l**i
发帖数: 8144 | 1 简单地讲 就是谋事在人 成事在天
认为社会发展沿着某个预定方向发展的理论 都是傻逼理论
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Anthropic principle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical
argument that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with
the conscious life that observes it. Some proponents of the argument reason
that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental physical
constants necessary to accommodate conscious life. As a ... 阅读全帖 |
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o****t
发帖数: 275 | 2 A biologist has every right not to believe the big bang theory, and typicall
y they won't make such claims as the one you wrote they would. On the other
hand, A physicist working in the field believe the validity of the theory no
t because some big-shot said so or it's written in the textbook, but for two
reasons. First, he knows the theory has passed numerous experimental tests
and he trusts his colleagues who did the experiments. (Of course he didn't d
o all those experiments personally, becau... 阅读全帖 |
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h*d
发帖数: 19309 | 3 以前最喜欢听的是一些Glam/Hair band，后来听过一阵子Grunge，不过Stone Temple
Pilot/Alice in Chains一直感觉一般，不喜欢Pearl Jam，最近连Nirvana也听不下去
了，只有Soundgarden/Chris Cornell还在听。
在家很少有时间能听音乐，偶尔有时间现在就放放黑胶唱片，Def Leppard - Hysteria
, dIRE sTRAITS的几张还有Tears for Fears都很不错。剩下时间就是在车里面上下班
路上，上班一般听听新闻或者KDWB的搞笑节目，下班有时候听听音乐，有时候听听
iHeartRadio上面的Comedy... 跑步时候听得也比较多，跑3个小时就听3个小时。
Staind这个不是最近才听，当初是因为一首family value tour现场版的the outside知
道这个乐队，到现在也不是特别喜欢，演奏很强劲，主唱可能觉得自己嗓子太好了，要
么咆哮要么很腻歪的演唱，穿透力不足。
Avenged Seven Fold也有阵子了，器乐很美，当初听到感觉很像Glam的solo，但是这个... 阅读全帖 |
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h*d
发帖数: 19309 | 4 以前最喜欢听的是一些Glam/Hair band，后来听过一阵子Grunge，不过Stone Temple
Pilot/Alice in Chains一直感觉一般，不喜欢Pearl Jam，最近连Nirvana也听不下去
了，只有Soundgarden/Chris Cornell还在听。
在家很少有时间能听音乐，偶尔有时间现在就放放黑胶唱片，Def Leppard - Hysteria
, dIRE sTRAITS的几张还有Tears for Fears都很不错。剩下时间就是在车里面上下班
路上，上班一般听听新闻或者KDWB的搞笑节目，下班有时候听听音乐，有时候听听
iHeartRadio上面的Comedy... 跑步时候听得也比较多，跑3个小时就听3个小时。
Staind这个不是最近才听，当初是因为一首family value tour现场版的the outside知
道这个乐队，到现在也不是特别喜欢，演奏很强劲，主唱可能觉得自己嗓子太好了，要
么咆哮要么很腻歪的演唱，穿透力不足。
Avenged Seven Fold也有阵子了，器乐很美，当初听到感觉很像Glam的solo，但是这个... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 5 In the distraction of the scandal-fever swirling through Washington and the
news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of
the great puzzles of number theory had been solved.
What makes the news most fascinating is that the solver isn’t on the
faculty of a top university and wasn’t known until this month to others who
work in the field. He is a Chinese immigrant in his 50s named Yitang Zhang,
a onetime accountant and part-time lecturer at the University of New
Hamps... 阅读全帖 |
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w********9
发帖数: 8613 | 6 关于发音，这个是最有名的诗。
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, reta... 阅读全帖 |
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m*r
发帖数: 602 | 7 China's Superior Economic Model
The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash
heap of history.
By ANDY STERN
Andy Grove, the founder and chairman of Intel, provocatively wrote in
Businessweek last year that, "Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we
have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned
truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the
freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-
m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 8 “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of
others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means
you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the
past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who
resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the
Russian Communists came very close to us in their metho... 阅读全帖 |
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w********t
发帖数: 12853 | 9 这篇 Bloomberg 网站的议论文章，就对印度的民主提出批评，而且很有意思的是，作
者尖锐地用习近平的新政和印度相比，说印度的民选政府还不如中国非民选的领导层。
文章题目就说印度的民主是个空壳子。
India’s Empty Democracy Can’t Protect Its People
By Pankaj Mishra Jan 13, 2013 6:30 PM ET
Elections make for responsive and accountable governments, or so goes the
truism. But can they also achieve the opposite -- that is, encourage
complacency, even callousness, among elected representatives?
