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For most of us, the world's southern-most point seems like a pretty place, but for Hannah, Hannalore, Sophie and Julia, it's home. Each year they spend five months living and working in Port welcoming visiting ships and, best of all, watching over the native colony of penguins (企鹅).
They live on a tiny island the size of a football pitch, but share it with about 2000 gentoo penguins and their chicks, as well as other birds. Life here is different every day and depends on weather and ice conditions, as well as the visiting ships' schedules. Port Lockroy is one of the most visited places in Antarctica, with one to three ships visiting a day. Between ship visits we have other duties to attend to. These include maintenance jobs, sending postcards from the post office, checking conditions on the historical items in the museum and monitoring the penguin colonies and other wildlife.
Hannah spends much time stamping people's postcard, which makes her happy to think of the joy over 70, 000 people per year get when they receive a postcard from Antarctica, and the most southerly post office in the world! For Sophie, the most amazing thing about my job is being able to live and work with my feathery friends, the penguins. Sophie says they have to make sure the penguins are not disturbed when they are resting or waddling their way back to their nests. They mark specific routes for visitors to walk on so that they don't use the penguins' highways. Part of their job is also to count the penguin colony when after they've laid their eggs, then again when the chicks are born and when the chicks are old enough to venture beyond the nest. The information collected will help scientists know if the breeding season has been a successful one or not.
What should we get for our kids this holiday? As children get older, giving them something they can experience instead of material things makes them happier, according to a new research led by Chaplin.
The research compared the level of happiness children get from material things with that from experiences. The results showed that children aged 3-12 get more happiness from material things than from experiences. However, older children get more happiness from experiences than from their possessions.
"It means experiences are highly preferred by adolescents, not just expensive material things, like some might think, "Chaplin says. She goes on to explain, "Don't get me wrong. Young children do love experiences. And given this concept, theme parks such as Disneyland are being built everywhere. In fact, young children are excited throughout the experience. However, for experiences to provide lasting happiness, children must be able to recall details of the events. "
Long after they have unwrapped their Legos and stuffed animals, there will still be a physical reminder to give them happiness. However, young children can't see or touch experiences after they are over, making it harder for them to appreciate experiences after a long time. There's an easy fix, though, according to Chaplin.
"Take pictures or videos of family walks, playing in the snow, and birthday parties, "she said. "Children are likely to appreciate those experiences more if there is something to remind them of the event. Additionally, they'll be able to learn the social value of shared experiences. "
Children will remember and appreciate not only the birthday gifts they received, but also the time spent with family and friends as they recall the experience through concrete reminders such as photos and videos.
Since memory is developed over time, it's likely that children, especially young ones, may not get as much happiness from past experiences as from possessions. But with age, creating new memories and exploring new interests may be far more valuable than getting possessions.
Inequality in the workplace has long been a hot topic but gender economist Roy is actively turning that conversation into action. She founded Pipeline Equity, a company that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and drive economic gains through gender equality. "The idea was: If we could change decisions that are made in organizations, we could actually make gender equality a reality in our lifetime, rather than the hundred or so years that we World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts." Roy said.
The WEF's predictions were made before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, which Roy called a "she-session," because women have lost the majority of jobs during this particular economic downturn. "With remote work and with people being at home with children, most caregiving and unpaid work falls to women. "
There has been much talk about such situations being good for gender equality, but Roy warned while working from home could help keep more women in the workforce, it could have a negative impact on female promotions.
"At this moment, there's the opportunity to employ AI to ensure we make progress on gender equality, ""Roy explained. "For companies, that is particularly important because in the 008 Great Recession（经济大萧条），companies that put equality at the core of their crisis management strategy actually increased the speed of their recovery. "
But to close the gender pay gap, we can't start by talking about pay. "Pay is the symptom it's not the disease." Roy said. "Pay is the quantitative (数量的) value that you place on your talent. But the actual value happens before that in performance and potential. "That's where Pipeline's platform steps in.
Using natural language processing, Pipeline's platform reads through performance reviews and calls out any biased phrases. They've found that on average, women are under-valued 4 percent of the time, and that actually impacts their ability to be promoted, as well as their pay.
"As this moment, we have the opportunity to embrace AI as a tool to achieve get equality." Roy said
In everyday life, we are often faced with important decisions — such as whether to apply for a new job or start a new course. The more we can test our limits and abilities, the more we will learn about ourselves. New challenges are opportunities for us.
Rather than seeing the opportunity, often, we focus on what it will be like to fail. As a result, taking on a new challenge can be frightening. In these cases, we may avoid the challenge altogether and carry on down the same path we were on.
We make some excuses to ourselves so that we can stay in our comfort zone. By avoiding challenges, we don't have the opportunities to learn about ourselves. We feel trapped. We are troubled by discomfort, anxiety, and the sense that things are not quite right.
