It was a windy day. I was walking in a forest when I saw a baby squirrel (松鼠), who fell out of its nest, lying1on the ground. I tried many times to put it back, but failed. After waiting over two hours, I found it couldn't2, so I decided to take it to my home for the night.
Once at home, I realized the squirrel, who I named Cathy, was still uncomfortable. I discovered that there were some weeds on her body, so I gave her a3and got her all cleaned up. Three days later, Cathy could move in the room. To our delight, she got 4 to me and my family. I gave a lot of time and attention to her, and even made her a nest. Every day, I fed her a combination of healthy foods, including fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Under my 5, the baby member got better and better. Everyone who came to my home loved her, and she even6with my two dogs.
One week later, Cathy recovered7. I realized it was the right time for her to leave. I 8her into the wild several times, but she just kept coming back! Maybe she was so 9that I saved her, and expressed it in her own way.
At last, with the help of my friend, the squirrel went into the wild. "Cathy has brought a lot of10into my life, and it seems that she feels the same way!"
Last weekend, I participated in a clean-up activity. It was organized by an organization aimed to protect natural parks. Our team leader, Joe, (take) us to a park outside the city. He divided us into two groups and we worked for several hours. made us happy was that the park looked cleaner than it had looked before. It was absolutely worth our effort! There'll be another clean-up activity in the green belt next Saturday. I'll join too.
Chinese (researcher) have deployed an in-situ scientific experiment station on the seabed that will enable long-term unscrewed scientific research in the deep sea. The in-situ scientific experiment station is a new deep-sea system (suggest) by China in recent years. Usually, (tradition) marine surveys take samples from the seabed and get hem tested in the land labs. For in-situ testing in the deep sea, damage or loss of sample data due to environmental changes can (avoid).
Possessing more bamboo than any other country in the world, China is known as the Kingdom of Bamboo. To the Chinese people, bamboo is the symbol of virtue. It has the title of "the gentleman of plants". It is always (close) related to people of positive spirit. For example, (it) deep root symbolizes determination, and the straight and hollow stem represents straightness and modesty. Bamboo culture always plays a positive role in encouraging Chinese people to hold on when (face) tough situations.
Some libraries use unique architecture to encourage visitors to explore the bookshelves and settle down with a new book, or use roving libraries to bring books to hard-to-reach populations. No matter how they achieve it, these novel libraries are keeping the magic of reading alive.
Bishan Library (Singapore)
Built in 2006, this library with skylights and trellises, is meant to invoke a modern glass treehouse. Glass pods of varying colors stick out of the building randomly to create cozy yet airy corners for reading throughout the building. At the same time, a more open-plan children's room on the basement level invites interaction while preventing noise from filtering upward and disturbing those concentrating in the lofty perches above.
Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)
Opened in 2011, this nine-story public library is characterized by its attractive white color scheme (lit by blue light at night), its bold cubic shape. This cultural center for the city, designed to feel open and full of light, can be entered from any of its four sides, and people can borrow artwork as well as books.
The Camel Library Service (North Eastern Province, Kenya)
To combat low literacy rates in the desert of Kenya, the government created a roaming library composed of nine camels bringing books to villages. The library travels four days a week serving the region's nomadic people. With more funding, they plan to increase their reach both in distance and the books they carry.
Macquarie University Library (Sydney, Australia)
A wonderful combination of cutting-edge and sustainable ideas, this building was made from recycled materials, features a green roof, and was designed to look like the shape of a eucalyptus tree. It is also state of the art, using robot cranes to bring requested books to the front desk.
Influenced by her family, Xu started to learn the craft of making Chinese knots at home, but didn't expect the pastime to change her life at first. Xu became a city-level inheritor of this provincial-level intangible cultural heritage in 2009, and has been devoted to developing the craft since then.
As a fan of photography, she often took photos of dragonflies, butterflies and flowers around a lake not far from her home, then she made knots resembling them, and posted the photos on a website. That attracted the attention of some people.
