January 2012
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Drew Barrymore was on Colbert Report to promote her new movie “Big Miracle,” and I cried watching the trailer. I don’t know whether this movie is going to bad or good, I just hope people would do something for the wildlife out there, rather than go to the theater to watch this.
美國人常拐彎抹角地批評，我太需要了！
摘自TBBT
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Amy: For someone who has a machine that can travel anywhere in time and space, Doctor Who sure does have a thing for modern day London.
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“What are you reading?” – Leonard
“Two Weeks to Rock Hard Abs.” – Penny
“They kind of spoil the ending right in the name of that, don’t they?” – Leonard
I haven’t used English for quite a while. Not only does biology diminish my English proficiency, it also deprives my time of improving it. (Waving a fist in a the air.)
Looking for Midwage Jobs in the US
re How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (紐約時報 2012年1月)
Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.
It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so...
re In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old (紐約時報 2012年1月)
SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act
PIPA: Protect I.P. Act
Phone calls and e-mail messages poured in to Congressional offices. One by one, prominent backers of the bills dropped off: Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, Jim DeMint, Mark Kirk ,Roy Blunt, Lee Terry, Ben Quayle, Jeff Merkley, Charles E. Grassley (從沒看過議員們反應民情那麼快)
Walt...
當父親碰上母親－從沙郡年記看大藍海洋 →
Northern Uganda’s displaced people are left to fend for themselves
What are we doing? Really.
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“Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it…. So nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.” — Daniel Kahneman (in an interview with Gallup, Feb. 2005)
最近覺得碰到很多barrier，大部分都是自己設限的
Taking Imaginary Vacation at Home
長灘島 下午四點多
Rebel!
references: Slutwalk, Just Like Lizzie
挑戰周遭的人的觀感及我年輕
Implications of Mass Consumption
“You’re defined by what you have and buy” is the message derived from Lizzie McGuire, which is what Taiwan is like and I of course think it’s pathetic.
I am no longer a materialist but I can’t help contemplate the consequences of a society devoting itself to consumerism. The first thing I thought of, besides environmental implications and population concerns, was...
阿我懶的計算今天有沒讀生物了。我只知道1讀完一章後要倒著讀回去，會有不一樣的收穫 2每天都要讀 3從做筆記當中獲得樂趣! (Visual Culture is a Bitch!) 4讀生物這件事越快結束越好，沒有必要拖那麼久，我還有其他學問要經營耶。
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跟Why Men Love Bitches的招數有像
到處碰壁的社交人生之"這就是我如何變的自我中心"
只會問”你現在讀幾年級?” “什麼時候要畢業?”的大人似乎不受歡迎。
有時候我在他們身上看到自己，我會問同學”你畢業之後要幹麼?”
okok 有些人覺得談私人的事情很鳥，那不然要談政治嗎？社會議題嗎？通常這種話題也是dead end。
我也嘗試問過輕鬆的私人問題，但我都要忍著不翻白眼。
問＂喜歡什麼？和為什麼喜歡？＂
相信我，大部分人的人都沒有想過＂為什麼＂，然後話題就爛掉了
問＂最近你在幹麼？＂大部分人的反應是：喔沒有什麼耶，有時候好運一點，有人知道自己在幹麼，但問＂你覺得怎樣？＂答案不會太多字。
如果你們那麼沒料，那我就只好自己講自己的囉
給自己的advice: 不要太technical
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Give Me a Better Indian Man
看了Media Literacy的Just Like Lizzie。裡面寫到少數族群男生角色和正常系統脫軌:有智慧的老師是代課的，Lanny不會講話。再去看TBBT的時候，我猛然想起Raj在女人面前講不出話。
可是印度男人明明很強阿。
Raj Patel
Muhammad Yunus
剛在Yale Environmental 360看到的Pavan Sukhdev
寒假第七天
Media Literacy:一篇
Biology:無，thinking和talking去就會這樣
分數:55 仍然太晚起床，缺乏時間規劃。
Poems and Art
今天An Introduction to Poetry到手了，發現和Learning to Think by Looking at Art講的有點像:
起初，他們可以提供一點樂趣和一點有無似無的意義，但是不會馬上給你，要找尋意義，你得要自己回頭再讀，慢慢讀，專心地讀，小心地讀。(讀換成看亦可)
而且paraphrasing都是解讀這兩個的招數。
Balancing the Knowing and Thinking?
re The Elusive Big Idea (紐約時報 11年8月)
這篇文章我去年有讀，但我沒存，估計是我看不懂。半年前我不知道Steven Pinker(這人出現在閱讀課的文章)和Richard Dawkins(和Neil deGrasse Tyson同辦一個講座)是誰。If I don’t know things, how can I ever think about it?
