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Q1.Have you ever try blind date?? What’s your most bazaar experience about making friends (or date)???
Q2. Do you trust assumptions you made at first sight? If not, how you judge a person is he/she worth trusting?
Q1. How long does it take to pack your package for travel? Do you have any idea to pack your suitcase way more efficiently?
Q2. What goods are on the list about your travel essentials? Is there anything that you strongly recommend to have it with you for trip?
Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/08/531787586/invisibilia-should-wild-bears-be-feared-or-befriended
This week the podcast and show Invisibilia examines the nature of reality, with a Silicon Valley techie who created apps to randomize his life; a psychologist who trains herself to experience the world like dogs do; and a wildlife biologist who thinks bears aren't dangerous.
When you live in northern Minnesota, wildlife is usually no big deal. A giant bull moose casually strolled through our neighborhood in Duluth a couple summers ago, past screaming and slack-jawed kids at a nearby park. Wolves also have ventured into town, occasionally killing dogs that strayed too far from their owners. Deer are as common as flies, and I only seem to notice them when they jump out in front of my car.
But bears are different. I hadn't seen one in town, while driving or even at the zoo. So in 2012, when Minnesota Public Radio reporter Dan Kraker asked if I wanted to join him as he went out with wildlife biologist Lynn Rogers to find a bear, I jumped at the opportunity.
Dan was going to write a story about Rogers' work putting webcams in bear dens and radio collars on bears. That work is controversial; he argues that it's creating a priceless database on the animals' behavior. Others say that because he feeds bears and touches them, the bears become accustomed to humans and pose a danger to people who aren't accustomed to wild bears approaching them. (In 2014, the state Department of Natural Resources rescinded Rogers' permit to collar bears, citing complaints from local residents.)
'Scammers target lonely people'
SOCIALLY-ISOLATED individuals with negative romantic experiences may be vulnerable to love scams.
Rekindle Therapy counselling psychologist Cathie Wu said love scammers were expert emotional manipulators, who targeted people searching for romance due to loneliness and social isolation.
Have fun right now — or else. When mandatory socialising is a part of your work day, what’s the impact on morale?
When Madison Dreiger joined a Seattle-based surface water engineering firm as a marketing assistant last year, she didn’t realise that egg tosses in the firm’s courtyard, hula-hoop making and even a tutorial on making hair-ties would be part of her job description. But like most meetings, attendance is mandatory.
Forced fun, as the events are referred to in the office, are “strongly encouraged” for all employees of the firm, even though they have nothing to do with actual work — and might not be all that fun for everyone.
A year and a half later, the 23-year-old is still not entirely comfortable breaking away from her deadlines to attend. But Dreiger said the short activities are helping her establish informal bonds with colleagues and higher ups in the office.
“It all feels like we are on the same level when we’re doing something outside of our normal job,” said Dreiger about the events that are held each Thursday during office hours at Osborn Consulting.
There’s a lot of talk these days about how we can make America great again, with politicians, academics and journalists looking for the answers in areas that include increased defense spending, infrastructure investment and job programs. But after spending nearly 50 years consulting on housing at the local, state and national levels, I believe there’s one cornerstone element of a great nation that is being overlooked: decent, affordable housing. Roughly 19 million households in the US earn incomes that are low enough to qualify for housing assistance, but only 24 percent of them receive support because there simply aren’t enough affordable housing units or vouchers.
The US needs to declare a basic right to affordable housing, and then deliver it to the people. This may seem like a dramatic idea. Then again, so was the notion that women be allowed to vote in 1920, or that African-American children be entitled to go to the same schools as white children in 1954, or that people of the same gender be legally permitted to marry in 2014. When America is at its best, when we are truly great, we’ve shown that we are a nation that continues to expand its citizens’ rights and protect their newly-recognized rights.
It’s fiscally smart. Providing permanent housing is, by far, the least expensive way to provide shelter for those who need it, as shown in a nine-city study from the Lewin Group (and research by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Alliance to End Homelessness and other groups). Without it, people end up in overcrowded apartments, homeless shelters, hospitals, institutions for the mentally or physically disabled, jails or on the street. Each of these alternatives costs taxpayers substantially more than paying for permanent places to live. For example, $10,000 in public funding covers 10+ months of permanent affordable housing — but only 6+ months in a shelter or one week in a hospital.
It’s socially responsible. Over the course of 40 years as a commissioner of my local public housing authority in Massachusetts, I’ve learned that people who struggle with housing frequently have little time to do anything else. They’re constantly worrying about how to cover the rent, or where they’ll sleep, or what they can do fight off an impending eviction. I’ve heard hundreds of stories from desperate men and women appealing for “emergency admission” because they had lost their job, or were escaping an abusive relationship, or were asked to leave a family member’s home after doubling up with them for six months. (Read Evicted by sociology professor Matthew Desmond for gut-wrenching stories of housing instability in Milwaukee.) As a result, people without stable housing have little time or energy to contribute to their communities.
It gives children a good start in life. The typical child in a family without permanent housing changes schools three or more times a year, according to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. This means every year they must adjust to three (or more) different teachers, curriculums, school cultures, and groups of classmates. What are the chances that a child will flourish under these circumstances? Some will succeed despite the odds, but most won’t.
History is an assembling of human behavior and consequences, which affects our attitude toward the nation and world profoundly. Students are so naïve that what the textbook and the lecturer says will influence them overwhelmingly, especially the Humanities- subjects that are varied by different viewpoints. From our school time, the Humanities is considered as memory-based subjects, exams are majorly focused on the tedious knowledge. From past to now, the curriculum guideline of history was modified few times as the Parties changed in turns, the curriculum amendment this time seems significant-from “chronological” to “topics”, “knowledge based” to “outlooks based”, “Chinese centered” to “Taiwan centered”.
Please read the following 2 news.
Q1. Share us with a story/an event from human history that you think it affects our world most.
Q2. Is that possible to “teaching” the thoughts without implanting it into students’ mind? What are potential benefits and downsides of this amendment?
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BBC - The reasons you can't be anonymous anymore
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170529-the-reasons-you-can-never-be-anonymous-again
In this article, the author explains that due to the popularity of the Internet and electronic products, it is impossible for modern people to avoid leaving any personal information and being completely anonymous.
While personal privacy is the fundamental right and need for everyone, most people still choose to give up personal privacy for certain reasons, such as preventing terrorism or getting better medical care.
Q1. In western culture, talking about salary is a taboo. However, In Taiwan we love to talk about our salary all the time even with a stranger.Why is that??
Q2. If you are running a company?? Which policy you will choose?? open-salary or keep it as a secret.
[2017-06-14 Lisa] Taiwan's same-sex parents: 'We're like any other family'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40009412
Q1. What is your opinion gay marriage? Does gay marriage destroy marriage? How to define the word “marriage”?
Q2. Do you agree that same-sex parents may adopt kids?
