Unit 4. Why music? Biologists are addressing one of humanity's strangest attributes, its all-singing, all-dancing culture. "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." And if not? Well, what exactly is it for? The production and consumption of music is a big part of the economy. The first use to which commercial recording, in the form of Edison's phonographs, was to bring music..
Unit 5. The way the Brain Buys 뇌의 구매 방식 Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers' minds. Here is what they knkow about you. 소매업자들은 소비자의 마음을 이해하는 돌파구를 만들고 있다. 이것들은 그들이 당신에 대해 알고 있는 내용이다. It may have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all t..
Unit 6. Short and Long-Run Fiscal Challenges 단기, 장기적 재정난 Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am very pleased that you are holding this hearing on the short- and long-run fiscal challenges. I strongly share the committee's perception that the future viability of the United States economy depends on policy-makers' ability to focus on two seemingly contradictory imperatives at the same tim..
Unit 1. Darwinism Must Die so that evolution may live "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching," Robert Darwin told his son, "and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Yet the feckless boy is everywhere. Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can't distinguish evolution from him. Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, includin..
빌 게이츠의 글입니다. 정보와 지식에관한 단상과 향후 전망을 하고 있습니다. 시기가 조금 지났지만 여전히 생각해 볼 문제를 내포하고 있는 내용이네요.. 트리거 파트2에는 빌게이츠가 쓴 2개의 글이 있습니다. 화자나 작자만 알아도 해석에 많은 도움이 될겁니다. Unit 19. The new road ahead - where next for the knowledge economy It's hard to say exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last 20 years the word "knowledge" became an adjective. As intellectual property became increasingly important to busi..
숫자에 대한 감각과 수에대한 이해는 선천적으로 타고나는 인간의 본성일까요? 수에대한 개념이 적거나 없는 경우는 어떻게 이해 해야 할까요? 짧은 지문이지만 시험에 나온적도 있고 내용도 흥미로워 꼭 한번 정독 해 보세요. (2013년 1학기 기출) Unit 21. Easy as 1, 2, 3 People come into the world ready to count its wonders. The baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert. Twenty centimetres from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it...