Month: April 2022

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/04/sounds-wild-and-broken-review-a-moving-paean-to-earths-fraying-soundtrack.html Tim Adams in The Guardian: Lockdown was, among other things, a sudden collective experiment in volume control. Sound waves from the regular rush-hour thrum of cities usually penetrate more than…

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-us-same-people-problems-different-methods-jason-hsu Published on April 28, 2022 Status is reachable Jason Hsu Founder & CIO at Rayliant Global Advisors (銳聯財智) / Portfolio Manager of Rayliant ETFs: $RAYC and $RAYE 31 articles…

https://www.unz.com/article/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-and-the-rise-of-it-just-isnt-mine-asian-leftists/ Over the years, we have all heard pundits on the Left and Right promote the Model Minority myth about Asian-Americans, both immigrant and native born. The basic talking point…

https://laiguofang.com/2022/04/%E5%90%91%E7%89%B9%E7%AB%8B%E7%8B%AC%E8%A1%8C%E4%B9%8B%E4%BA%BA%E5%AD%A6%E4%B9%A0 小泥 几年前逛书店，家人表示想买《走一条与世界不合拍的道路》。我随手翻翻，深受首篇人物罗桑·伦巴的故事吸引，就买回家慢慢阅读。 现今读者或许没听过罗桑.伦巴。但在二十世纪中叶，罗桑.伦巴的著作《第三只眼》，光在英国两年就卖了三十万本，为当时的超级畅销书。罗桑·伦巴表示《第三只眼》是自传，他在拉萨长大，七岁被送到喇嘛寺研习佛理，并在痛苦的颅骨手术之后，打开了额头上的「第三只眼」，因而获得精神力量。 《第三只眼》纪录了罗桑·伦巴早年一连串的奇妙际遇。

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/france-analysis-of-the-day.html Macron had promised to reduce state spending — then a record at more than 56 per cent of gross domestic product — by about 5 percentage points. Instead, under…

An Image of Rumi having a religious dispute: Persian Painting, particularly from the Safavid Renaissance, is one of the notable exceptions to the ban on human depiction, or aniconism, dominant…