To reduce plastic bottles

What I listened to / read
In every major city in England, peple can drink free water in stead of buying water in a plastic bottle.
To reduce the wastes of plastic bottles is impotant in England.

Source;BBC news
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What it says
Shops, cafes and businesses will offer free water refill points in every major city and town in England by 2021 to reduce the water bottle.Environmental concerns are growing due to plastic wastes.Refill campaign has more than 1,600 refill stations across the UK and operates in 13 towns and cities in England.
Water companies already taking part in local schemes, for example, Bristol adopted the campaign and the city now has more than 200 refill points.
According to Water UK’s chief executive, industry want to tackle the problem caused by plastic bottle and UK has some of the best drinking water in the world. So they want everyone to benefit from this initiative.

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My response 

In Japan, people usually buy beverage in a plastic bottle or a can at a convenience store or a vending machine though Japanese tap water are so clean that everyone can drink everywhere in Japan.

I think water in a plastic bottle tastes better than tap water, so many Japanese people don’t drink tap water.

Considering the problem of plastic wastes, drinking tap water is admirable like UK new initiative. But I don’t think so, because in Japan, recycle system for plastic bottles has been developed greatly and Japanese people are more concerned about environmental problems. For example, after drinking water in a plastic bottle, they can throw it away into a designated trash box in order to recycle it. Plastic bottles are recycled into nwe plastic bottles again, the material for clothes, pellet for power generator materials, and so on.

Not only recycling plastic bottles, but also using eco-bag is helpful to solve the environmental problems. Eco-bag is used as a bag when they bring products their home after shopping. At a shop, they are sometimes given plastic bags, but when they bring eco-bag to a shop, they don’t need to get a plastic bag from a shop.
It is helpful preserving environment.Though the effort of one people is small, the the effects by many people is so huge.
I want more countries to be concerned about recycling.

The luxurious ghost airport in one of the world's poorest countries

What I read

I chose to read "The luxurious ghost airport in one of the world's poorest countries" on BBC News due to its interesting topic.

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What it says

The $200 million airport in Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries, named as Nacala International Airport which was hoped to benefit the region now lied empty among no departures, no security, no one at baggage and no one waiting. It was built by Brazillian company Odebrecht which has been caught up in a corruption scandal. The company was responsible for the airport's construction, and admitted to having paid bribes to high level officials. But Mozambique and Brazil were hit by economic turmoil.

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My response 

It has surprised me a lot! I haven't thought that such a luxurious and expensive airport is in one of the world's poorest countries and can be lain among the emptiness and insecurity. After I had read this news, I searched for the airport's pictures to see how it is then and now. In my view, it looks like regular beautiful airports which we haven't had an idea about dereliction.

The country that brought yoghurt to the world

What I read

After I finished my class on Friday, I started looking for an interesting article to share with everyone then I saw the topic “the countrythat brought yoghurt to the world” By Madhvi Ramani  on www.bbc.com. I am interested in this topic because I am a fan of dairy product because they are delicious. 

What it says

On this article, the writer shows a long history of yoghurt. Many Bulgarians claim it was accidentally discovered here around 4,000 years ago when nomadic tribes roamed the land. However, Bulgaria played a vital role in introducing yoghurt to the West and turning it into the popular, commercial product we know today. Yoghurt is an intimate product linked to the land, the animals and the particular taste of the family. If we eating yoghurt that made from the different villages, the taste will different. 

My response 

Yoghurt has been consumed for many years. This article makes me know about history of yoghurt and the process of making yoghurt. Moreover, it makes me interested in its health benefits because I think many people still don’t realize about its benefits.

When I searched on the internet, I found many interesting reasons to love yoghurt. Firstly, yoghurt is rich in essential nutrients that our body need such as calcium, minerals and vitamin B. Secondly, some yoghurt contains probiotics which are healthy bacteria . Probiotics can boost the immune system, regulate digestive system and reduce the risk of cancer. Furthermore, it can help us lose  weight or keep the weight off. There are studies have found that eating yoghurt may reduce obesity.  Finally, yoghurt is brain food because it contains the amino acid tyrosine. Brain food helps our brain function effectively.

However,yoghurt may not good for everyone because it can cause negative effects for example, in the person who has milk allergy or lactose intolerance. Moreover, we should not having too much yoghurt per day as it may increase the level of sugar and cause kidney stones. In my opinion , eating yoghurt 2 cups per day is enough.

Ambition is not a dirty word.