As an advertising design major, she makes innovated knots based on her knowledge of design, and can use various threads to make small, exquisite designs. She has created many series of works based on traditional Chinese culture, such as festivals, tea and Peking Opera characters.
"Showing Chinese culture through traditional Chinese crafts—that is the original aspiration for me as an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage," says Xu. She has made more than 3,000 designs, and even opened two offline branch stores. Her products include decorations of different sizes that can be put on walls, car ornaments, cellphone chains and jewelry. "I believe our intangible cultural heritage can be better developed and passed down when it meets people's needs in daily life," says Xu.
Chen, an online follower, has been teaching how to make knots in the United Arab Emirates. "Influenced by Xu's work, I learn the craft to cultivate my temperament, and I also teach children to better understand Chinese culture," says Chen. "Chinese culture is popular in the UAE, and I often make some knots with Chinese elements for local people as gifts."
Xu has also been generous in helping others. She taught this art to workers who lost their jobs in her hometown, allowing them to master a skill from which they could earn an income. Students and people with disabilities were also beneficiaries. Indeed, more than 20 people with disabilities now actually work for her.
Despite the success of her career, Xu says working on the craft has benefited her more in a spiritual way. "Tying knots requires concentration, and you must not be distracted during the process. It has trained me to deal with matters in a calm, peaceful and rational way," says Xu. "I believe the life of one person is short, and you have the right to decide how to spend it."
With the development of technology, "paperless" seems to be the new trend. Instead of writing by hand, people began to use computers to type in order to produce text quickly. Some people said word processing made producing and editing text much easier. Will handwriting be completely replaced by typing?
A 2017 study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that regions of the brain associated with learning were more active when subjects completed a task by hand instead of on a keyboard. Not only that, but the study's authors also found that writing by hand could promote "deep encoding or processing" in a way that typing does not.
In fact, there have been many such studies to arrive at that conclusion. One notable example from 2014 compared students who took notes by hand with those who took notes on laptops. They found that the students using laptops tended to write down what the professor said word for word, while those who took notes by hand were more likely to listen to what was being said, analyzing it for important content and "processing information and reframing it in their own words." When asked conceptual questions about the lecture, students who had taken notes by hand were better able to answer than those who had typed their notes.
Daniel Oppenheimer, one of the study's co-authors, told Medium's Elemental that in order to analyze the lecture, people had to contemplate the material and actually understand the arguments. This helped them learn the material better. The most annoying thing about writing by hand is also what makes it so effective for learning.
Virginia Berninger, a professor at the University of Washington, says, "When we write a letter of the alphabet, the process of production involves pathways in the brain that go near or through parts that manage emotion." Pressing a key doesn't stimulate those pathways the same way. She says, "It's possible that there's not the same connection to the emotional part of the brain when people type, as opposed to writing in longhand." "In the same vein, writing in longhand also allows people to really figure out what they mean to say," Oppenheimer says, "which may help self-expression."
Our keyboards are great for a lot of things. But sometimes, there's no replacing the feeling of spreading out a clean sheet of paper, uncapping a beloved pen, and letting the ink flow.
Of all the weird and wonderful creatures living under the sea, perhaps the strangest are jellyfish—those rubbery, cone-shaped creatures found floating in the water, their long tentacles trailing behind.
Some jellyfish species have a bad reputation for scaring away tourists, clogging up fishing nets, and even blocking power station pipes. But with more and more plastic rubbish ending up in the sea, these days you're as likely to swim into a plastic bag as a jellyfish. Now scientific research is discovering that these rubbery sea creatures might provide an answer—a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution.
In recent years, tiny pieces of plastic called microplastic have been a significant problem for the world's seas and oceans. These plastics are not visible to the eye and aren't caught by seawater treatment plants due to their small size, so they enter our system and harm our health. They've been found in many places—in Arctic ice, at the bottom of the sea and even inside animals. Slovenian scientist, Dr Ana Rotter, heads GoJelly, a European research team of jellyfish ecologists looking into the problem.
