Full Moon Salutations 滿月瑜珈

Yes, you can blame the moon for a bad night’s sleep是的　都是月亮惹禍害你睡不好

TODAY’S WORDS

今日單字

1. tossing and turning idiom 輾轉反側

例: She was tossing and turning all night. (她整夜輾轉反側。)

2. doze off v. phr. 打瞌睡 

例: He dozed off in the armchair.  (他在扶手椅上打盹。)

3. anecdotal adj. 趣聞軼事般的

例: Gray’s book is anecdotal and entertaining. (格雷的書充滿奇聞，很有娛樂性。)

If you were tossing and turning at your pillow, you are not necessarily going crazy. The full moon might be to blame for your poor sleep.

In the days close to a full moon, people take longer to doze off, sleep less deeply, and sleep for a shorter time, even if the moon is not shining in their window, a new study has found.

Anecdotal evidence has long suggested that people’s sleep patterns, moods, and even aggression, is linked to moon cycles.

Between 2000 and 2003, biologist Christian Cajochen of the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues collected detailed data on the sleep patterns of 33 healthy volunteers.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG), which measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant’s nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting. They found a striking association between poor sleep and lunar cycles.

(Liberty Times)

若你在枕頭上輾轉反側，你應該不是發瘋了。你的失眠恐怕得歸咎於滿月。

在即將滿月的數日，即使月光沒有照進窗裡，人們要花更久的時間才能入睡、更少熟睡，而且睡眠時間更短，一份新研究發現。

有些奇聞軼事曾提到人們的睡眠模式、情緒甚至侵略性與月亮週期相關。

二０００年到二００三年間，瑞士巴塞爾大學的生物學家克里斯提安‧卡約翰與研究團隊，蒐集三十三名健康志願者睡眠模式的詳細資料。

藉由腦電波測量大腦活動，他們經由實驗室的控制儀器記錄到，每個參與者的夜間睡眠有多深、有多久。他們發現失眠與月亮週期有驚人的關聯。

（自由時報／翻譯：詹立群）

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Forgiveness 原諒

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. (Luke 6:37)

“你們不要判斷人，就必不受判斷；不要定人的罪，就必不被定罪；要饒恕人，就必蒙饒恕； (路加福音 6:37)

Words of the Day: 

1. forgive (原諒；寬恕 ) to stop blaming or being angry with someone for something they have done, or not punish them for something

EX: I don't think she's ever quite forgiven me for getting her name wrong that time.

我認為那次把她的名字弄錯後她一直都沒完全原諒我。

I've never found it easy to forgive and forget (= to behave as if something wrong had never happened).

我覺得不念舊惡殊為不易。

I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to the kids.

要是孩子們有個三長兩短，我永遠也不會原諒自己。

2. Forgiveness (原諒；寬恕) the act of forgiving or the willingness to forgive

to ask for/beg forgiveness

請求／乞求寬恕

3. forgive me (對不起，請原諒) used before you ask or say something that might seem rude

Forgive me for asking, but how much did you pay for your bag?

請原諒我問一下，你的袋子花了多少錢？

MEDITATIONS 沉思，冥想:

Forgiveness Meditation Christian (基督教的)

Secular (世俗的；非宗教的)

Buddhist (佛教徒)

Kundalini

Healing Yoga after an Earthquake 地震過後的治療性瑜珈

Taiwan’s first earthquake prediction park opens 台灣首座地震前兆觀測園區成立

Eastern Taiwan Earthquake Research Center director Chang Wen-yen gestures in front of earthquake prediction facilities in Hualien County on Sept. 24.
台灣東部地震研究中心主任張文彥九月二十四日在花蓮縣的地震觀測站前留影。

Do earthquakes provide any identifiable precursors? Recent research into thermal infrared and gamma radiation conducted by Lee Lou-chuang, acting director of Academia Sinica’s Institute of Earth Sciences and Minister of the National Science Council (NSC), may offer new clues for predicting earthquakes.

The NSC, the Central Weather Bureau and the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering have teamed up in establishing the nation’s first Experimental Earthquake Prediction Observatory Park as part of the newly opened Eastern Taiwan Earthquake Research Center (E-TEC) at National Dong Hwa University. E-TEC convener Ma Kuo-fong says that he hopes earthquake prediction capabilities can be achieved as soon as possible in order to better meet disaster prevention needs.

