2022 World of Wearable Art Design Competition
World of Wearable Art (WOW) is an internationally famous design competition that attracts entries from over 40 countries each year. Anything that is wearable art can find a place on the stage， as long as it is original and creative. This year the competition is divided into six categories. Entries must be made online.
Deadline: 29th March 2022
Entry fees: The competition is free to enter.
Prizes: Over NZD 160,000 in prize money.
Wildife Artist of the Year 2022
The Wildlife Artist of the Year is an annual wildlife art competition. The judges will accept all traditional artistic mediums, not including digital videos and photography. There are seven categories for Wildlife Artist of the Year 2022.
Deadline: 18 February 2022
Entry fees: Entries are E 25per entry.
Prizes: £ 10,000 for first prize; £1, 000 for second prize.
The Biennial of Poster Bolivia BICeBe 2022
More than 15, 000 student and professional designers from more than 76 countries have participated. The BICeBe takes place every other year in the month of November in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. There are five categories.
Deadline: 8* March 2022
Entry fees: Entry is free.
Prizes: US £ 1, 000 for the Best Bolivian Poster of all categories; US £ 1,000 for the Best Bolivian Poster in Category D.
Magma Poetry Competition 2021 - 2022
There are two categories for this annual competition: The Judge's Prize一poems of 11 to 50 lines; the Fditors' Prize一poems of up to 10 lines. AlI poems must be previously unpublished.
Deadline: 12m January 2022
Entry fees: The entry fees are & 5 for the first poem, £ 4 for the second and £ 3. 50 for the third.
Prizes: £ 1,000 for Editors' Prize; £ 1,000 for Judge's Prize.
Photos a recent California college graduate took with her parents in the fields where they worked as migrant farm laborers went viral this week, after her school shared the images and the story of her journey on the Facebook page.
Jessica Rocha graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in sociology on Saturday. In the post, Rocha said her parents came from Michoacan, Mexico, and that while she was growing up, they had her work in the fields alongside them.
She started working in the fields in high school after classes. "I admired the workers because they kept working despite backaches while files, mosquitos and bugs kept roaming their faces, getting into their eyes," she said," Nobody thinks about nor sees what happens behind a vegetable you grab at the grocery store. But behind it is someone who breaks their backs every day working in the fields. "
She continued to work in the fields on weekends and school breaks even after she left for college and had a job with the University of California Police Department. She credited her parents. "Many times I wanted to give up, but my parents and their pieces of advice and support were the reason I kept going," Rocha said." If it wasn't for how my parents raised me, I don't know who I would be today," she added," Working in the fields builds a different type of character, a character that does not give up, and one with resilience (韧性) and strength to face challenges."
Every year millions of monarch butterflies (黑脉金斑蝶) in the US and southern Canada search for milkweed plants on which to lay their eggs. Concern over reduced habitat has pushed conservationists to create monarch-friendly spaces along roadsides, which are abundant within the butterflies' range and usually publicly owned. But traffic noise stresses monarch larvae (幼虫) out, a new study finds , which might spell trouble for them later on, too.
Andy Davis, a conservation physiologist at the University of Georgia, noticed online videos of roadside monarch larvae apparently shaking as cars zoomed by. He wondered how the constant loud noise might affect them. Davis built a custom larva heart monitor, fitting a small sensor into a microscope to precisely measure monarch larvae' heart rates as they listened to recordings of traffic sounds in the laboratory.
The hearts of larvae inundated with highway noise for two hours beat 17 percent faster than those of larvae in a silent room. But larvae eventually do become desensitized (脱敏的,麻木的) to noise. This desensitization could be problematic when the larvae become adults, Davis says. A rapid stress response is vital for monarch butterflies on their two-month journeys to spend winters in Mexico, as they narrowly escape predators and fight wind currents. "What I think is happening on roadsides is that their stress reactions get overwhelmed(压垮) when they're larvae and could be damaged when they travel to Mexico,"" Davis says.
Whether a noisy larval period reduces monarchs' survival rates remains unknown, notes Ryan Norris, an ecologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, who was not involved in the study." But in any case, monarch-friendly spaces along roadsides almost certainly drive up the butterflies' death rate as a result of collisions with cars. There is so much potential road habitat for monarchs and other insects一it would be such a nice thing to make use of," Norris says." But you just can't get around the traffic.
Researchers from Switzerland are tapping into an unexpected energy source right under our feet: wooden floorings. When walked on, these wooden floors harvest enough energy to power LED lightbulbs and small electronics.
The team began by transforming wood into a nanogenerator (纳米发电机) by sandwiching two pieces of functionalized wood between electrodes (电极). 'The wood pieces become electrically charged through periodic contacts and separations when stepped on，a phenomenon called the turboelectric effect. The electrons can transfer from one object to another, producing electricity. To make wood that is able to attract and lose electrons, the scientists coated one piece of the wood with polydimethylsiloxane (PIMS), a matter that gains electrons upon contact, while functionalizing the other piece of wood with ZIF - 8 which has a higher tendency to lose electrons. The device's electricity output was also stable under steady forces for up to 1, 500 cycles.
