2017年6月11日 星期日

Youthquake

誰是左右這次英國大選的主力?
英國大選爆出冷門,政治版圖重組,梅首相的政治生命岌岌可危。媒體驚呼政壇爆發「youthquake」,年輕選民扭轉了政局。是什麼因素激發了年輕人的…
BBC.COM|作者:BBC NEWS





Wiki
Youthquake was a 1960s cultural movement that started in the streets of London by a new generation of young adults.  The term was coined by Vogue's editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland in 1965.[1] Youthquake involved music, pop culture and changed the landscape of the fashion industry. The movement is characterized by looking to youth culture and for a source of inspiration, taking dominance away from the English and Parisian couture houses and giving it to kids on the streets.
Emergence of Youthquake
With the massive market of "baby boomers" coming into young adulthood, this generation challenged the norms of the past and were successful due to their large population. Women's economic, sexual, and social independence is seen as a catalyst that caused the many to reject the idealized femininity of the 1950s. In England, the emerging generation was bored of the couture houses' conservative designs and instead looked to boutiques to reinvent their style. This was a time in society when teenagers were able to explore their own identities and had the freedom to push boundaries due to post-World War II conditions. The boutique saw the start of the London ready-to-wear industry as people flocked for mass-produced clothing at a lower price point than its predecessors.
Paper Dress

2017年6月6日 星期二

sapiosexual


One who finds the content's of someone else's mind to be their most attractive attribute, above and before their physical characteristics. From the Latin root "sapien", meaning wise. The term is now becoming mainstream with dating apps such as OkCupid and Sapio giving users the ability to define their sexual orientations as "Sapiosexual."

For many, defining oneself as Sapiosexual is also a statement against the current status quo of hookup culture and superficiality, where looks are prized above all else.
"Give me a deep conversation or a passionate debate over brainless beauty any day. Someone who makes me reconsider my long-held beliefs and challenges my mind is a person I can easily fall for. There is no doubt that I'm a sapiosexual."

2017年5月30日 星期二

Humanized antibody, Keytruda/Pembrolizumab



Humanized antibodies are antibodies from non-human species whose protein sequences have been modified to increase their similarity to antibody variants produced naturally in humans.

Humanized antibody - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanized_antibody


Pembrolizumab
Drug
Pembrolizumab is a humanized antibody used in cancer immunotherapy. It blocks a protective mechanism on cancer cells, and allows the immune system to destroy those cancer cells. It targets the programmed cell death 1 receptor.Wikipedia
Formula: C6534H10004N1716O2036S46
Molar mass: 146 kDa
Target: PD-1
ATC code: L01XC18 (WHO)
Source: Humanized (from mouse)
Trade name: Keytruda


雖然治療成功率並非百分百,但由於藥物對末期癌症患者亦適用,對於這些患者來說無疑是一個好消息。
眾所周知癌症是其中一種最難治癒的疾病,而且治療過程往往痛苦又漫長。過往癌症治療通常會根據腫瘤出現的位置去施藥,不過最近美國 Merck…
TECHNEWS.TW|作者:TECHNEWS 科技新報

robot, robotics


Uh oh.
Stanford researcher says Tesla's autopilot feature doesn't recognize cyclists well enough to be trusted.
FORTUNE.COM
robotics
rəʊˈbɒtɪks/
noun
  1. the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots.
    "civilian research on robotics is advancing swiftly"

'Narrowcast'


Karen Handel, the Republican nominee in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, at a watch party in Roswell last month for the first round of the special election.
'Narrowcast' Trump? Republicans Seek Formula to Keep House Majority

By JEREMY W. PETERS

Conservatives are grappling with a question: Do candidates run with President Trump or against him? A little bit of both, some say, is needed.


BROADCAST VS 'Narrowcast'

2017年5月29日 星期一

One of electronica’s pioneers, Daphne Oram


She's the music pioneer you've probably never heard of. (BBC Culture)

One of electronica’s pioneers, Daphne Oram helped revolutionise music but remains surprisingly little known. A new play puts her offbeat life, and accomplishments, into the spotlight.
BBC.COM


Fascist bloggers and musicians have expressed their liking for an 80s-obsessed variant of instrumental electronica
"I had my suspicions that music like this could be picked up in this way, it’s not surprising. This style contains a lot of cliches from the 80s, and I think the co-option by the far right comes from people thinking things were better 30 years ago. And it promotes body ideals.”



Fascist bloggers and musicians have expressed their liking for an 80s-obsessed variant of instrumental electronica
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 MICHAEL HANN 上傳





エレクトロニカ(英語 Electronica)とは、電子音楽や、電子音楽に影響を受けている音楽全般を包括的に表す言葉。ただし狭義に用いられることがある(後述)。

Electronica is an umbrella term that encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, drum and bass, jungle, and industrial dance, among others.[1] It has been used to describe the rise of electronic music styles intended not just for dancing but also concentrated listening.[2]

2017年5月25日 星期四

titles face-out, not spine-out

每本書都風面朝外......

No cash, just 3,000 titles and face-out, not spine-out – here's what it looks like.




Go inside Amazon's first New York City bookstore
On a rainy Thursday, Amazon — the e-commerce giant that began as an online bookstore in the 1990s — opened its first brick-and-mortar store in New York, in the same mall where book chain Borders shuttered its store in 2011…
FT.COM



spine 
the part of a book's jacket or cover that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's name.