Carbon neutrality in 2050

 COP26 is the recent hot topic around the top leader of the world. If the carbon can be eliminated by 2050, how about the near future happen?

There are some phenomena must happen, some are out of expectation:

1. Ice glacier must be disappeared

2. Some species will be extinct

3. Coral reefs will become history book

4. Some people live in hotter places will live harder and try to migrate to other places, but even harder than recent

5. Electrified transportation such as trains, ships, but I am not sure about the airplane, the current technology still hard to be accomplished, but people love to travel. This topic should be a interested.

How to improve English Fluency

Tips:

1. To set a goal: Know where they are going. What level do I have now? Decide what level you want and when you want to achieve it. Focus on doing it efficiently

2. Start to learn English every day, even though 10 minutes. You have to create a habit of doing something every day.

3. To listen to English as much as possible: To get to the way to the speech.

4. To be grateful for all the resources that you have, read articles online, and take advantage of the opportunities. Change your environment for the long term.

5. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, making connections,s and being able to express yourself, embrace your accents. Don't let your fear hold you back

6. Leave the comfort zone: Doing things that you are afraid of.

7. To keep a journal: write a diary, writing practice is a powerful way to improve a lot

8. To avoid learning a single word, learn sentences and phrases. You can learn sentences structure and learn grammar

9. Focus on the English that you need to know: Topic that you want to know about.

10. Don't worry about grammar rules: Internalized it when you learning

11. Internalize the grammar

12. Repetition is key

13. Repeat English phrases

14. Practice speaker

15. Commit long-term

16. Have fun while learning

17. Be proud of the progress you've made

Threat to Taiwan

     Taiwan is facing a much more urgent military threat from China and the tension has increased every day compared with the previous seven decades. Taiwan must take the necessary steps to ensure its own defenses from upgrading air and missile defenses. In the first five days of October alone, Beijing flew a total of 150 fighter jets, nuclear-capable bombers, anti-submarine aircraft, and control planes, into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone. 

     In August, Taiwan announced that it would spend $1.4 billion on new fighter jets, likely F-16s. In December 2020, Taiwan's military began constructed on a fleet of eight domestically produced submarines, the first expected to begin sea trials in 2025. This news reported that Taiwan is planning to increase its military resources to step up the national asymmetric warfare capabilities.

    At the beginning of this week, the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing Wen interviewed by CNN, as Taiwan is located fewer than 200 kilometers away from China's southeastern coast. She is trying to do her best to protect 23 million people from losing their democratic values and freedom. She said that she became the first Taiwan President in decades to acknowledge the presence of US troops on the island for training purposes. However, the number of US military personnel numbers is still a mystery and she said that it is not expected as many as people thought. She also called on regional democratic partners, including Japan, South Korea, and Australia to help support the island. Otherwise, she still believed that if Taiwan came under attack from mainland China, the US and other regional democracies would come to its aid, given the long-term relationship with the US.

    During Xi's 2nd term in power since 2017, the military has grown larger and more advanced, with China's naval fleet overtaking that of the US in terms of size. China become more ambitious. And we are looking now to the end of Xi Jin Ping's 2nd term next summer, assuming that he is going to start a 3rd term. Beijing still holds dozens of submarines, surface ships, grounded-launched missiles, air force bombers, and strike aircraft. And now, China has the largest military budget in Asia. It ranks second in the world behind the US.

    From my point of view, without US intervention, Taiwan is impossible to fight against China. But the price of attacking Taiwan is higher than China can afford. I think the leader of China may be cautious about this situation and calculate the profound effect of the attacks. I guess they are primarily to use war to cover up the collapse of the real estate market and the recession that will come afterward.

Linguistic Discrimination

    As internet speaking become essential and popular to learn a new language in this current society. However, you may face the music that some people will have different opinions or say some words that hurt you too much. 

    Here is the story about a cyberfriend from Iraq who has been hurt so bad after hearing that someone said she has an accent in speaking English. Forms of xenophobia, racist, and social exclusion, who apply to the person whose vocabulary, pronunciation do not correspond to the dominant norms of the language. Most people are concerned about being belittled by other persons, thought about their forms of speech are considered inferior or incorrect. Do not make assumptions about non-native speakers. Sometimes they are more comfortable with reading and writing than speaking.

Hydrophilic vs hydrophobic

Hydrophilic: Dissolve in water, water is polar and hydrophilic substances break down to be surrounded by water, which means the ability to mix well, dissolve, or be attracted to water.

