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Anthropologists recently discovered in ancient Kenya two sets of footprints – both placed in the same time span. Conclusion: people of differences co-existed. Yes, they were different. Yes, homo sapiens survived violent upheavals (man-made) and evolutionary challenges (nature causes). It doesn’t always have to be homogeneity (in group) since each group contains intra-DNA differences (in…
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Unlike Pyle the quiet American (Brendan Fraser also in George the Jungle and the Scout), his Vietnamese counterpart – our fictional Phuc – is truly quiet. He wouldn’t venture out to dance nor to make waves. Not good to draw attention to oneself until and unless looking anti-social in a socially mediated society (odd man…
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I am slow to catch on. Always have been… trailing behind much older sibling and parent. When I barely attended school, they had already hummed: “Tout les garcons et les filles de mon age se promene dans la rue…et les yeux dand les yeux”. I stayed home, alone, with just a ball for company. Later,…
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Ron Nessen, Press Secretary during the Ford Administration, mentioned in “Making the News Taking the News” that a Vietnamese lady holding her battered child in front of the camera, begging public opinion to do something. A sense of helplessness stayed with him for years to come, Other images from the last days of Saigon showing…
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Hope first. Or else. What’s the point! Hope, my first thought. There at the moment I bathed in maternal-ward fluorescent light and friendly faces. “Wow, she was 40 something yet while pregnant with child , she still juggled in between a class – 57 students – to push through nine-months of carrying”. Flanked by love,…
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1975-1985 For context and contrast, he was just as tall as McNamara without the glasses yet with trench coat and slick-back hair. We did not go deep-sea fishing for father-son outing. He only spent Sunday mornings with me. Our routine. His afternoons were for the other, his second wife and child. So I grew up,…
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Among them, besides two set of clothes, was my birthday’s gift: a Collegiate Dictionary. For the love of words and of a world that has yet to be discovered. It’s as it is today, slightly cool and conducive to sleeping-in. Yet I needed to show up for a rendezvous: my fateful trip to State College.…
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It’s the fact of life: people need to feed and eat, by laboring together to achieve that which is not possible otherwise. Let me hold that for you. It’s a wrap (we hear that on the film production set). I love the showing of film credits, from costume to casting, from screenplay to directing. Sydney…
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Divinity and DNA, eternality and here/now, the spiritual and the material. Push and pull, past and future. Are we nearer to Singularity? AI or we who are asleep at the wheel! I always appreciate a good story, like the one about a chapel of New College in Oxford whose beams finally gave, but with foresight…
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Let’s cut to the chase. It’s machine, invented by man, that shows us human, how to behave consistently, efficiently and even humanly. “I am sorry, I don’t understand” (human wouldn’t be that honest!). From flight runway to fashion runway, AI is now here to stay. It has done away with middle men e.g. printing, book…
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