李烁, English name Duestin, who commonly seen with nickname FeelingFly.
He is currently an graduate student in philosophy in Shandong University. He studied biology in his undergraduate years.

I have meet him few years ago when I'm still in China. Talking with him proves to be very interesting part of my life because I could say(scientific) things that turn most people away but he can still listen and offer constructive responses. For example I talk to him about the idea--mass production of meat products though use of cancer cells, which most people showed an disgusted response and changed the topic.
He is the reason I can think of many good ideas.
Idea 1:
Speaking of cancer cells.
Cancer cells can grow at a really fast pace compare to other cells. If we get a huge booth and put in one cancer cell and allow it to divide uncontrollably, it will soon consume all the nutrition and gain a huge mass. Which is in fact great for food consider it taste the same as normal meat, have the same nutrition as the normal meat.

Idea 2:
Cancer humans!
A human composed of only cancer cells, so the human would not die.
With implementation of nanobots, when ever there is too much cells, the nanobots kills some, preventing the person from becoming a huge blob of meat.

Idea 3:
I think people already had this.
Cancer weapon, something(virus?) that turns on the cancerous gene in every single human, can be used as a massive genocide weapon that goes undetected for years.

Questions:
Can human transform into something else and transform back?
How much information need to be known about a person, so it's possible to reconstruct an identical human?
How much information are required if we don't require 100% accuracy?
Are there lossless compression that compress a state of human and stores them and then can unzip them back?

Talking with FeelingFly really provoke my thoughts.
Love philosophy major.
Thank you for dealing with my crap for years while even my parents chose not to.
Do I sound high? I'm not.

Ok, the title is just like news headlines, to get you start reading. There isn't much about breasts.
Open Source Boob Project was an project started in April 2008. At first I saw the title of the project and the description I laughed, thinking about how these days people come up with such weird ideas. But then when I read this part.

This should be a better world, A more honest one, where sex isn't shameful or degrading. I wish this was the kind of world where say, "Wow, I'd like to touch your breasts," and people would understand that it's not a way of reducing you to a set of nipples and ignoring the rest of you, but rather a way of saying that I may not yet know your mind, but your body is beautiful.

I'm not here to say is it right or wrong. But the underlying idea is what's important.
no, not "the i'd like to touch your breast" but the world should be an honest place.
The real title for this article is: Honesty.

I can't think of anyone in this world who had never lied before. I admit, I also lie. Small lies but yet, still lies. I evaluate myself as somewhere in the 90th percentile on the honest scale.(humm... how do you know this is not an lie...?) I don't cheat on tests, tell someone about "your hair looks nice" if her hair doesn't, say something I believe it's not true1.
But there are always a few exceptions.
I remember the time I have write an letter to my aunt with things I would never say, but has created a win win situation for everyone.
For one dollar(Australian dollar), I called someone things I did not mean. Hurting a person but earn something for myself and the person who paid me.
These happened when I was young, I haven't lied by destroy someone else's benefit for a few years.
I cross the street when the lights clearly tell me not to, but there is no cars around.
I see people cheat and I don't tell because it will create problems between me and those people.
In these cases I chose to be dishonest and never create loss loss situation. and I always win.
If I'm gaining benefits, then why is wrong to be dishonest?
The word benefit are used in the material and social sense. Dishonest doesn't benefit the moral mind and can create guilt, that are not considered in the discussion. Even if it is, when tell lies become a habit, the guilt will die out too.

The question:
Is it beneficial for a individual person to be always honest?
For my entire life, no school in the world doesn't teach the importance of honesty. My study in the world shows there is no universal moral principle but honesty is pretty close.
Then why am I losing benefits when I'm honest?
For one example, I canceled a plane ticket, no refunds. It is not hard to fake a headache and receive a note from the doctor and get full refunds. As my parents strongly encourage me to do it, only to know I refuse even if it means I will lose $1000.
My view is that I am not losing the $1000. In the beginning, the money was never mine. I knew there is no refund and I still brought the ticket. I have the full consent and the company did not deceive me. Why should I deceive the company for my own benefit?
As my parent says, "because you can". I should make w/e choice giving me the most social and material benefit. Clearly, socially nobody would know and I'm still in my good standing and materially, it's good sum of money.
Then I ask, if I can deceive my parents to get material benefit for me, should I do it?
My parents clearly object the idea and tell me they should not be deceived.
How paradoxical. One can deceive anyone else but strongly offended when other deceive him. Or is it how the world suppose to be?

