Bruce Museum
Consistently voted the "Best Museum" by area media, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich is an educational institution which, through its varied exhibitions and collections in the arts and sciences, provides programs for diverse audiences.
Bruce Beginnings
Tuesdays, 11:00 to 11:45 am
Bruce Beginnings programs are designed for children from 2.5-5 years of age and their adult caregivers, who will explore the museum's collections and exhibitions through picture books and hands-on activities. Space for these programs is limited; participants must see the Visitor Service desk upon arrival to the museum.
Science Solvers or Art Adventure
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Drop-in monthly programs are designed for children over the age of 4 and their families to explore simple science and art concepts while taking part in kid-friendly experiments, projects, or crafts inspired by the museum's exhibitions and collections.
Family Studio Workshops
Select Sundays, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
A program for children over the age of 4 with their families. Participants will create a work of art inspired by the museum's collections and exhibitions! This program is $7 per person for members and $15 for non-members, plus the cost of Museum admission.
Afternoons at the Bruce
Select school vacation days, 2:00 to 4:30 pm
Spend the afternoon off from school discovering, learning and creating! Workshops are designed for gradesK-5 and explore the museum's collections and exhibitions. Members $15, and $25 for non-members. Snacks included! Advanced registration is required at brucemuseum.org/site/events.
In 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific American about tiling（瓷砖）. There is a problem which has interested mathematicians since ancient Greek times. After Rice's chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. "I thought she was just drawing casually（随意）," her daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually discovering never-before-seen patterns.
Born in Florida, she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, but tight budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend college. "For Rice, math was a pleasure," her son David once said.
Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American partly because she could read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardner's column about tiling as she later recalled in an interview: "I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before." She also wrote in an essay, "My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type."
Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert at Moravian College. Doris confirmed that Rice's finding was correct.
Later, Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doris's invitation, she attended a university mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice still said nothing of her achievements to her children, but they eventually found out as the awards mounted.
Researchers have long known that the brain links kinds of new facts, related or not, when they are learned about the same time. For the first time, scientists have recorded routes in the brain of that kind of contextual memory, the frequent change of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information.
The recordings, taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy（癫痫）, suggest that new memories of even abstract facts are encoded（编码） in a brain-cell order that also contains information about what else was happening during and just before the memory was formed.
In the new study, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University took recordings from a small piece of metal implanted in the brains of 69 people with severe epilepsy. The implants allow doctors to pinpoint the location of the flash floods of brain activity that cause epileptic happening. The patients performed a simple memory task. They watched a series of nouns appear on a computer screen, and after a brief disturbance recalled as many of the words as they could, in any order. Repeated trials, with different lists of words, showed a predictable effect: The participants tended to remember the words in groups, beginning with one and recalling those that were just before or after.
This pattern, which scientists call the contiguity effect, is similar to what often happens in the card game concentration, in which players try to identify pairs in a row of cards lying face-down. Pairs overturned close are often remembered together. The way the process works, the researchers say, is something like reconstructing a night's activities after a hangover: remembering a fact (a broken table) recalls a scene (dancing), which in turn brings to mind more facts, like the other people who were there.
Sure enough, the people in the study whose neural（神经） updating signals were strongest showed the most striking pattern of remembering words in groups. "When you activate one memory, you are reactivating a little bit of what was happening around the time the memory was formed, and this process is what gives you that feeling of time travel," said Dr Michael J. Kahana.
Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them.
Social media, texting and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information, but they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. To use a theatrical metaphor（隐喻）, these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we can each create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and project a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine, and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.
So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges.
Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person? Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the digital self could obey different rules and regulations, as if he could continually push the limits of what's acceptable without facing the consequences of "real life."
One of my bad habits is saying "busy" when people ask me how I'm doing. Sometimes it's because I actually am busy, but other times it's because that's what I think I'm supposed to say. That's what important or promoted people say. So why are we so proud to talk about how busy we are all the time?
In 2016, researchers conducted a study to figure it out. And interestingly, these status attributions（归属） are heavily influenced by our own beliefs. In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who always skip leisure and work are of higher standing.
That's why we feel like we have to appear busy, and there's a real perception that if someone is knee-deep in meetings, emails, and stress, then they're probably a big deal. According to a recent study, one in five highly engaged employees is at risk of burnout.
It sounds self-righteous （自以为是） and sets the wrong tone. Phrases like "I have limited access to email" and "I'll respond as soon as I get back" sound like you're being held against your will from working as opposed to making the most of your time off.
