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Sex vs Gender

We had an interesting discussion on the difference between sex and gender. According to Allan, sex refers to the biological difference (chromosomes contain Y), while gender refers to how a person thinks of himself/herself. So when a person believes h
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Days of fear

Great post by Liz Elcoate. The following diagram by her describes my situation very well. No work + No money = Inertia + Paralysing fear + Panic = NIL productivity
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QQ上遇到骗子了

昨天晚上QQ上,有一个高中同学给我打招呼。我就启动了视频聊天,那边也有视频,没有声音。我猜想他的话筒有问题了吧,这也正常。他问了常规性的问题,比如我在哪里啊,什么时候回来啊等等。我也回答了。让后他说他
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9 common mistakes in presentation and slides

When you give a presentation, try to avoid the following common mistakes: Too much text The best way to bore your audience.  Also, audience will start focusing and reading the text and ignore your talk. Read slides People read text faster than you. Y
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Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane…

Ric Elias is the CEO of Red Ventures, a marketing services company that grew out of Elias’ long experience in business. He had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What di
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PKU Bio-Net Reunion 2011

The 3rd PKU Bio-Net Annual Conference will be held on July 16th 2011, at Columbia University, New York City. This is a reunion for alumni of PKU School of Life Sciences (former Department of Biology) and other PKU alumni working in life science-relat
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咆哮体

突然间咆哮体火起来,网上还有个咆哮体生成器(http://lifeis.ws/paoxiao.htm)。我把推荐peaya的帖子生产了一下,果真给力。如下: 尼玛文献这件事其实挺烦人的啊啊啊!!! 但
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Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

Don’t wait to be a hero. Don’t wait to help others.
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