Whatever your interests, Hong Kong has a museum to suit your tastes.
Hong Kong Museum of Art
The Hong Kong Museum of Art collection includes hundreds of art works of old Hong Kong. There are seven exhibition galleries, among which two special exhibition galleries show collections of works of art drawn from around the world to keep the visitors up to date with international artistic trends.
Open: 10 am-6 pm Friday to Wednesday. Closed Thursday.
Location: 10 Salisbury Road.
Hong Kong Museum of History
A popular visitor highlight is "The Hong Kong Story" Permanent Exhibition, which outlines the natural environment, folk culture and historical development of Hong Kong from 400 million years ago until the return to China in 1997. Guided tours are available on weekends and public holidays.
Open: 10 am-6 pm Monday & Wednesday to Saturday; 10 am-7 pm Sunday and most public holidays. Closed Tuesday.
Location: 100 Chatham Road South.
Hong Kong Science Museum
Learning has never been more fun! Five hundred interesting exhibits, 80 percent of which are hands-on, offer an insight into a wide range of science-related subjects. Science and technology topics included in the exhibition cover robotics, transportation and much more.
Open: 1 pm-9 pm Monday to Wednesday & Friday; 10 am-9 pm Saturday, Sunday and most public holidays. Closed Thursday.
Location: 2 Science Museum Road.
Hong Kong Space Museum
Learn all about astronomy and space technology here. There are two exhibition halls-Hall of Space Science and Hall of Astronomy. It is renowned for its Space Theatre which features Omnimax and Sky shows several times daily.
Open: 1 pm-9 pm Monday, Wednesday to Friday; 10 am-9 pm Saturday, Sunday and most public holidays. Closed Tuesday.
Location: 11 Salisbury Road.
As I write this, you have been dead for over six years. It sounds like a long time, but it doesn't feel like it. Perhaps that's because I still think about you every day. You've taught me so much, and you continue to do so.
Granny, you are a model of a perfect woman in my heart: beautiful, brave and passionate. In 1964, you, Grandpa and your young children were exiled(被流放). Your courage and your commitment to justice at such a young age never ceases to amaze me. Decades later, you fought cancer with the same strength of personality. Supremely positive, you made it far further than expected. You still died too young, but the fighting spirit that made your life so extraordinary never weakened.
Grandpa, you are the man I love most in the world. Like Granny, you dedicated your life to the struggle for the liberation of African colonies. Your work as a journalist took you across the continent: you interviewed Nelson Mandela in hiding and then refused to reveal where he was. In 1973, you told the world the story of the Ethiopian famine(饥荒). Your life may have been full of conflict and struggle, but you remain the gentlest, loveliest person I have ever known. You loved us all and loved Granny with a depth and sincerity. You took care of her until the end.
You were both only 70 when you died. But your lives were rich and full, and you did more and loved more than most people do in their lifetime. You have taught me what it means to fight for justice, to speak up for uncomfortable truths when staying silent would be easier. Because of you, I understand the power that every individual has to change the world.
You also threw light on what it is to love another person to me. Until the very end, you were as in love with each other as a pair of silly teenagers. Your commitment to justice went hand in hand with your commitment to one another, and you faced the world's problems together, side-by-side and shoulder-to- shoulder.
You are the architects of our family, and all of us would be lesser people had we not known you. Because of you I have chosen to live my life with bravery and emotion. You may be dead, but you are not gone.
Love always,
Lucy
For many years we have talked about education in a changing society but have done little to educate for uncertainty. Perhaps the best insurance we can offer for this uncertainty is the presence of a good mind. To develop a good mind the student must learn how to learn and develop a taste for learning. The world of tomorrow needs flexible individuals, intelligently mobile individuals, individuals who can land on their feet when their jobs become technologically outdated, and individuals who can cope with the unexpected.
To educate for flexibility we must distinguish between training and education. To train is to emphasize immediate goals to neglect the long-term growth. To educate, however, is to foster(培养) limitless growth to develop the good mind.