What I listened to 

           After all day long, I hardly have the time to log into my Facebook account then I found something interesting and very powerful. It is an old viral from 2015 : Reese Witherspoon woman of the year full speech - Ambition is not a dirty word! (It would be  more convenient if you play from Youtube.) 

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What it says

           What  Was Reese wants to tell us? She wants to tell us especially all girls and women to believe in themselves and trust in their abilities to do something no matter what people say or laugh with it and she left a question : What would happen if  we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious?  

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My response 

           For me, I always think ambition is a dirty word but after I listened to Reese's speech I have to change my mind. Everybody has a dream but what would they do to make their dreams come true. Since I was young I usually heard "You should do that" or "You should not do that" and if you think different from most people, they may look at you like you are an insane that makes you fear and you might throw your dream away because you want everyone accept you so you do not want be a weirdo. Sometimes Ambition is good if you use it in the right way. It could help you create something new and fabulous or it would be a motive to do what you never thought you have abilities to do that.
          We do not deny that there is not equality between men and women although in the land of equality,the USA. Does it has a chance to change? It needs more time but the most important thing is you are brave enough to show your abilities and make it happen.
         

Do men and women find different films funny?

What I read

I found an interesting article on the BBC News so I would like to share it with my teacher and my classmates! This article is "Do men and women find different films funny?"

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What it says

This article shows answers from the surveys about "Do men and women find different films funny?". There are 3 surveys. The first one is US Study which found that opting for the genres of film partly depends on gender, female college students tended to enjoy romantic film while male opted for dark comedies. The second one is BBC Culture which polled to find out the top 10 comedy films of all time, and the comedies more popular with male and female critics. The last one is German research which found that gender differences in preferences for film genres do exist.

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My response 

There are plenty of film's types, as you know, horror film, funny film, action film, adventure film, whimsical film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film, political film, philosophical film etc. Everyone has his favorite film style. Mine is funny film.

Actually, We cannot refuse to enjoy the funny film! But there are many genres of the funny film such as romantic comedy, dark comedy etc. According to this article, girls prefer romantic comedy but boys prefer dark comedy. For me, I enjoy all genres of the funny film as the funny film makes watchers be happy and laugh out loud!

Tortured Colour Brazilian mothers by Zika virus

What I listened to / read

While I am drinking hot jasmine green tea, I look for some science news in The Huffington Post. My eyes stare at the news titled "Poor women of color bear the brunt of Zika burden in Brazil". I read only the title and feel great pressure taking on me,but there are a lot of questions appearing on my mind. Why does Zika virus involve Color women in Brazil?

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What it says

The HuffPost in Brazil Marcella Fernandes, gave a report on the life of color women in the rural region of Brazil. Those women have one of son/daughter in their family who have birth defects associated with Zika virus infection such as microcephaly (small head) and neurological diseases. they told that their life are very difficult since they are poor, low-profile of education or even illiterate, teenage pregnancy and live so far away from medical center. they always stayed at their home for being housewife and taking of their children especially son/daughter who is congenital Zika syndrome. Those children are physical disabilities and mental impairments leading the mothers have a large task and reduce herself time. Moreover, the social and medical assistant provided by the Brazilian government were too slow, sometimes lacking or even rejected their disability benefit applications as the worst. In term of Brazilian government, they did not only lack of responsibility to their people, but they also concealed both the number of those cases and the number of denied applications from public.

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My response 

It is hard to finish reading this article since it made my feeling goes negative emotion. As we know, Zika virus infection had been broken out of Brazil in 2015. In the same year, the researchers around the world especially NIH and WHO was found the correlation between birth defects and Zika virus infection, and they also introduced the measures against the outbreak of virus. these things seem to control the virus widespread ,stall the increase of the number of child with microcephaly and provide the treatment for recover the infant's symptoms. But, Why are Brazilian mothers still torment from the outbreak?