Hydrophobic: Do not dissolve in water, resistant to or avoid wetting

    Within the electronic products, some coating is requested to keep water away from the components inside of devices. A good coating can roll away water and keep conductors alive long enough.

Liquids made up of polar molecules are really good at dissolving solids that are composed of polar or ionic compounds

Surprised that the coup in Sudan

     There was a girl who suddenly disappeared in Telegram, and we just are informed that there was a coup in Sudan. Moreover, the military intentionally shut the internet down and we failed to connect a girl named Arwa.

    When I listened to the news about Sudan, the Prime Minister, his wife, his cabinet members have been detained in the apparent coup. They are trying to steer Sudan towards democracy from military leadership for a long time, at least 2 years. All of the previous movements have been worked in vain. As last week a pro-military was attempted to disguise its purpose. Sudan civilian protests burned the tyres outside the house of the President to block the road of the coup. The economic crisis and human rights are worrying as the autocratic rule will be started again after 2 years effort are disappearing. For my opinion, the election will not happen again in the near future in Sudan. We must feel fortunate that we are living in a better country, please be grateful.

Cognitive fusion vs defusion

    Cognitive fusion means that you belief or tendency to think the way that you constantly agree with. This thinking patterns may jeopardize your behavior or your relationship with the people around you. This is because you will be easily feel anxious or feel yourself awkward and low self-esteem.

    A Youtuber, “Ray Du" has experienced the cognitive fusion, he has story about a person told him " You are disgusting". He might think that people didn't like me, and I will never be happy. His fusion with rules in thinking "people must love me" will lead to anxious and unworthy to live anymore.

    In general, we are constantly make judgements to other people. That judgement will affect our behaviors, thinking, and emotions. You cannot live at the present because you always remain at the past negative memories. "Don't judge a book by its cover". 

    Cognitive defusion is a process of learning that your thought is just a thought. This will lead you to let the thought go away easily and live at the moment. If the thought is not helpful for your thinking or emotion, just let it go.

 

Are you mentally strong enough?

1. Independent responsibility: pave our own way, believe in yourself

2. Honest Evaluation: Admit your faults, familiar with your soar spots.

3. Emotionally understanding: understand what your needs are, nurture experiences like frustration, upset,uncomfortable. Identify them and analyze them and do your best work

4. Not afraid of change: Flourish in flexible situations, secure in who you are, no matter the time or the place.

5. Earning success: There is no guarantee you are going to get it even you are struggling in achieving your success, keep working until your dreams come true.

6. Helping yourself:  Make yourself happy instead of trying to please everyone around you

7. Strong friendships: Attract others with strong mental and emotional strength

8. Minding your time: Resist the temptation and have the self-control to work instead of play

9. Accepting development:  Recognize what you can improve, and make an effort to better yourself little by little

10. Celebrating your success: enjoy yourself and inspired by others' success and improve yourself

11. Confronting conflicts: Do not be afraid of hurting someone's feelings. Be honest and upfront with the people in your life, you can find mutually beneficial solutions.

12. Trusting your guts: Make a choice and make the best decision. Decisiveness is a dead giveaway that someone has mentally strength. Follow your instincts.

13. Mental Perseverance: Like a rubber ball, you can knock it down, but it always bound back stronger than ever. Immune for your failure, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again.

14. Confident kindness: Be kind and altruistic, step into other people's shoes, and empathize with their pain.

15. Changing Opinions: Interested in figuring out, talking through ideas, and fielding different perspectives. To challenge yourself and change your mind.

Which diet do you want to try?

 

        If you want to maintain a healthy and nutritious diet, and reduce the risk of getting various kinds of disease, cancer, diabetes, and osteoporosis. People have the freedom to choose what kinds of food or the ways to eat. It could be for weight loss, longevity, environmental reasons, or the concerns of animal brutality. I would like to introduce the eating styles today:

1. Vegetarian: who do not eat any kind of meat or seafood.

2. Vegan:  who does not eat meat of any kind, including eggs, dairy products, by-products, or any processed foods. The food cannot be heat above the temperature 50 degrees as they think that it will break the nutrients after heating

3. Pescatarian: who does not eat any meat or dead animal but can eat the fish or seafood, such as shrimp, clams, oysters, or lobster. He also can eat dairy products or eggs as well.

4. Flexitarian: who eats a mostly vegetarian diet, but he occasionally eats meats at the times he has agreed upon. It could be once a week or on special occasions. 

