Are you a pretty woman?If you consider yourself as attractive one you should listen to this.This morning I have read the article about Pretty women'anger more easily'.The researcher from the university of California found that the women who consider themselves as a good looking person can get angry easily compare with the other.This research includes 156 female sample group .
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References
Pretty women 'anger more easily' (2010,January,18)BBC NEWS.Retrieve January 19,2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8464990.stm
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
India's business students on job hunt
Indian business students are now preparing themself job hunt after last year that they had to take any jobs available in market. At the moment, __________
References
India's business students on job hunt.(2010, January 18).BBC News. Retrieved January 19. 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8465792.stm
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All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban
This is an interesting campeigh to reduce alcohol's consumption in the UK,"All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban:(2010), is provide good suggestion that we should implement this practice in Thailand. The BBC news reports that " All you can drink" promotion should be baned in order to reduce problem form drinking. The author mentions that alcahol abuse in England kills 40,000 people and lost on economy 55 billion pound a year.
I argue for this idea; however, I don't think this idea is really work. Drinker still consume alcohol from another points of sale.Nevertheless,I support that government should increases sin tax on alcohol because government can get more money from drinker to use in national health service.
References
All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban . BBC News. Retrieved January 19, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8465939.stm
I argue for this idea; however, I don't think this idea is really work. Drinker still consume alcohol from another points of sale.Nevertheless,I support that government should increases sin tax on alcohol because government can get more money from drinker to use in national health service.
References
All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban . BBC News. Retrieved January 19, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8465939.stm
The present from human beings
It strikes me much when I see the article "Malignant malaria found in apes" in BBC News. This article raises the concern for possible new kind of infective virus as well as shows other evidence of how wild lives are disturbed by the invasion of human beings.
The article tells about the new malaria virus found in apes that is actually transmitted from human. Researchers found that this this lethal maralia virus, which used to be found only in human, now are found in gorillas in Cameroon and captive animals in Gibbon. This infection occurs because now people encroach much in forest, which increase the possiblity of contacting virus to the animal. However, the reseachers is still not sure whether the virus is transmitted from human to apes through mosquitoes or it becomes infective among apes. If it becomes the disease that can spread among apes, it could become another threat on their survival in nature.
This fact raises the worry not only that the new kind of disease that is spreading in apes, but also that it could mutate in apes bodies and might come back to human in a more horrible and lethal form like scientists' concern about bird flu or swine flu that might become the contagion disease in human. Moreover, it also shows another example of how human causes problems to wildlife. The encroachment of people on the forest amounts to not only taking away the animals' natural habitats, but also bringing new disease to wildlife.
References
Walton, D. (2010, January 18). Malignant malaria found in apes. BBC News. Retrieved January 19, 2011 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8465554.stm
The article tells about the new malaria virus found in apes that is actually transmitted from human. Researchers found that this this lethal maralia virus, which used to be found only in human, now are found in gorillas in Cameroon and captive animals in Gibbon. This infection occurs because now people encroach much in forest, which increase the possiblity of contacting virus to the animal. However, the reseachers is still not sure whether the virus is transmitted from human to apes through mosquitoes or it becomes infective among apes. If it becomes the disease that can spread among apes, it could become another threat on their survival in nature.
This fact raises the worry not only that the new kind of disease that is spreading in apes, but also that it could mutate in apes bodies and might come back to human in a more horrible and lethal form like scientists' concern about bird flu or swine flu that might become the contagion disease in human. Moreover, it also shows another example of how human causes problems to wildlife. The encroachment of people on the forest amounts to not only taking away the animals' natural habitats, but also bringing new disease to wildlife.
References
Walton, D. (2010, January 18). Malignant malaria found in apes. BBC News. Retrieved January 19, 2011 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8465554.stm
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Human Beings: a topic we all know well
We are all human beings. We have all had years of experience being human beings. We have, further, been observing, interacting with and generally learning about other human beings: family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and so on. I think it's safe to say that we are all very familiar with the topic of human beings.
To narrow the topic a little, I think we have all previously heard, and perhaps repeated ourselves, the idea that all human beings are equal. This equality is common in political and moral discussions - it's a foundation of democratic countries; we use it argue against the injustice of laws allowing slavery and the immorality of laws that treat women as inferior to men; and human equality is a main support for the idea that all human beings have dignity, deserve respect and must be treated in certain ways by governments, legal systems, society, other human beings and ourselves.
