Thursday, September 22, 2011
獨立特派員214集{打開自閉--尋援}part1/2 & 2/2
自閉症是台灣近年來身心障礙人口中增加最快的族群，
一年成長11%，約一萬多人，
目前這樣的現象還沒能引起大家普遍的重視。
獨立特派員從2007年起持續追蹤一名自閉症兒童一登，曾經因為經常發生頭撞擊牆壁和桌椅發生許多次的意外，甚至有一年還住進了加護病房22天。他後來到日本，進入特教學校和住宿機構，今年我們去探望他，看到了一登的笑容，還有，他會開口講話了。這是多麼讓人感動的一場跨海求醫記。
不少自閉症患者在醫療界對這種疾病不夠了解時，
可能會被當成精神病，讓病人和家庭蒙受更多不幸。
日本是一個很有社會福利精神的國家，他們每五十萬人就設立一個兒童相談所，協助家有身心障礙兒童的父母尋找醫療和照護資源。今年三十多歲的雕刻家上田，是一個自閉症患者，當年也就是透過了這樣的機構重新找回彩色的人生。一登的父母看到他的作品，彷彿看到一登未來的希望。繼續跟我們一起來看這個讓人感動的故事。
獨立特派員214集{農地不休耕}
當全世界都在擔心鬧糧荒，
台灣卻有很多農田在休耕，甚至廢耕，
還有的轉了幾手變成建地蓋起豪宅！
目前稻米耕作面積只剩下 25萬公頃，不到以前的三分之一！
原因是，台灣人米吃得越來越少，只有以前的一半；還有，農業根本養不活一家人，年輕人不願意做，所以農村老化。政府現在感受到安全糧食存量的重要，正研究所謂「活化休耕」，也鼓勵復耕，六龜就有一戶人家，都八十幾歲了，還是每天下田，他們也嘗試在檳榔樹下種稻，希望能做個實驗，讓很多改種檳榔的農民也跟進，目的在自給自足。一起來看，他們堅持農地不休耕的故事。
Cracking a Hydrocarbon
Liquid paraffin (a mixture of alkanes of chain length C20 and greater) is vaporised and passed over a hot pumice stone catalyst. A gaseous product is obtained which is flammable and which will decolorise bromine water and acidified permanganate ions. The same apparatus and method can be used to dehydrate ethanol.
Google Plus
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Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
ABOUT THIS TALK
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.
What we learned from 5 million books
Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer?
It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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