Gregory Herczeg
@GregHerczeg
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Astronomy Professor at Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University.
Beijing, China
Joined January 2017
This statue is really strange, part of a Sanxingdui exhibit at our local mall (cool!). It's concrete-ish, not styrofoam, and no obvious cuts. It's huge and must be extremely heavy. How did it get there? How will it leave? I guess I should start to worship it?
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Name one thing people thought is from Japan but it actually is from China. I go first. Nine-tailed fox demon .九尾狐.
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Seeing Tianfu in Chengdu, I wonder whether one of the tricks is to move around the business district (seen elsewhere as well). This is unused in the US, and perhaps not possible due to local control. Tianfu is totally offset from historical Chengdu.
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assuming life is prevalent, then many (intelligent) life-harboring planets have already been wiped out in an instant by very rare but horrible events; many will suffer the same fate in the future. [scariest, if we ignore the heat death of the universe].
i wonder if the scariest moment ever in history has happened yet.
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RT @GlennLuk: "People say they're so much better at building high-speed trains than the United States. I would never hold up a flag saying….
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China will design the next generation lithography, send people to the moon, and code up AI, but still will never be able to design a useable airline website.
Xi. I am a full stack developer who makes web applications for internal use but can do it for public facing. Your airline companies have some of the worst websites I've ever seen. Please, LET ME IN!!!.
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RT @laurimyllyvirta: NEW from us: Last year, China started construction on an estimated 95 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity, enoug….
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Is this overcapacity?. (It is under capacity of seats. Chengdu Dong at 11:30am today.)
@teortaxesTex How else do you propose building capacity to move ~200M people a year between Beijing and Shanghai?.
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I don't know where it was published, and this is probably just reporting how people are responding -- but given the numbers, at best it reflects those responses and not reality.
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This has been going around, pretty sure the math doesn't work out at all (eg, not enough people were added in 2024 to go from 40% to 50%).
Wait, can this actually be real? Half of US men under 30 are virgins? We need to stop dating apps and bring back drinking in bars.
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My own personal pet cause is anti-banquet dinners, because there are always much better choices.
In my FP piece, I explore why China’s sudden reversal on its banquet dining crackdown came about. What began as a well-intentioned anti-corruption directive was taken to extremes by an overzealous local bureaucracy. The result was a chilling effect on the.
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Anyway, one of you always raves about the small little museums. Good call and great way to spend a few hours on a hot day in a small town!.
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In honor of @CurtExplores, or maybe someone else, went to the (free!) Changde City Museum today. Fascinating look from the very beginnings of China through the horrific Battle of Changde, with some pretty amazing wood carvings and pottery and stuff. Pretty great little museum.
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So what the OP is saying is that China has reached the same level as the west?. [aside from the unretracted but false plot, see comment by @pretentiouswhat ].
Spoke to a Chinese friend today who was recently home in a Chinese major city for a few weeks. He said al of his late 20s friends are bummed out and don’t think their futures will be good. 9-9-6 is real but the work is performative to keep your boss happy. All bullshit. Tons.
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The definitive ranking of Chinese cuisine:. 1) small cities of 0.5-2 million people.2) 3rd-4th tier cities.3-tie) shopping malls.3-tie) 1st-2nd tier cities.5) small villages.6) major tourist places.7) banquet food.8) Shanghai.9) overdeveloped weekend tourist villages.
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Many hotels in China apparently do laundry for free. I had no idea, it’s pretty great.
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View from my window this morning, in Qianjiang, Chongqing
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RT @DrNeilStone: New study from Denmark 🇩🇰 of over 1.5 MILLION people who received an mRNA Covid vaccine . NO increased risk of 29 differen….
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This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.
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@TingAstro you erased yours! The answer for both of us is of course @dr_guangtou, but grok only considers twitter.
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