And as CRCulver mentioned that pasta is nowhere to be found in the texts at all. "We know more about Roman dining customs than about any other ancient people, with whole recipes reconstructed, see Patrick Fass' Around the Roman Table [amazon.com] (University of Chicago Press, 2005). "
Another name that Taiwan calls itself is 'The Republic of China'.
The creation of Taiwan as we know it is about some Chinese leaders that failed to unite China, so they fled to Taiwan.
Hoping to raise a military strike with the help of America to defeat the Communists.
People get it mixed up if Taiwan were successful to overtake China, would you defend the Mao Tse Tung? It is just a power struggle, at least in the past. I cannot speak on whether the Chinese in Taiwan have now become Taiwanese or are still Chinese, I don't know, it is up to them.
Regarding Tibet, they deserve to keep their identity, I believe, but with regards to the Dalai Lama, and his rule, yes he was the leader, not just the spiritual leader. How can slashdotters support a serfdom? I just don't understand. Do you want to live as a serf in your life?
I am not convinced by the replies of the doctor to Heather Mills claims on milk consumption.
A study by Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School followed 12,829 children from all 50 states ages nine to 14 for three years and found the children who drank more milk gained weight even if they were drinking low-fat milk."
Harvard: School age children who gulp down more than three glasses of milk daily may wind up heavier than their more abstemious classmates -- those who down just one or two glasses (P = 0.04).
Harvard: Moreover, milk consumption was associated with weight gain even when the milk consumed was low fat or skimmed milk.
Harvard: After compensating for physical activity, maturation and height growth, the researchers found that those boys and girls who drank more than three servings of milk a day were 25 percent more likely to become overweight than those who drank two to three servings a day.
Dr Philip Coan: It is not true to say that children who gain the most weight are doing so because of milk consumption.
It may not be true, the 'most' weight gain may be due to soft drinks or general calorie intake, but that is not to say that there is no correlation at all between milk consumption and weight gain.
Dr Philip Coan: It found no link between increases in child weight and increases in drink consumption.
According to the Harvard study children who drink more than 3 drinks of milk are 25% more likely to be overweight.
Dr Philip Coan: In relation to milk, child weight was not linked to whether the children drank full-fat, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk.
The Harvard study agrees there. No matter whether the milk was low fat or skimmed, if a child drank more than 3 drinks of milk a day, they were 25% more likely to be overweight.
If you were within China, wouldn't you know if you received the BBC or not?
What makes you so sure that censorship exists? What proof do you have, other than your assumptions?
Do you really trust CNN and Fox to tell you what really is up and down?
a Clarification from MIT mathematician Dan Stroock:
I, like several others whom Sylvia Nasar interviewed, am shocked and angered by the article which she and Gruber wrote for the New Yorker. Having seen Yau in action during his June conference on string theory, Nasar led me to believe that she was fascinated by S-T Yau and asked me my opinion about his activities. I told her that I greatly admire Yau's efforts to support young Chinese mathematicians and to break down the ossified power structure in the Chinese academic establishment. I then told her that I sometimes have doubts about his methodology. In particular, I told her that, at least to my ears, Yau weakens his case and lays himself open to his enemies by sounding too self-promoting.
As it appears in her article, she has purposefully distorted my statement
and made it unforgivably misleading. Like the rest of us, Yau has his
faults, but, unlike most of us, his virtues outweigh his faults. Unfortunately, Nasar used my statement to bolster her case that the opposite is true, and for this I cannot forgive her.
State University of New York at Stony Brook professor Michael Anderson's email to Yao:
Dear Yau,
I am furious, and completely shocked, at what Sylvia Nasar wrote. Her quote of me is completely wrong and baseless. There are other factual mistakes in the article, in addition to those you pointed out.
