by Christine Liu
Speeddate, Wechat, Beetalk, Match, Tinder, Badoo…. You must have come across at least one of these names, so you shouldn’t be a problem for you to figure out what they are. Yes, there are the most popular dating websites for year 2014. Even though dating websites and mobile phone applications have become so prominent and widespread nowadays, people are still lacking faith in online dating. Why? By Trista Yo-Ting Hung
Do you know that Taiwanese people spend so much money eating out every year that they could build ten Taipei 101s? Unlike in many countries, where eating out is only for special occasions and might cost an arm and a leg, eating out is more like a daily necessity for Taiwanese people. Taiwan has a very high percentage of people who eat out regularly. You may wonder why. Basically, it is because a so much local food is tasty, inexpensive, and accessible. As a result, more and more people choose to eat in cafeterias, small restaurants, or from street vendors. This eating-out culture has led to three traits: by Joie Ham
Puberty has bridled us with the obligation to groom….Or has it? The advent of the metal razor dates as far back as the fourth millennium BCE. Ancient Egyptians, while considering facial hair to be divine, believed other body hair to represent animalistic tendencies in men and practiced regular cleansing rituals of full-body hair removal. Although many other cultures along the way associated beards with manhood and wisdom, Alexander the Great recognized the practicality of Macedonian lions engaging in combat sans mane. By the fourth century BCE, ancient Greeks and Romans also adopted the custom of barbering. William Henson’s pioneering invention of the first hoe razor in 1847 was hailed as a milestone in the modern history of clean and safe shaving for men. Thanks to Gillette, disposable razors became accessible for every man by 1895, hence beginning the tradition of the shaving we know. By Mia Jain What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “archaeology”? My guess is that it has to do with either dinosaur bones or emaciated mummies, or perhaps both. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. For just as people regularly associate periwigs with judges and spatulas with chefs, archaeologists have long been associated with the ancient and forsaken.
In most people’s imagination, archaeologists are men and women clad in dirty, worn work clothes and hiking boots, kneeling on the hot sand in some remote region at the edge of the map, busy digging at the ground with a trowel in search for some long-lost city— A grueling and dangerous job that doesn’t often produce any results and occasionally entails fighting off tomb robbers or armies of the undead. And frankly, even on the rare occasions when the excavation team does chance upon something, who cares? People are more likely to carry on watching baseball on their iPads and eating potato chips than pause to pay attention to an article about the discovery of primordial cave paintings squeezed into the corner of the day’s news. But could these facts be changed? by Pablo Echeverria
After eight years of research in the Science of Female Animalia and Behavior, I’ve been able to decode the traits and actions of women in their natural habit. Women in the wild, regardless of their status, character, circumstances, and environment, all share a common denominator that allows us men to decipher the mysteries in their brains. I’ve developed a set of recommendations to be able to allow you not only get a girl, but also to be able to keep her happy and content – at least, for a certain period of time. By Saori Abe
Watch out for people with tattoos! They are ヤクザ, Yakuzas, oppressive and anti-social gangsters. A man covered all over his body with tattoos terrifies me. He seems to dislike everything in society and shows his objection to us. This is how I felt about tattoos for the past 20 years. Many people in Japan feel the same way because the original purpose of tattoos was to mark people as criminals. The Japanese in general associate tattoos with criminal figures. For this reason, people with tattoos are often prohibited from entering public areas like hot springs and swimming pools. But despite this public perception, tattoos have also become part of contemporary fashion. by Louise Devillers Taiwan is next on the list. The People’s Republic of China dreams about finally submitting Taiwan to their « One country, two systems ». What if president Ma Ying-jeou were the man enabling China to take over Taiwan? How is it that Hong Kong’s political turmoil is considered as an isolated case and not the antidemocratic pandemic which is publicly spread by the People’s Republic of China?
by Sean Lin When Professor Li-Ling Tseng (曾麗玲), an expert on the Irish novelist James Joyce, recently assumed the role of department chair, she immediately realized that she would be wandering in an intricate labyrinth of departmental affairs more mind-bogglingly complex than Joyce’s landmark novel, Ulysses. She would have to sail the department carefully between Scylla and Charybdis, during a difficult time for any program in the humanities. In a recent interview with Professor Tseng, she revealed her vision for the future of the department, especially her opinions about the undergraduate curriculum, and also offered some invaluable advice for those who are still struggling to find the meaning of an education in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (DFLL). by Fèliks Cheang
Standing in line at a Starbucks on Sunday morning, I felt, as usual, my fingers itching to take my iPhone out of my pocket. A connected gadget is my boredom killer. Who still needs wrinkled back-issue magazines in clinics and salons, or TV screens in metros or elevators? This time, however, my ennui couldn’t be eased with a few scrolls and taps, because my phone was at home on my bedside table. This was my tech detox experiment — my ‘Gadget Sabbath.’ Phones may connect us, but they also cause the biggest disconnection in life, cynical people say. They wish for their ‘years b.c.’ (that is, year before cells), when their lives were still enjoyable. Was there life before an iPhone? |
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