http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools.html

Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools

Hi, all.

The link is a talk " How state budgets are breaking US schools"given by Bill Gates.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article7144478.ece

What it feels like... to have a househusband

He may be good at making rockets and mowing the lawn, but can a stay-at-home dad ever be relied on to do the cleaning properly?

[2011.2.23 Mei]

This week I want to share a book with you guys - Who moved my cheese?

It was published maybe ten years ago but I think it's a classic one which affect me very much and I

believed that maybe some of you already read it before! If not, that's all right, you don't need to read

it now, what I want to do is sharing the main ideas of the book and we may discuss them by a few

source: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2041714,00.html#ixzz1AlKj88u2

By Meredith Melnick

Digital communication is so pervasive that most of us don't even bother to question its role in society. That's not the case with Sherry Turkle, who has tracked the way we interact with computers and artificial intelligence since the 1970s. Founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Turkle has written a new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, that asks a simple question: Do digital methods of communication connect us the way interaction in the real world does? In late December, Turkle sat with TIME to discuss robot puppies, teen texting and what "full attention" means in an age of smart phones.

Alone Together concludes a trilogy of books that started with your exploration of the very first computer programs. Now, 26 years later, we have this giant soup of communication methods. How has that changed our relationship to technology?
It took a while for things to evolve to show [just] where we were vulnerable. This changed dramatically with mobile communication. Who would have known that a little red light on the BlackBerry — that doesn't even say who a message is from, but simply that you have a message — would drive people crazy? So [crazy] that if their baby is in the car next to them, and they know they can't text and drive, they will [still fiddle] with the steering wheel at 65 miles an hour in order to know who sent that message. (See TIME's special on gadgets: then and now.)

source:http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/big-idea/gaudi-text/1

When the pope said Mass there this fall, the Sagrada Família was already 128 years in the making—and still not finished. Yet the church’s nature-inspired design remains ahead of its time.

By Jeremy Berlin

Photograph by Pere Vivas, Triangle Postals

Hey guys, 

no article here. 

But I'll prepare a board game for you.

Cheers to the Christmas!!

Interview: Tilda Swinton

Published Date: 04 August 2009

Quated from: http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Interview--Tilda-Swinton.5519407.jp

Youths want Obama to stick to his vision

source:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/12/heffner.obama.vision/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29

Refernce:http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/health_culture/behaviour.shtml

You don't have to be a psychologist to notice the effects that high temperatures have on people. Weather can affect our behaviour in many different ways.

Weather and animal behaviour

The behaviour of animals is often closely linked to the approaching weather. It is suggested that bees stay close to their hives when a summer rainstorm is on the way, while birds fly close to the ground, increase their foraging or even gather to roost before the bad weather sets in. During good weather, birds fly higher in the sky, while even spiders are supposed to be more active.

So how does the weather affect our behaviour?

The modern architectural elements of the Libeskind building comprise the zinc façade, the Garden of Exile, the three Axes of the German-Jewish experience, and the Voids. Together these pieces form a visual and spatial language rich with history and symbolism. They not only house the museum with its exhibits, but they also provide visitors with their own unique experience as they walk through the spaces.

http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/01-Architecture/01-libeskind-Building.php

Here're five brief introductions about different spaces of Berlin Jewish Museum.

Please read and think about the following questions.

source:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/arts/design/22heroes.html?_r=1&ref=design

By KAREN ROSENBERG

Published: October 21, 2010

The ancient Greeks did not require perfection of their heroes, only greatness. They would certainly recognize some of our heroic figures (trapped miners, soldiers, quick-thinking pilots), but not our shock at the personal conduct of others (sports stars, politicians). Greek heroes misbehaved frequently, and when they did — Achilles dragging Hector’s body behind his chariot, Odysseus boasting to the Cyclops Polyphemus — it was a matter to be settled between the hero and the gods.

source: http://monevator.com/2007/09/02/10-reasons-to-retire-early/

10 good reasons to retire early  

by THE INVESTOR on SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Most of us grow up being taught that work is a healthy, natural thing. And to an extent it is – especially if you’re on the receiving end of someone else’s labour.

It’s also undeniable that periods of high unemployment have blighted generations, leaving entire communities such as Britain’s former industrial heartlands in Wales and the North drifting for generations when the work went away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/weekinreview/20parkerpope.html?ref=health

Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth

By PAUL SULLIVAN

Published: May 28, 2010

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/your-money/29wealth.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me

Trouble Falling Asleep – Sleep Better Without Nightmares!
by Chang
http://stopyoursleeplessnights.com/trouble-falling-asleep-sleep-better-without-nightmares/

While most of the people are having trouble falling asleep because of their mind is just too overwhelmed with thoughts or they feel either anxious or irritated, there are others who are simply afraid of sleeping, because of nightmares… This is what I am going to talk about in this post. How to get rid of nightmares and how to enjoy a better sleep once again. When having troubles sleeping because of bad dreams it doesn’t mean that you are suffering from insomnia. You are just being obsessed by something that recently happened and that you want and need to forget as fast as possible. However, instead of getting rid of this information it comes back again over and over again, each and every night. Some people are really scared and don’t know how to get their sleep back. Nevertheless, I’m not going to go into any mysticism and will interpret nightmare as nothing more than sleep disorders. While kids also have these bad dreams, mostly adults are suffering from excessive nightmares.

Usually, when people go to sleep all they want I just to be able to rest and never think about something bad again. Your work has exhausted you too much and you can’t afford to spend more time thinking about unnecessary things. However, the least thing you need in such a situation is to experience some kind of sleeping problem because of nightmares. In most of the cases, dreams happen when you sleep, so in this particular case you are more likely to fall asleep in time. Anyways, don’t worry, because as soon as your favorite nightmare begins, you’ll soon end up with your eyes open starring at the ceiling. It seems that you don’t have any luck to rest tonight. Unfortunately, something called a nightmare exists and is keeping adults away from sleeping like they should. Most of the people are dreaming negative aspects of their immaterialized failures. The idea of this post is that adults need to learn how to save themselves from such sleeping stress and be able to calmly fall asleep again.

source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7549959/Cleverest-women-are-the-heaviest-drinkers.html

Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found.

By Roger Dobson 
Published: 10:15AM BST 04 Apr 2010