Maitrue Yang

"How language shapes the way we think" - Lera Boroditsky was the TedTalk video I watched for this week’s assignment, in reviewing a presentation. I chose this video because the topic interests me. Lera Boroditsky began the presentation with introducing language, and it’s powerful ability to allow us human to understand one another. She also adds in, how unique each languages are, as every languages have different sounds and structures, with emphasis on structure. She concluded her introduction with an “ancient question,” as Boroditsky describes it: how language shapes the way we think? Upon approaching the question, Boroditsky used history to support the topic and it’s timeline in history, mentioning Charlemagne, the Holy Roman emperor and his thoughts on language, “to have a second language, is to have a second soul.” In contrast, Boroditsky uses Shakespeare's Juliet, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Boroditsky not only use history t

This week, we are to listen to a technology podcasts of our interest, and blog about our position for the topic. I don’t listen to podcasts at all, so the idea of it was pretty interesting, itself. Finding a technology related podcast was easy, but finding a topic of interest was hard. I did a simple google search for technology podcasts, and click on the first post, "The 9 Best Tech Podcasts" which was written by Kelli on The Muse. Honestly, I chose the third suggestion, Clockwise, because it only lasts 30 minutes, and they cover four topics, which I sounds doable, since I prefer to not get a lecture on one topic. I listened to their latest podcasts, episode 236 and one of the topics was “will there ever be a social media platform we can trust completely?” which, one of the special guest, Cella Lao Rousseau brings up, with the whole Facebook issue. One of the hosts, Dan Moren, threw a question onto the table, is there is a company we completely trust or not. In my opi