Uncle Reggie Stories, URS: Missions Emphasis in the Church: start young Reggie叔叔讲的故事-传道使命在教会的重心-從小开始 (Tom King, Amy Zhao 翻译)

“David Livingstone was poised with his rifle, kneeling down to watch out for the marauding lion, when suddenly, out of nowhere, the lion jumped into the air and landed directly on him. The lion roared, and opened his gaping mouth widely, over the head of David Livingstone, and………. I’m soooo sorry, but tiiiime’s up!” A huge sigh of disappointment rippled…

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URS you don’t look like you’re 76 Part B 你看起来不像七十六岁-第二部 Edison 翻译

  People like to look me in the face and stare at me, saying “you don’t look like you’re 76,” as if there is something wrong. ………Continued from Part A….. 很多人会注视着我,好像有什么不对劲似的说“你看起来不像七十六岁……承接A部分….. …….Another preventive I think bears mentioning. I like a general attitude of, “avoid surgeons like the plague, unless absolutely necessary.” Sorry, my many surgeon friends! I was once even…

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URS Uncle Reggie Stories: Genius is genius: the genius of genius Reggie 叔叔的故事:天才就是天才: 天才中的天才

Through life we have at times encountered geniuses, or heard about geniuses in history. With modern media, we often can witness geniuses, in action on YouTube or Facebook, or described in popular magazines. But have you ever wondered where geniuses come from? How come they are geniuses? 生活中我们经常会遇到天才,或者听闻过去的天才传说。在优酷、脸书或者流行杂志等现代传媒上,我们也可以见到天才。但是你是否想过天才从何而来?他们是怎样成为天才的?   You could say, “I know a genius when I see one.”…

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Uncle Reggie stories URS: That funny thyroid Reggie 叔叔的故事: 有趣的甲状腺 (Anya ZHANG 翻译)

The thyroid is a very funny organ, one of the few organs you can actually touch, right in your neck and right at your throat. I am especially interested in it partly because, right behind the thyroid, there are four little organs called the “parathyroid glands” which produce “my special hormones,” that I spent many decades studying. The best thyroid surgeon…

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Uncle Reggie Stories: Little Numbers 曾叔叔闲聊:小小数字 Linda He 翻译

Helen McGehee faithfully served in Guizhou, China with her husband John during a very difficult time in China’s history. Civil war was raging, the Imperial Japanese invasion had left the country in shock, and everything was chaotic. Even today many parts of mountainous Guizhou remain primitive, and one can imagine the conditions they lived in at the time. 海伦麦吉(Helen McGehee)和丈夫约翰在贵州虔诚侍奉上帝的时候,中国正处在历史上一个非常困难的时期。当时内战肆虐,日军侵略使国家陷入瘫痪,一切混乱不堪。今天,贵州山区的许多地方仍然保持原有样貌,人们可以想象当时他们居住的条件。…

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URS survival of the not so fit? Reggie叔叔的故事:弱者,不适者,就不生存了吗?(Sonic 翻译)  

Nearly everyone in this world likely has been educated in Darwinian thought, and many generally assume, rightly or wrongly, that “struggle for existence” is the same as Darwinian “survival of the fittest.” But have we ever thought through what that means? And is life actually a survival of the fittest? And is that what we are destined for? And finally,…

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Coffee with Uncle Reggie: My version of growing up in school obsessed Asia Reggie 叔叔的故事:从我的视角看在亚洲学校的成长 (Sonic 翻译) Or: Getting into a good school: my childhood perspective. 或者:我孩童时关于进入好学校的观点。

Asia is crazy about getting its young ones into the “right track for life,” beginning as early as possible. Preparatory in-womb Mozart for the baby is poetic and charming, even if unproven. One friend assured me her Malaysian pregnant mother ate a lot of hot peppers, since she felt she could begin the important taste bud schooling really early, in…

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