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Báo cáo y học: "The past is a foreign country"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The past is a foreign country. | Petsko Genome Biology 2010 11 131 http genomebiology.eom 2010 11 8 131 w Genome Biology COMMENT L__ The past is a foreign country Gregory A Petsko When I was your age my father was fond of telling me I used to walk 5 miles through a foot of snow just to go to school. I was impressed for a while until I noticed that as he got older the distance got longer and the snow got deeper. Eventually he claimed to have walked 20 miles through 6 feet of snow. I became even more suspicious when I found out from my grandmother that they had lived three blocks from school. In an age of school buses and car-pooling parents such stories whether believable or not conjure up visions of a world almost beyond the imaginations of today s children. I was reminded of that today by an email from my friend and Brandeis colleague Tom Pochapsky who directed my attention to a fascinating article on the website of Beloit College http www.beloit.edu mindset 2014.php . Each August since 1998 Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List which provides a look at the cultural background of the students entering college that fall. The creation of Beloit s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief it was originally created as a reminder to the Beloit faculty to be aware of dated references. As the website notes it quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. So what s the worldview of the class of 2014 According to the latest list here are a few of the things these 18-year-olds born in 1992 have experienced - and not experienced Few in the class know how to write in cursive. They find that email is just too slow and they seldom if ever use snail mail. They text. Oh God do they text. To them Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive film director than as vigilante cop Dirty Harry. For them Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways. They ve never recognized that pointing to .