14-10-08 Charlie Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. He flew 74 consecutive successful combat missions. However on his 75th mission, his F4Phantom fighter was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile and he was forced to eject. The only thing between him...

14-08-28 苏轼《水调歌头》 明月几时有？把酒问青天。不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？我欲乘风归去，又恐琼楼玉宇，高处不胜寒。起舞弄清影，何似在人间。 转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。不应有恨，何事长向别时圆？人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。 许...

14-08-08 Cosmology Christopher Buckley Most days I find myself considering the encrypted clouds, though, while everything is blue through the boughs of heaven, I know the stars will hardly spell out our names in specks across the enormity（巨大，暴行） of ni...

14-03-20 Web shy refers to unwillingness to expose one's thoughts, feelings or identity on the web, knowing that doing so means freaknobs from Baton Rouge to Bangladesh will know everything about you. 网络羞涩指的是不愿在网上透露个人的想法、感受或身份，知道...

14-02-14 The sky and the earth were at first one blurred entity like an egg. Pangu was born into it. The separation of the sky and the earth took eighteen thousand years-the yang which was light and pure rose to become the sky, and the yin which was heavy an...

14-02-13 Let Goldfinches Fly Out of Yellow Meredith Stricker wild mustard let the sun rotate as though seeming to circle the earth let rain fall into storm culverts（暗沟） and the blue dragonfly swerve（转弯，背离） out of blue sky begin to count the beats...

13-12-19 Fire Sermon Robert Gray The lissome（柔软的） bay is silvered slightly, in its supine lightness; a stocking-textured water takes the morning's cerise（樱桃色） . But soon, between the headlands, sea and sky are solid blues that have closed, almost s...

13-12-19 In Bloom, Where the Meadow Rises Nathaniel Perry Do you remember when the sky burned down its wick of light as an April cold came on the evening of your fifth day in the world? Of course you don't, you couldn't even hold your head up yet, much less...

13-06-08 In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . At the creation of the world, the light at night had...

12-12-29 Looking up at the stars, I know quite well 仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚， That, for all they care, I can go to hell, 尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可能赴地府， But on earth indifference is the least 可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧 We have to dread from man or be...