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How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast

Teaching & Courses2017.08.16
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Breakfast
When I first talked about getting up, the second case would naturally be breakfast. 1. Cross-section: Breakfast The picture above was found in a casual search; it isn’t my own breakfast, but it looks fairly everyday, so let’s start from here. Why eat breakfast? — For nutrition? For health? What is breakfast? — Isn’t breakfast not a regular meal? What do you eat for breakfast? — Fried eggs, milk… 2. Technical conditions Many things make breakfast possible. First, what makes breakfast breakfast is a certain temporal rhythm: we eat breakfast before reading or going to work. Second, custom and nutrition science have made breakfast something regarded as necessary. Then there…
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2017年8月16日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed

Teaching & Courses2017.08.10
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Life: Getting Out of Bed
The previous post on the first week’s class only wrote half of it. In fact, the first half of that class was the introduction, and the second half discussed the first case study, so I’ll continue that here. As for the second week’s class, the original plan was for four classmates to speak for half a class each, and for me to speak for half a class; but the classmates’ sense of participation was too strong, and the time wasn’t strictly controlled either (since it was the first time, I deliberately didn’t try to force control), so the three classmates’ reports, together with discussion, took up a full two hours….
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2017年8月10日
Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives

Teaching & Courses2017.07.05
Course Plan: How Technology Shapes Our Daily Lives
Again invited by 706 Youth Space, I am preparing to open a course during the summer vacation, starting in late July, once a week, for about 5 to 6 classes. They are experimenting with the “project-based learning” format. I don’t know it in depth; broadly speaking, it is nothing more than a course form centered on students, guided by questions, and distinguished by interactive discussion. I am also willing to explore a livelier teaching format. Know Thyself The course I plan to teach falls within the fields of the history of science and philosophy of technology. On the one hand, this field is extremely profound; on the other hand, its…
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2017年7月5日
Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”

History of Science & Scholarship2017.05.22
Science Popularization Should Stand on the Opposite Side of “Innovation”
This piece appeared today in the *China Science Daily*; it is an impromptu essay I dashed off in half a day after being commissioned to write it. The original title was “How to Understand the Relationship Between Science Popularization and Technological Innovation”; when it was published, the title was changed and two paragraphs were cut. The cuts were actually pretty good, so I’ll just post the reprint here directly: http://news.sciencenet.cn/sbhtmlnews/2017/5/323655.shtm Since 2001, the third week of May every year has been designated the National Science and Technology Activity Week; this year is already the 17th edition. Science and Technology Week is positioned as a “mass science and technology activity,” aimed…
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2017年5月22日
Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)

Culture & Public Commentary2016.03.04
Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
I am about to edit and publish my lecture notes on the history of science. The original title was to be *Fifteen Lectures on the History of Science*, but the editor suggested changing it to a more eye-catching main title. After wracking my brains, I came up with this phrase: “Outdated Wisdom.” What follows is my explanation of this title, or perhaps it can serve as the first section of the preface or introduction. Of course, this title has not been finalized; suggestions and naming proposals from teachers and friends are always welcome~ Studying Outdated Things with a Clear Conscience When we say that something “has become history,” we…
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2016年3月4日
How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”

Teaching & Courses2015.07.16
How Should the General History of Science Be Told? — Course Summary for “General History of Science”
In addition to the philosophy department’s required course “Guide to Academic Research,” the main thing I had to deal with this semester was this university-wide elective, “General History of Science.” Grading It must be said that Beishida’s elective-course system is not all that great either. Although course offerings are very free, the credit requirement for electives seems to be extremely low, so many classmates take a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward them. Not only did several classmates never come to class at all, but in the end they simply did not submit the final paper either, adopting the attitude that if they fail, they fail. As a result, out of the 15…
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2015年7月16日
Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session

Teaching & Courses2015.05.22
Lectures on the General History of Science 12: Discussion Session
This week was the long-anticipated discussion class, so there was no lecture script~ There are 15 students enrolled in this course, but in practice only about half can usually make it. This time was the same: a total of 7 students came, and only 6 actually took part in the discussion. Even so, the discussion turned out pretty well. At least everyone had something to say, and we used up the whole class period. What is somewhat regrettable is that I feel my course has had very little impact on the students. For example, one student asked why ancient Greek science, which also originated in a tendency toward theory, eventually…
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2015年5月22日
Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]

History of Science & Technology2015.03.18
Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
下 week starting next week, the “History of Science” class will move to Jiao Ba 306 In the last class, we went from primitive humans to the four great ancient civilizations. We mentioned that human history is, in a sense, the history of technology; no human culture is cut off from technology. Where there is technology, there is also “knowledge,” and every culture passes on its own knowledge. By the time we get to the ancient civilizations of Babylonia and Egypt, people’s knowledge and skills had already reached a very high level. But I still regard ancient Greece as the origin of “science.” That is to say, the “science”…
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2015年3月18日
Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University

Life & Notes2014.11.05
Giving a Talk on the History of Science at Central China Normal University
Last weekend I went to Wuhan to give a lecture on behalf of Teacher Wu. My audience was two dozen or so graduate students, who are being trained as reserve talent for the Hubei Science and Technology Museum. The required course I was to teach consists of three parts: the history of Chinese science and technology, the history of world science and technology, and the philosophy of technology. The part on the history of world science and technology had originally been assigned to Teacher Wu, but since he was abroad, I was sent to teach it. I lectured for a day and a half straight on Saturday and Sunday, twelve…
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2014年11月5日
An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2014.08.01
An Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology
Introduction to the Historiography of the General History of Technology //Note: this article has not yet been completed. I am only giving Wu laoshi an account in advance during the discussion… Next I will flesh out the concept of “the history of technological thought” a bit more. 1. A Survey of Western Research on the History of Technology In the English-speaking world, the history of technology as an academically institutionalized discipline roughly began in the 1950s. Its markers were the publication of the monumental Oxford edition of A History of Technology (Volumes 1 through 5 were published in 1954–1958, the last two volumes in 1978, and the general index of…
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2014年8月1日