Discover all the great Sydney attractions. You'll find many memorable things to do and fascinating museums to visit in Sydney, Australia.
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum (AM) was founded in 1827 and is well-known as the nation's first museum. The AM has been transformed and visitors can now enjoy transformed spaces and updated facilities. Free general admission includes entry to all permanent exhibitions and Prehistoric Playground, which is open daily on Level 2 and features a variety of activities for children of all ages including a fossil lab and interactive dinosaur design station.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Explore five levels of art at one of Australia's most popular art museums, located within beautiful parklands overlooking Sydney Harbour, just 10 minutes' walk from the city.
See an extensive collection of Australian art, including one of the largest galleries of aboriginal(土著的) art in the country, alongside Asian treasures and leading local and international contemporary art.
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia-MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is Australia's leading museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia.
Located at Circular Quay, the MCA is housed in the former Maritime Services building, a fine example of late Art Deco architecture.
Australian National Maritime Museum
Located at the waterfront of Darling Harbour, the Maritime Museum is an indoor/outdoor attraction and great entertainment for the whole family. The museum has one of the largest and most diverse in-water fleets(舰队) in the world. The museum hosts six permanent galleries, an ever-changing program of temporary exhibitions, and a 3D cinema, ensuring that there is something for everyone.
A British family was on holiday in a rented motor home in the USA. Traveling through California, they visited the Magic Mountain-Amusement Park. In the mid-afternoon, halfway through what was turning out to be a most enjoyable day at the park, the family came upon a particularly steep ride. In the line, the ride attendants(服务员) strongly warned everyone about the risks of losing hats, glasses, coins and keys, etc. , and these warnings were repeated by large signs around the ride. During the ride, their keys' fate was just as the warnings repeated.
However, the fact was that there were no spare keys. One park attendant drove the family back to the motor home, suggesting the least damaging ways to break into it. Fortunately, a window had been left slightly open, enabling the middle son to be put in and to open the doors from the inside. What was even more fortunate was that the attendant made the engine fire without the key.
The next day the father called a local locksmith(锁匠) to see what could be done. "I might be able to make new keys from the locks if you bring the vehicle to me. " said the locksmith. So the family drove to the locksmith, whose business was in a small shopping centre in the countryside. The locksmith looked at the motor home, and said he would try. In fact, the job took the locksmith most of the day and he put away all his present work. The family hung around the locksmith's, visited the shops again, and generally spent a day at the little shopping centre.
In the late afternoon the locksmith said that he had nearly done. When the father entered the locksmith's shop, the locksmith was smiling. He put two new shining keys on the counter. Although the day was not included in their plan, the family really appreciated all the help and kindness they received from the people.
Researchers in Japan have developed chopsticks that artificially create the taste of salt, as part of efforts to reduce sodium(钴) levels in some of the country's most popular dishes.
The chopsticks work by using electrical stimulation and a mini-computer worn on the eater's wristband. The device conveys sodium ions(离子) from food, through the chopsticks, to the mouth where they create a sense of saltiness, according to Homei Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, whose laboratory collaborated with the food and drink manufacturer Kirin to develop the device.
"The chopsticks use very weak electricity—not enough to affect the human body-to adjust the function of ions to change the perception of taste by making food seem to taste stronger or weaker," said Kirin.
The chopsticks could find a receptive audience in Japan, where the traditional diet tends to be high in salt due to the use of ingredients such as miso and soy sauce. The average Japanese adult consumes about 10 grams of salt a day, double the amount recommended by the World Health Organization
Miyashita and Kirin said clinical tests on people who followed a low-sodium diet had confirmed that the device enhanced the salty taste of low-sodium food by about 1. 5 times. They said participants given reduced-salt miso soup had commented on the improved "richness, sweetness and overall tastiness" of the dish.
High salt intake can contribute to high blood pressure, which is the single biggest cause of heart attacks and strokes. "To prevent these diseases, we need to reduce the amount of salt we take," said Kirin researcher Ai Sato. "If we try to avoid taking less salt in a conventional way, we would need to bear the pain of cutting our favorite food from our diet."
The team said they would continue to improve the electric chopsticks and hoped to make them available to consumers next year. Miyashita's lab also is exploring other ways in which technology can be used to engage the senses-it has also invented a lockable(可以锁定的) TV screen that imitates the flavor of various foods.
In the autumn of 1853 Thomas Butler Gunn got lost-temporarily rather than physically. On a visit to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and isolated from the outside world, his diary quickly divorced the time order of reality. Wednesdays are repeated and days go mislabelled. It took around a fortnight, and renewed contact with civilization, for Gunn to restore his weekly bearings.
The episode(经历), says David Henkin, suggests how fragile a sense of time can be-especially when it comes to weeks. Unlike months or years, these seven-day groupings have no real basis in astronomy. People from Nigeria to China have lived well without them.
And yet the week has become the measure not only of routine, but even of wisdom. "Weekly rhythms have become so thoroughly absorbed into ordinary human experience," Mr Henkin writes, "that forgetting what day it is constitutes a singular symptom and feeling of disorientation (迷失方向). " His new book shows how the week came to rule the world.
But when newspapers, factory schedules and weekly paydays were all rarer, the weekly structure was less important. People got confused. As late as 1866, the Louisville Courier mentioned a man getting drunk on Friday because he thought it was Saturday.
As towns grew and society became more complicated, citizens "became differently and more intensely week-oriented, in ways we can now recognize as modern". When his local charity met on Wednesdays in 1859, and choral concerts were scheduled for Fridays, James Fiske of Massachusetts couldn't afford to mix up his days. Japan formally adopted the seven-day system only in 1873; all the same, a character in a novel by Haruki Murakami is as sure of something "as I am sure that today is Wednesday".
