Diego Maradona

Simply the best player of the world. Off the court, he is a controversial figure; on the court, he can do anything. My hero! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tCoMtPuL3Q

Marco van Basten

Basten is the first soccer superstart I really watched on TV. He is an ultimate shooter. With his elegant style and brilliant technique, he makes scoring looks very easy. He helped his club, AC Milan, and natinal team, Netherlands, climb to the top at his time. The glory still excits the soccer fans around the world even…

Blink

[abp:0316172324:c:alignright]Author: Malcolm Gladwell Rating: [rating: 3/5] The author starts the book with an event around Getty's collection of a kouros sculpture: how historians hunch the kouros sculpture might be a fake at the first sight, but all the scientific approaches fail to discover. The author then introduces the center phrase…

A Beautiful Math

[abp:0309101921:c:alignright]Author: Tom Siegfried Rating: [rating: 1.5/5] John Nash became known to many people because of the movie "A Beautiful Mind", but the movie only focused on his personal struggles and almost ignored what made him a Nobel laureate. In this book, Tom Siegfried sets out to let people know Nash's…

A Short History of Nearly Everything

[abp:0767908171:c:alignright]Author: Bill Bryson Rate: [rating: 4.5/5] I am really amazed by the vast amounts of human knowledge that this 560-page book covers: From pre-history to the current event; from the quark to the black hole; from the bottom the sea to the rim of the universe; from the sing-cell to…

The Unfolding of Language

[abp:0805079076:c:alignright]Author: Guy Deutscher Rating: [Rating: 3.5/5]

Top 10 News of Physics89 in 2001

Wang, Fusheng 10. The number of Physics89 employees passes the number of students Who is the first to work, and who will be the last? 9. Physics89 new marriages: Cui, Lin; Xu, Wang; Du, Weiliang; Wang, Jun; Zhao, Runchuan; and Liu, Xiaoming How many are still available? 8. Physics89 new…

Congratulations to Zhao Runchuan’s Marriage

Shen, Chongfei [Prelude] I still remember, not long time ago, Mark Cao wrote a poem like piece, on how quickly time goes by. I wish I can quote some sentences here. I am still waiting for Lao Fei, to write something as good for this year, to almost move me…