As Scientist's view, Zika virus can transmit from the mother to son via placental route once she was infected by mosquito's bite. the researcher had been found that Zika virus targets Neural stem cells of embryo during neurogenesis or brain development of embryo. the virus causes the inhibition of terminally neural differentiated genes and the activation of programmed cell death related genes such as  apoptosis or even necrosis, at worst. These occurrences leads to stall of brain development especially brain enlargement and neural circuit connection result in physical disabilities and mental impairment of infant. in this case, the medical team together with researchers will used a method called "early stimulation therapy" as a basic treatment to the child for activating those neural stem cells to break the arrest to differentiated to neurons and body will then automatically repair and connect the circuit again. this way takes time at least a decade. In some severe cases, there are a possible way that the doctor will clear the remnant of neural stem cells in child's brain to prevent tumourigenesis and virus migration. the cultured neural stem cells will be transplant to the brain again. this method are also effective and sustainable for child development.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of limitations especially political policy. If we look at Brazilian's government,  they are very dominate in corruption and have a high risk to turn into bankruptcy state. Base on those conditions, it is impossible to distribute the social and medical support throughout the country. There also have a very broad of the gap between people especially currency status and skin color. It is a truth that color people around the world still have a life quality under social standard. As Marcella told in the report, those mothers are poor, low educated and difficult to access to their benefits. these things lead them to less attention in medical support and understanding and how to take care of the disease which the family member is fighting. And because of concealing on number of Zika infected baby and benefit application rejection, the other nations cannot estimate the amount of money and utility which they transfer to Brazil leading to the unequal distribution.

Looking back to Thailand, I feel thanks you that I was born here. Thailand, excluding political instability, have a lot of benefits that we are easy to access especially medical care. In fact, Zika are well known virus for Thai medical research. Hence, every hospitals have a measure to fight with this disease. And even your child is Zika associated disability, you can take him/her to get their benefits both at the center under provision of the ministry of  public health or the minister of social development and human security. those minister will provide you both of medical care, social support ,education and financial aid to your family for taking care your child throughout his life. you do not only have a support from the government, but Thai people also always support you and your family because Thai characteristic is always merit, kind and love to help. That's why I said that I Thanks you myself.    

3 thoughtful ways to conserve water

What I listened to

After I have finished all my work, I try to find an interesting video clip from www.ted.com to share with my teacher and my classmates. When I saw the topic " 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water" I think it is newsworthy. This is because water is the most essential thing of our lives, I can't imagine living without water. So, we should know about water conservation.

What it says

On this talk show, Lana Mazahreh who grew up in the country that faced water scarcity, shares three lessons from water-poor-countries such as Australia, United Arab Emirates and Singapore about how they conserve water. Firstly, tell people how much water they really have. Secondly, empower people to save water. Lastly, look below the surface. Now, it's really just up to all of us to take action.

My response 

Water is a necessary part of our lives. All animals and plants need water to survive. We use water in many activities such as cooking, drinking and washing. Nowadays, there are many countries experienced water scarcity. This can cause negative effects to our lives. Therefore, we need to know how to save water and use water properly.

After listening this talk show, I realize that water scarcity is a problem that can not be solved by a group of people, it needs cooperation of every people in the World. In my opinion,the lessons that speaker presents are nice idea of water conservation . However, when I read the comments below video clip, I quite agree with some comments about animal agriculture then I started to search about this on google. I found the fact that a pure vegetarian diet requires only 1,137 litres of water per day, while a meat -based diet requires more than 15,160 litres of water per day.

I think there are many easily ways for me to help conserving water in daily life. To begin with, don't let the faucet run while  washing dishes. Second, water a garden in the morning because the water evaporates less. In addition, washing when full loads of  laundry. If we can do this, we help  save the World.

Why Italians are saying 'No' to takeaway coffee

What I read

When I am looking for a nice story to write and share with my classmates, I saw the nice one, which is not very serious. It is " Why Italians are saying 'No' to takeaway coffee ". It sounds a bit strange, but I feel really interested in this topic.

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What it says

The article reports that Italians don't like to takeaway coffee because of three reasons. Firstly, drinking coffee in Italy is a quick ritual. Secondly, it is just one moment to be relaxed or to interrupt the long work day.The last reason is the coffee in Italy is served in a right temperature.

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My response 

When I have read this article, I feel that it is very interesting that is why Italians don't like to takeaway coffee, and I really love the way they drink it. Because the coffee in Thailand is pretty hot, I don't like to drink it much. But the coffee in Italy is not as hot as in Thailand, and people can immediately drink it, it sounds nice for me, who hate a hot coffee. As I am not a coffee lover, I don't know much about the way people drink coffee, but I think that if I have a chance to travel to Italy, I will try to taste their coffee. 

I think drinking coffee in Italians style is quite good for the one who not like a very hot coffee like me but not my father. He is going to be hate it, because he really loves to drink a very hot coffee. But I think that if the coffee shop in Thailand sell the coffee in Italians style, it maybe becomes a popular shop.

When the defibrillator is used in Star Wars

What I listened to / read

"The rain is falling now, I want to take a nap." I told myself after I looked at the sky for a while. However, I did not want to increase my belly size after I had already had a lunch for an hour. I searched a funny short clip on TED.com and I found a very useful and very funny video named "An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator" talked by Todd Scott.

