January 2025

photo: the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)   Editor’s Note: Professor Louis Chow was selected as one of the recipients of Caltech’s 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards for her pioneering research using electron microscopy to determine genome organization and RNA transcription, which led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of split genes and RNA splicing, one of the most important breakthroughs...

The Democrats’ Collapse The outcome of this election can be described by borrowing a phrase from Taiwanese commentator Kuo Cheng-Liang, as the Democrats “losing so badly it’s embarrassing.” Why did the Democrats suffer such a disastrous defeat? Before the election, mainstream media polls suggested a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Kamala Harris. So why was the defeat so...

Capitalism is an important principle in economics. The important elements of economic productivity (production capacity) are manpower (including human labor and human intelligence), resources (including natural water, land, mines, energy, and biology), capital (the tools of trade beyond the era of barter transactions, the value measurement of products and production capacity, and the catalysts for...

The Democrats’ Collapse The outcome of this election can be described by borrowing a phrase from Taiwanese commentator Kuo Cheng-Liang, as the Democrats “losing so badly it’s embarrassing.” Why did the Democrats suffer such a disastrous defeat? Before the election, mainstream media polls suggested a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Kamala Harris. So why was the defeat so...