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a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

happiness by psychology

a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive

happiness by behaviorists

the experience of a flood hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.

happiness by neurologists

happiness is the polar opposite of suffering; the presence of happiness indicates the absence of pain

hedonistic view of well being

believe that the purpose of life is to maximize happiness, which minimizes misery.

hedonists

way of life, characterized by openness to pleasurable experience.

hedonism

for them happiness is the result of eudaimonia or human flourishing.

plato and aristotle

For Plato and Aristotle, happiness is the result of?

eudaimonia or human flourishing

term that combines the Greek words for “good” and “spirit” to describe the ideology

eudaimonia

Eudaimonia combines the Greek words__________to describe ideology

good and spirit

defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.

eudaimonia

do this by challenging themselves intellectually or by engaging in activities that makes them spiritually richer people.

eudaimonists

For Plato, the well-being of a human individual must__________?

not depend on external goods

“Having a ______ is needed in order to flourish

virtue

four cardinal virtues

wisdom, courage, temperance, justice

one must pursue learning that is based on curiosity. This would lead to more efficacy and self-mastery which are needed to have a fulfilling life.

wisdom

important in a unjust society because justice needs courageous individuals to stand for what is right and to correct what is wrong.

courage

believed that humans through reason seek knowledge about the world. He believed that by gaining knowledge, humans will flourish.

aristotle

humans through reason seek knowledge about the world. He believed that by gaining knowledge, humans will flourish. He called this

intellectual virtue

the other virtue in life is the

virtue of character

Aristotle believed that in order to flourish, one must possess the _________?

11 virtuous traits

He believed that all virtuous is connected by_______ or practical wisdom

phronesis

A virtuous life can be achieved through

education and habit

wrote a book entitled The Ten Golden Rules on Living a Good Life where they extracted “ancient wisdom from the Greek philosophers on living the good life” and mapped it into modern times

michael soupios and panos mourdoukoutas

The first call ever made on a cellphone was from an engineer named

martin cooper

Ultimate medium for advertisement placements.

television

considered to be the first true portable, full-featured computer.

osborne 1

When was osborne 1 released

june 1981

An American inventor known for developing ‘Unimate’, the first material handling robot employed in industrial production work.

george devol

the first material handling robot employed in industrial production work.

unimate

usually designed like human beings, are created to perform complex, repetitive, or dangerous tasks.

robots

proposed the theory of Information age in 1082

james r. messenger

when is the theory of information age made

1082

revolutionized distanced communication. This works by the transmission of electric signals over the wires which wad laid or installed in-between stations

telegraph

who invented the telegraph

samuel morse

It was firstly mounted to a sewing machine and only consists of uppercase

typewriter

who invented the typewriter

christopher latham sholes

Used to transmit voices or communicated in a wide range of distance through wires or even radios.

telephone

Known as the “Father of Television”

vladimir zworykin

A space of information where links, webs, and documents are accessed online or in the internet.

world wide web

multifunctional search engine technology that enables people to access the internet.

google

an online free encyclopedia that contains wide range of information.

wikepedia

social networking service launched founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and their fellow roommates.

facebook

video-sharing website that allowed users to upload, share, and view content.

youtube

online networking service where users post and interact with messages, “tweets”, and access news globally.

twitter

One of the most used and popular video sharing application in the 21 st century.

tiktok

The Information industry is built on a certain quantity of information flow. News can be invented readily. Information is shaped to fit the medium and the available or required size

Media space must eat

Over claims are made, or implications made in headlines or ticklers. Ever more advertising views for attention

exaggeration

Our media seem obsessed with “pushing the envelope”, which often means moving to ever more excess in search of attention.

information one upmanship

In a world where information is a commodity, information that can be positioned as scarce, exclusive, or secret will have more value that common information. Thus, we see everywhere,“The 10 secrets of X, “Exclusive interview,” “What Y doesn’t want revealed.” “Tonight, A special.”

scarcity

The first media outlet to cover an issue often defines its terms, context, and attitudes surrounding it. The first statement often becomes the permanent concept. How the issue will be viewed, what the alternatives are, etc.

The early word gets the perm

The fallacy or false dilemma is often used, where one side is presented as highly undesirable and the other as attractive. Photographs do not speak for themselves. What happened before and what happened after? Often pictured are not worth a thousand words, the pictures are ambiguous until explained by words.

The frame makes the painting

Selecting certain stories to report on while not selecting others or selecting certain details of a story while omitting others reflects not just the interest but the agenda of the media outlet. Whatever is ignored is seen as not important and in effect non existent.

Selection is a viewpoint

There is an obsession with the new and different. Novelty, the unusual , will get our attention. We are a “been there done that” society and always want something new.