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What it says

Scott gave a speech on the medical device called "Automated External Defibrillator or AED". This device was applied once your heart goes into Cardiac arrest shock back into the normal heart rate. He told us the information of this device by using this device to the different character in Star Wars such as Stromtrooper, Jedi or Jubba. He also shared a tips and cautions to use the instrument in different situations. 

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My response 

During our life go on, we might meet some situations or someone who have a problem on cardiovascular disease especially cardiac shock. In that case, we usually so the CPR technique to rescue them. However, they sometimes got a sever condition with their heart. CPR are not the proper way for rescue, defibrillator might be the better way. the advanced rescue team always uses this device, but you might be asked for using this instrument during the team helps other people in the case of severe accident with lacking of rescue team member. if the case occurs, the important thing is how do you deal with? Are you running to bring someone or medic to use the device? It sounds a bit weird and impossible. this clip are very helpful and easy to understand on how to use defibrillator to different kind of people. you will know how to use and how can you protect yourself during resurrection and prevent the unforecasted case once using the device both of you and the one who need rescue.

Escape form North Korea.

What I listened to / read

    One of my favorite authors is Wannasingh Prasertkul , he's Thai traveler who always take trips to dangerous and desolate places . Then, He writes all his experience about those places  truly and honestly. I read his book which concern North Korea and I came up with tons of question about escaping from North Korea. To answer my question , I watched "My escape from North Korea".

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What it says

    Hyeonseo Lee was born and grew up in rich family in North Korea. During the year of famine , she was sent to China and separated from family. She got away from China to South Korean safely. Unfortunately, Her family in North Korea was punished because the authority intercepted the money that she sent to them. She helped them to escape to South Korea but  they were caught by Lao polices. At that time , she had money to bribe the polices but a stranger give her money and also help two other refugees to get out of jail.

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My response 

    North Korean is a sovereign state where the government control the economy ,military , politic and education. North Korea officially describes itself as a self-reliant , socialist state and formally holds elections. Their government tries to represent that their'place is plenty of food and their citizens love and respect to their leader, Kim Jong-un . So, Why are many North Koreans attempt to get away from their hometown ? 

     
      After listening experience of Lee, I feel really sorrow Then , I tried to search more information to know the actual life of people in North Korea . This country  allow the foreigners in any nation (excepting South Korean) visit the country but they'll not allow their people to go out freely.  They divide the economy into 2 parts which is international economy and domestic economy , thus the foreigners cannot hold their local currency and the citizens can use only their North Korean money. Moreover, all the things that they provide to the travelers is what they want us to do but it's not real.

  

       In my aspect , The human right in North Korea is lower than other countries. However they try to make everyone have the equal status , there's some gap between the rich and the poor. Because of developing of technologies , many countries have to cooperate for supporting their own population. North Korean's leader and government opposes and denies to collaborate with developing countries. This affects to their people 's life in negative way.

      A lot of North Korean citizens died from starving but the leader still spends money for increasing the strength of military. The kids have to learn the leader's profile intensively and rarely study about other countries. Theses lead finite knowledge and narrow attitude to the citizens. That's why some North Korean people have to escape from their country.
       

It's still early

What I  read

I hope I haven't stolen an article that interested someone else, but the story "Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts" on the BBC News hooked me. Who wouldn't want to learn about a future without supermarket checkout queues?

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What it says

In his story, Chris Johnson tells us that Amazon has opened Just Walk Out to the general public. This supermarket has no checkout staff at all, nor even self-checkout. It uses a lot of cameras and other technology to identify and track both shoppers, who scan themselves in with a smartphone app a bit like entering a BTS station, put their shopping directly into the bags that will carry it out, and then just walk out, at which time their Amazon account is automatically billed. 

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My response 

I'm still stuck in the days of traditional checkout. I visit Tops at Silom Complex almost every day for my grocery shopping, and although they have had self-checkout for several months now, I've never been brave enough to try it. It looks complicated, and I'm not sure that it saves any time. It certainly looks like more work for the shopper, so I continue to queue for a staff checkout, although I gave up using cash there years ago. I love the idea of just walking in and having a QR code on my phone scanned as I enter, grabbing what I want, and simply walking straight out when finished.

My next thought was a connection with Top's blog post a few days ago, "Do not let machines compete your work," where he discusses the implications for employment of the rise of ever smarter machines. The world is definitely moving in this direction: even without healthy business competition, as governments raise minimum wages, it becomes more and more attractive for businesses to replace humans with machines. And as Amazon's latest public venture shows, machines can do ever more things much better than humans, giving a far more satisfying customer experience. I can't remember the last time I queued up in a  bank or a bookstore, having moved all of my banking and book buying online years ago.

