BBC-Drinking water improves exam grades

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17741653

When I see the topic “Drinking water improves exam grades”, I just feel “wow! It’s amazing.” It will be the dream of every student that we only have to drink water during the exam, and then we can get a better result in exams. Yet, we have to be aware that drinking water does not equal to good scores, which means if we do not prepare for our exam, we will still fail to pass it. Though older students are more likely to bring in water to the examination hall, the younger students (less of them bring water into the examination hall) show a higher percentage of improvement than the older students do. We still do not the reason why the importance of staying hydrated during exams target at younger students in particular. Maybe it is because of that younger students tend to be good at memorizing things.

Dance Trippingly with Death: Lo Man-fei

After watching the clip of Steve Jobs’ lecture in Harvard University (2005), I thought of Lo Man-fei. The topic that connects the two figures is—death. So, who is Lo Man-fei? Have you ever heard of her before? Lo Man-fei was a famous Taiwanese dancer who died in 2006 of lung cancer. When she died, she was only fifty-one years old. It’s a younger age than Steve Jobs’. And when she died, I was an elementary school child, knowing not much about her death.