An inevitable element in education for flexibility is an attitude favorable to change. This is hard to develop. It requires faith in oneself and in the future. Then, what can the school and college do to build an attitude more favorable to change? Certainly they can and must develop the self-confidence of students, and build them up with repeated success instead of constant failure. Schools and colleges can help students admire what is admirable and provide continuing guidance in how to become a real person having faith in the future and having a good mind of his own.
To meet the striking social changes of the future, continuing education is a necessity. As Native Americans noted, you should keep on learning as long as you're ignorant. The flexibly educated person knows that today's fact may be tomorrow's misconception. So we should raise awareness of lifelong learning.
The test of a modern society capable of meeting change with accelerated evolution instead of revolution does not lie in asking, "Is everybody learning?" To be learning is not only a condition for survival; it is also the basis for being richly alive.
Monitoring groups of animals in the wild is a tricky business. Fixing radio transmitters to them is invasive, and can alter their behaviour in unexpected ways. Hidden cameras is an alternative, but individual beasts are hard to tell apart. And nocturnal(夜行的) creatures are difficult to see in the first place. Fortunately, there is another less obvious way to monitor animals recently: by eavesdropping(窃听) on them.
A network of underwater microphones has already been used to count and track migrating whales by identifying their individual calls. At a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month, researchers from Ohio State University explained how they have now applied a similar technique to bats.
Working in the university's Bat Lab, Stephen Burnett and Mitchell Masters recorded a total of 1, 449 echo-location calls-the high-pitched sounds that bats use to probe their surroundings - from 24 big brown bats. They then used signal-analysis software to analyse each call according to ten numerical parameters describing length, time, frequency and so on. Cluster analysis, a statistical technique that groups things together on the basis of similarity, found 29 distinct clusters of calls, which was reasonably close to the actual number of bats.
Indeed, even when presented with just two calls from each bat, rather than several dozen, the software provided a fairly accurate estimate of numbers. This suggests that, by recording bat sounds in one place over the course of a few nights, it should be possible to estimate the size of the local bat population.
Similar bio-acoustic(生物声学的) techniques are being tried on other animals. Christopher Clark of Cornell University, who pioneered the acoustic monitoring of whales, is now involved in a project to monitor elephant populations in the Central Africa. Unlike their tropical cousins in eastern and southern Africa, these animals are mostly resident in forests. That makes them difficult to count by such conventional means as flying over them with a pair of field-glasses.
Using microphones, Dr. Clark hopes to identify both the elephant making each call and the place the call was made from. It should then be possible to determine the population, track the migration of different groups of animals, and monitor their health—merely by listening.
Imagine an oxygen mask drops down right in front of you. What's happened? Yes, a plane crash. But the chances of being killed are very slim. You're more likely to drown in a bubble bath, choke on your breakfast or die in a car accident on your way to the airport. So, what do you do with this yellow mask if it suddenly drops from the ceiling? Here are four things.
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Your flip-flops(人字拖) may be comfortable, but they're not going to perform well in case of an emergency. And neither will your high-heeled shoes. It's reported that 68% of passengers in plane accidents die from injuries in post-crash fires. So go for long pants and long-sleeved shirts—they'll protect you from flames and sharp objects.
●Be wise about where your seat is.
Where is the safest place to sit? According to Popular Mechanics, your best bet is to sit as far back in the airplane as possible unless the plane goes down tail-first. There is no such thing. It all really depends on the situation. Regardless of what section you're sitting in, know where the emergency exits are.
So, you can find it even if the cabin is filled with smoke.
●Save yourself not your possessions.
If you get to evacuate(撤离) from the plane, do it as quickly as possible. Don't try to get your carry-on to take with you.
●Stay awake during take-off and landing.
The first three minutes after take-off and the eight minutes before landing are the most dangerous times of the entire flight. Make sure to keep your shoes on, your seatbelt fastened. Put your carry-on items under the seat in front of you to keep your legs from being broken. And pay attention to the emergency instructions. Not all planes are the same, though.
