On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics :
If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks i...
In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine,...
From a geometrical point of view, what was published in a collection of statistical data from Shanghai in the first year of the People's Republic, can not really be called a population "pyramid". The graph is rather akin to a cylindric accordion. Looking closely at the vertical scale, one will notic...
What can be termed a "statistical procession" took place on May 1st 1955, when workers and technicians from the Second National General Tire Plant 國營第二橡膠總廠 in Qingdao displayed their six-year production of rubber tires from 1949 to 1954. What looks like a linear growth in total production actually c...
