If you're a museum fan looking for a new place to explore, 2023 has you covered. New museums and exhibitions are opening, and some zoos are expanding.
Grand Egyptian Museum
Outside Cairo
Opens: To be announced
2022 marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Now, thousands of man-made objects from the tomb—along with tens of thousands of other archaeological (考古学的) finds from ancient Egypt—will go on display when this museum, located within view of the Pyramids of Giza, opens.
Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation
American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Opens: June 17, 2023
This building which has many floors will add tons of new exhibit space to the more than 150-year-old museum. Visitors can explore an insectarium (昆虫馆) that includes one of the world's largest displays of live leaf-cutting ants and come face-to-face with dozens of butterfly species. Meanwhile, the interconnection of life will be on display in the immersive (沉浸式虚拟现实的), 360-degree "Invisible Worlds" exhibition.
Galapagos Islands
Houston Zoo
Opens: August 2023
If you can't travel to the Galápagos Islands, a trip to Texas might be the next best thing. Giant tortoises, iguanas, penguins, sea lions, sharks and other creatures will inhabit this new exhibition that will re-create the land and marine ecosystems of the group of islands made famous by Charles Darwin.
Kansas City Zoo Aquarium
Opens: September 2023
The 34 exhibits of this new aquarium will allow visitors to see a wide variety of ocean locales briefly without having to leave the Midwest. Underwater residents will include sea urchins (海胆) and sea anemones (海葵) in a warm intertidal zone.
Candace Leslie Cima is a 75-year-old fashion and lifestyle influencer working to change the attitudes regarding aging for both her generation and the ones following hers. Candace's video, sharing a comment on her style that says "you're 60, so you shouldn't wear that," got 7.4 million views on TikTok. She is answering comments about her sleeveless shirt style choices with "I am 75, actually".
Cima's story as an influencer began at 72, when she first got an Instagram account. "I remember being on the checkout line at a supermarket and looking at the headlines on those magazines. They would always have headlines like ‘How to look your best at 20, 30, and 40.' Never did they mention 50, 60, and 70," she recalls in a video.
In addition to her videos, Cima also has a blog where she speaks at length about aging and fashion. Candace explains that she wears a lot of sleeveless tops, and there is always someone who writes to her that women over 60 should not bare their arms.
She reminds her readers that in the 1800s, it was unacceptable for a woman to show her ankles in public, and in the 1920s and 1930s, going without a hat was considered very bad taste, while in the 1940s and 1950s, women were often expected to wear gloves. The list goes on.
"So... you have some loose skin on your arms or some veins on your legs or age spots on your hand... Why is that a bad thing?" She makes a point, saying that it is we who decide whether it is a bad thing and whether we are ashamed of our natural aging process and let others make us feel less than we are.
For her, age is not just a number, it's a badge of honor to wear proudly. "The only way to change that view is that we, as older women, show them that aging is a gift, something to be embraced, valued and shared," she writes.
If you prefer to go to bed and get up later—a sleep type known as being a night owl—you may be at higher risk for type 2 diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease, a new study found.
Night owls were more inactive, had lower fitness levels and burned less fat at rest than early birds in the study. Night owls were also more likely to be insulin (胰岛素)-resistant, meaning their muscles required more insulin to be able to get the energy they need, according to the study published in the journal Experimental Physiology.
If sleep type is affecting how our bodies use insulin and impacting metabolism (新陈代谢), then being a night owl might be useful in predicting a person's risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, said senior study author Steven Malin, an associate professor in the department of kinesiology and health at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Sleep type can have enormous effects on productivity, school performance, social functioning and lifestyle habits, experts say. Early birds tend to perform better in school, and are more active throughout the day, which may partly explain why studies have found they have less risk of heart disease, Malin said.
Evening types may take more risks, use more cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine, and are more likely to skip breakfast and eat more later in the day. In addition, the research suggests later types have higher body fat located more in the stomach, an area which many health professionals believe to be worse for our health.
Results of a test showed early birds used more fat for energy at both rest and during exercise than night owls in the study. However, there is a need for more research, Malin believed, to confirm the findings and determine if the differences are due to the sleep type or a potential misalignment between a night owl's natural preference and the need to wake early due to the hours set by society for work and school.
There are more than 28, 000 routinely tracked objects orbiting Earth. These debris (残骸) are dominated by fragments from the about 560 known breakups, explosions, and collisions of satellites or rocket bodies. Today's already active satellite infrastructure (基础设施) provides a multitude of critical services to modern society. Its loss would severely damage modern society.
Furthermore, a new era in space has just started, driven by commercial, low latency broadband services that rely on large constellations of satellites in low Earth orbit. These will revolutionize connectivity on the ground and in the air. However, they will also increase space traffic. Congestion (阻塞) in space is only going to get worse.
The debris decrease strategies defined two decades ago by experts in the world's leading space agencies aim to prevent explosive breakups by releasing remaining energy from space systems at the end of their missions, and to "get rid of" a space object. Although these strategies are widely recognized, dozens of large space objects are still left every year in critical orbital regions.
