I wrote this essay in the year I lost my grandmother, who was an integral part of my early childhood. Originally written in Chinese, an English version is included. The original Chinese text was written entirely without…
[READ MORE]Aging, alas, is difficult to pin down. Two researchers can spend hours discussing it and still disagree about its definition. The accumulation of damage? A decline in function? A gravity-like force that gradually draws u…
[READ MORE]Many of you may be startled, at first, by my almost 180° turn from the humanities to science. But for me, it was never a turn so much as a natural continuum. It is more of the cumulative result of everything that came be…
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