Bedbugs

Bedbugs are common prehistoric creatures like roaches. They suck mammals' blood as their diet. What's uncommon is they were disappeared from American for 40 years since before the 1990's, because at that time DDT was still legal, and it kills bedbugs!!

After the ban of DDT, incorporating with the world's vibrance of travelers, New York City became a new home of bedbugs.

How much sleep do we need?

According to an article, the amount of sleep depends on many factors such as ages, activities, symptoms and so on. Toddlers need 16 hours sleep a day; while in adults, the range is waving between 5-10 hours. All in all, if you have adequate sleeping time, you will never feel sleepy during the day. If not, you may have sleep deprivation.

The recycled pillows at Rice restaurants

Lots of waste in the US came from one-time used materials. At Rice restaurant, with its other locations in the city, they found aesthetics in rice bags from India. This is where the creative idea of creating a pillow case with rice bags came from. Only 1-$20 needed for one unique pillow!!

Color

I agree with the article that our perception in colors varies depending on our background, culture, and tradition. In some cultures, they see brighter colors good meaning; while, in other cultures, those have negative meaning.

We see colors everywhere in our everyday life since the first day we opened our eyes and found that they are not blind.

Still, I think each shade of colors should affect on an individual's mood and feeling separately not depending on any theories. Once, we gather too much directed information; we unnoticeably turn the information to be our believes.

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Do laws even matter today?

I agree with Jonathan Turley, a Public Law Professor at George Washington University, that double-standards and arbitrarily legal practices are relevantly related to both Law and Politics. Politicians write laws, and laws are practiced by politicians.

Since Democracy is run by Representative System, the people, who actually have the right to direct the country, tend to practically have less power. While those people who hold governing power tend to arrogantly adore their power and forget about who, in fact, giving the power to them, and in order them to achive what. If these people, the politicians, could recall the intuitive intentions of what democracy is and why a society needs laws, all the controversial problems would not even have been mentioned.

'Brooklyn Bridge Song'

It has been my third year already living in New York.

I firstly came here with no clues about what the next step of my life would turn to be. I gave myself a chance for one year living my everyday in New York as best as I could, since I barely could foresee whether I could get into a school or not. If I got bad luck, I would have to leave here forever. Before I knew the result from school, I asked myself if I was ready to go back home. The answer was yes. Yes doesn't mean I hate living here; in contrary, I love here so much. And the total amount of my love has already been spent on doing my best in my everyday life since the first year. New York taught me a lot, and the same it did to him, Michael Arthur, a song writer from Austin, Texas.

I truly agree with him that everything that makes living in this city difficult was almost holy in its ability to inspire.

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Inception

Inception turned some of my friends into weirdos.

"Youuuuu may be dreamingggggg at the momenttt."

Above is a normal sentence I occasionally heard about this movie while it was playing in the theaters.

I wondered if it would affect me, then I got a ticket and went to see it.

Inception didn't bring me to a new world or to any new ideas about unconsciousness.

In contrary, I was more stunned and impressed by its dialogue and how they sequenced each scene. Easily speaking, what surprised me was the art directing of the movie rather than its content.

If the last scene left a message telling people to live their lives consciously and to dream their dreams unconsciously, this movie might work on me. A better man can distinguish between what is real and what is dreaming.

To learn better, take a nap (and don't forget to dream)

Published in: Current Biology

Researchers report that people who take a nap and dream about the task they have just worked on will continue to perform better than those who neither sleep or sleep but don't dream.

Dream is always beautiful.

Isn't it double fun that we can dream of beautiful things and it benefits on us!

Designer of 2015 trends

"There is an underlying unity behind all the various seemingly separate things we see.", a basic assumption of Implicate Order, a theory found by David Bohm, an American quantum physics scientist during 1917-1992.

The 2015 trends for designers unawarely follow Bohm's zeitgeist. An article from the AIGA(American Institute of Graphic Arts), "Designer of 2015 trends", is written to guide the future designers to be broader, cross-disciplinary and deeper in mind and knowledge, since separate things we see today tend to globally merge together in the future.

Knowing how to get the most beautiful form and what the best way to communicate is are not enough. Moreover, designers, in the present, have to understand who their audience are and where their work is gonna present and under in which context.