5. Fruitarian: who eat mostly fruits in every meal a day, possibly eat nuts, or seeds, but no animal products. At least 75% of fruits on his regular basis.

6. Beegan: Who consumes honey and other bees or insect-derived products.

Huang Ming Zhi-The most admired singer

 

    huang ming zhi is an incredibly talented hiphop artist, composer, filmmaker and actor who was born in johor bharu , the south of malaysia. he is one year younger than me.

he was educated at chung hwa high school,the similar education background as me

but while he studied in seconday school, he wrote 400 songs and won several singing competitions. He can speak a lot of languages, malay, mandarin,english , he also can speak a little thai, indian,cantonese. The song i most love is "kawanku" which means friends with malay indian, chinese in malaysian, the multinational feeling

he gained popularity after releasing a most controversial song title "negaraku" a remake of national athem of malaysia song. the word kuku resembles the male reproductive organ, such as pennis which can figure in chinese hokien dialect , later afer a week, it drew criticism from malaysia society. He had been arrested several times and charged twice for insulting Islam and Malaysia utility company. Earlier in March, he also received a warrant and be arrested for the film name " Babi" which allegedly contains elements of racism as "Pig" in an insult in Malay. Eventually he issues a video apology and the police did not press the charge.

    I am going to react to this news  it may break your pinky heart by namewee, featuring kimberly chen" fragile", that sound really nice and romantic, i like to melody and singing

This song is very cute, pink music video is packaged as a love song, with both artists pouring out their frustration about their unreasonable partners. They say their partners have fragile hearts but also pick fights with others by claiming that everything belongs to them. The song employs a common cutesy Taiwanese style that believe the less innocent meaning.

The political satire is rather obvious. The video begins with a warning:

this song has got quite a lot controversy, at the moment to see what that is all about ,

"please be cautious", 

On the surface, the lyrics appear to be about a romantic relationship, but a closer look reveals numerous criticisms of the CCP. The video has its own English subtitles, but I’ve included a different version of the lyrics below that I think will add clarity, with some cultural notes. Just thought it would be cool to add some firsthand Asian perspective to this sub

The term “glass heart” is often used to describe mainland Chinese online patriots who often accuse others of “hurting their feelings.” The images of panda, cotton and cives , and the slang phrase "NSML" meaning "your mom is dead", evoke memories of national incidents of Xinjiang cotton campaign and the feud with Thailand netizens in 2020. The lyrics mock the Chinese for being fond of eating dogs, cats, bats and civets and climbing over the wall, and the country's ruling elites for 

they've already given us a warning because it is too much talking about the communist chinese, kinds of insulting Chinese to be the world enemy. Their Weibo accounts have been blocked by Chinese after a week which hit the number 1 on Youtube trending No.1.

Is COP26 a delusional ideas?

 

        We all understand that our planet is warming, drought, flooding, rainforest always happen around the world. Does the UK or COP26 provide any contingency plan to tackle the climate change issue? You can imagine how the  "Brexit" make the British poor people struggling their life to make their ends meet. What is the government's plan to solve many kinds of problems? How could government handle both "Brexit" & "COP26" topics simultaneously?

    Firstly, the carbon emitter countries such as the US, China, India still hard to remove the coal from their grips. Most of their power was generated by fossil fuels. How the poor people could survive without coal or fossils? When does renewable energy become mature and fulfill all the people on the planet? When the enormous power for internet, lightning, air-con, mining, manufacturing and etc, how government manage all the control and make them efficient in all needs? All need money.

Will "Polexit" happened?

 

     The name of "Polexit" was copied from the "Brexit" which means Poland out of European Unions. Poland joined the EU in 2004 through the Treaty of Accesion 2003.

     In 2019, the Supreme Court of Poland warned that judicial reform planned by the ruling Law and Justice(PiS) party could result in Poland having to leave the EU, as it undermines the independence of the judiciary and challenges the principle of the primacy of EU law. When PiS party rejected the budget deal, they rarely use terms like "money" or " funds", they intend to refer to ideology, sovereignty, and civilization. The PiS leader rather said that to agree to rule of law conditions in the budget would be a "loss of sovereignty for Poland" . It is very hard to find the common ground between Poland & the EU when the discussion comes to talk about the law, climate changes, abortion, or human rights. 

