LEV House

by Philip Yaffe

 

Growing up in the United States in the 1950s, I was used to such things as inches, feet, yards; ounces (liquid and solid), pints, pounds, etc. Then I entered my first physics class and was bowled over by the metric system.

 

 

“My God, this is so much better! Why don’t we use this?” I [...]

China and the West have a very complex relationship. Americans and the West accuse China of being undemocratic, not respecting human rights, not respecting intellectual property rights, being greedy, etc.
Yet, countries like the US themselves have behaved with hypocrisy. What about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? And the illegal online downloads and software that originate from [...]