As the article says, quoting Amazon's chief financial officer, "it's still early." Who knows what wonders may come soon to a store near us? In the meantime, perhaps I should give the self-checkout at Tops a go.

It's very easy to sleep on plane

What I listened to / read

     "I have to go to bed now , it was getting late" I told myself . Despite finishing all of  today's works , I still lie awake . Then I went on the internet to find some way to make me sleep and found an interesting topic. It's " Secret of getting on the plane" by Katie Berk. After reading the ideas and suggestion , I found that it's very useful. So, I want to publish this article to others.

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What it says

        Brian Kelly , a traveler and blogger who can  get great sleep at 300,000 feet on plane suggest that there are 2 important factors of getting well sleep on the plane . The first one is personal space which is different between economy , business and first class . It's not about the leg room but it's privacy. The another one is sleeping strategies such as  drinking alcohol , taking sleeping pills and  bring headphone or special pillows and choosing type of an aircraft.

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My response 

    Most of the passengers always suffer through long-haul flights especially red-eyes flights (any flight departing late at night and arriving in the morning) . This can lead to exhaustion and boring night for your trips. Economy class's passenger have to try to close their eyes against the sound of roaring jet engine and small seat width. While the fist class service offer their customers with private and luxury seats. This 2 difference type of flight's class is space and privacy.

   When I'm a passenger in red-eyes flights , I bring my blanket , travel pillow and a few book . I hope that this stuffs might help me get my mind off of sleeping. I'm also try to eat and drink to make me full but it doesn't help much. After reading this suggestions , I do agree with Kelly .The most important thing to do in plane for getting sleep well is making the privacy. Even though you booked an economy class or  your seat was near the aircraft's lavatory, you can make your space.

    In my bedroom and my eyes was wide open at night , I tried to do as Kelly's ideas to create feeling of privacy and space around me , his advice told me to stop thinking about getting to sleep. I mitigated the anxiety by imagine myself elsewhere and it works as expected. I felt asleep and finally got shuteye. I hope that Kelly's might help you to get sleep on  plane or anywhere comfortably.

Don't eat the marshmallow!

What I listened to

When I first saw this topic,"Don't eat the marshmallow", I quickly open it because I thought that it will talk about the disadvantage of marshmallow. Although I am not really like marshmallow, I still want to know about it. After I watched this video, I am so excited to share it because it is so funny.

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What it says

In clip, the speaker, Joachim de Posada, said about four-year-old kids that have been taken into a room with marshmallow for 15 minutes, and they were told to not eat that marshmallow. The kids who did not eat marshmallow are 100 percent succeed when they grow up. On the other hand, the kids who had eaten marshmallow are fail. That is why he said don't eat the marshmallow.

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My response 

I love his example which is very easy to understand and so funny and I really want to know that if I were on that age, would I eat marshmallow or not?

I think that eating or not eating marshmallow is not the main idea that Joachim de Posada wants to tell us, but the main thing is self-discipline. If the kids have a self-discipline since they were young, they are going to be success. 

As a new generation girl like me, who was treated by a computer and smart phone, I really suspect that what will happen on this generation in that situation. I guess that the rate of the kids who do not eat the marshmallow are going to be decrease. However, I am not really care about it.

Do not let machines compete your work

What I listened to / read

it is a relaxing day. I searched for some clips to listen in TED.com while I was sipping hot chocolate. my eyes were then stared at the clip titled "The jobs we'll lost to machines-and the ones we won't" by Anthony Goldbloom.  I thought that it is very interesting and can make us realized that we are not only fighting for maintaining our works from other candidates or competitors, but we also have a risk to lose the job to artificial intelligence.

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What it says

Anthony firstly introduced his niece "Yahli" and also talk about her family's life. he then told that there are a research on future of works at Oxford University in 2013. they claimed that 50% of work have a risked being automated by machines. Anthony said that the implication of machine participation in our works had been developed from 1990s as the tool for easy but high-volume tasks such as sorting the mail by reading the zip code. it were then developed for more and complicated jobs. those workers responsible for that jobs are facing with losing their jobs  However, Anthony said that artificial intelligence have a limitation on tracking novel situation which is the advantage of  human on the works. Hence he tried to encourage to challenge with anything we do in everyone before the machine beat you out of your works.