    The Poles, the native or inhabitants of Poland, are mostly euro-enthusiastic in the bloc. Above half of them or voters backed joining the EU, even more pro-EU. Due to the greatly benefited from the perks of the EU funds, they also received a net €127 billion, which is more than any other member country, which pays for roads, bridges, schools, agriculture, and athetic. Since they participated in the EU, more than 2 million jobs were provided by moving freedom to work abroad.

    The history of Brexit told us about how difficult to free from the EU, it would likely be catastrophic. The share markets of Poland have mostly relied on the EU single market. Poland's economy will be sunk into a quagmire as most of them are hugely contributed from the EU funds and foreign investments.

How to foster positive altitute?

 

    Today morning, I have heard that my colleague and R&D director were being blamed by the process manager for the failure analysis and the results are not being done too thoroughly. He requested to analyze the substrate vendor's process issues. Even though he said the thing that may be reasonable but he was yelling and saying bad words to them. This behavior is not too good and may create a bad reputation for our company. Some of the process team leaders have this kind of problem on solving the problems in the process issues. 

    The job titles may indicate a particular hierarchy of control and responsibility, but it does not mean that someone with a lower job title is any less important. Respect each individual for what they bring to the company. 

    Fostering positive attitudes are very essential when the entire team respects the value of each position and the diversity of opinions, experts, and different experience of each person brings.

Here are some tips for fostering positive attitudes:

1. Clarify the clear picture, purpose & goals
2. A sense of purpose & agreement to the work they do
3. Urgency to achieve the goals and push them around their potential but not excessively

What is Plasma ECR(Electron Cyclotron Resonance)

    Before wire-bonded the gold wires on the finger, the assembly factory needs to apply molding plasma to clean the surface of the substrate to avoid the delamination between the die attach film and the die surface. 

    The ECR setting is used to etch and deposited some ions for better adhesion. The use in research become widespread in the last two decades. It supports plasma waves to be generated remotely from tool surfaces.

Talking about Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

    Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy uses the Fourier transform process to translate the interferogram into the actual spectrum. FTIR method is used to obtain the infrared spectrum of transmission or absorption of a sample. It identifies the presence of organic and inorganic compounds on the infrared frequency range from 400 to 4000cm-1. It can observe the chemical properties from the library information.

 

Will you buy an apartment or house?

 

    On 14th Oct, there was a blaze broke out in "Ghost building", Cheng Chung Cheng Building, the 13-story building killed 46 persons and 41 injured. The flame may be started from 2am-midnight and the loud explosions have been heard around 3am. The flames moved quickly and the entire building has been engulfed within an hour. The firefighters were struggling over 4 hours to extinguish the fire until the next morning.

    This aging and weaker structure was originally a commercial shopping mall, with a giant banquet hall, arts theater where many people visited since 1980. But over time, after a fire broke out in 1999, building slowly deterioriting, businesses moving out, and it was partly be abandoned. This building inhabited at least 120 families, mostly elderly people, homeless, low-income people, and tenants. They would like to accumulate their storage, piles of garbage, or heaps of debris outside their home which obstructing the stairwells and the streets.

    This news has spurred broader questions about lax safety in the older apartment in this largest city. There are too many aging structures across the state as a results of weak management and government neglect. Some officials claimed that there are more " high risk" older buildings in the city that they would like to investigate for fire security. Some of them are exposed electricity cables, corroded water pipes, elevators had not been worked for years.

    Some tragedies happened again and again through the news. If you bought an apartment, after one or decades, the building slowly degraded, you need to negotiate with other neighbors if would like to consume some money to repair the facilities. You will easily feel frustrated if some citizens would like to remain the bad situations by saving their money. Therefore I would prefer to buy a house than an apartment. I can repair my house easily if I want to, life will become easier.

The consequences of Brexit

    On 23 of June 2016, UK held a referendum to vote if "Should UK remain a member of EU or leave the EU? 51.89% of voters voted to leave EU as the voters think that it was looked great when it come to things like economy, jobs, and prices. Therefore the name of Brexit is given, which is a combination of "Britain" & "Exit". UK becomes the first sovereign country to leave the EU after 47 years of having been a member state of the bloc. Under Prime Minister Boris Johnson leading, the UK left the EU on 31st January of 2020. The UK government has postponed the implementation of import controls for goods entering the UK from the EU until 2022 in order to reduce supply issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period only British goods cannot enter to the EU.

    Christmas is coming but the UK suffered a shortage of heavy goods vehicles drivers to deliver food, fuel, and other items. Even though UK has introduced temporary visas for 5000 lorry drivers to work in the UK but only 20 of 300 applications have been approved. The part of the shortage reasons is COVID as city lockdown since from last year and many Europeans drivers went home and very few have returned. There is also not enough training for new drivers to pass the driving test in the short term.  There have also been tax changes making it more expensive for drivers in the UK. The cost of community goods will become higher.