作者認為美國走入post-idea時代：想都不用想的時代，因為資訊太多了，光收集都來不及。我認為我還是有在思考的，但是是思考要怎麼解決問題，因為打開紐約時報我就會看到美國是思考是走向實用性：解決氣候變遷，貧富差距等問題。
但作者所謂的思考會產生出智識方面的理論，會讓你從新的方法看世界的理論：媒體及訊息，大爆炸理論（我還有想到全球化課教的Max Weber）
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寒假第六天
作息仍是個問題
要想distraction有哪些: watching old tv series。
biology:進度不錯。
今天新招：把大標題都寫在同一張紙上。粗糙的用webcam照，以茲紀念。以下是分子通過細胞膜的方法。
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life:放棄這本書，這本書的內容沒有很難懂，只是用英文讀速度太慢了。
The Principles of Economics: 讀”失業率”。對我來說，經濟學和社會學各有各的美，只是社會學需要用不同的framing來包裝（譬如media studies? 或The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your...
專家相信低於百分之七十的運動激烈程度是很難達到健美減重的效果；介於百分之七十到八十之間的範圍 (前例，心跳在 133 –152)才是理想的的『適當激烈度範圍』，也就是有作用的運動激烈程度。如果能夠持之以恆以這樣的激烈度運動，絕對會看到豐碩的成果。當然有些時候我們太疲累，以致無法達到適當激烈度的範圍，那也無所謂。但是如果運動度每次都低於百分之六十以下(前例，心跳少於 114)，則效果會打折扣。但是有心臟血管疾病者，要循序漸進，開始不要超過心臟負荷，30~60%都可接受。(via暨大)
One Day, to Hell with You All
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希望有天也可以那麼勇敢。
(如果我現在穿她的洋裝\鞋子\髮型\妝，加上台灣路人會投射的眼光，沒安全感x20倍)
re 10 years of the iPod
“Today there’s a lot of other alternatives to compete for kids’ time.”
寒假第五天
太晚睡，太晚起來。
biology: 技巧—不停問問題和連連結，最後提到concept，不知道是什麼呀，但是稍早在sociology看到。
分數: 65
一直在尋找什麼叫做有效率的讀書法。我一直希望除了讀生物以外，也可以兼顧其他的科學。
有喝奶茶果然讀起來有差。
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The Meaning of Being Together
re The Rise of the New Groupthink
I used sociological concept to analyze the article: one category for social circumstances and and the other for the product of social circumstances. FUN!
如果公司是要培養創意，那學校是要培養什麼？
我從不覺得老師有列入任何清楚目標給學生（除了”有過就好”），並且有效執行。但是有過就好算是哪門子的目標。
不管英文系想培養什麼，把一群學生關在一個教室由老師帶領閱讀，是不會讓學生閱讀進步的。文章中提到：
Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert...
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Renaissance Art：再也不能忍受只介紹藝術的書，我自己有本Monet，我喜歡用維梅爾的帽子那種方式去接觸藝術。
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看藝術學思考裡提到看畫要慢慢看，而且把看的過程以一種即時報導或意識流的方式寫下來，下段提供了一個範例。
EDWARD ROTHSTEIN替’CHARLES ADDAMS’S NEW YORK’展覽寫的review
Who could resist such an invitation? The city street is dark and deserted. The buildings are empty. There are no witnesses. A lone man carrying a briefcase, after a long day at the office perhaps, approaches a subway staircase. Out of the subterranean gloom, a giant...
寒假第三天
biology：讀得東西比昨天多
社會學(中文學):感覺念英文版會比較好，但我不知道我究竟是對社會學感覺沒那麼大，還是我對中文沒感覺。我猜是前者大於後者。因為社會學不像生物充滿陌生名詞；社會學常常提到歧視和不公平，聽過一句話類似這樣，在社會處於劣勢(或曾經處於劣勢)的人會跑去念社會學。社會學並非無用，有些是從態度上，可以改變小事情。社會學也很重social circumstances，要應用到寫作，勢必要先了解有哪些social circumstances。
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life：看了The Culture of Fear，只要用什麼經濟學的詞:浪費資源，我都會反應很大。
Globalization, a basic text:...
