HOOK-UP CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES The sexual revolution had shed a new light to society in the 1960s. Attitudes changed; people accepted new ideas about sexuality. They were more open and more practical toward sexual practices. I think hook-up culture inherited from that movement and had been happening for a long time. Today, people don’t discuss that in public; however, there’s still a hook-up culture taking place in the society, but in a new way which involves in technology and social media.

HUMAN EVOLUTION. IS IT GOOD OR BAD? Millions of years ago, hominid, the first ever species had walked on two feet on the ground started a significant evolution had never seen in the history of our planet: human evolution. During the course of evolution, our ancestors developed new hunting techniques, hence, they had more food to eat that made their brains grow larger as they became more intelligent. They started to create and explore new things, and fire was the most valuable invention of human evolution. Cooking made food softer and digestion easier which explained in reducing in size and length of jar and teeth, but increasing in size of brain. Indeed, fire wasn’t only used for cooking food, but marked another step toward the evolution: society. They gathered around fireplace and developed social behaviors. Those were early stages of the society that hundreds of thousands of years later had their own tribes and languages. And now in the twenty first century, we known as human, a superior species on Earth. That must have been a tremendous achievement of our evolution, nevertheless, that has put a huge impact on the environment in the way that no other species have ever done that before even our ancestors. In the last couple of decades, we pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and dispose hundreds of millions of tons of toxic chemicals into the environment. Additionally, we are in charge of making millions of acres of forest vanishing every year. As a result, global warming, sea level rise, and natural disasters are signs that indicate our ecosystem can’t bear any longer. We human need to do something to stop those from becoming worse. Remember we’re tightly connected to other species and the environment, no matter how advanced and intelligent we are if we break the balance in our biosphere, we’re putting an end to our species!

HOW DO WE CLASSIFY PIKACHU IN REAL BIOLOGICAL WORLD? I have been watching Pokémon TV series since I was a kid. And now I fall in love with Pokémon again, but this time, it’s a game called Pokémon Go. Pikachu is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. He looks adorable and his abilities to generate electricity and paralyze enemies by thunderbolt strikes are amazing! For a long time, I had dreamed of catching him in real world. And now thanks to Niantic, Inc. to bring him to life in the virtual reality game. I love him not because of his cute looking and special power, but his relationship with others. He can read others’ feelings and express his own feeling. He’s seen as a leader who helps resolve conflicts among other Pokémons. In some cases, he sacrifices his life to save his friends’ lives, in other words, he has a basic human instinct to help each other’s out. Now it comes to an interesting question: How can we classify him in the real biological world? Pikachu shares many traits with other primates, for instance, he walks bipedally and has forward facing eyes; indeed, he has ability to grasp things using his hands known as prehensile hands. I know it sounds like Anthropology, but actually it does. If I’m an Anthropologist, I will put him in a group of nonhuman primates because he has the human mind and shares characteristics with other primates. I also give him a lovely scientific name of Arcanus electricus because of his special abilities (Arcanus is a Latin word for secret and electricus refers to electricity).