I have left her phone and email messages this evening and hope to speak
to her tomorrow at the latest to clear this up. I want her to remove this statement completely from the article. It serves no purpose and contains no factual information; I view it as stupid gossip unworthy of a paper like the New Yorker. At the moment, the print version has not appeared and so it might be possible to fix this still. I spent several hours with S. Nasar on the phone talking about Perelman, Poincare, etc but it seems I was too naive (and I'm now disgusted) in believing this journalist would report factually.
I regret very much this quote falsely attributed to me and will do what
ever I can to have it removed.
I will keep you informed as I know more.
Yours, Michael
Michael Anderson's further announcement:
Many of you have probably seen the New Yorker article by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber on Perelman and the Poincare conjecture.
In many respects, its very interesting and a pleasure to read. However,
it contains a number of inaccuracies and downright errors.
I spent several hours talking with Sylvia Nasar trying to dissuade her from incorporating the Tian-Yau fights into the article, since it was completely irrelevant and I didn't see the point of dragging readers through the mud.
Obviously I was not successful.
The quote attributed to me on Yau is completely inaccurate and distorted
from some remarks I made to her in a quite different context; I made it
explicit to her that the remarks I was making in that context were purely speculative and had no basis in fact. I did not give her my permission to quote me on this, even with the qualification of speculation.
There are other inaccuracies about Stony Brook. One for instance is the
implication that Tian at MIT was the first to invite Perelman to the US
to give talks. This is of course false - we at Stony Brook were the firs
t to do so. I stressed in my talks with her the role Stony Brook played,
yet she focusses on the single talk Grisha gave at Princeton, listing a collection of eminent mathematicians, none of whom is a geometer/topologist.
I was not given an opportunity to set the record straight with the New Yor
Slashdot Mirror
Are /.ers, really that clueless, it would appear so from reading the comments in this post...
Surely some have heard about Red Flag Linuxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux?! !
In 2002, it was reported that Red Flag beat out Windows in Beijing. That is more than 5 years ago, people come on.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/04/red_flag_As Bayoudegradeable pointed out, there is evidence of noodles in China 4000 years ago.
And as CRCulver mentioned that pasta is nowhere to be found in the texts at all. "We know more about Roman dining customs than about any other ancient people, with whole recipes reconstructed, see Patrick Fass' Around the Roman Table [amazon.com] (University of Chicago Press, 2005). "
You mean the great Roman empire lost it's limb in China, since they were lost and caught by the Chinese.
Another name that Taiwan calls itself is 'The Republic of China'.
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The creation of Taiwan as we know it is about some Chinese leaders that failed to unite China, so they fled to Taiwan.
Hoping to raise a military strike with the help of America to defeat the Communists.
People get it mixed up if Taiwan were successful to overtake China, would you defend the Mao Tse Tung? It is just a power struggle, at least in the past. I cannot speak on whether the Chinese in Taiwan have now become Taiwanese or are still Chinese, I don't know, it is up to them.
Regarding Tibet, they deserve to keep their identity, I believe, but with regards to the Dalai Lama, and his rule, yes he was the leader, not just the spiritual leader. How can slashdotters support a serfdom? I just don't understand. Do you want to live as a serf in your life?
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/china/whi
http://weecheng.com/views/world/tibet/myth.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200405/23/eng2004052
http://journeyeast.tripod.com/myth_and_reality.ht
I am not convinced by the replies of the doctor to Heather Mills claims on milk consumption.
A study by Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School followed 12,829 children from all 50 states ages nine to 14 for three years and found the children who drank more milk gained weight even if they were drinking low-fat milk."
Harvard: School age children who gulp down more than three glasses of milk daily may wind up heavier than their more abstemious classmates -- those who down just one or two glasses (P = 0.04).
Harvard: Moreover, milk consumption was associated with weight gain even when the milk consumed was low fat or skimmed milk.
Harvard: After compensating for physical activity, maturation and height growth, the researchers found that those boys and girls who drank more than three servings of milk a day were 25 percent more likely to become overweight than those who drank two to three servings a day.
