신촌 쿠아에서 래팅할래? (영어회화/각종 모임 동호회)

Hi all!! It is getting nicer weather, I hope you are feeling getting better and better everyday with whatever it is.Please check the topic below and make a comment if you are in. Thank you very much, cheers!  1. First Section – Ice Breaking & Discussion 11:10 ~ 12:00 Love or Lust? It’s All in the Eyes   Love may be blind, but a study by University of Chicago researchers has found one unit of measurement that might help us know whether it’s love or lust at first sight, and, baby, it’s all in the eyes.   According to the study published in Psychological Science, where your blind date looks at you could indicate what exactly the other person is really thinking about when it comes to the future.   Since little is known about the science of love, a research team, led by Stephanie Cacioppo, decided to dig into the matter. They showed students from the University of Geneva a series of black-and-white photographs of people they had never met. In the first part of the study, the students viewed photos of young, adult heterosexual couples who were looking at or interacting with each other.   In the second part of the study, the students viewed photographs of individuals of the opposite sex who were looking directly at the camera/viewer.  And yes, this was a PG study: none of the photos contained nudity or erotic images.   As the photographs popped up, participants were asked to decide as rapidly as possible whether they perceived each photograph or the persons in the photograph as eliciting feelings of sexual desire or romantic love. Remarkably, this type of automatic judgment can happen in as little as half a second.   The analysis? The eye-tracking data from the two studies revealed that noticeable differences in eye movement patterns based on whether the students reported feeling sexual desire or romantic love.   For instance, if a person’s eye patterns concentrate on a stranger’s (otherwise known as your date’s) face, the onlooker sees the person as potential for romantic love. But, if the viewer’s eye patterns concentrate on the other person’s body, they’re probably thinking more along the lines of desire and lust.   This may all seem obvious on some level, but according to co-author of the study, John Cacioppo, “By identifying eye patterns that are specific to love-related stimuli, the study may contribute to the development of a biomarker that differentiates feelings of romantic love versus sexual desire.   He also noted, “An eye-tracking paradigm may eventually offer a new avenue of diagnosis in clinicians’ daily practice or for routine clinical exams in psychiatry and/or couple therapy.”   By Dara Katz, Morden Notion     2. Second Section - Debate (Pros & Cons) 12:10 ~ 13:00 Does Coffee Dehydrate? Stunt Growth? 8 Important Coffee Questions, Answered   You may guzzle coffee every day, but do you know how exactly it affects your health? Experts weigh in on the role coffee plays in weight loss, disease, and more.   Will I get dehydrated from drinking coffee?   This is the biggest coffee myth, experts agree. When British researchers studied the body fluid levels of 50 men, they were the same whether the men drank coffee or water for hydration. “We tell people to drink eight 8-oz cups of fluid per day, and we always thought you couldn’t include coffee,” says Halle Saperstein, RD, of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Michigan. “But now studies show otherwise. It’s OK to count coffee as part of your fluid intake.”   So why the myth? “Caffeine is a natural diuretic, but the amount that you urinate is not as significant as we once believed,” says Saperstein. Still, since too much caffeinated coffee can make you jittery, water is probably the best form of hydration. Drink coffee in the morning, and use plain H20 for fluid intake the rest of the day.   Will coffee help me lose weight?   Caffeine, a stimulant, is often used in weight loss pills, and a cup of coffee may result in a short-term rise in your metabolic rate. Still, there’s no proof that coffee can help you lose weight, says Saperstein. Plus, people tend to drink coffee with calorie-packed creams and sugars.   Saperstein’s suggestion: Use skim milk, drink plain coffee instead of lattes (so you drink more coffee than milk), and limit the amount of sugar you use or opt for a 0-calorie sweetener.   Is coffee connected to cancer?   When cancer patients visit Lindsay Malone, RD, at Cleveland Clinic, they often tell her they’ve cut out coffee because they assume it’s unhealthy. Coffee, however, is on the list of cancer-fighting foods published by the American Institute for Cancer Research because of its high antioxidant content. “Cancer starts with DNA damage,” says Malone. “The antioxidants in coffee protect your cells and keep them healthy.   If you have any DNA damage from, say, secondhand smoke or environmental pollutants, antioxidants can help repair cell damage.” Various studies have linked coffee to decreased risk of liver, breast, prostate, and melanoma skin cancers, among others.   Is coffee bad for my heart?   For most healthy people, caffeine can cause a short, temporary increase in blood pressure, but isn’t harmful in the long run. “Avid coffee drinkers can build up a tolerance to the caffeine and may not experience such effects after a cup,” says Leigh Tracy, RD, LDN, of Mercy Medical Center. People with high blood pressure, however, should talk to a doctor to see whether they should limit caffeine.   “Those with high blood pressure should pay particular attention to how they feel when they drink coffee,” says Jennifer Powell Weddig, RDN, a professor of nutrition at Metropolitan State University of Denver. “They may find that their heart rate gets faster or notice palpitations.”   Does coffee raise cholesterol levels?   Cafestol, a compound in coffee, is a potential stimulator of increased LDL cholesterol. “The catch is, it’s found in the oily portion of coffee,” says Weddig. “If you use a paper filter to make your coffee instead of something like a French Press, you lose that component.” Mesh filters, like those in a French press, will not eliminate the cafestol. However, if you don’t already have elevated LDL cholesterol, you likely don’t need to be concerned, says Weddig.    Will coffee cure a hangover?   