But this idea that all human beings is not clear or simple:
Although this topic is one that I am sure is familiar to all of us, I am equally sure that the ideas I've raised in the questions are very complex. I'm sorry for starting off with something so difficult, but it will help our coming discussion to start thinking about these sorts of issues now, so comment!
To narrow the topic a little, I think we have all previously heard, and perhaps repeated ourselves, the idea that all human beings are equal. This equality is common in political and moral discussions - it's a foundation of democratic countries; we use it argue against the injustice of laws allowing slavery and the immorality of laws that treat women as inferior to men; and human equality is a main support for the idea that all human beings have dignity, deserve respect and must be treated in certain ways by governments, legal systems, society, other human beings and ourselves.
But this idea that all human beings is not clear or simple:
- What does it mean to say that human beings are equal?
- In what way are we all equal?
- What do we human beings all have in common that makes us equal?
- Is it even true? Are all human beings really equal in any way that is politically, socially or morally important?
Although this topic is one that I am sure is familiar to all of us, I am equally sure that the ideas I've raised in the questions are very complex. I'm sorry for starting off with something so difficult, but it will help our coming discussion to start thinking about these sorts of issues now, so comment!
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Green tea 'may block lung cancer'
The article "Green tea may block lung cancer" in the Health section of the BBC News really interested me not because I am a tea person but in fact I have heard many times that the green tea is one of the anti-oxidant sources which prevent cancer.
From the article, "Dr. I-Hsin Lin,of Shan Medical University in Taiwan, found that among smokers and non-smokers, people who did not drink green tea were more than five times as likely toget lung cancer than those who drank at least one cup of green tea a day."(¶12) "Among smokers, those did not drink green tea at all were more than 12 times as likely to develop lung cancer than those who drank at least a cup a day." (¶ 13)
The findings might make the smokers feel released of getting less chance to be cancer patients. But Yinka Ebo, a of Cancer Research UK ,remind that the findings should notbe taken as an excuse to keep smoking. The best thing a smoker can do to reduce the risk of lung cancer is to stop smoking.
In my opinion,this findings is very useful as most of the public health policy makers nowadays focus more on prevention campaign rather than treatment function. Any government could save a lots on its annual budget if its people know how to take a good care of themselves either taking a good diet, a regular exercise and a well-balanced mental health. So, they will not easily get sick and depend on the treatment budget.
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References
Green tea may block lung cancer. (2010, January 13). BBC News. Retrieved January 13, 2010 from http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8453628.stm
The article "Green tea may block lung cancer" in the Health section of the BBC News really interested me not because I am a tea person but in fact I have heard many times that the green tea is one of the anti-oxidant sources which prevent cancer.
From the article, "Dr. I-Hsin Lin,of Shan Medical University in Taiwan, found that among smokers and non-smokers, people who did not drink green tea were more than five times as likely toget lung cancer than those who drank at least one cup of green tea a day."(¶12) "Among smokers, those did not drink green tea at all were more than 12 times as likely to develop lung cancer than those who drank at least a cup a day." (¶ 13)
The findings might make the smokers feel released of getting less chance to be cancer patients. But Yinka Ebo, a of Cancer Research UK ,remind that the findings should notbe taken as an excuse to keep smoking. The best thing a smoker can do to reduce the risk of lung cancer is to stop smoking.
In my opinion,this findings is very useful as most of the public health policy makers nowadays focus more on prevention campaign rather than treatment function. Any government could save a lots on its annual budget if its people know how to take a good care of themselves either taking a good diet, a regular exercise and a well-balanced mental health. So, they will not easily get sick and depend on the treatment budget.
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References
Green tea may block lung cancer. (2010, January 13). BBC News. Retrieved January 13, 2010 from http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8453628.stm
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
False positive concern over prostate cancer
a new evidence has been found fromthe BBC News reeport
'False positive' concern over prostate cancer test (2010, January 11).BBC News. Retrieved January 12,2010 fromhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8448147.stm
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Real bones?
The article "Turning wood into bones" from Duncan Kennedy in BBC News attract my interest. When I read it, I don't wonder how can wood become the real bones? Will people use the wood to instead of bones?
