Topic Reading-Vol.575-11/7/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Resume or CV? A global guide.

As job opportunities become more borderless, your next or future job application may be sent to an employer abroad. In that case, should you send a resume or CV, Curriculum Vitae, describe your profile or use A4 or US letter size?

Be reminded that culture and practices vary by region or country, like language. And some companies or organization, or organisation, prefer American style vocabulary and others do British. Which style a resume is written by may be vital to the next step because it’ll be the first and possibly the last chance your application is read. Therefore, knowing how a resume is prepared is no less important than writing what your accomplishments and skills are.

Enjoy reading and learning different practices and preferences of job application.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20131022-resume-or-cv-a-global-guide

Topic Reading-Vol.574-11/6/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Exoplanet tally soars above 1,000

Search for planets distant away seems very challenging because they neither shines nor explodes like a star. Then how are telescopes on or above Earth able to detect signs or trace of them that orbit stars light years away? And how humans on Earth can determine if one is habitable like ours?

The number of exoplanets, ones outside of our solar system, he Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia has reached a landmark of 1,000. There are more reports of such discoveries posted on the Internet by astronomers around the world that are waiting to be confirmed.

Enjoy reading and learning about the search and hunt for our brother-like planets in the galaxy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24549384

Topic Reading-Vol.573-11/5/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Kenya to microchip every rhino in anti-poaching drive

Planting a microchip to a rhino? This lofty plan is designed to protect the wild animal from being poached and also to trace poachers when they carry the animal’s horn. Although the microchips and scanning devices were contributed by the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, the task to catch and implant the chips to this wild animal is going be enormous.

Poachers kill rhinos and elephants just for their horns and ivory, which are highly valued in Asian countries for ornaments, chopsticks or medicine. Money drives such ruthless, heartless and careless killing of wildlife animals on the land and creatures in the sea, such as fins of the shark just for delicacy. Are those poachers punished hard enough for such a crucial deliberate act?

Enjoy reading and learning the effort being made to protect the wild life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24558136

Topic Reading-Vol.572-11/4/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

'Constructive ideas' on thorny issues needed.

How would you read this article? It could be an inviting message from China to Japan since China Daily is a semi-government newspaper website published online in English.

In this article, it even quotes a remark by a retired Japanese general of the self defense force suggesting that even government officials can be more flexible than they are at meetings for ministers and political figures at the China-Japan Friendship Association to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty in Beijing on October 22nd.

Sending patrolling ships to the disputed seas is surely one thing to demonstrate its position on the critical agenda but posting an article like this could suggest that they also wish to seek a way to resolve the issue.

Why doesn’t Japanese government send or suggest some sign to respond to a message like this?

Enjoy reading and learning how a bilateral issue is reported from one side to the other.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-10/20/content_17046720.htm

Topic Reading-Vol.571-11/3/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Sleep 'cleans' the brain of toxins.

How long do you usually sleep a night? Answering this question is easy.

How long do you need to sleep to be in good shape? Not difficult to answer this either.

But a question to why people or animals need to sleep hasn’t been answered clearly yet.

Recently, a team of neurosciences in the U.S. has found one of the fundamental reasons for sleep. That is to remove waste from the brain.

While you’re awake, you’re quite busy thinking and acting to whatever the tasks might be. This is like hosting a party at home. You will need to clean up your house sometime or other but you can’t do it while hosting your guests. So, you do when the guests are gone. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it?

Enjoy reading and learning about the latest discovery of humans’ and animals’ physical mechanism that affects the mental order.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24567412

Topic Reading-Vol.570-11/2/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Seoul launches 'Gangnam Style' tourist police force

Do they look uniformed police officers or gangsters?

If you’re one of the 1.8 billion viewers of the world most viewed YouTube music video, this is just like video-come-true police force.

As the number of complaints rising among foreign visitors overcharged by shops, restaurants and taxis in Korea, the government launched a tourist police force in Seoul, to start. They are tasked to protect tourists in popular destinations from any wrong doings by the local shops and service providers as well as to help them spend pleasant time in English, Japanese and Chinese.

You never know if they become popular tourist photo-objects like guard in front of the Buckingham Palace.

Enjoy reading the article and seeing the photo.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/17/travel/seoul-tourist-police-gangnam/index.html?hpt=hp_c5

Also those who haven’t watched the most popular music video, try this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

Topic Reading-Vol.569-11/1/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report.

Sounds like a fisherman saying he would never eat any fish he catches in his sea to conserve the natural resources, doesn’t it?

Researchers study something to learn from it. But only few of them seem to take actions from there even if they’ve found a significant fact, trend or possibility that might affect many. It may be because the finding is too large scale or too difficult to do anything about it for individuals, such as global warming or astronomical phenomena.

But here is a guy trying to do something about the fact that has been and will be impacting the globe now and the future, even by giving up his lifetime hobby and business convenience.

Enjoy reading and learning about a small move by a researcher trying to do something with his big finding.

http://news.yahoo.com/meteorologist-vows-never-to-fly-again-after-seeing-latest-climate-report-134014509.html