       In my opinion, this is the dire consequences if most of the people are too selfish, they just want to enjoy their high-quality life instead of thinking about their country's economic crisis. They may suffer more and more problems if they keep thinking about themselves only.

Soldering Flux for electronix

 

  

    Soldering ball on substrates is a chemical process wherein the corrosion reaction between metal and oxygen while soldering at high temperatures. In order to prevent it, you must apply soldering flux during reflow. The purpose of flux paste is to deoxidize the metal surface easily and accelerate the soldering reflow. However, cautious removal of heavy or violent activators became a challenge because they are acidic or corrosive, allowing the solder joints to be affected.

    There are typically 3 types of soldering fluxes widely used: rosin core flux, mildly activated rosin & water-soluble flux. Generally, electronic products will select the water-soluble flux, which is easily cleaned with distilled and deionized water with some detergents. However, it has a higher activity, which leaves a residue that must be cleaned thoroughly. The residue is corrosive and can damage the components if not cleaned properly after use. If you can find the neutral and electrically non-conductive flux, it can be completely washed off with water and the residues are neither hygroscopic nor electrically conductive. 

    There are four constituents of flux that can affect electrical failure: activators, binders, solvents, and addictives. Activators are weak organic acids that pose a short risk concern they may react with metal oxides to form metal salts. After wetting, the salts dissolve and a metallurgical bond or electro-migration is formed. Another one is binders which are insoluble in water with high melting points. Binders can prevent activators from dissolving in water but also form a visible residue. The proper soldering profile must be followed accordingly to ensure the solvent is evaporated away completely. Other addictive such as plasticizers dyes or antioxidants also need to be well considered. What is most important is that the space between traces continues to be smaller, the risk of short failure becomes higher. We need to well understand the chemistry, process, and technologies to avoid defect failures.

Can teachers be replaced by computers?

 

    As the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, all schools and tuitions are closed. The online-teaching has been encouraged and to be extended to a larger scale. Technology has become increasingly important to be educated through online education. For many students, computers are about games, fictional challenges, and instant gratification. Students are more confused about being educated through computers or being enjoyable in pursuit of recreational fulfillment. It is possible to substitute teachers with computers? There are many pros and cons to education through online learning.

    The teaching profession is shrinking as lower birth rate in the world. Teachers are a scarce commodity, indeed, a diminishing human resource. In addition to students are easy to access the topics to answer through internet. They can timely acquire information and learning skills through some better online educational channels such as e-books, educational videos, online chat rooms to study different subjects and gain knowledge from their peers. If the source of education enables to inspire students to obtain knowledge, it will improve social skills, writing skills, and achieve personal traits.

    However, web technology is inanimate, quite impersonal. Computers cannot teach students about their behavior, traits, habits, and attitudes. Students are easily leading to distraction and hindrance of mind. They do not take rest on time, and consistently being on the phone or social media instead of looking out for books, journals, or notes. This has negative impacts on their eyes, be exposed to bad posture, and suffered physical and mental stress for less sleep.

    For me, either of traditional or online lectures help us in learning new things, it may accompany along with your attitude and habits that you nurturing. You can use online but not too addicted too much. Always active learning will help to grow a lot.

I am agnostic instead of atheist

 

    Since I was a sophomore in my 2nd second of National Taiwan University, I started working from day to night, over 12 hours per day to earn my living and school fees by myself without family support. I was struggling with my living expenses, I was used to eating some rotten fruits, buying some cheap lunch boxes(under NTD$ 50 per meal), and finding various types of part-time jobs in school. I had no time to study, to go to church on Sunday, or even shopping to buy necessary goods. Lasting over half of a year, I found that I do not need to pray to God anymore or go to church as I can be an independent girl in a foreign country. After that, I have not been to church again.

    If someone asked me if I am an atheist, I would say not, because I still believe in God. However, I need the knowledge to prove the existence of God. I still need to keep curious about the knowledge that I don't know in the world. This is an interesting way to find the truth anytime and anywhere.

Why learn English?