In the artice, it's about the way of creating new bones for humans. "Scientists in Italy have developed a way of turning rattan wood into bone that is almost identical to the human tissue." (¶ 2) "Within a few months, the real and the artificial bone will be like one continuous bone." (¶ 20) Mr Marcacci said that the accident with major trauma or cancer of the people can use it, the current range of alternatives may be weak, not with the existing fusion.
I think the new wood bones is a good way to help the disabled or skeletal deformities people to be health again. These kinds of bones is easier than to fit the bones from other people. The bones are make from rattan wood, I think it won't more expensive than real bones, therefore people who have problem with this may try to catch the opportunity to be more available.
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Duncan Kennedy (2010, January 8). "Turning wood into bones". BBC News. Retrieved January 11, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8446637.stm
In the artice, it's about the way of creating new bones for humans. "Scientists in Italy have developed a way of turning rattan wood into bone that is almost identical to the human tissue." (¶ 2) "Within a few months, the real and the artificial bone will be like one continuous bone." (¶ 20) Mr Marcacci said that the accident with major trauma or cancer of the people can use it, the current range of alternatives may be weak, not with the existing fusion.
I think the new wood bones is a good way to help the disabled or skeletal deformities people to be health again. These kinds of bones is easier than to fit the bones from other people. The bones are make from rattan wood, I think it won't more expensive than real bones, therefore people who have problem with this may try to catch the opportunity to be more available.
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References
Duncan Kennedy (2010, January 8). "Turning wood into bones". BBC News. Retrieved January 11, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8446637.stm
Light Triggered Migrained
Harvard Experiments found the reason that light can trigger their migraine-headaches to the blind people. They are also sensitive to light. There are two kinds of blind patients: one group is absoluetly blind and won't be affected by the light. The other group are although classified as legally blind because of their particular eyes diseases "retinitis pigmentosa", they can still detect light, especially in blue or grey wavelengths.
Some suggestion to second group of blind patients who are sensitive to light is that the photophobia stirs their optic nerve because it does not transmit light signal to the patients' brain
when they expose to light. This must trigger their severe headaches.
Health
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(Harvard tests reveal why light can worsen migraines. (2010, January 11). BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8449288.stm
Some suggestion to second group of blind patients who are sensitive to light is that the photophobia stirs their optic nerve because it does not transmit light signal to the patients' brain
when they expose to light. This must trigger their severe headaches.
Health
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(Harvard tests reveal why light can worsen migraines. (2010, January 11). BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8449288.stm
New Rules For Passengers
Is hard to believe what is happening right now in airport security around the world and that is what BBC News report "Can statistics help catch terrorist?" (Ruth Allexander, 2010) is all about. this story show us what the government of England wants to improve to be more aware of who can be a terrorist and this way trying to make every flight safer, nowadays not only suspicious travelers can be call for a stringent checks is going to affect factors such as race and religion. "So although statistics could help catch terrorists, to some degree, they do not make it easy, and they probably will not get you through airport security any quicker."
I am very concerned about this new rules, because innocent people can be affected, and we only are going to remember those days when travel was more than a pleasure, now travel is a problem, and the traveler needs to be preaper for everything from a simple check to even things we do not imagine, and I just wonder how can statistics can detected whether a person is or is not a terrorist.
References
Ruth Alexander(2010,January 11). Can statistics help catch terrorists?.BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8452260.stm
A gender imbalance from wrong tradition
When I read this article, "Chaina faces growing gender imbalance", I can think about my country, Korea. easily because of similarity. The article reported that "more than 24 million chinese men of marring age could find themselves without spouses by 2020. The reason of this is the favour of male kid, a traditional concept. Chinese can have only one child according to thier law, so many parents prefer having a boy than a girl.
Many Koreans have similar thought as chinese'. Nowadays, although lots of things are changed, koreans still keep their preference of male kids. In reality, many males in marring age can't get thier spouses. Some have to visit other country lto get their bride, but in Korea, there are many social problem which are contributed to this; cultural conflict and misunderstanding between spouses, domestic violence, divorce, etc. Because they don't have time to take a good careful look each other. This gender imbalance will be kept, if the preference of boys are not abandoned.