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My response 

Once the clip finished, I come back to think that every second is passed, machine learning are more and more improving itself for more complicated works. But, what are we doing right now? someone still live in very funny, lazy way. we do not know that the possibility of losing your jobs by automates is coming closer and closer. some of example using machine for the tasks appeared on my mind that more than the half of products we use in daily life came from the ability of machine in almost steps of production. as the point of manufacturers and entrepreneurs, the machine can produce more profit and reduce the cost more than hiring the human since the machine can work on frequent, reducible, reproducible and high-volume tasks in very smarter and smarter way. This idea sounds like a horror movie for all worker since it can let their jobs flown away from their hands easily more than they thought.
However, the automated candidates still have a fundamental limitation that is tracking novel situation ,imagination and inspiration. why do I say that? as Anthony said the machine needs to learn from large volume of past data before it analyses and predicts, but the human does not. we can make the progress on the novel situation using the knowledge and applied it by your experiences and creativity which is lacking in machine to find the new or discover the new thing. so, I want to encourage everyone to challenge yourself everyday , imagine and make in a practical way for self-improvement and prevent machine beating your life.

Off with his hair!

What I read

After the serious topics in the new blogs this morning, I wanted something a bit more fun to finish my coffee with, and the front page of the BBC provided in "Prince William sports shaved head on royal visit". 

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What it says

The article reports that William has adopted a military-style cropped hair style which makes no effort to hide his growing baldness, about which members of his family, the British royal family, have make jokes in the past. 

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My response 

I can really relate to William, who is second in line to the British throne after his father Charles. My own hair started receding in late high school, and by the time I was 30, I had a large bald patch on top just like my father did when he was 30. I guess it's all my father's fault. And like William's family, some of my nearest and dearest, and less close friends, also made jokes about my receding hairline.

I think Williams solution is the right one. I decided around age 30 that it was silly to try and pretend that I had a full head of hair when I obviously do not, so I've been cropping or shaving ever since.

I strongly recommend this hairstyle. It is very low maintenance,  requiring a simple touch up a couple of times a week that can easily be done at home. It saves a fortune on shampoo that need never be bought, and there is never any danger of the wind messing up your hair. A bonus with ageing is that it doesn't so readily reveal the fact that the colour has now changed from "a sable silvered" to a silver sabled. (Sorry for the last bit – the temptation to copy Shakespeare's antique English was irresistible. If you can't guess the meaning, Google the bit I copied in "quotation marks".)

Why I took my wife's last name ?

What I read

After fighting with my quizzes at my school, I had my spare time for doing my homework from AUA. I started to find the video that I'm interested, but I can't, so I changed to open BBC news and findind the article that I satisfied to. Then I got it ! It's said "Why I took my wife's last name ?" in the stories section. This interested me because this is such a strange story for me. I have never seen married men use their wife's last name.

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What it says

Rory, a primary school teacher, changed his last name from Mr Cook to Mr Dearlove. It caused some confusion to his student because they always see a few female teachers change thier last names when they got married - but never a man. There are many discussions about his decision. Some people say that it's kind of weird, however, some people say that he's a modern man. He answered the questions about his decision that changing his surname to Dearlove wasn't difficult and he wasn't massively attached to the name Cook and it doesn't any difference to him for his work.

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My response 

Is it wired to changed your surname to your wife's surname, if you were men ? Many people think this is kind of strange,but in my opinion he is such a cool guy, because there are few married men decide to change their last name, however he is not scared to his decision and being brave for changing.

In Thailand, the wives basically change their last name to husband's last name, but some married women decide to use their owns. I have never seen the married men change theirs before, but I think there is a few men did it.

From my point of view, I think that the guys who change their last name are having their own reasons and it doesn't make something getting worse. So, if they feel comfortable to do it, then do it.

Is social media making us any happier?

What I read

When I had finished my busy works,I spent a lot of time for reading a journal on BBC Future called #LikeMinded by Sophia Smith Galer. As you can see in http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180105-likeminded-a-new-series-on-social-media-and-mental-health.In this academic work states a strong issue that individual should rethink about using social media.Also,I would like to ask readers that "Is it making us any happier?".

What it says

The journal outlines that  social media effected on human's psychological health.This is because people can simply retrieve to each other's problems or negative circumstances around the world from social medias. Also,individuals can usually show a lifestyle on its which would be envied by any others.Additionally,there is an untimely research indicates that social media usage is related with  symptoms of depression, anxiety and loneliness in some people.Moreover,in this season there are many investigations about the impacts of social media on mental health.And,many journals had written for leading readers to rethink about how to use appropriately social media.  