    I know that English is the language of science, computers, diplomacy and tourism. Many international businesses conduct meetings and email in English. Traveling around the world use English as a common language. Having knowledge is incredibly important to start my researches in the number of scientific papers. If I have a good knowledge of it also can easily access to international films, music and literature. Some experiences will make me grow as a person in learning the values, habits, and the way of life in culture which is different from me.     In my working place, there is very few workers can speak well in English. For them, English can sound foreign, frustrating and confusing. If I can pass certificate level with higher scores or communicate well with my customers. It will increase my self worth in my career. In addition to I can learn much science papers to improve my knowledge in specific areas. It will give me a lot of satisfactions and the progress will make me feel great.

    There are tons of resources on the internet you can use to learn English for free. Every video comes with subtitles, gives you some pictures and memorizable stories. You also can learn grammar and definition info through some English lessons. All of them are valuable if you take it seriously.

My first adopted husky(My first love)

   She is my first husky which was adopted by my landlord in 2013. Her name is Cheese. He had been rescued from a dog shelter in Nanliao. She was a considerate and disciplined girl. She did not like to urinate at home and must go outside from home at least 2 times per day. She was tolerant to be cleaned after walking, never complain about anything.

    Every time I want to go out with her, she danced for a while to show her excited feeling. Her love shape on her head always attracted pedestrians to greet her. She showed her polite manners to anyone. I thought she has been trained well by her owner before was being caught in a dog shelter.

    Once upon a time, I wanted to go out for work but she suddenly surreptitiously rushed out from the front door before my leaving. I shouted loudly and chased her to the busy road. She was accidentally hit by a car hardly and her feet feel numb to walk to the side of the road. I cried for a while and took her to the veterinarian nearby. She was diagnosed with several symptoms from chronic diseases, such as kidney disease, tumors of the ureters, veterinarian detected some shadows in her lungs. The veterinarian estimated her life will be shorter than half a year as she is too old. Therefore the veterinarian suggested not to take surgery as she may die anytime or anywhere and let her stay at home for self-recovery.

    I cannot forget the time she went silent beside me. The fireworks bloomed in the sky and she fell down on the ground and never stood up again. I felt very regret the time I was too careless to let her be hit by a car. I promised never to let my dogs ran away from me again.

 

Economy is soft science, make it flexible

 

" Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It’s expected to be better than the rest. It’s my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it’s also my view that it’s still lousy"

    For sure, when I studied high school, I learned about microeconomics, which approaches to the human behavior on-demand and supply which can influence society. The theory has many interesting facts that made you understood more about the consumptions culture in a country. However, the economics course cannot be defined as a hard science, you cannot estimate and conclude all the consumption behavior in an equation. There are too many variables and reasons to affect consumer behaviors, you cannot adopt the specific equation throughout the history on a country.

    As I said before, do not try to predict the future. Listen to the news every day and try to immerse yourself in this newest and worrying economy crisis. Do not be too pessimistic, but need to be always be cautious and embrace yourself to survive it in the future.

Nobel Prize in Physics

 

    About the earth climate change is an old topic in physical sciences. It began in 1824 with Fourier. He was the first person to study the Earth’s temperature from a mathematical perspective. He examined variations in temperature between day and night, and between summer and winter, and concluded that the planet was much warmer than a simple analysis might suggest.He recognized that the atmosphere of earth is ostensibly transparent to the visible radiation from the sun and the earth convert the visible radiation into “dark heat”, the dark energy of Fourier’s time. He surmised that this must interact somehow with the atmosphere to keep earth warm. 

    Scientist subsequently measure in the laboratory the absorption and emission of what we call infrared radiation Fourier’s dark heat. It was to take 70 years before savant arenas took these observations and these measurements and combined them in the first mathematical model of climate. He predicted that if the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere increased so too with the temperature of the earth. Another 70 years, two world wars and the computer revolution would pass over of these this several savant. Physical modeling of earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and "understanding of complex systems".

The age of Syukuru Manabe is 90 years old, Japanese born American meteorologist and climatologist, who pioneer the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.  He has developed 3-D dimensional models of atmosphere. They used the model simulate the response of temperature and hydrologic cycle to increase CO2. They can apply the model to the study of past climate change He and his colleagues knit together this web of processes including key aspects of the atmosphere’s thermodynamics & dynamics and made the first prediction reliable that if you double the carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere, their surface temperature would increase by  two degree Celsius.

    Klaus Hasselman  is 89 years old , is a leading German oceanographer and climate modeler. He is best know for developing the Hasselmann model of climate variability .

Hasselmann has published papers on climate dynamics, stochastic processes, ocean waves, remote sensing, and integrated assessment studies. His reputation in oceanography was primarily founded on a set of papers on non-linear interactions in ocean waves. 