References
China faces growing gender imbalance (2010, January, 11th), BBC News. retrieved January 12th, 2010 from Januaryhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8451289.stm
Many Koreans have similar thought as chinese'. Nowadays, although lots of things are changed, koreans still keep their preference of male kids. In reality, many males in marring age can't get thier spouses. Some have to visit other country lto get their bride, but in Korea, there are many social problem which are contributed to this; cultural conflict and misunderstanding between spouses, domestic violence, divorce, etc. Because they don't have time to take a good careful look each other. This gender imbalance will be kept, if the preference of boys are not abandoned.
References
China faces growing gender imbalance (2010, January, 11th), BBC News. retrieved January 12th, 2010 from Januaryhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8451289.stm
The Gay right
I have read the interesting Article that posted on BBC "NewsObama: Letting down gay supporters?" BBC Rajesh Mirchandani reported about Should Obama take action about Gay right.This report told us about how people,especially Gay react when they found that his President didn't do anything to support them.Many people seem disapointed in what they hear from the News.The president Obama more consider in Afgannistan War than the issue in his country.Recenly Losangelis was band the Gay marriage.
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Good World News
The article " UK 'close to leaving recession' " in the Business section of the BBC News catch my attention because it confirms that the world economic downturn reach the peak and start to get recovering.
The news report that the UK economy show many good signs of recovering. After the country faced with the recession starting from the beginning of the last year, at present the economist evaluate that the UK economy is going to get recovering in the near future. It can be seen from many important statistic figure for example, the increasing of export's figure in manufacturing sector and the reduction of unemployment figure. The article also gives information that France and Germany have just escaped from the recession. (Ï€12)
I delight to hear that many countries successionally start to get recovery from the crisis. Remembering that in the past few years, we continued heard about the bad news such as the company collapsing, the jobless workers.
Also in Thailand, in globalization, Thailand cannot escape from this situation, we also have got the impact indirectly. However, we can handle with them because Thais got some lessons from the 1997 Asian financial crisis that the cause is from Thailand and spread to Asian region and contagion to the world. However, some optimist still doubt that the recession is reach the bottom or not. However, it is a good news for many people who suffer from the crisis because it help to create confidence for getting better life in the near future.
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UK 'close to leaving recession'.
BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8453136.stm
The news report that the UK economy show many good signs of recovering. After the country faced with the recession starting from the beginning of the last year, at present the economist evaluate that the UK economy is going to get recovering in the near future. It can be seen from many important statistic figure for example, the increasing of export's figure in manufacturing sector and the reduction of unemployment figure. The article also gives information that France and Germany have just escaped from the recession. (Ï€12)
I delight to hear that many countries successionally start to get recovery from the crisis. Remembering that in the past few years, we continued heard about the bad news such as the company collapsing, the jobless workers.
Also in Thailand, in globalization, Thailand cannot escape from this situation, we also have got the impact indirectly. However, we can handle with them because Thais got some lessons from the 1997 Asian financial crisis that the cause is from Thailand and spread to Asian region and contagion to the world. However, some optimist still doubt that the recession is reach the bottom or not. However, it is a good news for many people who suffer from the crisis because it help to create confidence for getting better life in the near future.
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References
UK 'close to leaving recession'.
BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8453136.stm
It's a Miracle!
An amazing story is in the BBC News report "Australian woman tells how 19th century nun 'cured cancer' " (Bryant, 2010). Nick Bryant's report is very short, and is mainly a video reporting on the experience of an Australian woman who believes that her cancer was cured by a miracle. The Vatican, under Pope Benedict XVI, has approved this miracle, so that Mary McKillop can now be made an official saint of the Catholic Church.
What seems to me most amazing about this story is the Pope's definition of miracle. According to the Pope, a miracle is something for which there is no scientific or rational definition. Now, this is a perfectly acceptable definition, but what it actually means is "we have absolutely no sensible explanation for what happened". In other words, the Vatican accepts as prove of a divine intervention anything about which they are perfectly ignorant. Perfect ignorance does not seem to me to be solid support for anything. If we don't know, the morally honest and correct thing is to admit that we do not know. Calling it a miracle and pretending that that is evidence of something does not seem honest to me.
What seems to me most amazing about this story is the Pope's definition of miracle. According to the Pope, a miracle is something for which there is no scientific or rational definition. Now, this is a perfectly acceptable definition, but what it actually means is "we have absolutely no sensible explanation for what happened". In other words, the Vatican accepts as prove of a divine intervention anything about which they are perfectly ignorant. Perfect ignorance does not seem to me to be solid support for anything. If we don't know, the morally honest and correct thing is to admit that we do not know. Calling it a miracle and pretending that that is evidence of something does not seem honest to me.
