Flying in the face of the facts

Anderson Cooper 360 Podcast is of everyday's podcasts in my iPhone. For me, listening podcast is one of the way to practice my listening skills. Also, I would rather keep updated with the international news than spending time in being awash by unqualified, biased, smeared, twisted, and repeated news.

Today, Anderson Cooper was talking about the news about "Tony Hayward is stepping down with 18 million dollars". In the description, Anderson uses an idiom, "it seems Flying in the face of the facts". I have looked up the definition of the idiom. In fact, the idiom is "fly in the face of...", meaning "against".

Example:
Describing BP as being Corporation Social Responsibility flies in the face of the facts.

Interesting idiom!!

愛因斯坦 與 佛教

今天沒什麼事,在網路上亂逛,不經意的Google了Time Travel的理論。結果無意中發現愛因斯坦曾經研究『大藏經』、『易經』，並寫下了他自己的註解。以下是他的評論:

現代西方科學之父愛因斯坦評論佛教說：
「未來的宗教將是宇宙的宗教。它應當超越個人化的神，避免教條和神學，涵蓋自然和精神兩方面。它的根基，應建立在某種宗教意識之上，這種宗教意識的來源，是在把所有自然的和精神的事物作為一個有意義的整體來經歷時得到的體驗。佛教正是以上所描述的那種宗教。如果有一個能夠應付現代科學需求，又能與科學共依共存的宗教，那必定是佛教。」

後來我又再Google了一下原本，查證是否真的有此事，結果還真的有也，原文如下
資料來源:Albert Einstein on God and Buddhism
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend
personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the
natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense
arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a
meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any
religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be
Buddhism.

這實在是太神奇了!!但,Einstein也說過他是無神論者。我並不認為這篇就代表著Einstein是信奉佛教,而是他在研究完『大藏經』與『易經』後所提出的見解。或者以我這種Level(沒什麼科學研究也沒讀過大藏經跟易經),很難理解為什麼他會這麼想,或許Einstein理解到他所熱愛的科學研究領域與佛教有相關的Connection存在。改天也來看看大藏經跟易經好了,說不定能增長點智慧。

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

This is truly an inspirational speech for me, perhaps for you as well. For the translation, you can easily find by Google it. However, please do not stop just reading the translation in Chinese but take a step further to watch the video. You will actually feel enlightenment the speaker truly want to give.

加入Facebook Like Button 到我的 Blogger 了

最近看到Facebook有所謂的Plateform可以使用,所以想說來試試看FB裡面的Web API玩玩看。
這篇發表來看看,應該可以看到FB 的like button 在下面吧...哈..