Discipline and Details
Both the authors of The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers and The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art emphasize the same thing that you need to do to become who you want to be: self-control and doing little things differently.
You want to be the best swimmer? Treat every minute of practice seriously and don’t eat sugar and...
寒假第二天檢討
Reading Vermeer’s Hat: 總覺得非小說趁非常閒的時候再來看比較好，譬如說電腦壞掉的時候。或者是每天讀一章就好了，今天看很多章，夭壽累。看了作者的A Lecture: Seascapes, Lions and the Dutch Economy ，或許搞懂藝術前搞懂歷史似乎更有幫助阿><
The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving:今天在哥房間發現這本，mind-map進化版??
Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life:看了第二篇。我好喜歡後面附有問題的教科書呦！
Biology:讀完核甘酸。今天讀了那麼多東西，還是覺得生物好玩＼令人平靜。
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It's Not Over
最近懷疑自己到底要不要當科學家，我最近才理解到氣候變遷的解答在城市居民的生活中－他們利用資源的方式和數量。非得告訴他們改變是為了消失的物種和漸乾的含水層－這種訊息對多數人是摸不著頭緒也消化不下去，只要一點花招（所以我下學期修廣告學，是對的？只要不要有啥分組報告）和給予一點便利，他們會欣然接受改變。
當初想當科學家是因為我希望過著每天都可以看到大自然的日子。但是，每天看見大自然，我卻想起他們的命運就掌握在城市居民手中，我是否還能一樣開心？
The week in wildlife - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk
老實說，我每次看到BBC這支宣傳片都會哭，我想答案已經很明顯。
（幹！就這樣？我就這麼輕易地讓自己在生涯規劃上往相反的方向跑？）
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quoted from 人力資源管理經驗分享:從邊際效益談價值
很多人忙忙碌碌的努力的去學習與訓練，甚至花很多時間去參加考試，不過，到頭來卻發現付出跟所得幾乎不成正比，往往內心產生很大的挫折也埋怨命運造化弄人，其實如果能在一開始設定目標之後，願意花點時間去了解這個領域就業市場的生態與需求、供給的狀態，然後再運用「邊際效應」的思維邏輯，來訂出自己培養能力與學習的策略，相信最後的結果可能會比盲目跟從潮流去學習還來的有成效，結果也會比較可能如自己所願的一樣，畢竟所謂的價值程度，還是要由市場機制的需求來做最後的判斷！
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I’ve found a few ways to navigate through the biology textbook more easily on my own.
1. Read summaries and familiarize with nous first.
2. Read the text with question written at the end of the chapter in mind and take note.
3. Read and compare\contrast the notes.
Tumblr and Essays > Facebook
Instead of explaining why I don’t like Facebook (to be more specific, it’s the boring, closed-minded, emotional users that I am not fond of, which are the majority on my friend list), I will tell you when I will use the Facebook: having friends who live their life passionately.
瞄了臉書一眼，看到台北人說南部人沒氣質。他們其實沒錯，南部人不如台北人重視外表重視形象，今天難得晚上出去買吃的，我心碎了（還好有看藝術學思考挽救我的心靈）。
台北人唯一可取的是他們的維持形象的努力，但其實不論誰來自台灣的哪裡，多數人的內在和腦袋都需要改善。
I Hope Internet Disconnect Three Days a Week
My laptop wasn’t able to connect to the internet last night and I was really happy. I know I had a chance to calm down and finally read a book. (這本書我以前看不下去耶，昨天看完第一章，心裡好開心。)
Quoted from 商業周刊 盲目蘋果化 媒體求生恐反陷泥淖：誰說讀者只需要八卦，芭莉絲消失一周無人在呼。
清大彭明輝－台灣的知識份子
為什麼我要關掉電腦。
看到台灣有人這樣，會不禁覺得＂我也可以＂，可是這樣玩一定要有策略。
0 每天問自己問題
1 一天擠幾百個字
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Your Annual Meat Consumption
昨日吃雞排飯想到一件事，如果我每天都吃，一個月不就吃掉很多隻雞？
雖然我不是每天都吃雞排（這樣會吐），我也從不信任雞排的成分（雖然如此，仍照吃，沒辦法，家裡食物太難吃了），但是很可能台灣其他不如我對食物敏感的人每天都這樣吃。
聽了Video Games和看了Black Mirror的預告片，我想放棄花費沒有未來的時間(Facebook, any forms of entertainment: blog posts on pop culture and tv shows)。
如果要放棄視聽娛樂，我就勢必找別的娛樂來彌補。那會是啥呢？
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孟山都被選為2011年度最惡劣公司 →
:陣容強大的19項針對轉基因産品如玉米與大豆的研究，揭示了令人震驚的結果。研究人員發現，食用轉基因玉米或大豆的老鼠的臟器出現損壞，尤其是肝與腎。這尤其令人不安，因為美國市場上93%的大豆為轉基因大豆。孟山都對此視而不見，繼續提高轉基因開發的力度。
想不罵幹都很難（掰掰，豆腐。）Natural Society也提供了Top 7 Supermarket Foods to Avoid ，我要怎麼不得eating disorder?
