“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…

  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…

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.”…

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…

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。…

Humans are complicated and cultures vary widely worldwide. I have been blessed to travel and teach in more than 150 cities and 40 countries in the world, and it is always amazing to see what we can learn from diverse cultures. It’s sort of like the pleasant surprise when we find out there are more than 1,000 species of lobsters,…

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,…

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…

I am a specialist in premature babies, technically called a neonatologist. In fact I was even more specialized than that, since I focused on nutrition in premature infants. Furthermore, if you can believe it, I became even more specialized, and focused on calcium within the field of nutrition of babies. I think you have an idea of how super specialized…

The brain is a wonderful organ. I can easily remember things that happened 30, 40, 50, even 60 years ago, with vividness that sometimes astonishes me. Events that had a great impact on my life especially come into focus, often in great detail. And as I am recounting a story over coffee with someone, further details amazingly and unexpectedly emerge,…