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新聞有毒
News is toxic to your body
– and giving up reading it will make you happier (theguardian.com)
News is bad for your health. It leads to
fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind.
News increases cognitive errors. News feeds the mother of all cognitive errors: confirmation bias. In the words of Warren Buffett: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact." News exacerbates this flaw. We become prone to overconfidence, take stupid risks and misjudge opportunities. It also exacerbates another cognitive error: the story bias. Our brains crave stories that "make sense" – even if they don't correspond to reality.
News makes us passive. News stories are overwhelmingly about things you cannot influence.
The daily repetition of news about things we can't act upon makes us passive.
It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised,
sarcastic and fatalistic. The scientific term is "learned helplessness".
It's a bit of a stretch, but I would not be surprised if news consumption, at
least partially contributes to the widespread disease of depression.
Questions:
1. Is news bad for our health? Discussing
pros and cons of news media?
2. How to recognize bias in a newspaper
article? How to detect bias in news media?
3. Do you think that reading the news
wasting your life? Is news toxic to our mind?
4. What do you feel about news gossip? Do
you enjoy reading tabloid gossip?
Why do people love celebrity tabloid
gossip?
5. Is the news making us dumb? Why the news
makes us dumb?
6. Are we being brainwashed by news?
What has an influence on the news we read
and/or see?
不相信婚姻
The
Taiwanese pop star will not be getting married anytime soon (xln.msn.com)
Taiwanese singer, Jolin Tsai, recently
revealed that she has no plans to marry 27-year-old model boyfriend, Vivian
Dawson, at a promotional event yesterday, reported Taiwanese media.
Despite the recent hype of flash marriages
in showbiz (think: Lee Hom), the 32-year-old songstress, dressed in a punkish
outfit, told reporters candidly that marriage does not guarantee happiness and
she is happy with her current relationship status.
“I have
absolutely no plans for marriage. I think it’s more important to feel happy
with your other half than thinking about getting married. If you’re happy, the
rest are just secondary. If there’s a choice to make, I may not get married at
all,” she professed.
Darryl
Guo and wife finalise their divorce
The Taiwanese artiste, who was recently
rumoured to have contracted a STD, has officially parted ways with his wife
Following his police arrest for smoking and
being in possession of Marijuana in September, former Comic Boyz member Darryl
Guo, 35, made headlines again, after officially divorcing with his wife, Nina,
yesterday.
According to Taiwanese media reports, the
two decided to end their two-year marriage despite going through mediation, as
Darryl was said to have deliberately hid the news of contracting a sexually
transmitted disease (STD) in April last year.
Other reasons behind their split include
the latter taking drugs, displaying violent tendencies at home as well as
excessive gambling.
The court awarded Nina the full custody of
their only son, Xiao Mai and Darryl is allowed to visit him twice a month. The
singer-actor will pay his ex-wife a monthly alimony of NT$15,000 (approximately
S$635) till Xiao Mai turns 20; Darryl was also said to have agreed to sell
their NT$36 million (approximately S$1.52 million) apartment and return balance
from the profits made to Xiao Mai.
Questions:
1. Does marriage guarantee happiness?
2. Why some women don't trust marriage? Reasons
women don't want to get married?
3. Will Marriage Make people Happier? The
Pros and Cons of Marriage?
4. What do you think about divorce and
divorced people?
What do you think about celebrities divorce?
5. According news reported that “One couple
divorces every 10 minutes in Taiwan”
What do you think about divorce rate in Taiwan?
6. Why Is The Divorce Rate So High?
set the world on fire極為成功並引起轟動
---Fig. to do exciting things that bring fame and glory. (Frequently with the negative.)
1. Billy once set the world on fire with his singing.
比利一度以唱歌聞名於世。
2. Her first performance has set the world on fire.
她的首次表演已震撼了全世界。
４ You don't have to set the world on fire. Just do a good job.
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