Foods of the Future
We asked young scientists to write an advertisement that answers this question: How will food options, food availability, and individuals' food choices change in the future? A selection of their suggested marketing campaigns is below. Read previous NextGen Voices survey results at //science.sciencemag.org/collection/nextgen-voices. — Jennifer Sills
Personalized Meal Plans
Send us your DNA, and we will predict your food preferences! Receive your personalized food basket, with a day-by-day diet program. We will send you full meals and personalized smoothies (水果奶昔) based on your genetic taste tendency.
Ada Gabriela Blidner
Twitter:@adagbb
Fresh Fruit
If you miss sweet temperate fruits, welcome to our Moon Farm. Our fruit trees are planted in hybrid-soil and artificial air that reproduce Earth's environment from 5000 years ago. Pick fruits with your family or ship to your doorstep with MoonEx. Freshness guaranteed.
Yongsheng Ji
Email: jiyongshengkey@hotmail.com
Meat
Our steaks are sourced from natural grasslands, where cattle now fill the ecological roles. With FoodFootprint feeding system, we enhance natural grazing (放牧) to improve animal growth effectively while minimizing methane production and water consumption. At only $219.00/kg (including carbon taxes and ecological taxes), our steaks are affordable for the whole family.
Falko Buschke
Email: falko. buschke@gmail. com
South Korea has the highest rate of Internet addiction (上瘾) in the world and it is increasingly the country's children who are spending every waking moment immersing themselves in fantasy role plays or gaming. In the remote mountains of South Korea, teenage Internet addicts are turning up for a 12day boot camp.
Kyle Won's addiction is out of control. He spends 10 hours a day on the Internet. Now Kyle's smartphone is taken away. The teachers here do what they can to get them socializing again; for many, the only friends they have had are online. "I have relationships on the Internet and a real distance has grown with my reallife friends and I know it's not good，" Kyle said. The teachers show them other possibilities and bring back dreams and hopes that have been buried by their addictions. "We teach them methods of managing their desire to use the Internet so that they can continue to use it when they go back home，" Shim Yongchool, a teacher here, said. After just two days Kyle said it was helpful. He's set a good example to others though he hasn't reached the goal completely.
South Korean psychiatrists (精神病专家) are urging more action as they are finding evidence that too much screen time is a barrier to the developing minds. Professor Kang Seak Young from Dankook University said the addiction was damaging critical thinking. "It affects the frontal lobes (额叶) which are important to critical analysis，" Professor Kang said. "Reading a book and guessing what happens in the story next show activity in frontal lobes but playing popular computer games for a long time shows no activity."
South Korea is one of the most wired nations on Earth, but it does have a cost. One in every ten kids is an addict, so the country is now learning how to manage its hightech future to avoid more serious consequences.
You've heard that plastic is polluting the oceans—between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, foreing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.
At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called "Strawpocalypse," a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168, 000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源)of plastic pollution, but they've recently come under fire because most people don't need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that's part of Von Wong's artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear.
In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload's worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic" Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10, 000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they'd been dumped(倾倒)from a truck all at once.
Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.
I was in Houston a few weeks ago, and needed to be back home in Austin by midmorning the next day. Though I usually left in the evening, for some reason last time I had to choose to set off after midnight.
I was on my way back to Austin when I realized I left an important file(文件), and knew I had to return to get it. I took the first exit I could, but when I rounded the corner, an 18-wheeler was stopped dead in the exit lane(车道). I swerved(急转弯) to avoid it, and then I realized that there was something wrong with my car. So I pulled into a small parking lot and unsurprisingly found the area deserted at 3：15 am. I've lived in urban areas most of my life. I'm fairly street-wise and don't become frightened easily, but I knew I was in a pretty tough neighborhood.