Live-stream marketing: A rural rags-to-riches story?
For many years, quality agricultural products were unable to sell in faraway provinces. It prevented them from accessing a wider, urban client. In most cases, because farmers failed to directly reach consumers, their heavy physical labor resulted in very little income. In this regard, live-stream marketing may appeal to young migrant workers and convince them to rectum home in the countryside.
In Yunnan Province, southwest China, live-stream marketing is currently the most popular way of pushing local products to consumers across the country. It is turning the smartphone into a new farming tool by fashioning new shopping centers. Live-streaming has greatly boosted the province's produce sales in the past two years. We now have a great business model in place, combining products with high-quality live-stream platforms and support packages from the government. Anyway, the continuous development of live-stream marketing is ready to play a big role in raising rural incomes in relatively backward provinces like Yunnan. E-commerce live-streaming is doing pretty well nowadays, but farm produce only accounts for a small share, mainly due to the lack of experienced hosts and infrastructure in rural areas.
How to grow live-stream marketing for farm products? Short videos or live-streams, the key is to meet consumers' demand. High-quality products alone aren't enough; they must consider buyers' preferences as well.
A. There arises a question.
B. Government policies and guidance should follow up.
C. The expansion of 5G technology is a vital contribution.
D. The biggest barrier is lack of efficient marketing channels.
E. China has a tradition of intensive cultivation and a huge rural population.
F. But we should establish a complete supply chain based on strict standards.
G. Once back they can introduce more digitally advanced approaches to agricultural management
The first time I met my father-in-law, Bill, I realized we had different opinions about many things. But he had a quick smile and wit(机智)1in his son, who had told his family how they should treat me with respect ahead of time. So from the very start, we had a great2, one that would expand as l got to know him over the years.
Perhaps my favorite thing about Bill was his playfulness. He had a3of golfing with his sons whenever they got together. And he loved doing art projects with my daughters.
When Bill's4started to fade this summer, we all became5, Instead of dancing around with the kids, he just watched them. We all6that something was wrong, and we were waiting for test results.
When he returned home, we got the worst7Bill had untreatable stage 4 cancer. He could barely get out of bed but he never8, As always, his main concern was about his9, He wanted to see his sons, and10about his grandchildren smilingly, who didn't visit him at the hospital. Although his body language11what he was going through, his words remained as12as ever, and he even joked sometimes.
After his13, Bill only lasted a few days. 14, the family was planning a funeral. That day, people from across all areas of Bill's life came. Bill meant a lot to me . He always15me to live life to the fullest, and be true to myself.
Canadians are extremely enthusiastic about renewable energy, and public opinion is (clear) moving towards a clean energy vision for the future. But when you look at the latest polls, there are still some major obstacles to aggressive climate action.
You've probably heard that most Canadians want governments to do more on climate. That's what two-thirds of the public tell pollsters when (ask). But the same two-thirds will tell you they're pretty satisfied and think Canada is doing a decent job dealing climate change.
It's not because Canadians aren't worried. Three-quarters of the public are concerned and the level of worry is rising-half of us now describe climate change as a "very serious threat." But most people think we're already pulling (we) weight. Just 25 per cent of Canadians think we're doing less than our "fair share."
One of the really (worry) trends in public opinion is the number of people who think tackling climate change is already a lost cause. About half the public think we won't be able to limit climate impacts "before it's too late." Just 35 per cent have (confident) in governments creating policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
And another big obstacle is the majority doesn't yet have a mental picture of the possible pathways forward. there is good news in the latest public research. Canadians' vision of the future is shifting rapidly. There is (mass) support for renewable energy, across all demographics and across party lines. Meanwhile, support for fossil fuel expansion (decrease).
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Students' Union
May 25th
Little Tom lived with his poor grandmother Donna in a village. Every day, Tom sold potatoes grown by Donna in a market.
One day, an old foreigner aroused Tom's curiosity. He frequently visited Tom's stall(摊位) but didn't buy. The next day, the man passed from one vendor(小贩) to the next, waving a bag around . But he didn't visit Tom's stall that day. Out of curiosity, Tom asked a vendor nearby to temporarily look after his stall. Then, he followed the foreigner.
The man went back to his broken-down house near the market and took several old medals from his bag. "Wow!" Tom said. "I won them in my own country, "the man said proudly, then asking why Tom came here. Tom explained," I'm wondering why you didn't visit my stall today." "Oh, I don't need potatoes . I need firewood, so I walked around the market looking for someone who would buy these medals and give me money in exchange," he lied.
Tom left and brought back many potatoes from his stall, saying, "If you don't have money, you can't buy food. Keep my grandma's potatoes." But the man insisted he had enough food. Tom went back, upset; he could see the man was hungry and weak.
The third day, the man reached the market, selling medals again. He valued them, which were his honors. But after a disaster, now he had to sell them to survive. He looked weaker. Tom packed some potatoes, walking towards him again. From his conversations with vendors, Tom found him trying to sell medals for food! But no one believed his medals were true.
Disappointed, the man sat alone by the roadside. Tom approached him, saying, "I saw it! Why didn't you let me help you?" Almost crying, he said, "I'm sorry, but I was too embarrassed to ask for your help. Now could you give me your potatoes in exchange for the medals?"
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"Sure," Tom said while nodding his head.
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"But Tom, the medals are valuable to the man. We should give them back," added Donna.
