不同国家之间
的战斗，下面我们再来看看另外一些例子。
在英格兰史上的一个极重要事件，就是征服者威廉征服英格兰，而征服又以黑斯廷斯战
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发帖数: 6973 | 23 (1) Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972; born in Kiev, Russian Empire (present day
Ukraine)) immigrated to US in 1919, founded Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
in 1923 and sold it to United Technologies Corp in 1929.
Sikorsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky
("Sikorsky is an English-language respelling of the Slavic surname Sikorski.
Derived from the Polish word sikora – meaning 'chickadee/tit' – it was
originally the name of a noble Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth family")
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发帖数: 6973 | 26 (A) Come on. Living in US, we know nothing about the Great Britain (GBR).
You should have given some introduction.
(1) Place names.
Most place names in Massachusetts are from GBR (the word Massachusetts is
Native American). That is why I have a vague idea where the namesakes are,
that you mention.
(a) Bristol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol
(The town of Brycgstow (Old English, "the place at the bridge")[16] appears
to have been founded in c.1000)
Compare:
In Anglo-Saxon time, Cambridge was ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 27 Liz Alderman, A Shoemaker That Walks but Never Runs. New York Times, Oct. 10
, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/business/global/10tods.html?scp=1&sq=tod's&st=cse
("Mr. [Diego] Della Valle, who decided to start his own brand in 1978, named
the company J. P. Tod’s after the name caught his eye in a Boston
phonebook. (The initials were later dropped.)")
Note:
(1) Surnames:
(a) Scotish: Tod is variant of Todd (Middle English tod(de) fox).
(b) Italian: Della Valle
* del (prep): from
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发帖数: 4334 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: aoiyu (weeaboo), 信区: History
标 题: 比起日本，为啥很少有人说欧洲战争是村民械斗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 3 15:23:40 2015, 美东)
一说到日本的战争，特别是日本战国历史，经常会听到一种的声音，说日本大名之间就
是村民械斗，言下之意就是日本战争的规模很小，人数很少。不知道这说法是谁最先提
出来的，是当年明月吗？
且不说战争中是否人数很重要，战略战术和战斗规模之间的关系，其实欧洲古代史上很
多战争的规模也并不大。但是津津乐道欧洲战史的同学们，却很少说欧洲战争是村民械
斗呢。
就单从人数方面来说，我们来对比一些战争的规模：
传统欧洲史上大书特书的图尔战役（Battle of Tours，公元732年），号称抵挡住了伊
斯兰攻势的决定性战役，根据wiki，战斗规模为墨洛温法兰克：15,000–20,000人；回
子：20,000–25,000人【1】。
我们再来看看比图尔战役略早的，可谓改变了东亚局势的白江口之战【2】，唐和新罗
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发帖数: 6973 | 32 Michael J Ybarra, Man On a Quest; For one era, a saint and martyr; for
another, a racist and imperialist. Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230406650457
6347721603459128.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5
(book review on Frank McLynn, Captain Cook; Master of the Sea. Yale Univ
Press, 2011)
Note:
(a) James Cook (1728-1779)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_cook
His first two voyages were circumnavigation. In his third voyage, he was
killed at Hawaii and hi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 33 John Gapper, Bye-bye, American shipping lines. Financial Times, Feb 24, 2011.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/024650d6
-3f92-11e0-a1ba-00144feabdc0.html
("There are few such clear examples of an entire industry being blighted by
trade protectionism as the US merchant marine fleet. The 1920 Jones Act,
intended to protect US ships and shipping from international competition (or
war) has effectively wiped them off the high seas")
My comment:
(a) The report talks about "US, the country that not only inven... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 34 (1) The Past.
John Steele Gordon, Tracks Across America. Wall Street Journal, June 12,
2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657
404576361331013796182.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_6
(book review on (a) Richard White, Railroaded; The transcontinentals and the
making of modern America. Norton, 2011 and (b) Maury Klein, Union Pacific:
The Reconfiguration; America's greatest railroad from 1969 to the present.
Oxford Univ Press, 2011)
Note:
(a) doughty (adj): "marked by fearless resolu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 35 More about sewer system: (1) is about Europe's, as sightseeing attractions,
and (2), New York City.
(1) Daniel Michaels, It's Flush Times for the Darkest Stop on the Grand Tour
—Europe's Sewers;
If it's Tuesday, it must be Vienna or Paris; Love Among the effluent in
Brighton. all Street Journal, May 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274
8704681904576321044058634186.html
Quote:
"And the wellspring of sewer tourism, Paris's Musée des Égouts,
plans a makeover to handle ris... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 36 (1) Construction of China-Myanmar railway could start in December. DPA, Aug
29, 2011.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news
/article_1659676.php/Construction-of-China-Myanmar-railway-could-start-in-
December
Quote:
"'The whole project will take five years and cost about 20 billion US
dollars. China will bear the cost and the agreement will be based on BOT (
build, operate and transfer) for 50 years,' [Myanmar Railway Transportation
Minister] Aung Min told the German Press Agency d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 37 Curt Epstein, China Begins Effort To Build Naval Aviation. AINonline, Aug 22
, 2011 (blog).
http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article
/ain-blog-china-begins-effort-to-build-naval-aviation-30869/
("World War II was the only time carriers dueled with their own kind")
Note:
(a) The article said, "A century ago, the U.S. Navy purchased its first
airplane * * * The date of that purchase–May 8, 1911–is considered the
birthday of naval aviation."
The purchase was made from Glenn Curtiss (1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 38 (1) Robert D Kaplan, The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict; The 21st
century's defining battleground is going to be on water. Foreighn Policy,
Sept/Oct 2011.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15
/the_south_china_sea_is_the_future_of_conflict
Quote:
"Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial
difference between the 20th and 21st centuries. The most contested areas of
the globe in the last century lay on dry land in Europe, particularly in the
flat expa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 39 I am a biologist by training. But it appears you are as ignorant about
rockets as I.
(1) Tiangong 1 weighs merely 8.5 metric tons (hereafter tonnes). Besides
Tiangong 1 on Sept 29, 2011 Long March 2F also launched Shenzhou 5 (in 2003)
, 6 and 7, all into low Earth orbit (LEO), which is defined as "from the
Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
In comparison:
Geostationary transfer orbit
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发帖数: 9189 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Olympics 讨论区 】
发信人: goldfishli (goldfish), 信区: Olympics
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:25:43 2012, 美东)
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 207 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 44 shale oil extraction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil_extraction
Quote:
"Modern industrial extraction of shale oil originated in France with the
implementation of a process invented by Alexander Selligue in 1838, improved
upon a decade later in Scotland using a process invented by James Young.
"The 1894 invention of the Pumpherston retort, which was much less reliant
on coal heat than its predecessors, marked the separation of the oil shale
industry from the coal industry.
"China (Manchuri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1490 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 46 Julia Moskin, Pepperoni: On Top. It's not Italian, so some chefs have
shunned it. But it's America's most popular pizza request. New York Times,
Feb 2, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/dining
/02pepperoni.html?scp=1&sq=pepperoni&st=cse
Excerpt in the window of the print: Hormel is selling 40 million feet of it,
in time for the Super Bowl.
My comment:
(a) pepperoni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperoni
Quote:
"Pepperoni is a spicy Italian-American variety of salami (a dry sausage)
"The te... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1632 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18251 | 49 【 以下文字转载自 Olympics 讨论区 】
发信人: goldfishli (goldfish), 信区: Olympics
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:25:43 2012, 美东)
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2560 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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