Last month’s headlines from India and China present a disquieting contrast
between elected and unelecte... 阅读全帖 |
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d***o
发帖数: 7006 | 10 In the distraction of the scandal-fever swirling through Washington and the
news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of
the great puzzles of number theory had been solved.
What makes the news most fascinating is that the solver isn’t on the
faculty of a top university and wasn’t known until this month to others who
work in the field. He is a Chinese immigrant in his 50s named Yitang Zhang,
a onetime accountant and part-time lecturer at the University of New
Hamps... 阅读全帖 |
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w********t
发帖数: 12853 | 11
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0814/A-massacr
A massacre in Cairo and a failure of US diplomacy in Egypt
Since the military coup that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi
from the Egyptian presidency on July 3, the Obama administration has bent
over backwards not to call it a "coup."
The reasoning behind this decision was that Egypt's military is the most
powerful force in the country and that alienating and punishing them for
their action would both undercut US influ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*********3
发帖数: 1709 | 12 Paul Craig Roberts recently wrote an article entitled “American Capitalism
Is Based On Plunder” in which he explained that US foreign policy is
basically driven by a plunder imperative and that if that imperative cannot
be realized abroad, it will be implemented at home (I wonder if he will be
accused of being anti-American or even of “Communism”? It is quite
striking to see a paleo-conservative like Paul Craig Roberts basically
paraphrasing Lenin and his statement that “imperialism is the highe... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 13 Ching-China Ni, Candidates Making up New Names on Ballots Translated into
Chinese. Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local
/la-me-chinese-names-20110517,0,6815724.story
Small matter that the man going by the name Li Zheng Ping was not, in fact,
Chinese. In using a Chinese name for campaign purposes, Michael Nava simply
was taking advantage of a little-known, perfectly legal opportunity
Note:
(a) Leland YEE 余 胤良
(b) Mike ENG 伍 國慶
(c) Betty TOM CHU 趙譚 美生
(d) Session Law:... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 Florida Dems Can’t Find Voters to Protest Allen West, so They Hire Some
March 28, 2012
by Warner Todd Huston
Democrats and the left are inherently a sham with little actual grassroots
support and the race for Florida’s 18th Congressional District is yet
another example of this truism.
Repeatedly and across the country we see unions, Democrats, and other far
left groups planning rallies and protest marches but finding that they
simply can’t put bodies in the streets to make all the effort worthwh... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 June 23, 2012 by Charlie Quidnunc
People sometimes say that the Republicans are the pro-business party, and
the Democrats are the pro-consumer party. I would prefer to think of it,
perhaps naively, that the Republicans are pro-market, and the other guys are
pro-regulation. When given the chance many business people will do whatever
it takes to make money, skirting as close to the law as possible, seeking
favors from powerful politicians to defeat their competitors, and generally
trying to maxim... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF
Earlier this year, researchers reported impressive results for a treatment
that offered a potential cure for intractable cases of hepatitis C. But now,
millions of patients waiting for such a breakthrough may never get it.
The story of how the promising therapy got stalled despite positive research
illustrates a little-acknowledged truism in the pharmaceutical industry:
Sometimes drugs die not because they don't work or are unsafe, but because
they don't make business sens... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 Thursday, 15 November 2012
by Quin Hillyer
The old professor mused aloud, half to himself: “Why don’t they teach
logic at these schools?”
