Imaginary Scratch

Kelly McGonical: How to make stress your friend Stress make people sick, it increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Stress can make us healthier, when we change our mind about stress we can change our body’s respond to stress. To know deeply about that, we need to talk about hormone, oxytocin. Oxytocin is a neuro hormone. It fine tunes our brain’s social instincts. Oxytocin make us crave physical contact with our friends and family. It enhances our empathy. When oxytocin released in the stress response it is motivating us to seek support. This stress hormone strengthens our heart and the cool thing is all of these physical benefits of oxytocin enhanced by social contact.

John McWhorter: texting is killing language Texting is miraculous thing, Seeing back what language is. Language has existed perhaps 150 thousand years ago. At the time people do speak instead of writing.   texting is not writing at all. Writing is something that came along much later. First there’s speech then writing comes along. Base on history, there is natural relation between speech and writing such as when we listen a speech basically talk like writing. Texting is very low structure, no one think about punctuation capital letter. And other something wrong with texting such as using of LOL (laughing out lout), most of people use because it’s a new trend among people today.

Jamilia Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English Firstly I watch this video, I think the women is a DJ, she talk rapidly. The title is 3 ways to speak English, but I don’t get that point. She said she’s articulated, and I got she has different styles in speaking with others, even many people dislike her style in speaking. She is able to adapt her English language in every situation. told about her experience being articulated person.. She told all about her style in speaking is lingusitics beautification. 

 Diana Laufenberg: How to learn from mistake? The speaker has been teaching for a long time and has acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning. so, she always wants to give the best learning method to her students. In doing so, she wish that everyone can see the potential of their student. She tell a story about her grandmother that went to school to get information because there where the information lived. It was in the book and in teacher’s head. And it also happened to her father. He went to school and get the information which then he can stored only in his memory. That’s how the basic method of learning. So, when she was a kid, she had a lot of encyclopedias in her house. She don’t have to go library because all the information was there. She see the advantages of internet as a tool for education when she started teaching. She got an opportunity to teach in a small yet lovely school there in Kansas. She teach her favorite subject that is American Go...

When do you usually hear someone without properly listening to him/her? Usually I hear someone without listening to him/her when I’m busy with my work, when   people are talking close to me, when I’m sleepy, bored and bad mood, and when what the someone talking is not interest me. For example, my friends and I do homework together, I’m focus on laptop and when they ask me something, I’m not directly respond them , they should touch me first, so I’m aware and I ask them to replay their questions. Also, when I sit alone in public place, there are many people that they are talking around me, I’m not pay attention to them and I won’t know what they are talking about. My mood also affected my listening, for example when I join in a discussion that take time about 2 hours, for first time it works well after that my soul is not there J , sleepy and bored kill my spirit. The last, when my friends are talking about the celebrity, ninety percent it’s not interest me to pay a...