"I wrote this book in a moment of crisis, when my younger daughter seemed
to turn against everything I stood for and it felt like I was losing
her and everything was falling apart. After one terrible fight, I sat
down at my computer, and even though I usually have writer’s block, this
time the words just poured out. I showed every page to my daughters
and my husband. It was like family therapy. In retrospect, I think
writing the book – going back eighteen years when my elder daughter was
born and I was a very different person – was an attempt to put the
pieces back together and work things out for myself . . . and the story
is unfinished!"
I'd be happy to lend you the book, if you are interested.
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother explained by its author Amy Chua
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Watson Proving Better Than Doctors at Diagnosing Cancer by Michael Feldman FROM top500.org
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The NextGen scoring system could help bring tennis into the 21st century FROM The Economist
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
Are Therapists Just Rent-a-Friends? BY David B. Feldman Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Xi Jinping’s Silk Road is under threat from one-way traffic Trade must flow both ways to make the route economically and politically viable BY Jörg Wuttke FROM The Financial Times
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Grandparents protest in Venezuela, braving pepper spray BY Agence France-Presse
I always thought the elderly should lead such protests and I believe this is the first time I've actually seen it happen.
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Whatever happened to the original tiger mum's children? by Tanith Carey FROM The Guardian
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
Updating my educational qualifications
The recent news about the cram school sex scandals doesn't focus enough on the other scandal, namely the unfairness of trying to compete with fake degrees. Apparently it is really common to use pseudonyms and lie about cram school teachers' educational qualifications. So to level the playing field, I'm adding some qualifications to my resume under education:
B.A. in Philosophy and Linguistics, Harvard (fake)
B.S. in Mathematics, MIT (fake)
Ph.D. in Physics, Cal Tech (fake)
B.A. in Philosophy and Linguistics, Harvard (fake)
B.S. in Mathematics, MIT (fake)
Ph.D. in Physics, Cal Tech (fake)
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Are We Evolved for Happiness? BY Glenn Geher Ph.D. Glenn Geher Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Brain's Fixation on the Short Term Is Hurting Politics by David B. Feldman Ph.D. FROM Pshychology Today
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Monday, April 24, 2017
Israeli Historian Describes Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948 by Dr. Ilan Pappé
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Racist History of Minimum Wage Laws BY Chris Calton FROM Mises.org
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India Book review: Shashi Tharoor’s angry history of British rule in India; REVIEWER: Diarmaid Ferriter
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Friday, April 14, 2017
How to Live 7.2 (Happy) Years Longer Blog Entry By Mark Holder, Ph.D. -FROM Psychology Today
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Could Fast Radio Bursts Be Powering Alien Probes? FROM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Monday, April 3, 2017
A Bitcoin civil war is threatening to tear the digital currency in 2 — here's what you need to know by Oscar Williams-Grut and Rob Price FROM Business Insider
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
J.D. Vance: America's forgotten working class FROM TED Talk
Another way to frame his questions is to ask how much of the next generation's future should be left up to luck.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Bored in the U.S.A. BY Romeo Vitelli Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Alcohol and caffeine created civilization: Column Chelsea Follett FROM USA Today
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Trump Immigration Debacle May Cost US Tourism Industry $3 Billion BY Kevin Drum FROM Mother Jones
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