The researchers found that a wood floor with a surface area slightly smaller than a piece of paper can produce enough energy to drive household IED lamps and small electronic devices such as calculators. They successfully lit up a lightbulb with the device when a human adult walked upon it.
The next step for Panzarasa and his team, whose work has been published in Matter journal, is to further improve the man generator with chemical coatings that are more eco-friendly and easier to operate." Even though we initially focused on basic research, eventually, the research that we do should lead to applications in the real world," says Panzarasa.
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Inside your head is an organ called the brain. The brain is where we think and store everything we know. It is sort of like a library. But libraries can get full if you stack too many books in them.
Can the brain become full too? The answer is no. New ideas come in, but old ideas also get pushed out. A new study shows how this might happen.
The Experiment
Often we ty to remember a specific memory, an event or idea. Sometimes we cannot, but remember something alike instead. Similar memories can get in the way of finding the right memory. In the study, scientists asked people to learn two similar ideas. Then they asked people to think of just one of them.
The Results
The scientists took pictures of what was happening in people's brains. Each time one idea is remembered, the memory of it gets stronger.
The hippocampus in the middle of the brain searches for memories. The prefrontal skin in the front chooses a memory.
Better to forget
Sometimes forgetting is good. Imagine you had to learn a new password. Forgetting the old password makes it easier to remember the new one. If you couldn't forget the old one, you would end up with too many passwords in your head.
There are many studies about how we learn and remember. But now scientists are also studying how and why we forget. We forget memories that we do not use. Then we can remember other memories more easily.
A. Maybe this is why our brains never get full.
B. Forgetting is our brain's way of organizing memories.
C. Learning new things can lead to forgetting old things.
D. Different parts of the brain work together to remember.
E. As expected, the more we forget, the better it will be.
F. At the same time, the memory of the other idea gets weaker.
G. The brain, made up of different parts, is complex and easily gets started.
Alex Honnold, a famous climber, conquered Mountain El Capitan with little more than a T-shirt and hand chalk. Now his mother just became the oldest woman to reach the 1 peak on September 23rd- the 2 of her 70th birthday.
Dierdre Wolownick, the writer and language teacher, decided to 3climbing as a means to connect more deeply with her son, Alex, who made history in 2018 as the first man to climb El Capitan without any 4 equipment. It happened that Alex was home nursing an injury, which allowed him the time to 5 his mother on her first visit to the climbing gym. Wolownick completed 12 routes that day with her son's help, but it was months before she worked up her courage to6 on her own. Wolowmick became committed to the sport, and began to meet friends and7 her skills. Her biggest dream was to stand on the top of El Capitan like Alex so there could be more 8between them. She kept challenging herself at a time when many people her age are thinking about retirement and 9.
On September 23, she, together with her 10 set out for the peak of El Capitan in the dark at 6 am. The route was a hike 11 enough to require all fours. She had to grab trees and whatever else to 12 her weight. The granite slabs (花岗岩石板) that led her up stretched for what seemed like miles. She just walked steeply uphill, 13. To make things worse, her foot no longer worked the way it should 14 a failed surgery." My 15, though, was the worst offender. My writer's imagination could see 16 what would happen if I stumbled (绊倒) ... "She remembered when interviewed by a journalist from the LA Times. Despite the 17 ， she made it to the top together with others two hours later. "It was really 18 to watch her and then to have her on top with all of us," said Mcmackin, a friend of Wolownick's." We knew where we were. We knew how awesome the moment truly was."
Wolownick often 19 her climbing experiences on social media to guide other climbers， reminding them that they are 20 of doing everything they desire.
The Battle at Take Changjin, whose box office (report) to be the largest in Chinese film history on Nov. 25, has pushed the patriotic sentiment (爱国情怀) of people across the country a higher level. By Thursday afternoon, the film (reach) 5. 69 billion yuan, according to Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan, far (much) than the hit Hollywood flus
Venom: Let There Be Carnage and No Time to Die in the market overseas.
The film tells the story of Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers held their ground among fierce cold and the enemy's more advanced weapons during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950 - 53). Most moviegoers (watch) the film told the Global Times that they were touched by the scenes Chinese solider Yang Gensi picked up an explosive bag and died with the US enemies, and as many as 125 Chinese fighters were frozen to death on the battlefield.
Lei Fei, 42, a teacher in a university in East China's Jiangsu Province, told the Global Times that the main feedback from her students was that the real (describe) of the heroes makes their spirits more moving and inspiring. The Battle at Lake Changjin is no longer (simple) a movie for entertainment, but the case of a more emotional resonance (共鸣) and connection. The success of the movie proves that patriotism is the simplest emotion (root) in the heart of every Chinese.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(A)并在其下面出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画横线，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。
We celebrated Teachers' Day in last month. Here are some detailed information. All the students participate in the celebration, that many activities were held. To begin with, we sent flower to the teachers to express our gratitude. Next, a student represent the whole school gave a speech to say thanks to our teachers. The teachers present were great moved.
Not only this activity praise the teachers' devotion to education, but it also offers an opportunity to strength the relationship between teachers and students. What a unforgettable and meaningful day!
1）对此举措的认识;
2）自己的打算。
注意：
1）词数100左右;
2）短文题目和首已为你写好。
National parks matter
China has officially announced to set up its first group of national parks.
