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※ 영어신문 중앙 데일리 2022년 4월 11일 자에 수록된 내용입니다. 매일 조금씩 함께 공부해보죠. 먼저 영어 지문만 보고 어떤 내용인지, 무엇을 전하려는 지문인지 생각해보세요. 그런 후에 해석과 해설강의를 듣기 바랍니다. Suppose that the biblical story of Creation were true : God created the universe in six days, including all the laws of physics and all the physical constants that apply throughout the universe. Now imagine that one day, in the early 21st century, God became bored and, j..

중학교, 고등학교, 대학교 공부에서 중간고사, 기말고사는 중요합니다. 공부하는 자신이 얼마나 배우는 과목에 대하여 핵심 개념을 잘 이해하고 있는지를 가늠해볼 수 있기 때문입니다. 행복은 성적순이 아니라는 말은 분명히 맞는 말이면서 분명히 틀린 말입니다. 비록 짧은 세월이지만 지난 세월을 돌아보니 그렇더군요. 성적으로 행복을 가늠할 수 없지만 공부는 분명히 "복리 이자"로 공부하는 자신에게 보답하는 것은 확실합니다. 신학기 시작하고 약 4주간 열심히 놀았다 해도 지금부터 마음을 가다듬고 시험 전 3주간의 시간을 알차게 보내기 바랍니다. 집중하고 투자한 노력에 따라 좋은 결과를 만들어낼 수 있습니다. 중학교, 고등학교 공부는 다를 수밖에 없습니다. 대학교 공부는 고등학교 공부와 또 다르고요. 학교 시험에 대..

Being able to have a good fight doesn’t just make us more civil; it also develops our creative muscles. In a classic study, highly creative architects were more likely than their technically competent but less original peers to come from homes with (a) plenty of friction. They often grew up in households that were “tense but secure,” as psychologist Robert Albert notes: “The creative person­to­b..

Plants are genius chemists. They rely on their ability to manufacture chemical compounds for every single aspect of their survival. A plant with juicy leaves can’t run away to avoid being eaten. It relies on its own chemical defenses to kill microbes, deter pests, or poison would-­be predators. Plants also need to reproduce. They can’t impress a potential mate with a fancy dance, a victory in ho..

Jeffrey A. Rodgers, a vice president of a big company, was once taught the simple idea of pausing to refresh. It began when Jeff realized that as he drove home from work each evening his mind was still focused on work­related projects. We all know this feeling. We may have left the office physically, but we are very much still there mentally, as our minds get caught in the endless loop of replay..

People unknowingly sabotage their own work when they withhold help or information from others or try to undermine them lest they become more successful or get more credit than “me.” _____________________ is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive. The ego doesn’t know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you. When yo..

Those who limit themselves to Western scientific research have virtually ① ignored anything that cannot be perceived by the five senses and repeatedly measured or quantified. Research is dismissed as superstitious and invalid if it cannot be scientifically explained by cause and effect. Many continue to ② object with an almost religious passion to this cultural paradigm about the power of scienc..

North's hackers cash in / on cryptocurrency 북한의 해커들이 현금으로 바꾸고 있다 / 암호 화폐를 (뉴스 출처 : Korea JoongAng Daily, 금요일, 2022.2.18일자 신문 ※구독중) cash in 현금으로 바꾸다 / cryptocurrency 암호 화폐 Hackers [ affiliated with Pyongyang ] have drastically stepped up / cryptocurrency heists and money laundering / to fund its illicit weapons programs, / with the total value of stolen cryptocurrency / rising by 40 percent over ..