That line came from the great children’s classic and Christian allegory
, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The fictional professor’s lament (
about two siblings’ confusion about which of two stories to believe),
written some 60 years ago, still applies today. Along with logic, basic
arithmetic and linguistic skills sometimes seem horribly ... 阅读全帖 |
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t**o
发帖数: 1263 | 18 我晕！第10修正案的原文：“The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people.”这讲的是联邦和州的关系，且基本被视为
truism。我不明白你怎么能从中读出“人民对于政府是有罪推断”这个意思。:-(
纳粹德国具体做过什么研究，我没有考察过，不大清楚。但涉及性取向以及性行为方式
与AIDS传播的关联方面的研究已经很多了。你不妨先看一下WIKI：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Transmission
不得不说，在这一点上，你有点孤陋寡闻了。:-(
至于你说：“对于多数人合情合理的研究，怀疑等等，不表示政府可以进行这样的研究
，怀疑”。这实在有点搞笑了。依你看，是不是所有DOE,DOD,NASA,NSF,NIH之类的研究
都应该彻底终止？:-) |
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t**o
发帖数: 1263 | 19 你的思维方式还真是挺“特别”的。:-) 第10修正案虽然提到了people，但它一向被视
为有关联邦和州之间关系的，你就不用再自作聪明地挖掘其引申含义了。如果你觉得理
解宪法原文有困难，你可以看看一些官方的解释：
“The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been
surrendered. There is nothing in the history of its adoption to suggest that
it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and
state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the
amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new
national governmen... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 Stephen Moore: Obama's Economy Hits His Voters Hardest
Young people, single women and minorities have fared the worst during the
past four years.
By
STEPHEN MOORE
For better or worse, a truism of American politics is that voters vote their
pocketbooks. Yet according to a new report on median household incomes by
Sentier Research, in 2012 millions of American voters apparently cast
ballots contrary to their economic self-interest.
Each month the consultants at Sentier analyze the numbers ... 阅读全帖 |
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i******e
发帖数: 1720 | 21 http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevecohen/2012/09/29/the-three-big
摘几段精华在下面－
第一页中间，关于SAT 25%/75% （注：这里SAT是 CR+math only)
In reality, the bottom 25% (below 1280) is reserved for the school’s “
special interests”: athletes, students of color, development (big donors.)
“To have a real shot,” says Muska “you really have to be at the upper
end of that range.”
第二页lie#2 第二段
Today, more and more college admission officers want – and need – to know
whether the kid can pay full-freight. And if there is a ch... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 22 我一直说 common core 出的问题，现在终于有其他人出文章了
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/math-showi
Common Core-era rules that force kids to diagram their thought processes can
make the equations a lot more confusing than they need to be.
Rogelio V. Solis / AP
At a middle school in California, the state testing in math was underway via
the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) exam. A girl pointed to
the problem on the computer screen and asked “What do I do?” The proctor
read the instruc... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****2
发帖数: 651 | 23 大家说说在性浪这个价位买还是再等等?
性浪有RUMORS说有ACCOUNTING FRAUD, 到底是有还是没有? 现在的价位离我第一次
买(80左右)不远了, 非常诱人, 拿准了再捞一把? 犹豫啊. 大家说说.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/06/09/this-just-in-m
Recognizing this truism, Susquehanna International yesterday went on record
in favor of at least half-a-dozen Chinese stocks that it's pretty sure are
legit. First, the Pennsylvanian stockpicker reiterated bullish views on
Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU ) , Ctrip (Nasdaq: CTRP ) , NetEase (Nasdaq: NTES ) ,
and SINA (Nasdaq: SINA ) . T... 阅读全帖 |
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n*****0
发帖数: 185 | 24 one truism : golf swing is hitting down.
赫赫，这时我拜了一个golf digest nominated pro teacher 后学到的最大的体会。姿
势正确之后，自然就会有solid contact.