There was no one in Houston to pick me up. I immediately locked the doors and picked up my phone to call a tow truck. Soon a young man knocked on my driver's side window and asked if he could help me. Judging from his appearance, he was far from a mad man, but I knew he was far more likely to rob than help me. So I lied to him. After a while, he asked again, but this time I politely refused and told him the tow truck was due any minute. He finally said, "Madam, you need help. A tow truck in Houston will arrive anywhere between 45minutes and approximately never (which I knew was true), and you aren't going anywhere until you change your flat tire. "
After considering thoroughly, I got out. He looked surprised, but got right to work. He changed the tire, returned the seat to its place and said, "Thank you for letting me help you. You gave me a chance when most people would never open the door to someone like me. Would it be okay if I gave you a hug?" When I recovered, I gave him a giant hug. I left with a new tire and a renewed faith in human nature.
As we know, our parents are the ones who created you, raised you, and are in part of a source of who you are. Here are some ways to love your parents. Even if you are busy, as longs as try, the following suggestions will help you to show your parents that you love them.
A gentle "good morning" and "I love you" will warm a coldest heart. Remember that they brought you into this world. Without your parents, we might still wander at an unknown corner in an unknown world. Respect them more and cherish these moments. You can use these moments to learn from them when you're off on your own. It's OK to get angry but angry actions don't help you or your parents. Act calmly, cool off, keep a journal about your feelings, or talk to a friend.
Obey their requests. It will make your attitude better and earn you more respect from them. It may seem like you are going through hell when you don't get what you want or you have to clean. However, you had better remember they keep a roof over your head when it's cold, raining, snowing, or too hot. Understand that parents are human beings and make mistakes. Since you can forgive your friends, why not forgive your parents?
Keep company with them. Do things with your parents like watching TV, or go somewhere with them. Listen to their old stories and learn from them. You will find they are your teachers in this way or another.
Some people simply may not be able to love their parents. Seek help if you are being abuseds (虐待) in any way. Parents do not have a right to harm you.
A. Forgiveness is the key.
B. Parents will in turn express their love to you.
C. Tell them you love them every morning.
D. Anyway, spend as much time with them as you can.
E. After this, share your feelings with your parents.
F. There can be realistic reasons for this, family violence for example.
G. Please remember parents are as important as friends.
It was just after sunrise on a June morning. "Nicolo, " whose real name cannot be 1 to the public because of Italy's privacy laws, 2 working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the "after work auction(拍卖)" 3 by the Italian police where things 4 on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look 5above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder 6 until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.
When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he 7 the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had 8 from Turin. His son, age 15, who had 9 an art appreciation class, thought that there was something 10 about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed(签名) "Bonnato" or so he thought, but when he 11 it, he only found "Bonnard, " a French 12 he had never heard of. He bought a book and was 13 to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same 14 as his father's painting.
"That's the garden in our picture, "Nicolo's son told his father. They 15 learned that the painting they 16was called "The Girl with Two Chairs." They 17 the other painting and learned that it was 18 Paul Gauguin's "Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog." The 19 called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were 20 and worth as much as $50 million.
The skin is an essential part of your body and its largest organ. We have three layers of skin which act a barrier against poisons and the sun's (harm) rays. Our skin's functions are very complex. If it (get) burned, it can be very serious. First aid is a very important first step in the treatment burns. We can get burned by variety of things: hot liquids, steam, fire, radiation, the sun, electricity or chemicals. There are three types of burns. They (call) first, second and third degree burns, (depend) on which layers of the skin are burned. Different types of burns have different characteristics. Here are some first aid treatments for the burns. Remove clothing and jewellery near the burn. Cool burns immediately with cold water. Use different (method) to treat different types of burns. Dry the burned area (gentle). Cover the burned area with a dry, clean bandage. If the injures are second or third degree burns, it's vital (get) the victim to the doctor or hospital at once.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余 
词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I made up my mind be a journalist when I visited the Xinhua News Agency in last year. I chose it as my career basing on the following reason. First, this job can offer me access to new things every day and keep me energetically all the time. Second, work as a journalist can help realize my dream of being a hero by fighting against evil but spreading justice. Third, the opportunity to travel around the world really appeals to you. I plan to major in journalism in Communication University of China, which have been ranked first for many years. I believe a few years late, my dream will come true.
1）时间、地点、人物、活动；
2）活动过程及内容；
3）简短评论。
注意：1）词数100左右；
2）可适当增加细节。
