Blogging Through Sociology of Everyday Life (2024)

  How School Makes Kids Less Intelligent | Eddy Zhong | TED talks xYouth@BeaconStreet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yt6raj-S1M As a student, hearing this speech struck a chord with me. I, too, have experienced periods of feeling lost and stressed in traditional schooling. In this environment, we are often expected to meet certain academic standards that don't always seem to reflect our true abilities and potential. The speaker begins with an intriguing "big secret" that hints at his skepticism about schooling, sparking the audience's curiosity and concern. Through the speaker's personal experience, especially his confusion in school and poor academic performance, we see the inadequacy of the traditional education system in fostering creative intelligence. His participation in a business plan competition at the age of 14 marked a turning point in his life, an experience that not only sparked his interest in entrepreneurship but also led him to pursue his true in

The psychology of self-motivation | Scott Geller | TED talks x VirginiaTech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxpKhIbr0E Scott Geller is a Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and a member of the American Psychological Association. Scott focuses on the "psychology of self-motivation" and how to have the motivation to find it in life. Self-motivation is an important skill that we all need to master. Being able to motivate yourself and others at work will make things better. When you are presented with a huge and daunting task, you should be able to motivate yourself instead of procrastinating; it will only make it harder to overcome inertia. Self-motivation is also important in your personal life. Think about the countless times when you lacked the motivation to go to the gym or save money. How did you feel? Maybe it was a feeling of defeat and frustration. You often don't feel good. But if you can motivate yourself and achieve, you feel proud and happy. Find out what m

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur  Fermi Paradox Great Filters: Space & Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgyxQJHHcY What are the great filters of the universe? How might these filters affect the development and expansion of civilization? How does the theory of a fine-tuned universe explain the possibility of our existence? How are the fundamental constants and laws of physics in the universe tuned to support the existence of life? If FTL or time travel technologies exist, how would they change our understanding of the Fermi paradox? How would these technologies affect the evolution and expansion of civilization?  In exploring the Fermi Paradox, I found that despite our advanced technology, it is still very difficult to detect signals or structures deep in the universe, meaning that even if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, they may be outside of our range of detection. At the heart of the Fermi Paradox is the idea that civilizations should have a drive to expand and

 TED-TALK How do we verify war photos? | Nora Savosnick | TEDxArendal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me0r0kuQwj8&t=607s A footless horse goes a thousand miles. This video mainly contains problems of contamination and distortion of the original, image, message, etc. due to the development of media. The talk in this talk is that the development of media has led to the emergence of unknown photographs and videos and the fading nature of the original images and writings, which contaminate the original text and convey distorted information that is different from the facts, as shown in the picture below. The Internet is now flooded with articles and images from unknown sources. For example, on social media such as X, people take other people's writings and create groundless stories and rumors. They are journalists. They reproduce, edit, and produce information with small phones or computers. Money, or views and likes, becomes their activity. As a recent example, a YouTuber named 

  Kurzgesagt Are You an NPC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UebSfjmQNvs&t=451s I can't decide, but I can choose. This video compares the positions of those who insist on non-free will and those who insist on free will. They talk about the existence of human free will, taking into account the physics of elements and particles, and quantum mechanics, which is unknown until everything is accurately determined. It's related to TED-ED reviews, but we're not npc where we can't choose anything. The beings we call npc are the inhabitants of the game, they move according to a fixed frame, and do nothing outside of that frame. Although we may not be able to resist a fixed fate like Oedipus, like Oedipus. But our free will does not exist, we have the freedom to choose, and it will change fate. For example, what if Admiral Yi Sun-sin listened to his ancestors and abandoned the remaining 12 ships to join the army? What if General MacArthur continued the war without conducting a

TED-ED  What really happened to Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9Wuz7MvUE) Is fate absolute? Oedipus was abandoned by his parents at an early age by the trust of the Temple of Apollo. This time, when he visited the Temple of Delphi Apollo and heard that he killed his father and took his mother, he left the family (not blood ties). However, he eventually killed his biological father, welcomed his biological mother as a wife, and eventually killed her. Was this Oedipus' fate ever absolute? I don't think so. I think the fate of an oracle can change depending on how it is interpreted in the end. Taking Korea's 'Three-Year Pass Story' as an example, there was a pass that said that if you fall from this pass, you will only live for three years. When an old man lamented that he could only live for three years after falling on this pass, he came up with a plan that if someone could only live for three years, wouldn't it be another three ye