Ten Ignorances of Americans

Obama and Muslim

        Recently Pew poll found that nearly one fifth of Americans (mistakenly) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. The portion of poll respondents who believe Obama is a Muslim has risen recently。

Evolution

　　To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Gallup thought it might be a good idea to poll Americans on their beliefs of the British naturalist's theory. But the results must have had Darwin spinning in his grave, since only 39 percent of Americans believed in the theory. The good news: only a quarter said they didn't believe it; the remaining portion either didn't have an opinion or didn't answer。

Witchcraft

　　It turns out that 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks out there。

Death panels

　　On Facebook, Sarah Palin wrote in August 2009 that Obama would institute a "death panel" as part of health-care reform. Soon pundits and politicians were demagoguing the issue into common currency. Even in August 2010, one year after the initial burst and five months after health reform was signed into law, four in 10 Americans mistakenly believe it。

Saddam's WMDs

　　Even years after claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or had links to the September 11 attacks had been debunked, not all Americans were convinced. In a June 2007 Newsweek poll, four years after the invasion of Iraq, 41 percent believed Saddam was involved in 9/11.

Heliocentrism

　　Didn't we clear this one up in the 16th century? Copernicus be damned, 20 percent of Americans were still sure in 1999 that the sun revolved around the Earth。

History of religion

　　If mutual understanding is the key to tolerance, we're in trouble. According to Newsweek's 2007 What You Need to Know poll, barely half of Americans were correctly able to state that Judaism was older than both Christianity and Islam。

Supreme Court vs. Seven Dwarfs

　　In a 2006 poll, more than three quarters of Americans could name at least two of the seven dwarfs, while not quite a quarter could name two members of the Supreme Court。

World geography

　　Lost? Don't ask an American. Sixty-three percent of young Americans can't find Iraq on a map, despite the ongoing U.S involvement there. Nine out of 10 can't find Afghanistan - even if you give them the advantage of a map limited to Asia。

Three Stooges vs. Three Branches

　　According to Zogby, the majority of Americans - three in four - can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government。

Happier marriages result from attractive women and uglier men

 

From:  http://www.24en.com

He's had many an unkind comment about his looks when set against the radiant beauty of girlfriend Sienna Miller.

But Rhys Ifans seems likely to have the last laugh because psychologists reckon that happier marriages result from attractive women who wed uglier men.

And women who marry handsome men had better watch out. Men who saw themselves as better looking than their wives were more likely to be disgruntled and have negative feelings about their marriage, experts found.

The University of Tennessee study might also explain a few other couples such as Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas and Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller.

The Tennessee team tested 82 newly-wed couples for facial attractiveness and the quality of their marriage.

Their results, in the Journal of Family Psychology, suggested most men who married attractive women were happy to bask in the glory of their partner's beauty.

But Professor Jim McNulty reported: "Men who were more attractive than their partner demonstrated a tendency to offer less emotional and practical support to their wives."

He said "evolutionary perspectives" offered an explanation.

Strathclyde University psychologist Alastair Ross said many men enjoyed the prestige of having a beautiful wife.

"Men are rated as more likeable and friendly when they have a wife who is very attractive," he added.

Learning：A Lifelong Career

As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inex-haustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant of success in times of uncertainty.

Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a neyer-ending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What's worse, the animal instinct dormant deep in our sub-conscious will come to life.weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron got a daughter

From: http://www.24en.com

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, and his wife Samantha, pose for a photograph on the coastal path at Daymer Bay in Cornwall, August 22, 2010

British Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha has given birth to a baby girl, his office said.

"Both the baby -- who was born weighing 6lbs 1oz (2.7 kg) -- and Mrs Cameron are doing very well," a statement from the prime minister's Downing Street office said.

The last British prime minister to have a baby in office was former Labor leader Tony Blair, whose wife Cherie gave birth to their fourth child, Leo, in May 2000. Leo Blair was the first child born to a serving British prime minister for 150 years.

The Camerons' baby, who has not yet been named, was born at midday Tuesday, a few weeks earlier than expected, while the couple were on holiday in Cornwall, southwest England.

Center-right Conservative leader Cameron, 43, has led a coalition government since the election in May. Samantha Cameron, 39, announced shortly after the poll she would step down as creative director of luxury goods retailer Smythson.

The couple have two other children, Nancy and Arthur, born in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Their eldest son, Ivan, died in February last year aged six. He had suffered from cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy.

Ten advices lead you a valuable College Life

1. Answer the question, "Why am I going to college?"

Many college students really don't have a clear reason for being there other than the fact that they don't know what else to do yet.  They inherit goals from family and peers which aren't truly their own. What are you there to learn?  What do you want to experience?

2. Imagine your ideal college experience.

Once you know why you're going to university, imagine your ideal outcome.  Whether you've already started university or not, stop and simply write down some attributes of your ideal experience. Describe it in as much detail as you can. Real life will of course turn out differently than you visualize.  The point of visualization is to give you more clarity for making decisions right now.

3. Take at least one extra class each semester.

The real benefit to a dense schedule isn't that you'll graduate sooner.  The real benefit is that you'll enjoy a richer experience.  This sort of thing sure looks great on a resume.

4. Set clear goals for each class.

Decide what you want out of each specific class. Sometimes you'll achieve your goals; sometimes you won't.  Even if you do your best, you may still fall short. You'll have to pick your battles.  Some are worth fighting; others are best ignored.

5. Triage ruthlessly.

You don't need to put an equal amount of effort into every class.  Inject extra effort when it's important to you, but feel free to back off a little from classes that are a low priority based on your specific goals.

6. Get an early start to each day.

Getting an early start each day helped you get a lot more done, not just in the morning but throughout the day.

7. Reclaim wasted time during your classes.

Not every class is going to require your utmost concentration. Sometimes teachers babble.  Sometimes they reiterate what you already know. If a class is really challenging, sit in the front and soak up every word.  But if a class isn't challenging you, then sit in the back, do homework for other classes, and pop your head up every once in a while to see if there's anything worth jotting down.

8. Learn material the very first time it's presented.

One of the biggest time wasters in school is having to relearn something you didn't learn properly the first time.  When students say they're studying, most of the time they're making up for a previous failure to learn the material.

9. Master advanced memory techniques.

One of the keys to learning material the first time is to train yourself in advanced memory techniques. I don't recommend memorizing by repetition because it's way too slow.

10. Have some serious fun!

Challenge yourself academically, but give yourself plenty of time for fun as well.  Don't squander your leisure time hanging around doing nothing.

From:  http://www.24en.com/

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