My response 

Although,social medias create many advantages for my academic works,there are disadvantages for my mental health.This is because when I spent a lot of time for accessing social media connecting,I felt anxious,jealous,and bad emotions.


Firstly,I felt anxious when reading Thailand politics news in social medias.For instant,as I trust in democratic system,so I do distrust the Thai military government.Also,I always so felt stress when I have known that the current government had punished the students who are the political activists.I think that the government is destroying the fundamental of individual rights.I believe that  citizens should have the right to choose own government and the right to have free speech.From this result,knowing political news in social connection brings anxious mind to me.

Secondly,I felt a twinge of envy for the people on social medias. Someday I had many trouble from poverty or disheartening.And I accessed social medias. I had seen several people's happiness.I felt jealous them.This is because I also wanted to be happy too.Reality, accessing social medias may lead people to compare their life with others.Sometimes, when they have seen another's well-being life,they may be jealous in their mind.Thus,social medias cause jealous mind that makes an immoral personality.  

Lastly,social medias relate to unfavorable emotions.Obviously,I easily enter social medias in smartphone around 2-4 hours all days.Sometimes, I had known all negative emotions from others which they had posted on social medias.So, It might harm my good emotion and bring a lot of ้hatred to my mind.For example I always felt angry when someone posted a discriminated speech on Facebook. Thus,social medias make me hurtful mind.

In conclusion,I present three wickedness of using social medias which can cause my mental health.Importantly, I will manage my times to appropriately access social medias in order to cure my mental health.     

Keep your goals to yourself

What I listened to

            Listening to native speaker is difficult for me. Therefore,I choose to write about something I listen to on this blog since I want to practice and improve my listening skill. Yesterday, I listened many interesting video clips on www. ted.com but I think the most interesting video clip is “Keep your goals to yourself” by Derek Sivers .  I interested in this title because I believe everyone has goals in life and want to achieve their goals. So, everyone in class willl get some good ideas from this talk show.

What it says

            On this talk show, Derek Sivers  suggest us that we should keep our goals to ourselves and explain us why our goals are less to happen when we telling someone. Moreover, he also shows us an interesting experiment about this topic.

My response

            It is my belief that everyone in the World has their goals and try to achieve them . I have a lot of  goals in my life for example, be healthier, successful in my career and travel around the world with my family. From the TED talk I have listened, the speaker said that we should not tell our goals to anyone .There have been both pros and cons about keeping your goals to yourself.

            There are many reasons for the idea of keeping your goals to yourself. To begin with, the people who keep their goals to themselves will not get criticism from other people if they can’t reach their goals. Another reason is that if we don’t tell our goals to everyone ,there are no expectations from the others which can make us stress and anxious. Finally, when we don’t tell them to others , it makes us think its not already done so, we will have more motivation to do the work. This is look like what Derek Sivers  said.

However, some people argue against the idea of keeping your goals to yourself. Firstly, when we tell our goals to someone ,it motivates us to keep our word. Secondly, if you tell your goals to the expert , they may give you some good advices that make you success and achieve your goals.

Having considered all of the above facts , I am in favor of the idea of keeping your goals to yourself as it can cause more advantages than disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree with this topic?

Should Schoolchildren Have Jobs

What I listened to / read

After the class, I try to make a blog myself, and it is nice that no problem with it. So, I saw a news report about: 'Should Schoolchildren Have Jobs'. So, I plan to share it with the other classmates who who interested in this type of topic.

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What I read

In the clip, it says about the types of jobs that schoolchildren have during their school years. In the clip, it also gives an information about what is a Saturday job. A Saturday job is the name we give to part time work that teenagers do for extra money. These jobs often take place on Saturdays but not always. There are also some interviews from British Children about their Saturday jobs. The statistic results also indicate that teenagers are also facing pressure because their school work is heavy, and they would like to concentrate on their school work more. But for the other students, they think it is an opportunity for them to gain some social experience.

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What I response

As an international college student, I love part time jobs. Last year, I worked in Thaifex. It is an international trade convention center and people from different countries have their food exhibitions there. So, I had a chance to meet people from almost 70 countries. Unfortunately, I had Korean class at that time, so I skipped the class and did the part-time in Thaifex. During that time, I've learned a lot about doing business. The area I work on was guest lounge and hosted buyer. I observed how they conducted their business negotiations and how they introduced their products. 