Newer is equater with truer

Because information is a commodity item, it must cater to the tastes of its consumers. In other worlds, information is shaped by cultural priorities.

The media sell what the culture buys

We think by using the information given to us by others. When you make generalizations, you must do so based on the information you have received from the information inputs you make use of.

You are what you eat and so is you brain

There is a saying, “Nothing so bad that some don’t like; Nothing so good that some won’t strike”. It is probably impossible to make any assertion that will not find some supporters and some detractors.

All ideas are seen as controversial

Old master paintings are in demand, hence art fraud. Designer luggage is in demand, hence product counterfeiting.

Anything in great demand will be counterfeited

Many people believe that no accusation would be made without any basis, so that if an accusation is made, it must be true, at least in part. Many people are too busy to check anything out, so they just assume that accusations are valid

To accuse is to convict

Television is mostly pictorial, partly aural, and very little textual. Therefore, the visual stories are the ones emphasized: fires, chases, disasters

The medium selects the message

The experimenter effect is the tendency for the expectations, actions, or biases of the researchers to affect or influence the responses which participants produce, and therefore at least partially produce the observed differences.- Lynne Henry

the experimenter effect of media: the presence of the media creates the story

Samuel Johnson, an 18th century writer, said that “no one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Today, some still write to inform, while there seems to be more emphasis on persuasion and spin. And more people than ever write to gratify their egos, keep their jobs, or make money.

yours is not to reason why; yours is to buy and buy

The information we receive comes to us filtered, selected, slanted, verbally changed, and sometimes fabricated. what is left out is often even more important that what is included

The whole truth is a pursuit

Today, because of pressure to be first or at least not left in the dust, news media organizations pick up and often pass on many of the rumors that circulate online somewhere, together with the motivations to lie, dissemble, and slander, causes or constant churn of junk quality information to circulate

provenance provides probability

identified four major ethical issues that involves the information age:

mason (1986)

four major ethical issues that involves the information age

PRIVACY, ACCURACY, PROPERTY, ACCESSIBILITY

prefix used in the metric scale to represent one billionth or ten raised to negative nine (10-9)

nano

is one billionth of a meter

nanometer

Nano comes from the Greek word

for dwarf

People refer to nanotechnology as

tiny tech or nanotech

This refers to the study of exceptionally small things that can be used across all the other fields of science, such as biology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, and engineering.

nanoscience

This deals with science, technology, and engineering accompanied at the nano scale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometer.

nanotechnology

are being used in healthcare, such as imaging tools as bioengineering to detect diseases, monitoring, prevention, treatment of several diseases for instance; cancer, cardiovascular disorder; diabetes; inflammatory conditions and some infectious diseases.

biomaterials

This is being used as a car paint coating to provide strong protection and shield that keeps the paint of the car to took shiny and brand new.

ceramics

carbon allotrope that resembles a tube of carbon atoms. Carbon nanotubes are extremely robust and difficult to break, but they are still light.

nanotubes

These have been used to enhance and strengthen computer chips, especially its design.

polymers

Nanoscale materials are also being incorporated into a variety of personal care products to improve performance.

cosmetics

provide protection from harmful UV rays of solar radiation. This have been possible through the use of nano-size zinc oxide that reflects and absorbs UV rays and made it ultraviolet resistant.

sunscreen

Nanoscale materials are beginning to enable washable, durable “smart fabrics” equipped with flexible nanoscale sensors and electronics with capabilities for health monitoring, solar energy capture, and energy harvesting through movement.

smart fabrics

was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. Mendel’s observation became the foundation of modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in the field of genetics.

gregor mendel

father of genetics

gregor mendel

the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms.

DNA

DNA means?

deoxyribonucleic acid

are structured within cells that convert food into a form that cells can use

Mitochondria

Also known as “Gene Editing”

gene therapy

the shape of the earth orbit that influences seasonal differences; spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Eccentricity

variation of the tilt of Earth’s axis, away from the orbital plane.

Obliquity

change in orientation of earth’s rotational axis.

precession

intentional manipulation of our environmental the global scale. It involves engaging in planetary-scale manipulation of the earth in such a way as to offset the warming impacts of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

geoengineering

Most abundant and important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere

water vapor

Destroys ozone in the stratosphere and have caused ozone layer hole

halocarbon

Variation among groups of organisms in terrestrial and aquatic environments

ecosystem biodiversity

pertains to variation in genes contained by an organism

genetic biodiversity

denotes about variety of species within a community

species biodiversity

Strategic cost

aen silang · 71問 · 1年前

Strategic cost