People who cheat on tests have higher test grade than I do, then why don't I do it? There are a small chance of get caught. But is it really the risk that prevent most people not to cheat, or is because of their values on honesty? If from now on, cheating can NEVER be caught, would anyone who never cheat start to cheat?

People who copy homework have higher average grade than I do, then why don't I do it?
The risk is much less and almost effortless. I do sometime copy homework but I will make sure I don't get higher grades by not hand in the homework I finished in the future. I copy homework discretely so I don't have to seem like a person who really, never does his homework. I benefited myself but not endanger anyone, I hope.

A tan(x)...
I remember once in AP bio, my grade was wrong, I got a half homework grade, so I told the teacher and get that grade deducted. I remember the dialogue.

Me: why is there a 2.5 points here?
T: Well you get half homework grade when you hand in the homework 1 day late.
Me: But I never hand in homework.
T: oh, that's right, let me change it.

tan(x) ends here.

If you want to be 100% honest, prepare to pay. A lot.

My mom teaches me to cheat. "Always do w/e most beneficial, cheat if must." I'm still above her influence, but I understand she believe honesty are just something created by the management(government, HR and stuff) to control the people under them.
Chinese government is functioned as an great deceiver. Propaganda is everywhere and still demands citizens to be honest, because when citizen is honest, the dishonest people gets everything the honest people loses.

I declare it is really not beneficial materially or socially to be an very honest person.

The comic created by onebean.
Why be honest?
When everyone in the world is very honest, it is most beneficial assumes that everyone want the world to be fair and square and happy about having things only if he deserves it.
The honesty is the same as Prisoner's dilemma, if everyone make the choice best for themselves, it screws everyone up. If everyone make the decision to be honest, the Nash's equilibrium will be achieved.
A company hire illegal immigrants have benefits, but it will ruin everyone else. In the whole US perspective, it's doing more harm to US than helping it.
Will I still be honest? You bet.
Will there be time I'm not going to be honest? Yes. When the seduction of materials are strong enough. $1,000,000 isn't going to cut it.
Will I ask people "Can I touch your breast?" Yes but not to strangers. Not because I'm not honest, it's about respect. Honesty doesn't mean I have to say everything in my mind.
What's in my mind now? Math.

1. 1. Global warming exist but not created by humans

Hegel disagree that the work of many Chinese thinkers(like Confucius) are philosophical work. But I will call it philosophy, by the definition of teachings on the way to live life and see the world.
How to learn Chinese philosophy? Since Western culture and values are different from Eastern ones, reading long texts can take some amount of time. It's much better if there are visual aids.

I came to know about philosophy at a young age(eight?), when I first get a hold of two comic books by Tsai Chih Chung.
These books are not like the comic with superheros, but the essences of philosophy expressed with intuitive images.

The two book I had found from my dad's book shelf:
One is about the man Zhuangzi and his philosophy.
Another is about Zen, with Kōans[All the ones in Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is also in that book].

I was fascinated, mostly with pictures, but I can't understand the deep meanings of the work.

I remembered the books while reading something about the dream argument

Can't wait to see them again and dig the insights.

Data From Salary.com

Y axis is amount of money in dollars
X axis is the percentile, only plot 3 points, 25th, 75th and 90th.
A line with the lowest starting point in each color means Instructor of [Insert Major].
2nd lowest is Assistant professor of [Insert Major].
3rd lowest is Associate professor of [Insert Major].
then it's Professor of [Insert Major].
Last one is Dean of [Insert Major].

From what I can see, clearly, the safe major to chose is computer science. Pay is good even for a CS instructor(around the same pay as a associate professor in philosophy, damn!

Philosophy is the most unsafe. Unless one can become a professor and manage to get into the very top, it's better to select the other 2.

Math is good. Money increase is steady compare to title.
Math professors can earn more than dean of mathematics.

Dean of medicine totally owns everyone else in colleges. The 25th percentile is already outside this graph.(almost 300K)