一个曼联球迷的利物浦之旅

如果你没有到过英国,你就无法体会到这里狂热的足球氛围;而如果你没有去过利物浦或曼彻斯特,你更不会知道这两家英格兰最富盛名的俱乐部之间到底有多么地水火不容。很不幸,笔者作为二个铁杆的曼联的球迷,在赴英伦留学的过程中竟鬼使神差地来到了利物浦,从此笔者也开始了这趟令人郁闷的利物浦之旅。     

“IFLA年”的希望与期待——1996年中国图书馆学情报学学科发展综述(上)

1996年对于中国图书馆学情报学界来说,是值得大书一笔的一年。经过5年艰苦而细致的准备,第62届国际图联(IFLA)大会在北京揭开了帷幕,国务院总理亲临现场为大会致词,《人民日报》为这个大会发表社论,与会的国内外图书情报界专家、     

战鹰的守护神——飞机定寿、延寿专家张福泽院士

20世纪50年代初,抗美援朝战争期间,美国空军依靠其强大的空中力量,对中国人民志愿军的交通运输线进行了绞杀战。面对这种情况,年轻的中国空军勇敢地投入了战斗,只有几十个小时飞行经验的飞行员驾驶米格十五战机,和美国空军有几千小时的飞行经验的王牌飞行员进行较量。 在苏联空军的配合下,中国空军取得辉     

教育革新的最新研究——埃利斯先生在香港中文大学教育学院的演讲

近年来,美国教育不断接受革新教学和学习程序,经常开展对教学方法、管理以及调节学习者之间差异等方面的探讨,这在各种教育期刊、专业团体所主办的会议和师资培训、教师职前或在职培训中引起了不同反应。有些人热衷于此,又有些人抱怀疑态度。本文简要介绍了对这十二项教育革新的研究结果。它们分别是自尊培养、大脑研究     

“无中生有”的诀窍开拓了思维的新领域

将近一年前，我收到一封很长的信，其作者声称他发明了一种能凭空制造出某种东西的方法。对此我并不感到大惊小怪。毕竟，在我收到的提出这类有趣想法的来信中，总有那么些人的说法是令人难以置信的。但是，既然科学的基本精神在于要求人们有一个开放的(如果还不是完全通风的)头脑，我还是尽量设法一封不漏地阅读这类信件。     

Wonderful secrets of nature. Natural knowledge and religious piety in Reformation Germany

Sixteenth-century Germany witnessed a tremendous flourishing of vernacular literature. An unprecedented number and variety of texts were produced for new groups of readers. This essay analyzes one underexplored genre of this vernacular literature: texts on the natural world. Numerous books on animals, plants, minerals, and natural marvels rolled off the German presses in this period, indicating a widespread curiosity about the natural world. These texts give valuable insight into the views of nature available to a broad lay audience, literate in German but not necessarily in Latin. They reveal a pervasive sense of nature as divinely created and a deep conviction that contemplation of the natural world would lead to greater piety. The divine and the mundane were thoroughly intertwined in vernacular natural histories. While other historians of science have seen the sixteenth century as a period of increasingly secular ways of thinking about nature, I argue for the persistence, and even the intensification, of profoundly religious attitudes toward the natural world.     

Developmental change in the ERP responses to familiar faces in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders versus typical development

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show differences in face processing abilities from early in development. To examine whether these differences reflect an atypical versus delayed developmental trajectory, neural responses to familiar and unfamiliar faces in twenty-four 18- to 47-month-old children with ASD were compared with responses of thirty-two 12- to 30-month-old typically developing children. Results of 2 experiments revealed that neural responses to faces in children with ASD resembled those observed in younger typically developing children, suggesting delayed development. Electrophysiological responses to faces were also related to parent report of adaptive social behaviors for both children with ASD and typical development. Slower development of the face processing system in ASD may be related to reduced self-directed "expected" experience with faces in early development.