A. Count the rows to the closest one.
B. After all, life is full of dangers like those.
C. You've been on a plane many times before.
D. Dress as if you have to run away from a fire.
E. Put on lace-up shoes in case you need to run.
F. Yet we can all feel nervous when stepping on a plane.
G. You might end up getting stuck with it in the time you waste.
The history of human beings is naturally a process to pursue happiness, which is the ultimate purpose of life. Happiness makes us cope with our careers energetically and harmonise life1. However, the word "pursue" evidences that happiness is like a horizon(地平线), when we move further, it2away.
Obviously, defining happiness has3mankind for thousands of years because individuals all have their own4and, more critically, human desires are almost limitless. 5is the common standard for happiness of merchants, yet their dreams of being billionaires and even zillionaires always follow the fulfilments of the dreams of being millionaires. The process of struggling for may-be happiness always ends in must-be6. Thus, the definition of happiness can hardly be7Nevertheless, although happiness is indefinable, it is still easy for us to find the8examples of happy people, who, in fact, share three features in common: optimistic mentality, 9body, and stable income. It is apparent that most of the sufferings are10by external surroundings and they are nearly unavoidable. Thus, one can only change his mentality to11them. Meanwhile, without health one cannot sustain happiness to enjoy the12of life.
Furthermore, to be realistic, a beggar, while struggling in poverty, can never be as peaceful as a millionaire13on the Pacific ocean. Hence, stable income is also significant for achieving happiness.
To summarise, to define happiness will not be so hard if humans can understand happiness in a standard way and eliminate(消灭) their14totally. However, before the realization of this15, being optimistic, healthy, and financially independent may be the "keys" to happiness.
JongMay Urbonya is an American lady full of surprises: she is fluent in Mandarin; she is so enthusiastic about Hanfu as (wear) that every day.
JongMay thought it was her "Chinese-style princess dream" led her back to China. She launched a company in April aiming for the (promote) of traditional Chinese culture through social media videos.
The inspiration for her career choice originated from the rise of Guochao, a style in China (feature)modern designs mixed with traditional cultural elements. Whether the youth in China Gen Zers(Z世代人) abroad, they are jumping on the fashion wagon. JongMay is one of them and the rise has brought her dream within much (easy) reach. "The traditional culture (view) not just as history that appears on stage or in movies, but as new fashion that has integrated with modern life," she said.
She has confidence the international appeal of traditional Chinese culture. "Even though (I) social media channels started recently, positive feedback from viewers worldwide has flooded in," she smiled.
Good morning, everybody! It's an honor to speak here.
Thank you!
My mom is a world class chef, at least in my eyes. She is capable of the most dangerous cooking crafts, ranging from southern to northern Chinese cuisine, spiced with some Western influences.
As her daughter, I felt it a responsibility to use this time living at home to learn a few family dishes. I grew up watching my mom spin in the kitchen and I dutifully ate all the remainders. It seemed that Chinese cuisine was full of flexible rules and the ways could be dangerous and thrilling. It's about time that I should stir(搅动) my appetite for cooking and not just for eating.
I was starting to cook at the not-so-tender age of 18. I could actually pull off a few Western dishes in fashion. But Chinese food was a whole new scene. I stepped into the new world with some great fear. Ahead of me was a war of massive mission- cutting, frying, chopping. HOT OIL. BURNING. But at least I figured I might find some cooking genes.
We began with a simple but hearty Chinese noodle dish: the egg and tomato noodle with green onion. With my mom's excited looks, I pulled over my apron(围裙). The beginning of the lesson started off smoothly enough. I washed the tomatoes with great expertise. I proceeded to wash the eggs.
It started getting heated when I was separating the egg yolks from the egg whites. It was quite depressing. It took a good 10 minutes before the mission was completed. The next step was beating the eggs with just a small amount of water. This wasn't too bad. Even cutting up the tomatoes wasn't too difficult.
The worst part was to come—the eggs frying in a pot. I'm deadly afraid of hot oil. I danced around nervously, waiting for the oil to get to the right temperature. "See if the oil is ready," my mom asked. I gave her a question mark. She sighed in despair, "Go put your hand over the oil."
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"You want me to dangerously drop my hand over the hot oil?" I repeated unbelievably.
Eventually, I placed my "masterpiece" on the table.