If you’re feeling groggy after an eventful night, coffee might help. “If you didn’t get high-quality sleep, which contributes to a hangover, coffee will stimulate the central nervous system and improve focus,” says Malone. It doesn’t, however, clear out the alcohol in your system, so skip the end-of-the-night cup of coffee. It won’t help you sober up.   Does coffee cause women's breasts to shrink?   A study published in the British Journal of Cancer found that women who drank three or more cups of coffee daily had breasts that were 17 percent smaller than those who drank less coffee. Each additional cup increased effects. Researchers say too much caffeine can affect hormones, which impacts breast size.   Still, it’s an “all-things-in-moderation” situation. “They will get smaller,” lead researcher Helena Jernström of Lund University in Sweden told The Telegraph. “But the breasts aren’t just going to disappear.”   Does coffee stunt growth?   It’s what your mother told you when you wanted a sip, but there’s no truth to the idea that coffee or caffeine stunt growth, says Malone. “There is some research that caffeine can leach calcium from the bones, but older adults seem to be more susceptible to that than younger populations,” she says.   The amount is so small, however, that slightly increasing milk intake can make up for the loss in calcium. The calcium-leaching effect of one cup of coffee can be balanced with two tablespoons of milk.   By Kelsey Kloss, Reader's Digest   3. Third Section – Discussion  13:00 ~ 13:50   What’s an Industry?   Carmakers are afraid of Apple. YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon are upending the television industry. Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and others have changed consumers’ notions of how – and how much it costs – to communicate with one another. Sectors and industry delineations as we know them are breaking down.   Once upon a time, those delineations established a fairly clear-cut world. Car companies made cars, and they were in the automotive industry. Phone companies ensured that we could speak to one another over great distances, and they were in the telecommunications sector. Broadcasting companies made television shows, and they were in the media sector.   Everything was neat and orderly. Analysts could easily categorize companies and tell the markets what they were worth, boards could oversee firms with a view to shareholders’ happiness, and all was right in the world. Until it wasn’t.   That world – in which clearly defined sectors enable easy classification of what a company does – is disappearing before our eyes. Is Apple a technology company or a luxury watchmaker? Is Google a search-engine firm or an up-and-coming car company manufacturing driverless vehicles?   But, for every Apple or Google, there are companies that seemed innovative but became obsolete or fell behind. Kodak and Nokia, for example, provide a cautionary tale for companies that began life as innovators.   Nokia, in particular, was long held up as a case study in corporate reinvention – the very epitome of constant, top-to-bottom change. Here was a company that entered and exited sectors as needed: paper, tires, rubber boots, and telecoms. And yet it has lost its way; with the sale of its mobile-phone business to Microsoft, many doubt that it can recover and reinvent itself yet again. (Of course, even if Nokia has run out of road, its loss may be Finland’s long-term gain, as startups begin to blossom from the minds of the company’s highly skilled ex-workers.)   Many traditional companies, too, have fallen behind because they hewed too closely to their traditional definitions. Like Kodak, other storied brands have not innovated: Polaroid, Radio Shack, Borders, Aquascutum, Blockbuster, and the list goes on. Their managers thought they were doing the right thing: not losing sight of the “core business.” Their board members knew the industry and had all the right credentials to oversee the managers.   But both managers and board members were wearing blinders. They did not make room around the table for those who could see that the company’s destiny did not lie only straight ahead, but also off to the side.   Too many companies are too slow to have tough conversations about strategy and to ask whether the right people are in place to push them hard enough and far enough, showing them vistas that are not visible from where they feel most comfortable.   Complacency has never been an option; but in an environment in which startups can overturn an entire sector in the space of a few years, what once seemed like sound strategy can now amount to resting on one’s laurels.   Traditional companies are only now coming to terms with the reality that early-stage companies might challenge them in a serious way. Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer, for example, has just announced that it will create a partnership with Google to catch up in the high-stakes battle for the world’s wrists.   Many traditional companies, however, continue to believe that being toppled by upstarts can happen only in the “technology” sector. But what sector does not rely on technology? How many companies that could be classified as technology companies could also be classified as something else?   As the e-commerce website Etsy prepares for its IPO, should analysts call it a technology company or a retail company? The biotechnology company 23andMe is moving beyond genetic spit tests and into the competitive and pricey world of drug discovery. Pharmaceutical companies ignore that at their peril. Banking and finance, oil and gas, higher education – no sector is immune.   Perhaps inevitably, even those firms that are most responsible for blurring the lines between sectors are not immune to the consequences. In a legal case between Apple and A123, a manufacturer of batteries for electric cars, A123 accuses Apple of violating a non-compete agreement that its engineers signed. One defense strategy that Apple is using is to argue that it is not violating the agreement, because it is in a different industry.   But, in a world in which a computer company that has already revolutionized the music business and the telecommunications sector, and that now makes watches, could soon start manufacturing electric cars, one can only ask, “What is an industry?”   Obviously, Apple has been asking that question for years. Traditional companies must learn to ask it as well. An idea catches on, money piles in, and before anyone can check their analogue wristwatch, the ground has shifted.   By Lucy P. Marcus, Project Syndicate