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Tikker: a 'death watch' that counts down how long you have left to live (James Vincent)
Questions:
1. What do you think about the death watch?
Is it a good idea that having a Tikker
"death watch" reminds every second?
2. Do you care how long will you live?
3. How does your parents' lifespan affect
your lifespan?
4. In you opinion, what factors make people
live longer? People in which countries would live longer?
5. How to extend your life expectancy?
Ways to add years to your life?
6. “The death watch” is a new invention, if
you want to invent something,
What would you like to invent?
7. What happens when the average lifespan
is 150 years?
8. What do you think about death?
金錢與智力
Poverty Stress Weakens Brain Power
New research finds a link between poverty and poor decision making. The findings were reported in the journal Science. They may help explain why poor people sometimes make bad choices that prolong their economic hardship. Jim Tedder reports.
Earlier studies have found that poor people are less likely to take care of their health. Studies have shown they also do worse with their finances, and pay less attention to their children than do richer people. All of these actions make the poor less likely to escape poverty, research suggests.
But there has been little research on why the poor make decisions that make their lives harder. Until recently, it was economists who studied poverty, not psychologists. Eldar Shafir is a psychologist with Princeton University in New Jersey. He says now scientists from both fields work together.
“And in the last few years the two disciplines sort of combined forces. And we just became interested in cognitive function and its impact when people struggle with not having enough.”
Mr. Shafir and his team did two experiments. One took place at a shopping center in New Jersey. Another was carried out among sugar cane farmers in rural India.
The New Jersey experiment involved individuals with low paying jobs and others said to belong to the middle class. All the volunteers were asked what they would do if their cars needed repairs. The researchers then performed tests for reason, such as choosing which shape fits in a pattern of shapes.
The volunteers were given two possible imaginary situations. In the first, the car repairs cost $150. In the second, the repairs cost $1,500.
“And what we found is, when we looked at the cases where the financial scenario in the background was not too challenging, the poor and the rich performed equally well on all the cognitive tests.”
Not so when the researchers raised the repair costs to $1,500.
“Once we tickled their minds with financially more challenging problems, now the poor performed significantly worse.”
The study showed the poorer individuals lost about 13 intelligent quotient, IQ, points on average. This is about the loss experienced when a person has not slept for one night.
The scientists then wondered if they would see the same result outside the controlled environment of a New Jersey shopping mall. And they wanted to know if the same person reacted differently when he was rich and when he was poor.
That is where the Indian sugar cane farmers came in. They earn most of their money once a year, when the harvest comes in. But the money often does not last through the year.
“So they find themselves basically rich after the harvest when the income comes in and poor just before the harvest.”
The researchers gave them tests similar to the ones taken by the people in New Jersey. They tested the Indian farmers before the harvest and after.
And the results were much the same as with the mall shoppers.
“They performed much more slowly and with many more errors when they were poorer than when they were richer.”
Questions:
1. Do you think poverty makes people less
intelligent?
How a lack of money could make people less
intelligent?
2. Rich people are smarter than poor
people?
3. Do you think that smart people usually
are rich?
4. Do billionaires have higher IQs? Are
rich people smarter than you?
5. Do wealthy people work harder? Are poor
people lazy?
6. How to become a billionaire in 5 to 10
years? Ways to be a billionaire?
7. How do we lessen the gap between the
rich and the poor?
煩三餐著落降腦力 窮人翻身難
根據這篇發表在「科學」（Science）期刊的研究，身處貧窮會使個人心智資源枯竭，讓人較無法專注在其他事情，像是在解決問題與控制衝動上。
這項研究並非意指窮人較笨，而是研究結果顯示，阮囊羞澀會造成「有效腦力」、也就是研究人員所謂的「心智寬頻」（mental bandwidth），會因養家活口的壓力而大幅受到限制。
研究人員發現，農民手頭有錢時，測驗結果較好。
研究人員說，研究顯示，要解決貧窮相關問題，經濟援助是太過簡化的方法，應該從貧窮勞動階層最擔心的部分著手，像是托嬰，反而能更有效解決問題。（譯者：中央社陳怡君）
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血型/性格/飲食
Sorry,
but you’re not my (blood) type
Forget the stars, palmistry, crystal
gazing, tarot cards or even tea leaves. It seems your characteristics, career,
health, marriage, fate and luck are all actually flowing through your veins.
