Brain storming is a method of creating ideas where a group of people sit down and make random suggestions, writing down everything that comes into their heads. The theory is that this should result in creative ideas, and lots of them.
Blame storming is quite similar, but more specific. Blame storming is a method of collectively finding someone to blame for a mistake that no one is willing to confess to.
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- Nov 11 Wed 2009 23:50
BBC Learning English 這個字很好玩：Blamestorming
- Oct 06 Tue 2009 03:17
【轉錄】台大將成為貴族大學？
作者：羅竹平 出處：Web Only 2009/09
作者為台灣大學農經系助理教授，原文刊於20090930中國時報
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筆者有幸任教於全國唯一的農經系所，去年忝列本系甄選入學的招生委員，對於五十多位來面試的同學出類拔萃的成績表現，印象深刻！而更讓我印象深刻的是大多數同學出類拔萃的家庭背景。 |
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這五十多位來甄試的同學中，大概七成來自台北縣市，普遍來自好學區學校或貴族私校；總共只有十二位同學來自中南部。這些在學校成績和活動參與上皆出類拔萃的學生父母中，約一成是大學教授，一成是醫生，其它有企業主、基金經理人等；父母直接務農的，好像一個也沒有。難怪，系上的清寒獎學金，值金融海嘯之際，還是一直沒人申請。
普遍而言，北部學生英語程度比南部學生好。這也難怪，許多學生（大部分來自台北縣市）有出國旅遊、遊學、或當交換學生的經驗，有人甚至每個暑假都出國。除此之外，他們興趣廣泛地參與多項「貴族」的活動、學習「貴族」的樂器。所以當偶爾看到甄試同學（中南部學生）中有人的興趣只有打籃球、彈吉它這類「免錢」的活動時，不免覺得落差很大。盡管他們學測成績相同，有「貴族」氣息的學生，在分類評分表上，當然是比只能從事「免錢」活動的學生占優勢。
在高度競爭下，差一分就差很多；然而，有些成績和優秀是可以用錢堆出來的。一些弱勢家庭的孩子，在教育資源相對缺乏的情況下，能獲得跟從優渥家庭的孩子一樣的成績，豈不表示其更是「可造之才」？更適宜來台大？在我看來，甄選入學不僅「強奪」了弱勢家庭獲取好教育資源的機會，也波及一般家庭，為了不讓孩子「輸在起跑點上」，得硬擠出教育預算，要孩子從小學這學那，弄得雙方都很累。
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- Sep 12 Sat 2009 00:40
Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness
- Mar 18 Wed 2009 14:04
【轉錄】詹偉雄與安郁茜的對談：惡補品味沒品味
2008年12月8日聯合報的一篇專訪《 詹偉雄與安郁茜的對談：惡補品味沒品味》非常精彩，
今年5月再次對談會談出些什麼？（期待中）
聯合新聞網影音專區
【聯合報記者陳宛茜、賴素鈴、鄭朝陽】
摘錄
詹偉雄.安郁茜：惡補品味沒品味
近來台灣興起一股品味學習潮，許多人期待透過課程的快速傳授，提升自我品味，但實踐大學設計學院院長安郁茜的生活經驗說明：慢速的生活教她懂得什麼是「欣賞」，也因此豐富她的品味人生。
擅長用社會學角度剖析社會現象的學學文創志業副董事長詹偉雄，察覺台灣社會對品味有股集體焦慮，推著人們循課程模式學習品味。但他強調，個人品味是生命的體驗，只有自己能教自己。
不論是以美學與人文理念重塑大學建築課程的安郁茜，還是鼓吹「流浪」找尋自我的詹偉雄都同意：重新考察自己，才能打開品味之門的正道。
問：近來「品味」議題常被熱烈討論，談談兩位對「品味」的看法？
詹偉雄（以下簡稱「詹」）：品味是人對外在世界有系統的美學判斷的組合，對飲食、交友、服裝等喜好，都在生命經歷中慢慢養成。它受文化環境影響，除非遭遇大轉折，否則品味系統很難改變。
安郁茜（以下簡稱「安」）：我從未仔細想過品味這件事，直到這兩個字變成大量被談論的話題。
開敞蓬跑車 只去吃碗涼麵
要定義品味很難，它最早來自口舌與氣味的辨別，像我去旅行會把旅館的肥皂帶回來，讓旅行的愉快因肥皂的香味而延長；又像我在美國念書，同學之間最大的折磨是會互相叫罵「你多久沒吃臭豆腐了？」當你喚起味蕾的記憶，就會喚起所有的文化記憶和鄉愁。
一般所謂的品味，我想就是功能與形式得宜，搭配得恰恰好。好比我常納悶：台北街頭為什麼會有敞蓬跑車？尤其只是開著它去吃一碗涼麵，如何展現它瞬間加速的特性，這不是功能得宜，而是進入另一種心理狀態。
集體學品味 這社會太焦慮
問：很多人在教品味、學品味，像品酒班很流行，透露什麼社會現象？
詹：我覺得這個過程看來就不太有品味。學紅酒或任何要躋身某個文化階級的行動，都是比較表面的，不牽涉內心的感覺。這也顯示社會有一股理解品味的焦慮：假如我沒品味，該怎麼養成？
如果不還原人和物質世界之間的相處能力，給你再多物質的知識，只能分析和作文而已。我不相信你讀了五本談品味的書之後，會改變你在市場挑蚵仔煎攤的抉擇。
安：約定成俗果然俗，哈！如果你把某個品牌或行為當成知識吸收，它跟你的距離就會很遠，甚至處於對立、分裂的感覺狀態。
- Mar 09 Mon 2009 13:45
【轉錄】英國高等教育品質保證制度之運作與實施現況
評鑑雙月刊 2009.01 第17期
http://epaper.heeact.edu.tw/archive/2009/01/01/1120.aspx
英國的高等教育品質保證制度不論是教學評量或研究評量，近幾年來均已面臨了鉅大挑戰與可能將有的重大轉變。
教學評量改革：
以機構審核為主
首先，在教學評量方面，高等教育品質保證局（Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, QAA）從2005年開始終止學科層次（subject level）的教學評量，改以機構層次（institutional level）的評量代之，並稱之為「機構審核」（institutional audit），使得一些學者有時以「輕輕觸碰」（light-touch）一詞來描述其對機構進行之教學評量。
目前英國的QAA是「歐洲高等教育品質保證協會」（the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ENQA）的正式會員，其主要職責在於負責確保英國高等教育的品質能達到合適的品質標準，並促使高等教育機構能不斷的改進其學校的管理制度與確保教學的品質。
由於2005年之後QAA即不再針對大學校院的各學科（subject level）品質進行教學評量，因此，前已述及，目前QAA所做的就以機構審核（institutional audit）為主。不過在不同地區，QAA所進行的品質保證工作內容並不一致。
- Feb 28 Sat 2009 11:36
【轉錄】Is love just a chemical cocktail?
這篇研究報導很有趣。
A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals?
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
By Pallab Ghosh
BBC News science correspondent
It is said that love is a drug. But is it just a drug?