I should add, I am very happy for the woman, Kathleen Evans, that she was cured of her cancer; however, as Kathleen herself clearly says, twice, in her comments in the video, "there is no explanation," which to me means that there is no explanation, not that a saintly intervention is known to be the correct explanation.
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Bryant, N. (2010, January 11). Australian woman tells how 19th century nun 'cured cancer'. BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8452403.stm
It is a matter of shape
An intriguing article derives from BBC News "Having a big bum, hips and thighs 'is healthy" . A snippet of new idea shows that it is a sound piece of advice for people's health to gain weight on hips, bum and thighs. A researcher Dr Konstantinos Manolopoulos, of Oxford University asserted "It is shape that matters and where the fat gathers. Moreover, people can have fat around their hips and thighs but around their abdomen. This can help prevent them from obesity and any kind of circulatory diseases.
In my opinion, this is very interesting discovery even it needs further research which may help people find a new approach to tackle health problem in people's lifestyles.
In my opinion, this is very interesting discovery even it needs further research which may help people find a new approach to tackle health problem in people's lifestyles.
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Having a big bum, hips and thighs 'is healthy.(2010, January 12). BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-slave.html
The posponed of Airbus A440M
An update of Airbus A440M's project in the BBC News report"Airbus chief 'may cancel A400M".
BBC news reports that Airbus may cancel A400M military transport plane. This is dued to it's heavy weight and engine problem which cause project cost widen 25% from initial budget. Furthermore, a fixed price strategy is hurt a company. Therefore,Airbus' parent company EADS will make a decision whether company should continue A400M project or not.
What make me interesting about this story is the conflict of interest between shareholder of Airbus. On one hand,UK and France want Airbus to built A400M as soon as possible.On the otherhand,Germany want to extend the project to save cost.This will be a pressure on Airbus's decision. Furthermore,a cut throat competition in military aircraft industry by rivals make this decision more difficult. In my opinion, Airbus should go on this project because cancellation of the project may hurt Airbus's reputation. Moreover,the company may cope with financial difficulty if it decide to divest this project because a large accumulated project cost is written-off.
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Airbus chief 'may cancel A400M' . BBC News. Retrived January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8452493.stm
BBC news reports that Airbus may cancel A400M military transport plane. This is dued to it's heavy weight and engine problem which cause project cost widen 25% from initial budget. Furthermore, a fixed price strategy is hurt a company. Therefore,Airbus' parent company EADS will make a decision whether company should continue A400M project or not.
What make me interesting about this story is the conflict of interest between shareholder of Airbus. On one hand,UK and France want Airbus to built A400M as soon as possible.On the otherhand,Germany want to extend the project to save cost.This will be a pressure on Airbus's decision. Furthermore,a cut throat competition in military aircraft industry by rivals make this decision more difficult. In my opinion, Airbus should go on this project because cancellation of the project may hurt Airbus's reputation. Moreover,the company may cope with financial difficulty if it decide to divest this project because a large accumulated project cost is written-off.
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Airbus chief 'may cancel A400M' . BBC News. Retrived January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8452493.stm
Is the E-book era here?
I came across an article in the magazine section of BBC news earlier this morning. It's named Page-turning passion. Since I consider myself as a bookworm, this article caught my attention immediately.
According to the writer, this year, which has just begun, is being convinced to be a year of electric book which makes her thinks about the importance of a book to its owner, is the new innovation going to change it or not? She starts to examine the history of books, in the past, books are manuscripts and that makes a book very expensive, as though it is an art work. Then she starts to analyze two typical habits of book readers which are annotating in books, every space plausible, and sharing books, which are annotated, with acquaintances, and she believes that electric books couldn’t provide readers such the opportunities, which are active and social activities. Therefore, the writer states that “all of which should give us pause for thought as e-enthusiasts proclaim 2010 to be the year of the electronic book.” (Unpredictable, ¶ 1) She agrees that we can make use of e-book but it can not replace the physical one.
