Be a Beekeeper fora Day!
Learn about the fascinating world of honey bees in a way that few get to experience:
●Your tour, led by a professional beekeeper, will include suiting up in protective gear, lighting a bee smoker, and getting up close with more than 100,000 bees.
●Guided tours include protective gear and select drinks.
●Any children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by at least one paid adult.
Price | Starting at $35 Ages 13+: $50 Ages 6-12: $35 |
Time | Saturdays |
Duration | 1.5 Hours |
Place | Two Hives Honey Ranch |
Things to know:
Ensure you rive a few minutes before your start time to sign waivers(豁免协议) and get signed in.
Tours are weather dependent, so if the forecast calls for rain, please watch your email 24 – 48 hours before in case we need to cancel/reschedule.
What to bring:
We will have a variety of protective gear for all of you. Please follow the guidelines:
◆Closed-toe shoes that cover the ankle are required.
◆Wear long pants and a long sleeve top. Try to stick to lighter colors on top.
◆Choose clothing that is loose fitting - nothing especially tight!
◆Avoid using materials that are hairy or made from sweater type materials.
◆Please avoid using any perfumes(香水)or creams - the bees are not fans of our smell.
On November 2, 2021, my friend Lou messaged me with a challenge: "Amy and I are not buying any new clothes for a year…" My immediate reply was, "Definitely!" This might not be what people who know me would expect. As a child, I once invited a girl to my birthday party just because I had seen her in a beautiful dress. My love for fashion has continued into adulthood.
However, I am also aware of the significant issues in the fashion industry: it's highly polluting. There's also the problem of waste, with the West often dumping(丢弃) unwanted clothing in other regions.
So, when the invitation appeared, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to reset my relationship with clothes.
The year pushed me to embrace better habits. I've always enjoyed looking for second-hand items, but when my only pair of trainers broke in an unfixable way, I urgently needed a replacement. The Vinted app helped me find one almost as quickly as buying new.
I put more effort into making clothes. You quickly realize the labor involved once you start making shorts by yourself. Besides, removing the ease of buying new pushed me towards fixing instead, though a low point was taking a much-loved pair of shoes to a cobbler(修鞋匠), only to be told it'd be "cheaper to buy new".
Even though the year is officially over, I'm hoping to carry on with what I've learned. I'm trying to consume less overall, with a one in, one out' rule with clothes. I've been noting down what clothes I wear each day, and whether I get 30 wears out of it (said to be the amount of times necessary to balance out the carbon emissions(排放) created to make a piece of clothing).
These approaches are what work. for me. But there are loads of different ways to do a fashion challenge. How useful, challenging, or appealing an approach sounds will vary from individual to individual. Whatever you do, roping in friends is recommended. They keep you motivated; they can also share ideas, and possibly clothes!
Have you ever forgotten a lunch date and stood up a good friend? This can be embarrassing and might indicate that your memory isn't as sharp as before. How can we improve our memory? According to Charan Ranganath's book, Why We Remember, there are many strategies.
Taking good care of our physical bodies will improve our brain health generally, and so improve memory, says Ranganath. But we can also use the nature of memory to make certain memories stand out.
Events are more memorable when they are novel. So, if we want to draw on a memory later, we can focus more on unexpected things in an experience. For example, going to a new restaurant with your partner will make the experience more memorable than going to one where you often dine.
When it comes to learning, we can use special tricks. For example, we can use the phrase "King Philip came over for good spaghetti(意大利面)" to remember biological classification: kingdom(界), phylum(门), class(纲), order(目), family(科), genus(属), species(种).
However, memory is not just about recalling. It is subjective and can change over time because our brains reconstruct memories each time we recall them. "Each time we revisit the past in our minds, we bring present information that can invisibly, and even dramatically change our memories," says Ranganath.
Factors like how recently something happened, how much something is repeated, and how we are feeling at the time will change how well we recall a memory. Also, the people around us can affect our memory for an event, by either sharing their own memory or by their expectations of how an event should be remembered. That's why two people witnessing a street fight may see different things occurring, but eventually come to have similar memories about what happened. Their memories influence each other, more so if they talk it through after the fact.
While we can use our memory to remember important lessons from life, we must also be humble. By understanding the way memory works, we can learn to strengthen it for the things we need to know and to avoid some of the pitfalls.
The conventional language of career success moves in only one direction: up. If you really succeed, you reach the top. But there is another type of career path. Sideways moves without a promotion or a pay rise, can be a benefit to employees and organizations alike.
A study carried out by Donald Sull of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his co-authors in 2021 found that the availability of lateral(横向的) career opportunities has a marked impact on keeping employees. When they decided whether to stay in the company or not, chances to move sideways were two and a half times more important than pay. Another paper, by Xin Jin of the University of South Florida and Michael Waldman of Cormell University, concluded that lateral moves did not just benefit organizations: employees who experienced them were more likely to be promoted and to enjoy higher wage growth later in their careers than employees who did not. You can move up by first moving sideways.
The crab-like(螃蟹般的) career has other things going for it. One is that it is a good way to learn new things. As hiring processes increasingly emphasize skills, employers are likely to put comparatively less emphasis on CVs and comparatively more weight on what you know. Messrs Jin and Waldman reason that the upper ranks of companies tend to be people whose capabilities are broad, not deep; that may explain why lateral moves are good for promotion prospects. Along with skills come contacts. Transferring between teams usually means building a bigger internal network. Opening the door to more lateral moves is partly a practical matter. Some bigger employers have "internal talent marketplaces" in which employees can find and apply for jobs elsewhere in the company; smaller firms have fewer such opportunities to offer.