That's why we recently launched the Out of Office Email Generator, a free tool you can use before your next long weekend or trip. Managers need to think twice about emailing their teams on the weekend and talking about how busy they are, and so do leaders.
A. Actually, leading a busy life can be avoidable.
B. But working long hours doesn't drive better results.
C. A person of high status feels tired when promoted.
D. Busy people are found to be those with high social rank.
E. You can share you won't be checking the mailbox till you return.
F. This culture of busyness is making it hard to find work-life balance.
G. Personally, I'm going to stop saying "busy" when people ask me how I am.
Last year, my friend, Kydee Williams, and I started a non-profit project because we wanted to do charity work differently. Thus, The Pop-Up Care Shop was 1 .
TPUCS is a traveling shop of 2 donated goods for people in need. During the holidays, we 3 clothing drives and then went to women's shelters. Our main goal was to help inspire women who were 4 with hope as well as bring a little holiday cheer to our local communities.5 any project or movement wasn't easy. Brainstorming and coming up with cool ideas was the 6 part, but actually bringing those ideas to life can seem almost 7 at times. However, there were lessons about 8 that we didn't fully realize until we started this journey.
From our experience, we learned smaller shelters, especially those in less-commercialized areas were often 9 when it came to getting community support. Actually, they were typically more 10 to new and creative ideas and would greatly welcome 11 who offered help. Under our inspiration, many 12 people devoted themselves to non-profit work. Many shelters are understaffed and the staff overworked. Working directly with them helped us 13 the specific needs of the shelter.
While material things like food, clothes, money, and shelter can help people survive, what 14 helps people live is the intangible（无形） necessities like love, presence, patience. Even though we can't help every single person in the world, we can 15 a world of difference for at least one person.
Every year in China, a day is set aside to honour, and show respect for, the elders and senior citizens in the entire nation. As China has more than 297 million people (age) 60 and over, according to the latest statistics, this day (grow) in popularity over the years.
In the early 1980s, the Chinese government declared that the Chongyang Festival would be the day on which (celebrate) the lives of China's elder citizens. Of course, showing respect and admiration to old is a Chinese tradition dating back to ancient times, therefore the people easily and readily support this day. On this day, the government and local communities hold various activities for the elders, free hair-cuts, cultural performances and health-care consultations.
However, respect for the elders should be kept in mind firmly and showing (we) for them is not restricted to one special day only. According to historical records, elders over 70 years old enjoyed special treatment and anyone not showing respect to them (punish), which proves that respecting the elders was set in law back then.
Apparently, respect for the elders is the (found) of the Chinese moral system. Today, throughout China, we find many examples of young people (carry) on this tradition of respect.
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It was a cold, snowy evening. Tommy was running as fast as he could, focused on nothing but his destination—the shop on the street corner. Two weeks ago he saw figurines(小塑像) of Marvel superheroes on the shelves and felt he had to have one. He's been walking the neighbor's dog ever since then to earn money to fulfil his little dream. He was so excited and barely noticing the world around him. Maybe that's why he tripped over the legs of a homeless woman, who was sitting on the pavement, her back against the wall. He murmured(低语) "sorry" and moved on to his destination.
Once he entered the shop, he went straight to the shelves with figurines. Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and many more—all of his admired heroes. With his heart pounding like crazy he reached for Spiderman.
"You like these, true believer?"
Tommy turned around. An old man was standing behind him with a wide smile on his face.
"Y-yes, …Yes, they're awesome!" answered Tommy. "They're strong and fast and help other people a lot ..."the boy looked at figurines in admiration. "I wish I could be a superhero too."
"Then become one!" said the old man.
"How?" Tommy asked in surprise. "I don't have any superpowers."
"And why would you need them?" the old man smiled. Seeing the confusion on the boy's face, he squatted(蹲下) and put his hands on Tommy's arms. "Did you know that shopkeeper lady over there has a disabled husband? She's been working hard and taking care of him for years. I've never heard a word of complaint from her. And this person —" he pointed at a redhead man, who just entered the shop. "He's a firefighter; he's saved countless lives. He never gives up, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be."
The old man looked Tommy in the eyes and smiled. "You don't need a superpower to be a hero for someone else. The path of a superhero starts not in the mind, not in the muscles, but in the heart."
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Tommy lowered his head and looked at his shoes thinking intensely.
The homeless woman was right there where he saw her last time.
