转变和不变
无论我变得多成熟，在外面的世界多自立，在父母面前，我希望永远做一个孩子。
——题记
今天起晚了。老板出差去印度了，我不知道是不是这个原因让我松懈了。总之就是突然起得很晚。十点半到唐仲英楼的时候，撞见甘恬，她也刚来，但我猜她肯定起得比我早多了。总是和自己说never lose your self-control，但有时候就是会随性地做一些事。想起来缪亚立的处事态度，真是自惭形秽。
Quincunx Space
RSS这个注定被载入史册的对冲基金创始人
The fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam received the longest prison sentence on record for insider trading on Thursday, a watershed moment in the government’s aggressive two-year campaign to root out the illegal exchange of confidential information on Wall Street.
-Hedge Fund Founder Gets 11-Year Term in Insider Case by NYTimes
今天听Brown来的Prof. Evelyn Hu的讲座，最后和她交流的时候，旁边冒出来一个黄皮肤黑头发的男孩，一口语速极快的伦敦腔，说，I’m from Warton Business School。瞬间震惊了。在后来的讨论中Hu提到了这个Rajaratnam。我觉得这个印度的姓氏真是好笑，含了一个rat在里边，对一个内幕交易员来说很讽刺。
What it takes to be a chemistry entrepreneur?
2 days ago the ACS Webinar invited George Whitesides, Madeleine Jacobs (Executive Director and CEO of the American Chemical Society) and Joseph Francisco (2010 ACS President and Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University) to have a talk on what it takes to be a chemistry entrepreneur.
IP界的局面正在改变，无论是IT还是BioTech领域
我很早就觉得IT界专利战很快会延伸至生物技术等领域。果然现在的生物界更胜一筹，patent troll大行其道:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110928/full/477521a.html
但是BU Law School的这篇论文http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272估计会促进针对patent troll立法的逐步完善。那么，专利律师的工作性质是否会就此改变？就可预见的报酬来说，选择这条路的风险是否正在逐步加大？
我眼中的浮躁的现代社会
我相信Steve Jobs的主治医生一定持有大量的苹果股票，因为他有操控苹果股价的能力，即便Steve早已不是CEO——题记
今天一条消息上了各大媒体和社交网络：CERN发现超光速的中微子。大众什么时候这么关心科学，确切的说什么时候这么关心基础物理和理论物理了？静心科研的人和大众是不同的，他们关心的是实验和数据，不是各种现代媒体所吹炳的那些夸张的科普标题。
经营自己的双重生活
上个月托朋友从美国带回来两本书。其中之一是Paul Henry Lang的Music in Western Civilization。书是用来慢慢读的，一年之中身边有多少书可以读完？同时读的那几本书总重不过是一只kindle的几倍而已。所以，kindle于我，于那些不看fiction的人来说，基本无用。还是喜欢纸，比如PHL的Music in Western Civilization，1941年的铜版纸。
没想到姜方周对HDR如此的执迷。
这里秀一下我2005年11月20日拍摄的一张HDR。从背景看这是一张使用了大光圈非主流HDR，不过从花瓣边缘看得出HDR的痕迹。
这张照片还有点来头。进高中前的暑假时候写了篇文章，预测冥王星会被降级，得了苏州市科普促进协会的某个奖。事实证明预测是正确的：2006年08月24日（一年过后），IAU大会决议冥王星被视为是太阳系的“矮行星”，太阳系由此只剩八大行星。由于这个奖，科协提供了一次免费旅行，在这次旅行中我找到了这朵蝴蝶兰。后来这个照片投到了《苏州日报》，很幸运被接收并刊登了出来。不过似乎也没人知道这事儿。毕竟不是老百姓看的报纸，没多少人看得到——不像《姑苏晚报》，写了我笔名的文章都会被发现并时不时有人来电祝贺。
The Genealogy of Mircea Dincă
Instead of common inorganic genealogy which has F. A. Cotton in it, the genealogy of Mircea Dincă is a little different.
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Albert Benjamin Prescott (1832-1905)
Moses Gomberg (1886-1947)
John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991)
Fred Basolo (1920-2007)
Harry B. Gray (1935-)
Daniel G. Nocera (1957-)
Mircea Dincă (1980-)
The co-author graph of Zuo.
Whitesides @TED
He said, “We are (in a) academic (world). We love complexity. We can write papers about complexity and the nice thing about complexity is that fundamentally intractable in many ways so you are not responsible for the outcomes.” I suppose if the words came out of a young scientist with a rather low status, he would be laughed at with great scorn.
Despite such sort-of-kidding words, the main theme of the latter half of his speech really caught the point. I cannot agree more. The idea issues that the world needs a simple technology to improve public life, though it stands a good chance that the simple tech is built upon an extremely complex system. Many simple objects in our daily lives prove this, such as cell phones, birth control pills.
So the question is, how to apply our complex science we are devoted to today (it is complex, if the previous quote of Whitesides stands true), to a simple technology that we can use in our life? The most famous patented invention of Gore Inc., the Gore-Tex, is a simple fabric that can resist water and allow moist, despite the complexity in terms of its molecular and engineering structures. Another example is the paper chip presented by Whitesides in the talk (I even did not know they were working at it, it is fantastic!).