For me, I disagree with the writer’s reasons because I don’t write anything in my books, except for text books, and I don’t share my books with others, I used to but I stopped since my expensive books were totally ruined (and also the relationship between the borrowers and me). However, I don't believe that e-books could actually replace books, too. I just love the smell of fresh new books and also libraries and book stores, can an e-book do that? E-book also can not provide me the exciting feeling of turning pages of a book in the late of the night with only a lamp on, I don't want to push on the touch screen and wait for the page to be loaded, it just doesn’t seem right. Surely, e-book would be handy, it would be very beneficial when we have to travel for a long period of time, and also readers can have chances to read rare books which are very few and hard to find, but no, it will not stop people from buying books, just like MP3 can not stop people from buying CDs. Nevertheless, I think I will buy a good e-reader when it’s launched out and I also believe that book circulations will certainly be dropped when e-book becomes a house hold name.
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References
Jardine, L. (2010, January 8). Page-turning passion. BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8447996.stm
According to the writer, this year, which has just begun, is being convinced to be a year of electric book which makes her thinks about the importance of a book to its owner, is the new innovation going to change it or not? She starts to examine the history of books, in the past, books are manuscripts and that makes a book very expensive, as though it is an art work. Then she starts to analyze two typical habits of book readers which are annotating in books, every space plausible, and sharing books, which are annotated, with acquaintances, and she believes that electric books couldn’t provide readers such the opportunities, which are active and social activities. Therefore, the writer states that “all of which should give us pause for thought as e-enthusiasts proclaim 2010 to be the year of the electronic book.” (Unpredictable, ¶ 1) She agrees that we can make use of e-book but it can not replace the physical one.
For me, I disagree with the writer’s reasons because I don’t write anything in my books, except for text books, and I don’t share my books with others, I used to but I stopped since my expensive books were totally ruined (and also the relationship between the borrowers and me). However, I don't believe that e-books could actually replace books, too. I just love the smell of fresh new books and also libraries and book stores, can an e-book do that? E-book also can not provide me the exciting feeling of turning pages of a book in the late of the night with only a lamp on, I don't want to push on the touch screen and wait for the page to be loaded, it just doesn’t seem right. Surely, e-book would be handy, it would be very beneficial when we have to travel for a long period of time, and also readers can have chances to read rare books which are very few and hard to find, but no, it will not stop people from buying books, just like MP3 can not stop people from buying CDs. Nevertheless, I think I will buy a good e-reader when it’s launched out and I also believe that book circulations will certainly be dropped when e-book becomes a house hold name.
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Jardine, L. (2010, January 8). Page-turning passion. BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8447996.stm
Bacteria spreads because of patients
The article "MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals'" in the BBC News is interesting because hospitals should be clean places, but why the bacteria can spread between them.
According to the article, the bacteria spreads to other hospitals because patients who infect the bacteria from surgery in some hospitals move to other hospitals to cure, so the bacteria can be moved from a hospital to another hospital.
The article makes me have a question because the article don't give the backgound of the bacteria. I don't know how to infect it. Maybe breathe or get infective blood. My question is why patients are the most important carriers. Why not be hospital's staff? I think the staffs have more chance to infect it because they touch the equipment and patient's blood, and they also spend their time in the hospital more than patient do.
I think the article is interesting because if the research is real, it means that patients who are cured by surgery can easily infect the bacteria. I think the article affects to every hospital because many people will not take this risk and it makes everyone scare to go to hospital.
According to the article, the bacteria spreads to other hospitals because patients who infect the bacteria from surgery in some hospitals move to other hospitals to cure, so the bacteria can be moved from a hospital to another hospital.
The article makes me have a question because the article don't give the backgound of the bacteria. I don't know how to infect it. Maybe breathe or get infective blood. My question is why patients are the most important carriers. Why not be hospital's staff? I think the staffs have more chance to infect it because they touch the equipment and patient's blood, and they also spend their time in the hospital more than patient do.
I think the article is interesting because if the research is real, it means that patients who are cured by surgery can easily infect the bacteria. I think the article affects to every hospital because many people will not take this risk and it makes everyone scare to go to hospital.
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References
MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals'. (2010, January 12). BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8445777.stm
New genre of computer
I feel amazing with the new research describing in the article "Chemical computer that mimics neurons to be created. " in BBC News. I usually feel excited about the breakthrough technology that can change the world and this is a very promising one.