He made the analogy between the rapidly varying weather and the slowly varying climate and Brownian motion from Einstein’s theory whereby rapid collisions of water molecules with pollen grains. Displace them slowly over time. He then predicted that the weather on time scales of days influences the ocean on the time scale of years. He went further with these ideas and he constructed a systematic statistical way to compare measurements observations and models to extract the fingerprints of particular physical processes in the climate system. 

    Galileo peered into outer space with his telescope. Giorgio Parisi is a 73 years old , an Italian theoretical physicist. His research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems.He peered into inner space with mathematics and he is particularly known for his work on spin glasses and related statistical mechanics models originating in optimization theory and biology.

    People have many types of ideas all of the time. Going for a walk every morning, stopping eating after 8pm or exercising after a meal every day. The problem isn’t idea but the problem is to take the ideas seriously. When you take idea seriously it means you make it a priority. It means you prioritize the execution of the idea above your desire to do other things. It means you give weight to the idea rather than your moods.When you take your ideas seriously, it means you take yourself seriously. This is the attitude of discipline. This is the mindset of success. This is the practice of building good habits.

    Recently I studied a lot about the famous Charlie Munger, an American billionaire investor, businessman, philanthropist, who is the best friend of Warren Buffett. He has a famous quote on ideas and why you should take start taking some ideas seriously.

Why I prefer to learn Japanese than Korean?

 

    Recently I have downloaded some apps to learn English with other friends through social media. Most of the cyber-friends would like to chit-chat in the Korean language than other languages. The success of the Korean wave is due to the development of K-Pop stars, movies, and online sharing platforms, which have allowed the Korean industry to reach a sizable overseas over all the world, particularly teenagers.

    Yesterday a Korean guy asked me if I want to learn a new language, which one would you select? I replied that I prefer to learn Japanese than Korean. Japan's industrial products and most advanced technology have been widely used in the world such as AI, auto-cars, robotics, bullet trains, and so on. But how about Korean? What products had been invented by Korean? As my purpose to learn a language is to improve the way people live of daily lives instead of watching TV or dramas.

The most admired man

 

    Benjamin Franklin was a legend. He dedicated himself as a writer, publisher, philopsopher, scientist, politics, and so on. The most surprised me was that his formal schooling was less than 2 years but read many books, wrote enormous newspapers articles, discovered electricity, and invented iron rods. Although he had neither formal training nor grounding in math, he undertook a vast amount of what he called " scientific amusements".

I like his word: " As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of the opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Therefore he never patented any of his inventions.

No wonder that Charlie Munger admires him the most. Benjamin studies many different branches of science. His scientific observations and developments contributed a lot to the community and the world. Without Benjamin Franklin, I think that America will not be strong and independent as the current situation. 

    Based on my observation, the vital characteristic is consistency and keep enthusiastic in many kinds of aspects. Do not be afraid to learn something that seems like very difficult to you, embrace yourself to be a good learner from now.

Study while working

    

    Since I left from Alpha Networks Company in 2011, I have been hired by Powertech Cooperation on Valentine's Day. While I was working in a new company, I decided to take some courses at Chunghwa University. What I was aiming for flexible job improving skills, knowledge, and more "hirable" with upgrading my degree certificate.

    Handling a full-time job and studies at the same time requires a good level of planning and prioritizations. Some students prefer to focus on studies only to get more achievements on their studies. Frankly speaking, the key is money. Every semester, I decided how many courses that I could take. Sometimes, I sacrificed my holidays and showed my dedication to my thesis. When the time for submitting my thesis was closer, I tend to bit off more than I can chew. Both of the studies and working time schedule have increased an enormous pressure.

     As I was working in the experiment lab, I can use many types of equipment to perform my experiments for my thesis. Thankfully, I can transmit my test results out from my company at that moment. Since 2014, all USBs was prohibited and strictly prohibit data transmission out from my company. After graduating master's degree from Mechanical Engineering in Chunghua, I got promoted and received an increase in my salary.

Domino effect

 

    You can change your daily habit by domino effect, for example, whenever I wake up between 6:00~6:30am, I may do it again the next day. Five days later and you realize that this regular morning ritual of bed-making has become a habit per se. My dog will come to me and urge me to walk with them. I listen to BBC radio news when walking with my dogs. After I have walked my dogs, I also feed them breakfast and waiting them to finish their breakfast. After finished eating, I notice that the dishes are dirty and the floor is sticky oily. I wash dishes, clean and mop the floor. Finally I clean my dogs' bowl and change the clean water before driving to my work place. The routine of taking care of my household becomes a domino effect that grows with each new good habit is added.