you
club |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 25 这句话拿到哪里去都是对的，就是所谓的Truism吧。
那个经典科幻小说，后来改编的几部电影，《Solaris》，不就是探讨的这个主题吗？ |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 26 now that's a truism
在侬的系统里侬也永远是对的 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 27 这个叫做truism，恒正确，所以信息墒比较低……
将来一定会有比mini retina更好的彩屏阅读器出来的，我坚信 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 28 what a truism……
就知道你会跳出来 :-) |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 29 所谓的truism。
其实这个论调，在十九世纪下半叶和二十世纪上半叶是主导流行思潮，从欧美到苏俄都
这样……
“邪恶”是一种道德上的主观判断。
“无赖”和“虚伪”则是客观状态。
好比说：足球很好玩、篮球是圆的、橄榄球需要技巧。这三句话并列在一起，正确错误
不论，什么含义都没有。:-)
善良(不邪恶)的人可以喜欢装B(虚伪)；无赖/虚伪可以兼而有之。。。 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 30 nonfiction的书，如果是informative的那种，就算是学习知识了，如果是立论的那种
，就看作者立论的argument是不是站得住脚，是不是可信；
self-help书要不就是太ambiguous，模棱两可，要不然就是一堆truism，没有啥信息墒
赞放开自己！
不过，不必非要站在作者的角度，keep neutral 就好，not judgmental |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 31 基本上都是truism。都想到了还活个啥劲啊……
萨马瑞：
生活就是三个字：想不到。 |
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a******u
发帖数: 1016 | 32 转贴一个评论 (微剧透)
A pathetic, cheap, boring action non-movie that should put Hollywood to
shame..., 28 June 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon does put me in some dilemma. To call it a
movie would be gross injustice, for it is anything but, it is a sad, raucous
, empty 150 minute flick that tricks you into yawning insufferably. To call
it a bad movie would be no less an injustice, as it would give the bad
movies a bad name. So if we agree to call it Thing, I should say that it is
one terrible Thing.... 阅读全帖 |
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m*******n
发帖数: 519 | 33 在网上狗狗了下关于VR70-200和Non－VR 80－200 F2.8的用户reviews，有些观点供大
家参考：买这个长变焦主要是照娃以后参加集体活动，比如舞台，球赛等等，基本快门
不会低于125，而VR一般是快门60以下才开的，这样一来，也就用不太上了？厂家对这
两个镜头的定价差太多了，对俺们预算紧的，鱼和熊掌不可兼得啊！
转载一个BH上的review：
The Best Kept Secret in Photography.
Everyone who is at all serious about shooting needs to pick up a 70 (or 80
in this case) to 200 mm f2.8 sooner or later. For me, it was sooner.
Typically, I like to shoot wide but I found myself (yet again) in need of
something with reach to shoot my son's 5th grade basketball gam... 阅读全帖 |
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b******g
发帖数: 3616 | 34 看了这篇文章，还能将进博物馆、卖高价与艺术价值划等号么？
______________________________________________
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-fo
Peter Lik is in awe of himself. When he describes his career as a fine-art
photographer, he speaks with the satisfaction of a guy who has performed
miracles, at the pace of a bystander who just caught a glimpse of Superman.
The words tumble forth in self-exalting, run-on sentences, most of them
laced with profanity, all of them in the sunny, chummy accent of... 阅读全帖 |
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H****g
发帖数: 14447 | 35 Grada论文摘要
Frank Dikötter’s Mao’s Great Famine {henceforth “MGF”} is the
longest and most detailed study of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) famine to
appear in English to date.{…} The tone throughout is one of abhorrence and
outrage, and sometimes MGF reads more like a catalogue of anecdotes about
atrocities than a sustained analytic argument. In style and approach it
recalls Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s controversial Mao: The Unknown Story
(2005); indeed, Chang leads the ”praise” for MGF on t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1302 | 36 Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overused, hackneyed phrase
Synonyms: adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut,
commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude,
potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan,
stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness,
triviality, truism, vapid expression
http://thesaurus.com/browse/cliche |
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t******n
发帖数: 2939 | 37 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
DAG (Monday Night) 于 (Tue Apr 23 15:46:13 2013, 美东) 提到:
形容文章或者歌词很落俗套，用字老套。和cliche同义的一个单词。突然一下想不起来
了。
有人知道吗。
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guantaoshi (Guantao princess) 于 (Tue Apr 23 15:49:45 2013, 美东) 提到:
是 hackneyed吗？
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DAG (Monday Night) 于 (Tue Apr 23 15:51:16 2013, 美东) 提到:
不是， 一个很口语的词
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aixiaoxiaoyu (我爱小小鱼) 于 (Tue Apr 23 15:51:51 2013, 美东) 提到:
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S***n
发帖数: 2932 | 39 heehee，（谢灵运我超喜欢的），承蒙不弃占楼。。。
我前面跟贴，大部分贴的时候有删掉一半字数，因为题目太大，我控制不住全局了，只
能寄希望于删掉枝蔓来统括全贴。我自己也可以想象结果恐怕会模糊空洞言之无物。换
来这么个大mp，哈哈，回拜回拜！
本来谨遵狼“弗要太认真”的劝告，我打算留着那些枝蔓以后忽悠别人去。
现在想想还是贴出来，弄不好可以给你凑趣呢？
disclaimer:仰赖外行背景可能有不经因此不同的看法。娱乐而已。
最初看到你提foucault，我确实有具体想法：惭愧对他不是很感冒，没想过读什么，不
过他有一个观点，我觉得有趣并记得，就是在古典的“人的精神受缚（困）于肉体”之
外，提出人的精神反过来可以成为囚禁人的牢笼。贯穿这个观点，他似乎有谈论法国近
现代的包括“精神病”“同性恋”问题。
其主角都是因为“精神”异于而不是肉体（比如瘟疫中的患者）而被囚困在社会中。
他由此扩展了你前面所讲的，现代（西方）社会不单通过直截的肉体约束，而且尤其通
过精神控制来限制约束个人行为。
这个发现初读我还很惊艳了一番，但是放在中土“缺乏思辨，重实际”的环境却显得
trivial，苍白失色。
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 40 我一直说 common core 出的问题，现在终于有其他人出文章了
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/math-showi
Common Core-era rules that force kids to diagram their thought processes can
make the equations a lot more confusing than they need to be.