There are times when we might want to avoid a challenge for good, realistic reasons. Perhaps, deep down, we are frightened of what other people might say and of what we might learn about ourselves. But instead of acknowledging that, we tell ourselves that now is not a good time, or that this isn't the right opportunity.
To lead an authentic life, we need to take on new challenges that give us more opportunities to be ourselves. It is not that authentic people don't feel the same fear; rather, they are simply more willing to face their fear. The question is not how to lead a life in which we never feel the fear of failure, but rather, how we can moved forward despite our fear.
A. In reality, it is our fear talking.
B. The fear of failure can be too much to bear
C. However, we don't always see it that way.
D. People think we can stay in our comfort zone and keep learning.
E. Taking on such challenges is an important part of growing as a person.
F. But the truth is that staying in our comfort zone is not necessarily comfortable.
G. They are open to new experiences, cherishing the challenges of learning about themselves.
Whatever makes you fall in love with horses happened to me. I often 1myself owning my own horse.
After taking riding lessons for a year, I decided to buy a horse and Dad agreed—if I 2 half the money. I worked and saved 100dollars, a 3 those days.
4, 200 dollars wasn't much to buy a horse. But I was 5 to look for one on a limited 6. I was introduced to Rusty, a 20-year-old horse, who had been abused and had a mistrust of 7. When I approached, he looked 8 at me. However, he was my dream horse and I decided to take it!
Gradually, we became inseparable and he grew strong and energetic despite his 9. But one morning, Rusty was suddenly ill. The vet said he had cancer and suggested humanely putting him to 10. The next morning, Dad loaded Rusty into the truck and I waved goodbye to him, pretty sure it was for the 11 time.
Later that day, I was crying in bed when Dad called me. There, inside the truck was Rusty! I jumped up, hugging him and crying with 12. Rusty 13me for another happy year before the cancer finally took him. By then, we were a little more 14.
Rusty isn't here 15, but love lives on, and Rusty will live in my heart forever.
Every culture creates music, but what shapes our perception(感知) of music? In the past few years, psychologist Jacoby and his colleagues (visit) a remote area to investigate the question.
They specifically chose participants from Tsimane, have relatively little (expose) to Western music. For example, octaves(八度音阶) play an important role in Western music, but Tsimane' music instruments can't go with them. In the study, participants (ask) to listen to simple melodies and sing them. This exercise revealed that the Tsimane' didn't perceive octaves while participants from the U. S. did. It also revealed that (musical) trained Westerners were better at it than with no musical training. Therefore, the findings highlight the importance of musical experience.
musical experience, biology is also a key factor influencing perception of music. In another study, Jacoby's colleague found that unlike many Westerners, the Tsimane' found it pleasant to hear some notes (play) together.
Their study also revealed that both Westerners and the Tsimane' have trouble (distinguish) between really high notes above 4, 000 hertz, though human hearing goes up to 20, 000 hertz. That may be , wherever we're from, we hit the limits of our brains before we reach the limits of our ears.
When Ruth was sixty-eight years old, she visited her daughter Judy and teenage granddaughter Marcy in California. They headed for their cabin, moving forty miles up and down the mountains in their car, along a narrow one-lane road that wound terrifyingly close to cliffs (悬崖).
After dinner, Marcy announced the water tank was low and that she would drive the car down to the pump and get water. Ruth was nervous about her young granddaughter driving down the narrow road by herself, but Judy reminded her that Marcy had been driving vehicles up there roads for many years
"Just be careful, Marcy", her mother warned. "They've had a drought up here and the road along the cliff is pretty shaky. Be sure to hug the mountain side. "
Ruth and Judy watched Marcy from the big window where they could see the road winding down the mountainside. Fifteen minutes later, Judy was still watching when suddenly she screamed, "Oh no! She went over the cliff, Momma! The car and Marcy--they went over! We have to help her! Come on!"
Judy took off running desperately. Grabbing a three-foot-long walking stick against the cabin door, Ruth ran behind her, but Judy was quickly out of sight after the first turn in the road. Breathing hard, Ruth ran on and on, trying to catch up with her daughter. It was getting harder and harder to see anything at dusk.
Suddenly she stopped, not knowing where she was. "Marcy! Judy!"she shouted.
A faint voice. "Momma!"It was Judy.
Ruth screamed into the darkness "Judy, where are you?" Off to her right and down the cliff she heard, "Down here, Mother! Don't come near the edge! I slipped on loose rocks and fell over. I'm down about ten feet. "
"Oh dear! Judy, what can I do?"
"Just stay back, Momma!"
Facing the situation, Ruth felt her heart was pounding, and chest pains almost took her breath away. She started to sob, totally at a loss what to do.
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At that moment, Ruth glimpsed at the walking stick, an idea striking her.
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Ruth held her close and said anxiously. "Judy. We have to get help for Marcy!"
