Henry Buchtel
[Image description] Minor epiphany this morning while playing Taiji: "Walking backward along a circular trail" is a much better description of life than "Marching forward", "The forward march of progress"...
Henry Buchtel
[Image description] It occurred to me last week, while I was trying to understand the blurb for Prof. Nappi's talk, that a lot of work in academics revolves around identifying concepts from different...
Henry Buchtel
[Image description] I'm quite disappointed that work will prevent me from attending Dr. Carla Nappi's lecture tomorrow afternoon (see PDF for details), especially as it might have been my only chance...
Henry Buchtel
[Image description] Warning: an attempt at humor follows! I have on my desk two different translations of the seminal text in the field of developmental psychology; “Viridia Ova atque Perna” by Dr. Suess....
Henry Buchtel
[Image description] I have found it extremely difficult to write even a simple blog post about Professor Michele Thompson’s talk on Vietnamese medicine. If, as Yi-Li Wu said in her introductory remarks,...
Henry Buchtel
[Image description] For various reasons I've limited myself to one text, mentioned in the last blog post, so this may not be representative of mainstream Chinese views. However, as it is a nationally...