Embracing sideways movement also requires the right attitude. Lots of managers like to keep talent to themselves, at the expense of workers and firms. And moving sideways still has less cachet(声望) than moving upwards. Most people find it not so easy to accept.
There's a belief that it is inadvisable to have plants in the bedroom. The concern is about how plants breathe. While plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen in the day, at night this is the opposite. But to tell whether sharing our bedroom with our plants is a risk to health,
we have to consider three things.
This is tricky to answer as it depends on everything from species to light levels and even room temperature, Also, there's not much research on the exact measurements in indoor settings. Thankfully, in 2015, researchers at Turkey's Kastamonu University found that houseplants like ficus(榕树) and yuccas(丝兰), when sealed(密封) in glass boxes, absorb between six and eight times as much CO2 in the day as they emit at night. This results in a significant net reduction over a full day.
Secondly, we should compare the impact of plants on air quality with that of other potential competitors, such as a partner, A single human breath contains around
40.000ppm of CO2, more than 10 times the effect a plant could have in 8 hours. Also, consider this. Indoor plants grow in less light than they would ideally get in nature. So, they photosynthesize(光合作用) at a lower rate. This further reduces their impact on air quality.
Finally, it is obvious that we don't live in the sealed boxes in which these studies are carried out. Even our movements can influence its flow.
In conclusion, the plant effect in our homes is very small in many ways. If sleeping near plants were bad for your health, camping in a forest would be definitely deadly.
A. Firstly, how do plants breathe at night?
B. So enjoy houseplants whenever you like.
C. Firstly, do plants emit more CO2 at night?
D. Camping can be a good escape if you are worried.
E. This means they compete with us for air when we sleep.
F. Indoor air is constantly exchanged through doors and windows.
G. So you might want to send your partner away before your plants.
You keep secrets from each other; you keep secrets from yourselves. Secrets1 you; secrets drive you apart. Keeping a secret can be a burden, while sharing secrets can be a 2 , whether it's with your old friend or a supportive family member.
For children, learning to keep secrets is a(n) 3 milestone. In one study, researchers asked kids who were three, four, and five to play hide-and-seek and to keep a secret about a surprise. 4 to do the two tasks connected strongly with each other, and with the kids' social cognition(认知). At three, the kids were fairly 5 at these tasks. By the age of five, most children can keep a secret, their cognitive development 6 the demands of this task.
For adults, this is7 behavior. "8 all adults of normal intellectual and psychological functioning do keep personal secrets at one time or another," writes Anita E. Kelly, author of The Psychology of Secrets.
Yet 9 ages and cultures, multiple studies show the personal health 10 of sharing your private hopes and fears with trusted friend--and the corresponding 11 of keeping some secrets entirely to yourself.
Truly 12 relationships depend on really seeing another person, which means knowing the deep reaches that not everyone has access to. However, we can never completely merge with (融入) another, nor should we — being an adult requires 13 healthy boundaries — but sharing these soft parts of ourselves allows others to love us, just as 14 others' secrets allows us to love them. The sweet spot is to 15 more of the secrets than we feel comfortable with. But never all of them.
Wild, edible(可食的) spring plant--or chuncai in Chinese--have gained considerable attention from Chinese consumers this spring, as eating chuncai has become a way (welcome) and celebrate the season.
In major grocery markets, wild vegetables are visible on stalls(摊位), prices vary up to dozens of yuan per kilogram." they are more expensive than ordinary vegetables, they sell out before 10 am every day. They are seasonal delicacies," said a stall owner in Nanjing, Jiangsu.
According to a report (release) by the JD Research Institute, over 50 types of chuncai are on sale e-commerce platforms. The consumers are mainly in big cities most were born between 1980 and 1999.
People's (enthusiastic) for wild vegetables is contributing to a boom in the agritainment(农家乐), with huge numbers traveling to enjoy a taste of spring.
Lin Yunli, who (run) a bed-and-breakfast in the suburban Yanqing district of Beijing, has received an (increase) number of tourists since the beginning of spring. "We updated our menu by adding wild vegetable (dish), and they are popular among the guests," said Lin. "Various wild vegetables grow near my house, and guests can take them home."
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Li Hua
Chad was a friend I met at summer camp. And we love telling corny(老套的) food jokes. "You know what kind of fish you put on a sandwich?" Chad said. "A jellyfish(水母, jelly也有果酱的意思)!" "That was bad," I laughed. "You know why the bread dough(面团) was sad? It just wanted to be kneaded (揉,音同needed)" "Wow, that was even worse." Chad laughed back.
Joking and laughing with Chad was turning out to be one of my favorite parts of camp. But a couple of days later, his joking around got confusing.
"Hey," he said, "did you forget your eyeglasses today?" I shook my head. "I don't wear glasses."
"I just figured you couldn't see very well," he said. "The friendship bracelet(手链) you're making looks so ugly, you should call it an enemy bracelet. Get it?"
"Oh, ha! Yeah," I said in a confused, not-exactly-laughing kind of way. But before I had a chance to stop and think about how those words actually made me feel, it was time to move on to the next activity.
That night, when it was lights-out time, I lay awake, feeling not good. Half of my brain was thinking, "Chad was just joking around; don't take it so hard." But the other half of my brain was thinking, "Those bracelet comments felt more mean than fun. I knew that truly funny things shouldn't make my stomach hurt."
The next day, Chad made another one of his "jokes" on the field. "Amy must think we're playing golf instead of basketball," he paused and smiled. Seeing my confusion, Chad said that each time Amy got the ball, it would just roll on the ground."
"Chad" I said. "I don't think it's funny." "Why? What happened to your sense of humor?" he asked.
I took a deep breath and decided to tell him my true feeling.
After a moment of heavy silence, Chad's response came.
