2021.0723
Can happiness be taught?
In order to teach students to live happily, Wellington College in England pioneered the happiness curriculum. The purpose of this article is to analyze the concept of happiness in the book "Teaching Happiness and Well-being in Schools" by Ian Morris, a representative figure of the British happiness curriculum, in order to judge whether happiness can be taught. The paper points out that Morris' perspective of happiness has undergone transformation, beginning with a direct inheritance from positive psychology, and emphasizing the adjustment of the subject's mindset. In the middle stage, he adopts Aristotle's theory of happiness in action, regarding happiness as a natural feeling and state experienced after activities by the subject. In the latter stage, it is clearly asserted that happiness is an activity according to virtue and that the happiness curriculum should be the foundation of character education. Overall, the Morris Happiness curriculum can be seen as a complex of positive psychology and Aristotle's theory of happiness. Basically, the modules of the well-being curriculum are drawn from the key themes of positive psychology at the beginning, emphasizing that students learn happiness skills that have been proven to be effective, and then changing to underline that these themes must be connected to the development of personal virtue. At this point, happiness lessons and character education become inseparable. This article concludes that happiness can be taught and needs to be taught, but that given the multiplicity of happiness, it is also necessary to examine the concept of happiness reflected in the teaching of happiness from a philosophical perspective.2021.0720
The Discovery of Diluted Magnetic Material from Prof. Liu Yi Hsin Published on International Journal
Wireless communication technology is regarded as the emerging, focus of the future encryption communication technology roadmap, attracting countries to invest in the research and development of quantum materials. After five years of research and experiments, the lab of Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry Liu Yi Hsin proposed to use organic-inorganic semiconductor materials to introduce manganese ions through solvothermal method to synthesize atomic-level two-dimensional single-layer semiconductors, which at room temperature, can demonstrate strong Giant Zeeman splitting and zero-field splitting at extremely low temperatures.2021.0701
The first article of ‘‘AI Medical Scientists” analyzed the related comorbidities of ALS
Background and purpose: It is helpful to study the causes of diseases by discussing their cormorbidities. The cause of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a deadly disease, remains unknown. The study used a medical database to explore the diseases associated with ALS.2021.0531
Nobel Laureate Dr. Queloz Speaks to NTNU about Exoplanet
The Center of Astronomy and Gravitation, established earlier this year, gathering a group of researchers in different background of earth science, physics, and mathematics. On May 25th, the center invited Nobel Laureate Dr. Didier Queloz to give a virtual speech about the exoplanet revolution. He introduced the audience with the challenges and recent progresses in this new field of research and will touch upon the emergence of a new paradigm for the origins of life on Earth.2021.0529