ebs 단기특강 유형편 28강

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Day 28

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Think of the most famous scientists you know- Issac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Pierre and Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, and so on. What do all these people have in common? Well, for one thing, they're all very smart. In some cases they even taught themselves most of what they knew about their particular subject. In fact, Sir Issac Newton had to invent a new branch of mathematics (calculus) just to solve the problems he was trying to do in physics. There is something else they all had in common that set them apart from the other smart people of their time-their ability to ask questions. Just having a good brain isn't always enough. To be a great scientist, you need to be able to look at a problem that hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people have already looked at and have been unable to solve, and ask the question in a new way. Then you take that question and come up with a new way to answer it. That is what made Newton and the others so famous. They coupled intelligence with a curiosity that said, "I want to know the answer to this." After coming up with the right questions, they discovered ways of answering those questions and became famous for their discoveries.

 

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The most effective way to trigger in a human being a reaction strong enough to make the galvanometer jump is to threaten his or her well-being. Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist with the CIA, decided to do just that to the plant: he put a leaf of the dracaena in the cup of hot coffee in his hand. There was no reaction to speak of on the meter. Backster studied the problem several minutes, then conceived a worse threat: he would burn the actual leaf to which the electrodes were attached. The instant he got the picture of flame in his mind, and before he could move for a match, there was a dramatic change in the tracing pattern on the graph in the form of a continuing upward sweep of the recording pen. Backster had not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine.

When Backster left the room and returned with some matches, he found another sudden surge had registered on the chart, evidently caused by his determination to carry out the threat. Reluctantly he set about burning the leaf. This time there was a lower peak of reaction on the graph. Later, as he went through the motions of pretending he would burn the leaf, there was n reaction whatsoever. The plant appeared to be able to _________________.