Whether you are friendly, aloof,
considerate, industrious, prone to worrying, cynical, good in bed or in the
right job is, a growing number of personality analysts say, all in the blood.
They claim the blood type you were born
with has just as much influence over your character and fate as the signs of
the zodiac.
In fact, many personality analysts say it
could be a more accurate guide because your blood type is determined by the
genes of your parents and through it you inherit all their ancestral traits.
You then develop the traits that are best suited to your personality.
Big in Japan
The Japanese, who have always placed a lot
of importance on ancestry and blood lines, are so certain of the links between
biochemistry and personality that magazines and newspapers carry the week’s
fortunes for each blood type.
It is estimated that as many as 75 per cent
of Japanese people believe there is a connection between blood type and
personality. The vast majority of their lonely hearts advertisements include
blood type. Nearly everyone in Japan knows their blood group and they take the
idea very seriously.
The four main blood types are O (the most
common), A, B and AB.
If you are a blood donor, you will know
that type O can give blood to any type, but can receive from only type O, and
are called universal donors.
Type A individuals can give blood safely to
A and AB types. B types can give to B or AB.
Blood lines
According to the believers, all these
different combinations play a part in passing on particular talents and
qualities through generations.
The world’s leading proponent of
blood-typing is undoubtedly Japan’s Toshitaka Nomi, who is following in the
footsteps of his late father, Masahiko, who first published books on the
blood-typing theory in 1971.
Between them father and son have produced
more than 60 books, which have sold more than six million copies and have
helped bring the Japanese ideas and beliefs about blood-type psychology to a
wider audience.
This is what their studies have to say
about how our blood type influences the way we are likely to behave and the
path we are most likely to follow…
Blood group diet
More recently, research into blood types
and diet has been carried out by an American naturopathic doctor, Peter
D’Adamo. He believes our blood type determines what we should eat.
Questions:
Do you believe in blood type characters?
Do you believe the blood type determine a
person' character?
Does your blood type affect your diet?
Does the eat right for your blood type diet
really work?
The importance of blood type in Taiwanese
culture?
Do you believe “the Success depends on
blood group”?
假油/食品安全/太空旅行
1. Flavor Full fined NT$8 mil. in oil
scandal
Flavor Full Foods (富味鄉食品公司) yesterday admitted to
adding cottonseed oil to 24 cooking oil products sold in Taiwan, New Taipei
City's Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday.
Q:
What do think about fack cooking oil case?
2. Premier gives 6-point order for handling
cooking oil
Premier Jiang Yi-huah on Thursday issued a
directive aimed at improving six aspects of food safety, after it was found
that various edible oil products sold under the Tatung brand had been
adulterated with cheap cottonseed oil as a way to boost profits.
Q:
What do you think about food safety in Taiwan?
3. Balloons: the new vehicle for space
tourism?
The latest space tourism venture depends
more on hot air than rocket science. World View Enterprises announced plans
Tuesday to send people up in a capsule, lifted 19 miles (30 kilometers) by a
high-altitude balloon. Jane Poynter, CEO of the Tucson, Arizona-based company,
said the price for the four-hour ride would be US$75,000.
Q;
What you think about space tourism?
Court awards insurance payment on dead couple found hiding
Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) The Cathay Life Insurance Co., Ltd. on Thursday lost its lawsuit against three siblings to whom it had paid accidental death benefits of NT$64.82 million (US$2.21 million) after their parents disappeared in a car accident, as Taiwan's Supreme Court ruled against the company in the case of alleged insurance fraud.Q:
What you think about insurance frauds in taiwan ?
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