Sunday, August 31, 2008

B School

不知為何,凡凡特愛玩石頭,想到商學院那邊有一條走廊很有特色滿滿地石頭遍地,便騎車過了河,轉往 B School 去。

照片是 2004 年剛到學校的頭一天,跟凡凡媽媽像觀光客一樣到處逛,第一次走來這走廊的時候拍的。很喜歡這條走廊。


2008 年凡凡第一次來,不過牆上的蔓藤大概是修剪過頭了,沒有之前那麼茂盛。


凡凡高興地玩著地上的碎石子。



碎石頭滾到鞋子裡,凡凡試著自己挖出來不成,情急開始要爸爸幫他用,一急之下石頭都講不出來,只能講「那個那個」。


商學院旁就是學校的體育場跟球場,凡凡看到斜坡先是想要「下去坐著」,越坐越近,之後想到便又開始玩他拿手的「滾滾滾 」了。

重回 Charles River


凡凡吃東西總是在外面吃得比較多,趁天氣好到 Charles River 邊上野餐順便看河上過往的獨木舟及遊艇。 凡凡果然吃得很開心,不過有個壞習慣,沒看到衛生紙,吃完手就往身上衣服擦。


放風箏,凡凡現在還不懂不時要拉一下,風箏才不會掉下來,所以往往風箏在地上的時間比在天空上多。



開始像個長大的男孩,想要爬樹攀高了。

(唇紅齒白小白臉)



腳踏車上的鈴噹是凡凡特愛的玩具。

幾顆雞蛋?



凡凡現在會數數,不過只能數到十,而且會不能自己地想繼續數下去... 就像數自己有幾根手指頭,一邊指一邊數到五,然後還是會繼續念下去到十。

還有凡凡現在很喜歡把任何東西都連起來,說那是火車,連雞蛋也一樣。

Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Hot Paper

Doug Melton's new paper raises lots of interests, worldwidely. It was even reported on Taiwan's newspapers. Of course, Harvard wouldn't miss this good PR chance.

Here is the link:
In Breakthrough, Harvard Lab Causes Cells To Change Type

I read this paper this morning after woke up, a very important and well written paper. Authors directly reprogramed cells from one kind to the other without "dedifferentiation", showing possibilities to avoid moral dilemma on using stem cells.

While I like this paper, it reinforces my impression on current stem-cell researches. Similar to alchemy versus chemistry, "stem cell biology" obviously still has a long way to go on the "cell biology" part.

More real cell biologists are required to further advance its frontier .

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

That's Too Much

No no no, I am not quoting the current-in slogon in Taiwan.

It's about an article I just read, to the idea of equality, not too much, and neither too less.

As a parent myself, I always enjoy reading those children psychology/behavior papers. Here is one I read today by the News@Nature.com.

Children learn rules of equality by age eight. But those with siblings are more selfish than those without.

It's really amazing to witness the whole process how kids build-up those concepts with time.

- the original paper
Fehr, E. , Bernhard, H. & Rockenbach, B. Nature 454, 1079-1083 (2008).

Sunday, August 24, 2008

游泳

凡凡這陣子每天洗澡都在澡盆裡嚷著說要游泳,禮拜天天氣特好,便帶著凡凡到泳池讓他去游一游,沒想到真看到了泳池,馬上龜起來說不要游了,最後只好帶他去旁邊淺淺的小孩池讓他玩水。

上次一去羅德島時凡凡還小,甚麼都不懂所以還敢下水游,現在大了知道害怕,反而不敢進泳池了。





應該是真的玩得很盡興,最後換回衣服準備回家時,在池子旁的椅子上睡著了。



掰掰哈囉



凡凡很喜歡看相機裡面自己的影片,特別是把相機翻轉過來自拍的時候,當凡凡發現相機螢幕上的影像是即時的之後,便開始愛現地耍寶了起來。

凡凡白得很快,幾天沒曬到太陽馬上就白了回來,不過這陣子常往外跑,手跟腳還是可以看到明顯的一半牛奶一半巧克力般的兩截膚色。

Friday, August 15, 2008

Gift Book

Jade is flying to Hong Kong starting her own lab soon. Since she is still single and there are tons of bankers in Hong Kong. We decided to give her a book as the leaving gift.

Here it is.


She shall love it, I guess...

Sunday, August 10, 2008

打棒球


其實不真的是棒球,而是撞球。

玩了一陣子天空開始下雨了,便進法學院的餐廳裡躲雨。樓上有個小客廳,裡面有平面液晶電視,家庭劇院之類的東西,還有一桌撞球檯,便跟凡凡玩了起來。

照片看起來有模有樣。



「用棒子!」
凡凡一直說玩「棒球」,猜想大概是跟把球竿稱做「棒子」脫不了關係。

凡凡獨特的撞球玩法。

跳石子

在 Science Center 前的噴泉玩水順便休息一下。

凡凡趴在石頭上看停在身旁石頭上的麻雀。

現在長大了一點,凡凡也開始要學著那些大小孩跳石子玩,只是腿不夠長,只能跳相鄰比較近的石頭跳,跳成功了也會 "Yeah~~" 地給自己鼓勵鼓勵。