Larry想给大家讲学科之间往往如隔深壑，老死不相往来，可是实际上都是在研究一个问题的不同方面。于是超级博学的Larry君决定用一个中国古代寓言来说事。
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I think you all have heard of the story about the four men and an elephant. They tried guess what an elephant looks like. One said that it was a wall, another said that it was a ...


话音还没落，班里一个女生插嘴说，

But they were all blind, right?

全班掉下了凳子。

刚刚在memorial hall和盛装以待的朋友们一道观赏了yo-yo ma和friends的精彩演出。今天晚上的演出厅爆满，连乐池和台上都加满了座！比较搞笑的是台上的观众们大都穿的中规中矩，一动都不敢动，除了一位仁兄在冰天冻地的寒夜里穿着一双carolina blue的crocs在众黑中抢走了不少目光。

友友和三个小提琴绿叶，johnny, colin和nicholas闪亮登场。开场曲是格鲁吉亚的四首民歌，都是sulkhan tsintsadze作曲: the nagging spouse, firefly, satchiado, 和village dance。听得maya同学摇头晃脑。上次yo-yo他们在格鲁吉亚的演奏会maya也在场，这次在千里之外的美国听到乡音，差点热泪盈眶。弦乐的曲子比其他乐器更容易让人想跳舞。格鲁吉亚的音乐似乎比俄罗斯的更乡土或淳朴一些，有一种特别的味道，有点难以捉摸。然后是一个有点小众的弦乐小品，oasis for string quartet and tape，由阿塞拜疆的franghiz ali-zadeh创作。不愧是沙漠里的oasis，琴弦在大师的手下总能发出怪怪的声音，听得全场好多人嗓子都干干的，咳声一片。然后是federico ii from viaggio in italia，意大利的giovanni sollima的，终于圆润的和音又回来了，大家如逢甘霖般起劲拍手。

中场休息后是tigran mansurian的testament for quartet和schubert的string quarter in g major，有点困了，闭着眼听过去的。有个小插曲，在testament的一半，部分观众误以为曲子完了，开始鼓掌，不料没把曲子鼓短，倒闹出不少尴尬的笑声。结果到了舒伯特乐段，明明一场真的完了，大家反而倒噤若寒蝉起来。

听罢，激动和同学白活n次，写信封39个并悉数寄出，在carroll里楼上楼下狂跑3周20分钟找车钥匙后回家。

困死了，是以为记。

此peripheral processing来自Petty和Cacciopo两个大叔的Elaboration Likelihood Model，就是说咱们看东西时候往往会陷于两种模式处理信息，central processing就是说你全神贯注生怕五雷轰顶般地潜心研究分析处理文中要义，peripheral processing捏就是说你心猿意马脚踏n只船样的轻轻飘过一瞥而已。结果呢，往往是central processing后的同仁们对论题见地更深奥，一不小心就吓跑了那些轻信表面文章的peripheral小朋友们。

今天下午，本着抽丝剥茧的三分热情和哈欠不倦的治学精神在沙发上研读一本偶像新出的书，两个小时后读完一只chapter发现n处语法错误后惊觉忘掉所有已记住的东西。

这算CP还是PP呀*_*

To sum up in English:
Question: Which kind of processing is this? Peripheral processing or systematical processing???
My story: I was SERIOUSLY reading a book in sofa with 100% CONCENTRATION in the afternoon. Two hours later, I finished reading one chapter and felt that I was CRTICIAL enough or SYSTEMATICALLY enough to process the information. BUT along the way, I found MANY grammatical errors in that chapter and picked almost ALL of them out. After I found the last ERROR one the last page, I felt that I have forgotten ALL of the stuffs I have read in the article *_*

In most of my previous training I was instructed to learn and to discover new ways to solve problems instead of discovering new problems to solve. Solving a problem usually entails a considerable amount of work. When it is done, I usually feel happy for a while and then get lost again. But to become an academic means that in addition to get them solved, you should also learn to find new problems and then solve them. This seems to be the hardest thing to learn. Interestingly, most of the social scientists I have met are wonderful problem-solvers and most of the media critics or cultural critics are good problem-discoverers. There does not seem to be quite much interaction between them. I used to think it hard to pinpoint some trouble or problem in a society as one gets immersed in the reality too easily and usually would have to pay the price--becoming numb or desensitized about the world and then happily work as a marvelous screw in a highly sophisticated machine. Or, to the contrary, retain their sensitivity and never get down to earth. Maybe this is why you don't see a lot of dramatic gestures from the social scientists--they just got too tired to let their hands dance. Is that possible to make this problem discovery and problem solving a healthy cycle instead of a series of disgruntled "eeek"s and "ouch"es?

Hope there is some way out.

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顺手把某物往回扔时，
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付款毕出门，
仍不解。
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静静躺在包底的，
是昨天刚寄到的victoria's secret的angel offers coupon book。