btw, 感覺我將來可以做一個餵動物吃我們台灣種的食物，看他們會不會死翹翹的實驗。
Noam Chomsky是射手座耶!!
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Creating Jobs > Paying Debts
Keynes Was Right: 這篇文章說華盛頓一直把重點放在還債上，但是spending cut會讓經濟惡化;凱因斯說：經濟好時，才是還錢的時候。現在，挽救失業率最重要。
Paul Krugman常寫讓我恍然大悟的文章，印象總是深刻。
今天準備全球化考題，找到Dealing with Zimbabwe’s debt。文章裡的行動分子和Paul是一樣的論述:
They want resources from minerals to be invested in infrastructure and industry, creating an economy not dependent on mining, with more jobs and greater equality. They oppose the money being squandered on...
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My Eating Disorder, Caused by Uncreativeness
It’s mainly prompted by my mom and my environmental awareness.
There’s the lack of variety in my mom’s recipes, which my mom compensated with quantity; every time I see my mom cook so much for only 4 people, I just want to vomit. My mom’s uninventive cooking also leads to repetitive courses: what we eat for lunch will mostly show up in our dinner again.
今日中餐:秋刀魚? check...
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Problem Solving Attitude: We Can Do It
這幾天為了準備全球化的考題，找了一堆非洲不適合走西方路線的原因：水不夠；人口多的新聞（例Drier, hotter: can Egypt escape its climate future?）這種新聞讀五篇就夠讓人悲觀了，我們還有希望嗎？
可是為了你們(每看必哭的影片)，為了我自己，我要堅強。
還好及時想起The climate change message is not being heard. Here’s how to change tack：少用fear mongering(這簡直就是環保分子的通病阿!)，用以解決問題的方式，去看待氣候變遷。
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Never stick with one strategy.
I’ve encouraged my friends to type in English on Facebook. They did but the grammar and vocabulary are terrible to read. I realized I have done something wrong; I should really urge them to read more first.
Two persons (a classmate from other class and 班導) have told me today: You’ve lost weights. No question mark at the end.
I think I have lost weights in my ass, arms, and boobs, but not the calfs(小腿), which really makes me angry.
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re How Renaissance People Think
I’ve always wanted to be a polymath because I want to change the world (or just the people around me), therefore I have to be reflexible. After reading this, I think I have that potential to be one! I love being rational thinker and a experiential thinker. Though I certainly have to do more.
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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re 好人的殘酷現實- 『不』為她著想的男人更吸引人!?
我好喜歡這個咧，看到＂吸引人＂我腦袋立刻出現電燈泡，這才好玩是不？
我堅信吸引力是先從自我肯定開始。現在阿，我只能相信我的個性有吸引力，至於目前尚缺乏的女人味: 要妝,要頭髮, 皮膚要好。
到是很高興聽到版主說只有懶女人，沒有醜女人。
A Bubblehead Architect
re London’s Shard: a ‘tower of power and riches’ looking down on poverty
我喜歡Shard，只是這一棟那麼高的建築物不應該蓋在一個”a borough that is still authentic old Victorian London.”
“There should be something in this building that the community uses on a daily basis instead of just walking around it. There should be something like a library in it … one of the frustrations I had as...
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Creativity should be fun. Seriously.
Conan O’Brien’s Guide To Creativity | Fast Company:
I used to be very intense at rehearsals. I just found it wasn’t helping. So I’ve tried to learn and say let’s keep it light. Let’s also not overcook things. Let’s try and get things into rough shape. One of the qualities people like about what we’re doing is that it can feel very loose....