The article describe about the research which is the collaboration among scientists form many country to create a computation unit that is made of biological components. Unlike ordinary computing unit used among computers nowadays which is based on inorganic material such as galium or silicon, this molecular computation unit can be applied directly into human body without the need to create interfacing unit between machine and human body. The project collaborator Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton foresee that after realizing the technology, we can find its biological application such as "controlling molecular robots, fine-grained control of chemical assembly, and intelligent drugs."( paragraph 8)
I think such a breakthrough technology can create a great impact on the whole human's lives. In future, based on this technology we might be able to find the new way to cure currently untreatable disease such as cancer or AIDS. Although, during the research period such project consumes resources so heavily that many people cannot tolerate such a project, in the future it could bring about plenty of unexpected benefits to the world.
The article describe about the research which is the collaboration among scientists form many country to create a computation unit that is made of biological components. Unlike ordinary computing unit used among computers nowadays which is based on inorganic material such as galium or silicon, this molecular computation unit can be applied directly into human body without the need to create interfacing unit between machine and human body. The project collaborator Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton foresee that after realizing the technology, we can find its biological application such as "controlling molecular robots, fine-grained control of chemical assembly, and intelligent drugs."( paragraph 8)
I think such a breakthrough technology can create a great impact on the whole human's lives. In future, based on this technology we might be able to find the new way to cure currently untreatable disease such as cancer or AIDS. Although, during the research period such project consumes resources so heavily that many people cannot tolerate such a project, in the future it could bring about plenty of unexpected benefits to the world.
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References
Palmer, J. (2010, January 11). Chemical computer that mimics neurons to be created. BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2011 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8452196.stm
Monday, 11 January 2010
What is a slave?
The article "Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves" in the Science and Environment section of the BBC News caught my eye because it seems so wrong. Actually, it reminded of an article that appears in Quest 2 Reading and Writing which also suggests that the lives of the pyramid builders were not as bad as they are commonly believed to be (Hartmann, 2007).
The article reports on recent findings of workers tombs led by archaeologist Zahi Hawass, who says that the location near royal tombs "indicates these people were not by any means slaves" (¶ 5). Other evidence is that the workers were well fed, being provided with both beef and lamb on a daily basis. Hawass argues that the farmers who provided the animals for the workers' food were acting freely to contribute to a great national project, not paying royal taxes used to feed slaves.
I'm not sure how much I agree with Hawass. Perhaps the workers were not technically slaves, but I find if hard to imagine why so many would willingly give up so much of their lives unless there was some force being used, even if only social force. Unfortunately, the article is very short, and does not give more details about why the workers might have been devoting so much of their lives to such projects. I'm also not clear why Hawass thinks that the cattle and sheep provided were not taxes. If they really were being provided freely, what evidence is there for that? There doesn't seem to be any evidence provided in the article that would support this conclusion.
I think the idea is interesting, and it certainly seems that at least some of the workers were not slaves, but I think we need a lot more detail before we conclude that they were really free. In Mediaeval Europe, the peasants were not slaves either, but neither were they free. They were required to work their lord's lands and provide service as ordered. Although they might not have been slaves, they were not obviously much better off, certainly not very free.
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References
Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves. (2010, January 11). BBC News. Retrieved January 11, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8451538.stm
Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing. new York: McGraw-Hill.
Welcome to AEP Reading and Writing 6.
Welcome to term 1 of 2010, and to the level 6 AEP Reading and Writing class.
If you have already had a look through Quest 3 reading and Writing [Quest], you will have noticed that every chapter includes two types of writing exercise: a response writing activity and an academic writing assignment. For example, in chapter 5, "The Nature of Poetry", the response writing is exercise F. on page 183, and the academic writing is Part 5, on pages 188 to 192 (Hartmann & Blass, 2007). Hartmann and Blass think that both sorts of writing are important; since I agree with them, we will be doing both on a regular basis. In fact, we will aim to do both a little more often than the one of each per chapter that Quest asks for.
The academic writing exercises are fairly straight forward, and we will do the preparation necessary for those as we come to them. This blog is where we will do the less formal response writings. In case you are new to blogging, don't worry. Once you've joined our class blog and written your first post, it will be easy. The instructions that Hartmann and Blass provide in exercise F. on page 183 give a fairly clear idea of what response writing is all about, as well as how to do it, including how not to do it, although we might change that a little for some of our response writings.
Just as we will be writing more than is included in the chapters of Quest, so too will we be reading outside of Quest. And having read something, we want to share our ideas about it, so that will also be a source of topics to write about, both here and in academic writing assignments.
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References
Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
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