Lee’s research found that prior to an earthquake, the formation of steam occurs, along with the release of radon and an increase in infrared rays, all of which are brought on by pressure from tectonic plates. On March 29 this year, Lee discovered that an unusual increase in infrared rays occurred in the ocean off the coast of Taitung, which was followed by an earthquake on March 31 with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale. Four earthquake detection stations are currently set up at National Chung Cheng University in Chiayi County, in Pingtung County’s Kenting area, on Yangming Mountain in Taipei and at Hualien’s Dong Hwa University.

(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)

地震發生是否有跡可循？國科會主委及中研院地科所所長李羅權最新研究熱紅外線與γ輻射偵測，可望為地震預測提供新線索。

國科會、氣象局、國家地震工程研究中心等共同在東華大學建置「台灣東部地震研究中心」，成立我國首座「地震前兆觀測實驗園區」。東部地震研究中心召集人馬國鳳表示，希望儘速達到地震預測目標，提供防災所需。

李羅權研究發現，地震前受到板塊擠壓，帶動水氣形成、氡氣釋出，紅外線會變多。今年三月二十九日發現台東外海熱紅外線量異常增加，三十一日就發生芮氏規模六點二地震。目前已在嘉義中正大學、屏東墾丁、台北陽明山與花蓮東華大學建置四個觀測點。

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字

1. precursor n.

前兆；前導；先驅
例: A shift toward tolerance between the two countries is a precursor to peace.

(兩國互相包容的態度乃是和平的跡象。)

2. clue n.

線索 

例: Are there any clues pointing to the cause of the fire? (有沒有起火原因的線索？)

3. unusual adj.

異常的；奇怪的 例: That’s an unusual series of events. You lost your car keys, your car was stolen and then you found your keys.

(那倒是一連串奇怪的事件：你丟了車鑰匙、車子被偷了，最後才找到車鑰匙。)

Summer Anger Yoga 火氣 夏令 瑜伽

Hotter temperatures lead to hotter tempers

溫度越高火氣越大

The sun sets behind an iron ore bulk carrier moored at the iron ore loading facility in Port Hedland, about 1,600km north of Perth, Australia on May 30, 2008.
二００八年五月三十日，太陽在一艘從澳洲珀斯往北一千六百公里的黑德蘭港卸貨設備停泊的鐵礦散裝貨船落下。

Photo: Rueters

A big new study says as the world gets warmer, people are more prone to get hot under the collar. Scientists found that aggressive acts like violent crimes and wars become more likely with each added degree.

The research analyzed 60 studies of such things as the historic collapses of empires, recent wars and violent crime rates in the United States. They found a common thread — extreme weather, hot or dry, means more violence.

An author of the study said that when the weather gets bad people tend to be more willing to hurt others. The team of economists even came up with a formula that predicts how much the risk of different types of violence should increase with extreme weather.

In war-torn parts of equatorial Africa, it says, every added degree Fahrenheit or so increases the chance of conflict between groups, rebellion, war and civil unrest by 11 percent to 14 percent.

(Liberty Times)

一份大型的新研究說，隨著世界愈來愈熱，人們也愈來愈容易生氣。科學家發現，氣溫每升高一度，暴力犯罪與戰爭等咄咄逼人的舉動的可能性也隨之增加。

這份研究分析六十份針對歷史上帝國瓦解、近代戰爭與美國暴力犯罪率等的研究成果。他們發現一個共通的線索：極端天氣，不管是極熱或極乾，都代表更多暴力。

研究作者表示，天氣讓壞人們更傾向於傷害他人。這個經濟學家團隊甚至提出一套公式，預測不同種類的暴力隨極端天氣增加的風險有多高。

研究團隊說，在赤道非洲戰亂頻仍地區，溫度每增加華氏一度左右，不同群體間的衝突——叛亂、戰爭與內亂——的機率，也會增加百分之十一到百分之十四。

（自由時報／翻譯：國際新聞中心）

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字

1. prone adj.

傾向於；易於 (qing3 xiang4 yu2; yi4 yu2)

例: I’ve always been prone to headaches.

(我容易頭痛。)

2. hot under the collar idiom

發怒的；尷尬的 (fa1 nu4 de5; gan1 ga4 de5)

例: When I suggested he was mistaken he got rather hot under the collar.

(當我暗示他錯了的時候，他相當生氣。)

3. come up with v. phr.

提出某種想法或計畫 (ti2 chu1 mou2 zhong3 xiang2 fa3 huo4 ji4 hua4)

例: She’s come up with some amazing schemes to double her income.

(她提出一些讓自己收入倍增的驚人計畫。)