Nowadays, there are more and more companies are opening internationally, and they are seeking more opportunities to introduce their products to the world. As a college student, I would suggest you to work as a part time if you are not so busy with your school work. Of course, I shouldn't have shipped the Korean class. To be honest, it's quite hard for me to follow the Korean class because I skipped the class for a week. Therefore, there are advantages and disadvantages of doing part time job.We should make a plan first. Or else, we would have problems with our schools work. Only in this way, can we benefit from doing part time job.

English as she is spoken

What I listened to

I thought that this very short TED Talk, "3 ways to speak English", was fun. In the embedded video, I've turned on English subtitles because she is speaking in poetry, and the language is difficult. In fact, you might like to change to the subtitles to Thai the second time you listen. (Try it in English first.)  

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What it says

The speaker, Jamila Lyiscott, mixes up three versions of English commonly used in the United States to show how flexible English is. The three different versions of English she uses in this piece of poetry are the ones she speaks: at home with her family, on the street with friends, and in class at university. 

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My response 

This is the first time I've embedded a TED Talk in a blog post. It wasn't as hard as I had thought it might be. The "Share" button on the TED Talk automatically creates the code to add to the blog. The messy bit is that you have to use the buttons at the top right to switch from "Compose" to "HTML" mode to paste the code into the right place in your post, and then switch back to "Compose" mode to see that it looks OK and continue writing. If it had got all messed up, I would have deleted and tried again. If you "get" 50% of her talk without using Thai subtitles, I think you're doing very well.

I enjoyed Jamila's passionate poem, but the language really is difficult, so if you have trouble following it all, don't worry. I almost decided against using her talk, but she also makes an important point about languages: there is no single correct version. What is correct is always what a group of users actually do. And this is a good thing. It means languages can freely evolve, and different groups, such as young people or academics, can make their own version to use. I see the same in Facebook, where some of my Thai friends write Thai in a way that would not be OK in a classroom, but which is perfectly correct, and definitely appropriate, for Facebook. And when I'm back in Australia, I sometimes have to ask my young nieces and nephews to explain what they've said: that's how different their version of English is from any that I use.

And the title? That's an example of how my Italian ancestors used to speak the English.

How many versions of Thai (or your native language) do you use? How different are the various versions of your first language?

Designed super-baby or Unpredictable monster

What I listened to / read

During a little free time before I took a shower, I had searched for the trend of science and medicine news. I found one topic that are very interested and can changed the belief of destiny that you ever known. I would like to share this new "Gene editing-and what it really means to rewrite the code of life" written by Ian Sample from The Guardian.

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What it says

Recently, scientists found the way to eliminate the birth defects or genetic disorders both of embryonic and adult stages, and prevent the defective gene transmission. this method could help millions of children from the genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and muscular dystrophy. it had been also used as a tool for overcoming cancer and HIV infection. Interestingly, this strategy could be used to design what your baby could be. It did not only have an advantage for medicine purpose, but it also important for agriculture. By doing this, it made the crop could be grown faster, safer and more precise in crop feature more than a conventional genetic modification. this method are called "Crispr-Cas9". this method used a  guild DNA to find the specific region on genome before used the enzyme to cut the specific sequences before repairing with the desired piece of DNA. this method seemed to be great way to cure the disease permanently, but there were some issues that researchers need to solve before using as a clinical procedure.

My response 

After I have read it, I thought that this scientific story passed a lot of errors and trials, collected the experiences of many expertise, but it still keeps on a long journey. In my point, as a scientist, Crispr-Cas9 technique is more than an usual way for us to find the role and interaction of specific gene. it is an exceptional tool to access to the secret of nature to control and design your life at the cellular and molecular level. this controller can cure the genetic disorders and birth defects that the recent treatment can only repress the symptom or reduce disease progression rate. it can improve the life quality of patients. apart from the advantage on disease, gene editing can be used as a designer material for design the baby to be smarter, healthier, or even genius. As parent view, those features is what parent want to find within their baby. hence, this method seems to rise a hope for them. However, there are some questions that appear on my mind. how can we confirm that the edition is not off-target? How we can make sure whether the genetic modification is on the right time and right place? How can we know that the baby will born without undesired  severe diseases or awful features? and if the gene editing goes wrong, what does the baby confront to the social issues?

these questions are a challenge for all human. they need to try to discover and take a lot of experiments before they turn into the clinical trails and commercialization. For parents, they need to understand the way that gene editing materials do and the risk that you will get. they also need to prepare after designing your baby. if the super-baby is borne that is a lucky, but if he/she born as unpredictable monster, they need to prepare and make sure that this baby can live in the society happily and he/she does not make the unpredictable events.