Showing posts with label NYBG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYBG. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2018

NYBG: Peony time!

It is that wonderful time of the year to enjoy peonies as they lasted just a very short time!






 All photos ©2018 Am Ang Zhang

Book I recently read: 

Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby


Hello Summer: BBG4.


Photography: Best lens for portrait & landscape!



A unique picture book consisting of 20 beautiful 9 x7 in. full bleed photos by the author of: corals, turtles, anhinga, blue tang, file fish, butterfly fish, cleaner shrimp, pompano, barracuda, flounder, star fish, and sting ray. A first of the kind tale of aquatic creatures in child-speak. A good introduction of nature to a young child, especially good as a follow-up to a visit to the aquarium; plus two pages of detailed companion




A coffee table quality photobook for a special child, introducing wild life in Africa. Photos of the animals (impala, nyala, kudu, wildebeest, warthog, gruffalo, zebra, rhinoceros, waterbuck, hippopotamus, giraffe, buffalo, elephant, saddlebilled stock) were taken by the author himself during safari trips in Africa.






Friday, April 1, 2016

NYBG: Orchids Show!











New York Botanic Garden©2016 Am Ang Zhang 


Orchid Show: Youtube.

Book I am reading:


THE CANON is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. And it's for every parent who has ever panicked when a child asked how the earth was formed or how electricity works. Angier's sparkling prose and memorable metaphors bring the science to life, reigniting our own childhood delight in discovering how the world works. "Of course you should know about science," writes Angier, "for the same reason Dr. Seuss counsels his readers to sing with a Ying or play Ring the Gack: These things are fun and fun is good."

THE CANON is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Along the way, we learn what's actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse reveals evolution at work, and how we're all made of stardust. It's Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas—a book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten.

Saturday, June 14, 2014

NYBG: Green! Green! Green!










All photos ©2014 Am Ang Zhang 


Book I recently read: Superhero for grown ups! 
Flash Boys: Michael Lewis
Over the past week, a host of U.S. authorities have confirmed that they are looking into certain practices used by high-speed traders, whose strategies can involve executing thousands of trades in milliseconds. The FBI, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Justice Department and the attorney-general of New York State all have investigations underway.
For Mr. Katsuyama, the probes are partial vindication. Several years ago, while working for Royal Bank of Canada in New York, he began to suspect something was amiss in the execution of stock trades – namely that high-speed traders were, in effect, getting a tiny sneak peek at his transactions before they could be completed.
RBC “was the perfect place to discover what we discovered,” he said. It was a firm where “choosing to do the right thing was not a hard decision.”
Mr. Katsuyama left RBC in 2012 and launched IEX’s stock trading platform last October. Its objective: creating a market where high-speed traders do not enjoy any advantages over their slower peers. For now, the IEX share of overall trading volume is minuscule, but it is growing; this week, the platform experienced its biggest day on record, with 58 million shares traded.
Sitting in a bare office overlooking the former site of the two World Trade Center towers, Mr. Katsuyama appeared slightly shell-shocked by his transformation into a semi-public figure and by the passionate responses to Flash Boys – both in support and in opposition.