Dr Philip Coan: It is not true to say that children who gain the most weight are doing so because of milk consumption.
It may not be true, the 'most' weight gain may be due to soft drinks or general calorie intake, but that is not to say that there is no correlation at all between milk consumption and weight gain.
Dr Philip Coan: It found no link between increases in child weight and increases in drink consumption. According to the Harvard study children who drink more than 3 drinks of milk are 25% more likely to be overweight.
Dr Philip Coan: In relation to milk, child weight was not linked to whether the children drank full-fat, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk.
The Harvard study agrees there. No matter whether the milk was low fat or skimmed, if a child drank more than 3 drinks of milk a day, they were 25% more likely to be overweight.
If you were within China, wouldn't you know if you received the BBC or not? What makes you so sure that censorship exists? What proof do you have, other than your assumptions? Do you really trust CNN and Fox to tell you what really is up and down?
From this page http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/2006/08/fruitcak e-fields.html are published clarifications from Nasar's interviewees denouncing her and claiming that she falsely quoted and purposefuly miscontrued their statements.
a Clarification from MIT mathematician Dan Stroock:
I, like several others whom Sylvia Nasar interviewed, am shocked and angered by the article which she and Gruber wrote for the New Yorker. Having seen Yau in action during his June conference on string theory, Nasar led me to believe that she was fascinated by S-T Yau and asked me my opinion about his activities. I told her that I greatly admire Yau's efforts to support young Chinese mathematicians and to break down the ossified power structure in the Chinese academic establishment. I then told her that I sometimes have doubts about his methodology. In particular, I told her that, at least to my ears, Yau weakens his case and lays himself open to his enemies by sounding too self-promoting.
As it appears in her article, she has purposefully distorted my statement and made it unforgivably misleading. Like the rest of us, Yau has his faults, but, unlike most of us, his virtues outweigh his faults. Unfortunately, Nasar used my statement to bolster her case that the opposite is true, and for this I cannot forgive her.
State University of New York at Stony Brook professor Michael Anderson's email to Yao:
Dear Yau,
I am furious, and completely shocked, at what Sylvia Nasar wrote. Her quote of me is completely wrong and baseless. There are other factual mistakes in the article, in addition to those you pointed out.
I have left her phone and email messages this evening and hope to speak to her tomorrow at the latest to clear this up. I want her to remove this statement completely from the article. It serves no purpose and contains no factual information; I view it as stupid gossip unworthy of a paper like the New Yorker. At the moment, the print version has not appeared and so it might be possible to fix this still. I spent several hours with S. Nasar on the phone talking about Perelman, Poincare, etc but it seems I was too naive (and I'm now disgusted) in believing this journalist would report factually.
I regret very much this quote falsely attributed to me and will do what ever I can to have it removed.
I will keep you informed as I know more.
Yours, Michael
Michael Anderson's further announcement:
Many of you have probably seen the New Yorker article by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber on Perelman and the Poincare conjecture.
In many respects, its very interesting and a pleasure to read. However, it contains a number of inaccuracies and downright errors. I spent several hours talking with Sylvia Nasar trying to dissuade her from incorporating the Tian-Yau fights into the article, since it was completely irrelevant and I didn't see the point of dragging readers through the mud. Obviously I was not successful.
The quote attributed to me on Yau is completely inaccurate and distorted from some remarks I made to her in a quite different context; I made it explicit to her that the remarks I was making in that context were purely speculative and had no basis in fact. I did not give her my permission to quote me on this, even with the qualification of speculation.
There are other inaccuracies about Stony Brook. One for instance is the implication that Tian at MIT was the first to invite Perelman to the US to give talks. This is of course false - we at Stony Brook were the firs t to do so. I stressed in my talks with her the role Stony Brook played, yet she focusses on the single talk Grisha gave at Princeton, listing a collection of eminent mathematicians, none of whom is a geometer/topologist.
I was not given an opportunity to set the record straight with the New Yor