12-02-16 When a student failed to solve a math problem in class, he expressed his regret to his teacher. I remember solving the problem in my dream last night, but for the time being I've forgotten it . What can that mean? It means that you are more intellig...

12-02-16 A story around campus has it that a student once sent a telegram to his parents reading: Mom - flunked（不及格，失败） all courses. Kicked out of school. Prepare Pop. Two days later he received a response: Pop prepared. Prepare yourself. 校园里流传...

12-02-15 Though cellphones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Marketing professors Anastasiya Pocheptsova an...

12-02-03 At a dinner party in the home of friends, our host mentioned his highschool alma mater（母校，校歌） . One of the guests asked him if he had been a student there at the same time as a particular vice principal. I sure was! answered the host. He's th...

12-01-13 A new UC Davis study shows how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions（分心，干扰） and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations. In order to behave efficiently, you want to process relevant sensory information as...

11-12-12 A number of factors, including a declining birth rate, difficulties in obtaining quality education, and easier access to overseas universities, have combined to drain the student pool of Chinese universities. 人口出生率下降、接受素质教育存在困难、以...

11-12-06 A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students' friend, for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions. As they went along, they saw lying in the path a p...

11-10-30 Public schools across the country are cancelling Halloween celebrations over issues ranging from candy corn to concerns that Americans are forcing their holiday traditions on new immigrants and many parents are angered by what they are calling polit...

11-10-29 面对低迷的就业市场，英国剑桥大学的两名毕业生突发奇想，对外出租自己的脸孔做广告牌，希望能在谋生的同时尽快还清总共5万英镑的助学贷款。 Faced with a challenging job market, former Cambridge students Ed Moyse and Ross Harper are painting different compan...

11-10-28 At a pre-med university in St. Louis, we had to take a difficult class in physics. One day the professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A student rudely interrupted to ask Why do we have to learn this stuff? To save lives. The pr...