That is the contention of Larry Young, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Writing in the respected scientific journal Nature, Professor Young argues that love can be explained by a series of neurochemical events in specific brain areas.
If it is true, he says, people will no longer have to rely on oysters or chocolates to create a loving mood.
Instead, it will be possible for scientists to develop aphrodisiacs - chemicals that would make people fall in love with the first person they see.
And for those who have fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have, there could be an antidote to unrequited love.
There is even the prospect of a genetic "love test" to assess whether two potential love-birds are predisposed to a happy married life.
- Feb 19 Thu 2009 11:44
《轉錄》When it came to the crunch, MBAs didn't help
2個月前我參加Nottingham University Business School 教授來台舉辦的座談會，
我問教授：It seems like a trend to study MBA and has been popular for a long time.WHY ?
教授妙答：For social responsibilities.
When it came to the crunch, MBAs didn't help
- The Observer, Sunday 26 October 2008
- Article history
It's not just in finance that the inquests have begun. What part have the business schools and business academics played in the implosion of the world's banking system? That was the question posed in a letter to the Financial Times last week by Nottingham University Business School's Professor Ken Starkey.
Hedge funds, private equity, investment banking, venture capital and consulting - the high priesthood of financial capitalism - were overwhelmingly MBAs' preferred job destinations, he noted. Now the schools needed to 'reflect on the role of the MBA and MBAs in the carnage of Wall Street' and consider 'how management education has contributed to the mindset that has led to the excesses of the last two decades'.
This isn't the first time that theory and theorists have been called into question. Three years ago the London Business School's late Sumantra Ghoshal caused a furore by writing that business schools did not need to do a lot more to prevent the emergence of future Enrons; they just needed to stop doing a good deal of what they were doing already.
- Jan 14 Wed 2009 21:13
《轉錄》The road to success: How did I do that?
By The Economist print edition
From The Economist
Published: December 17, 2008
TWO earlier books by Malcolm Gladwell, "The Tipping Point" and "Blink", were more than just bestsellers: they became compulsory reading for the intellectually fashionable. Journalists and politicians, in particular, loved Mr Gladwell's concept of the tipping point, the moment when a trend flips into irreversible change, because it lends the power of apparent inevitability to almost any argument.
In his latest book, "Outliers", Mr Gladwell employs many of the techniques that made the other two so engaging. To illustrate a "big idea" that appears to challenge conventional thinking, he deploys a series of well-told anecdotes that combine seamlessly with popularised accounts of relevant academic research and case studies. This time the stories remain as intriguing as ever, but Mr Gladwell's "big idea" (or ideas, as there are actually two in this book) is unlikely to take even the least reflective reader by surprise. His main theme is that great success is hardly ever solely the result of extraordinary innate talent but of other factors, such as luck, accidents of timing, exceptional opportunity and an appetite for plain hard work. The other is that we are all of us, for better or worse, products of our cultural background.
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