    As a personal example, if I stick my habit of writing a blogger essay per day. Then I naturally find myself more focused at editing the perfect sentences, learning vocabulary, reading more journals or podcasts, and thinking more profoundly at my attitude and behavior even though I never make a plan to specifically improve these behaviors.

    If you always curious about on taking a new habit, you will feel excited and keep doing it as each tiny domino falls, you start believing new things about yourself and building identity-based habits.

Why still single?

 

    When you ask me why I am still single? I assumed this question mostly comes from the young people or the people who have stuck to the older idea of an old tradition. Drive people to have children by celebrating childbearing without acknowledge the dire consequences for themselves and the planet. Fortunately, I am living in the place where stay away from my family and my friends. Nobody can bother me in Taiwan. This may be the true in evolutionary terms, our prime biological function is to perpetuate our genes on line. But this is the most selfish things to do from a biological terms. You are stealing the planet resources in order to perpetuate your genes. I have 4 siblings, my little brother has a newborn daughter, I think it is enough.

    When I was 30 years old, I always knew I didn't want kids, for environmental reasons. By growing up more kids , you need to cut down more trees, to dump more plastic waste, to generate more electricities, to consume more resources in the planet. It is not people being bad, it is just the effects of people. We should embrace for electric cars, renewable energy sources and plant-based food, but they still cannot make up for over-population.

    There are too many advantages to becoming single based on many types of research findings. I cannot agree any more about the researches. Thinking about being single can avoid conflict with other relationships. 

    If you really want a kid to accompany with you. Why don't you consider to adopt one of the 153 million orphans that are already on the planet and need a home? Without the booming population, it will slow down climate change, ocean acidification, deforestation.

Meeting efficiency

 

    Some meetings go around in a circle without end. Usually, there is a misunderstanding somewhere, but everyone has assumed that the misunderstanding is actually a difference of opinion. Once a person has a belief that comes from his experience or culture dictates, he will draw a conclusion without listening to others’ opinions. The people will get stuck from time to time and the conversation is going in circles.  

     Meetings are supposed to improve productivity, efficiency, teamwork, communication, and collaboration. As a chairman, you have the responsibility to know the cost of the meeting, and it needs to be properly conducted before the meeting. This will help you lead the meetings that are efficient and effective. 

Some helpful tips are helpful for me:

1. Start the meeting on time and stick to the agenda

2. Assign the related person for collecting information or accomplishing the task

3. Don’t allow attendees to deviate from the goal of the meeting.

4. End the meeting on time
   

US debt ceiling

 

     Debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative limit on the amount of money that the government is authorized to borrow to fulfill its financial obligations. From social security, military to medicare, the government has a lot of expenses. Because government runs budget deficits, meaning it spends more than it brings through taxes and other revenues. So the government issues debts. While the debt ceiling debate occurred, lawmakers request to cut back on government spending, lifting the debt limit to allow U.S. to finance existing obligations. 

     The national debt now stands at $28.43 trillion, which currently the borrowing cap is set at $28.4 trillion, leaving both parties, Republicans and Democrats have a long-run argument. Republicans refused to help Democrats increase the debt ceiling, in opposition to Biden's spending plans, especially $3.5 billion infrastructure plan. Biden is planning to build some infrastructure to cut carbon emissions and transform to the new energy system away from fossil fuel. 

    If the deal is not reached and the financial funding has to be cut, the federal museums, national parks, safety programs would have to close, halt the financial help for hurricane relief and Afghan refugees. Expert estimate that the Treasury could run out of money in mid to late October. In addition, it impacts individuals by cutting off benefits for seniors and paychecks for soldiers. US default could leave it unable to pay interest and maturities on Treasuries. It would produce widespread economic catastrophe and likely precipitate a historic financial crisis. Investors may lose confidence in the dollar as well, increasing inflation. Since 2011, U.S. has come to the brink of defaulting on its obligations, which many experts argue could have dire consequences for the U.S. economy and financial markets.

     In a short term, the market unrest will be a final factor to push Congress to act just days before the country goes into default. For long-term investors, make sure your money is diversified in line with your current risk tolerance and your investment objectives. You may need to explore more ways to dissipate the risk of investment loss. Anyway, stay focused on your goals.