英语学习笔记：2016-06-19

看到一个老的交响乐团队的名字用的 sinfonia 这个词，而不是 symphony，原来这个词是用来指17、18世纪的交响乐团的，然后一些当代乐团想仿古一下也会用这个词：

Sinfonia is the Italian word for symphony. In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite (Abate 1999, who gives the origin of the word as Italian). The word is also found in other Romance languages such as Spanish or Portuguese.

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看韩国的纪录片《学习的人》里面有一个 Steven J. Heine 的心理学实验，比较东方人和西方人在得知自己比一起参加实验的人更优秀/更差时候的表现，东方人有很明显的趋同心理，非常棒的实验：

Steven J. Heine is a Canadian professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology. He specialises in cultural psychology and has been described as "a leading figure" in that field.

Heine's research specialty is social psychology, particularly cultural psychology with an emphasis on the differences between Western and East Asian culture. He also has done research on the Meaning Maintenance Model and genetic essentialism.

这会是儒学所面临的不可逾越的障碍吗？

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Yeshiva University 大学是纽约的一所犹太人大学，犹太人的图书馆都是无比喧哗的，这个是和全世界大部分其他地方的图书馆是很不一样的，就我个人而言，我也喜欢可以交流讨论的图书馆：

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with four campuses in New York City. Founded in 1886, it is a research university.

The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern-Centrist-Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge") combining academic education with the study of the Torah. Yeshiva is perhaps best known for its secular, highly selective graduate schools, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The Forward announced on May 27, 2014 that Yeshiva would be shedding the financial burden of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine when the medical school is taken over by the Bronx-based Montefiore Health Systems.

Yeshiva University