Rogelio V. Solis / AP
At a middle school in California, the state testing in math was underway via
the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) exam. A girl pointed to
the problem on the computer screen and asked “What do I do?” The proctor
read the instruc... 阅读全帖 |
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j**********e
发帖数: 1034 | 41 In the distraction of the scandal-fever swirling through Washington and the
news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of
the great puzzles of number theory had been solved.
What makes the news most fascinating is that the solver isn’t on the
faculty of a top university and wasn’t known until this month to others who
work in the field. He is a Chinese immigrant in his 50s named Yitang Zhang,
a onetime accountant and part-time lecturer at the University of New
Hamps... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******n
发帖数: 12762 | 42 来自主题: PoliticalScience版 - 推荐本书 有没有看过的同学？
The Powers to Lead
JOSEPH S. NYE JR. Oxford Univ.
Leadership gurus since Machiavelli have argued over whether a leader should
be loved or feared. In this evenhanded primer, Nye, a professor at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and "soft power" theorist, takes a resolute st
and in between the two sides. Modern leadership, he contends, requires "smar
t power," a judicious situational balance of "hard power" (getting people to
do what you want, with carrots, sticks and bullying) and ... 阅读全帖 |
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K*a
发帖数: 13041 | 43 来自主题: PoliticalScience版 - 推荐本书 haokan
有没有看过的同学？
The Powers to Lead
JOSEPH S. NYE JR. Oxford Univ.
Leadership gurus since Machiavelli have argued over whether a leader should
be loved or feared. In this evenhanded primer, Nye, a professor at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and "soft power" theorist, takes a resolute st
and in between the two sides. Modern leadership, he contends, requires "smar
t power," a judicious situational balance of "hard power" (getting people to
do what you want, with carrots, sticks and bullyi... 阅读全帖 |
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z*******n
发帖数: 1034 | 44 http://gamerboom.com/archives/83454
1）SuperData发布的3月份数字游戏市场报告显示，《Candy Crush》发展有所减缓，而
“硬核游戏”则出现上升趋势。
硬核游戏的发展主要得益于PC和主机平台的《Titanfall》或《Heroes of the Storm》
这种类型的游戏，但暴雪推出的《Hearthstone》同样表现瞩目（它在4月16日刚刚在
App Store发布）。
hearthstone(from pocketgamer)
hearthstone(from pocketgamer)
这款暴雪战略CCG游戏于3月中旬在PC和Mac平台问世，ARPPU约27美元。
而King热作《Candy Crush Saga》尽管同比上月的用户整体投入有所增长（1.2%），但
其月活跃用户似乎出现了饱和，其移动平台的月活跃用户增长仅0.3%，而社交游戏玩家
则下降了2.1%。但该游戏仍然是3月份移动平台排名第二的热门手机游戏，仅次于《
Clash of Clans》。
SuperData还指出整体数字游戏市场仍在持续发展，2014年3月销售额... 阅读全帖 |
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h*d
发帖数: 19309 | 45 If we don’t make it alive
Well it’s a hell of a good day to die
One is for envy
And one just for spite
The cuts in my heart
They show me in your eyes
Don’t make it better
The twisting knife
Turns all by itself
On to someone else
Your self-liberation
Will leave this behind
Beyond slings and arrows
That rain on our minds
You’ll make it better
Shake it off
It never mattered anyway
If we don’t make it alive
Well it’s a hell of a good day to die
All our light that shines strong
Only lasts for so long |
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