Microplastics, plastics in general, are becoming an increasing problem. Dr Ana Rotter says when she was a child, people were more environmentally friendly—not harmful to the environment or having the least possible impact on it. At that time, there were very few single-use plastics—plastic items, like spoons and forks, designed to be used just once, then thrown away. The situation since then has changed dramatically. In fact, there's been such an increase in microplastics that today the UN lists plastic pollution as one of the world's top environmental threats.
But how do jellyfish fit into the story? Well, it's the 'jelly' part of jellyfish, and specifically their sticky, jelly-like mucus that is key. Jellyfish produce a thick, sticky liquid called mucus. Dr Ana Rotter has discovered that this mucus has strong absorptive capabilities—it can absorb, take in liquids and other substances. One of the substances jellyfish mucus absorbs are the particles that make up microplastics.
Dr Rotter's research is still in the early stages, but it's hoped that jellyfish mucus could hold the key to a future free of microplastic polluted oceans. Scientists are hoping that the mucus's absorptive properties—its abilities to absorb liquids and other substances and hold them, will allow it to trap particles of plastic floating in the sea. By trapping these, the mucus acts like a magnet—an object that attracts certain materials, like metal, but in this case, microplastic waste.
Happiness is considered very important in life. It is so powerful that it affects many things in your life—your sleep, relationships, health, study and work.
Happiness doesn't happen spontaneously—it requires planning towards pursuing things that matter to us. It's necessary to set goals to look forward to and follow an actionable plan to achieve them, which can boost your self-confidence and reduce stress and anxiety.
When you are feeling negative about yourself, ask yourself what advice you would give a friend who was down on himself or herself. Now try to apply that advice to yourself.
Keeping moving is also a good way. When people get up and move, they tend to be happier than when they are still. We don't know if moving makes you happy or if happy people just move more, but we do know that more activity goes hand-in-hand with better health and greater happiness. Sunlight makes a difference. Spend time outside or live in a space with natural light.
It is surely that our happiness is linked with the happiness of others. Happiness is infectious, so stay with people who are happy, supportive and give you positive feedback.
Happiness often comes from within. When you are happy, anything is possible. Happy people don't have the best of everything; they make the best of what they have.
A. The first secret is to enjoy simple things in life.
B. Sometimes, you need to treat yourself like a friend.
C. Studies also support that spending time in nature is good for you.
D. You can forget about your problems, and turn to your friends for help.
E. Happiness is not something ready-made, but comes from your own actions. F. Goal setting is important, since it forms the outline for the life you envision.
G. People who are surrounded by happy people are more likely to become happy.
The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in China, running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. It stretches for nearly 3,200 kilometers and passes through eight of the country's provinces and municipalities.
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the canal is the longest and oldest artificial river in the world. It has played an important role in ensuring China's economic prosperity and stability, and is in use today as a major means of transportation.
The Beijing section of the Grand Canal is 82 km long. Along it, cultural relics and sites on both banks are important symbols of culture and are considered a top priority for protection by the local government.
The city government has unveiled two development plans: the first is an implementation plan for the protection, inheritance and utilization of the canal's cultural values; the second is a construction plan for building a Grand Canal-themed national cultural park.
The plan sets up three implementation milestones in the next five years. In 2020, efforts have been made to lay a firm foundation for the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park, with the Tongzhou section of the canal open to navigation and a management mechanism of the park established. By 2023, significant progress is expected to be made in coordinating the protection and utilization of cultural resources along the canal, with the national cultural park basically set up. By 2025, the park will become a new cultural landmark in Beijing. The Grand Canal, with its cultural resources put under protection and ecological conservation along its banks significantly improved, will embrace improved cultural and tourism development. Cities along the canal by then will welcome further coordinated or integrated development.
The Beijing section of the Grand Canal, a valued asset for the capital, is marked out as a river boasting rich cultural resources, ecological value, social benefits and economic potential. The capital is set to roll out more measures to bring out the best in the canal.
With its protected cultural resources and improved ecological conservation along its banks, the Grand Canal will embrace improved cultural and industrial development.
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