Surprises are important in our everyday lives as well as in our scientific and philosophical theorizing—in psychology, information theory, cognitive-neuroscience, philosophy of science, and confirmation theory. Nevertheless, there is no satisfactory theory of what makes something surprising. It has ...
746.After two years of looking for work as a teacher, Einstein took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. 寻找教师的工作岗位两年无果后,他在瑞士专利局觅得一份职员的工作。 747.While working there, out of ...
being ticklish isn't enough. Nor is it enough to see something disappear or appear suddenly. It's only funny when an adult makes these things happen for the baby. This shows that way before babies walk, or talk, they - and their laughter - are social. If you tickle a baby they appar...
But one day, something very strange happened. During my trip home, without any conscious intent, my thoughts began to shift. Instead of feeling bad about my weaknesses, I said aloud very softly:I'm a nice person. I'm...
To begin with, I deem that the topic of the contest can be The Significance of Doing Small Things before Undertaking Something Big. Why? In our daily life, it is a common phenomenon for so many yougnsters to ignore small tasks and they just want to do something big. However, it is ...
In his talk at TED2012, researcher and jungle genome operative Nathan Wolfe makes the point that until 1898, when Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck published a paper showing that something smaller than bacteria were causing diseases, something he called a virus, we had no idea that an ent...
Textbooks like to say the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by continents, while the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by an ocean. Here's something you might not realize about the arrangement. All that seawater under the North Pole moderates the climate to some extent. Yet the South Pole doesn...
furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about ...
Second, often when something burns, smoke and fire seem to leave the burning thing and nothing seems to enter it, but science tells us that the essence of burning is to be found in a process where oxygen enters the burning thing. To say that something is a scientific fact is to bring ...
What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that ? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you. You say “I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself”. In fact, you are not short of ...