Progress can be made by advancing technology to ensure spaceflight safety. For example, the European Space Agency's Space Safety Programme is developing solutions that make disposal and energy passivation actions more fail-safe (自动防故障的). "Deorbiting kits" will provide remaining energy and communication to ensure disposal of a spacecraft even after it stops working. A new field of "design-to-demise" will aim to replace critical components with less heat-resistant material.
An internationally binding (有约束力的) system for the management of debris and space traffic is hanging. Thus far, space missions have been supervised on the national level only, and states have been encouraged to translate the non-binding space debris guidelines into national regulations. Furthermore, the implementation of space debris decrease requirements should be tracked, following internationally binding principles.
How To Recover From An All-Nighter
The Science of US Sleep Institute presents all nighter emergency. So you couldn't sleep last night. You'd like nothing more than to go back to bed but you got a long day of work staring you in the face. Don't worry.
First, don't hit the nap button. Scientists say those extra tiny minutes of sleep don't actually make you more rested. Research suggests eating within an hour of waking up boosts your mood and cognition.
And no sugar, it'll give you a crash later. Stick to whole grains and protein. If you're a coffee drinker, grab a single cup.
Then get outside! Bright natural light raises your body temperature and improves your alertness. Scientists say even sun in your eyes can be helpful. Once you' re at work, do your toughest tasks first because these first few hours are the most alert you're gonna be all day.
Have another cup of coffee soon after you get to the office too. It takes about 30 minutes for caffeine to kick in, so you'll need to ramp up before a big meeting start. Have a light lunch of grains, veggies and lean protein. Have another cup of coffee in the early afternoon which is your drowsiest time of day. But do not drink it after 3 pm. Caffeine lasts for about seven hours in your system and you don't wanna mess up your next night.
Now you're at the final stage of your job. Research suggests sleep-deprived folks can't focus for more than about 10 minutes at a time. So just power through stuff like replying to emails or sorting files. And finally, get out of the office a little early if possible. If anyone asks, just say sleep scientists told you to.
A. Science can help!
B. And don't wear sunglasses.
C. It's absolutely unnecessary.
D. Next, make sure you eat breakfast.
E. Nutritious food will help with your fitness.
F. Do some simple busy work for the rest of the day.
G. Heavy, sugary food at this time will wear you out later.
I noticed a dad and his son at the park. His son wasn't able to communicate, but he seemed 1 watching the boy playing with sand. The dad 2 to me that his son could only make some sounds. The boy had been in speech therapy (言语治疗) for years. After so much time in therapy, the boy was able to 3 eye contact for a few seconds and the father was delighted by the 4! He told me how expensive the therapies for his son's specific needs were and what a pleasure it was to see all of the years of hard work 5. The father and son connected, and those few 6 of eye contact meant the world to that dad!
As we talked about therapy, the dad 7 with me that his goal for his boy was to someday be able to go for ice-cream together. He said his father used to take him out for ice-cream and he hoped he could do the same with his child. Suddenly, the son 8 putting his fingers in the sand, looked at his father and said, "Hi." Seconds later the boy went back into his own 9. The dad wanted to say something. But what did come were tears. Those tears
10 how proud he was of his son.
I am honored to have shared this 11 celebration of achievement in that boy's young life. I hope someday they will be able to go for 12. This event touched me deeply and made me 13 my relationship with my own father. I am 14 the feelings held by all awe-some fathers—their hard work, their pride and their 15 of love—are all the same.
Zhang Yipeng, an inheritor of Jiaotai (mixed clay) Sancai, city-level intangible cultural heritage of Luoyang city, central China's Henan Province, has given a new lease of life the ancient handicraft.
Tri-colored glazed pottery, or Sancai, is a Chinese porcelain characterized by a glaze with three intermingled colors (invent) over 1,300 years ago during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). In 2008, Sancai (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Zhang, 35, is a local of Nanshishan village in Luoyang, the birthplace of Sancai. More than 70 enterprises in the village are engaged in the production of Sancai wares, (provide) jobs for more than 2,000 people.
Zhang has invented multiple cultural and creative products meet the tastes of the younger generation.
(contribute) his part to rural vitalization, he actively promotes the integrated (develop) of Sancai through tourism, culture and creation.
"As a young inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, I (keep) innovating and make more people fall in love with the ancient art," says Zhang, shaping a Sancai figure with more and more tourists looking at his products(enthusiastic).
A notice was posted next to the mailboxes in the apartment building I'd just moved into. "A Good Deed for Mrs. Green," it read. "Sign up to drive Mrs. Green in 3B home from her chemotherapy (化疗) treatments twice a month."
Since I wasn't a driver, I couldn't add my name, but the words "A Good Deed" wandered in my thoughts. But according to my grandmother, they had another meaning. "Dear, it's a blessing to do a good deed for someone else, but sometimes it's a blessing to let another person do something for you."
In this December storm, it was a hard journey, especially when it came time to go to school and get out of school. Whenever I tied around my neck the blue scarf that Grandma had knitted for me, I could almost hear her voice: "Why don't you see if you can find a lift (顺风车)?" A thousand reasons came into my mind: I don't know my neighbors; I am afraid to bother my classmates; I feel it funny to ask for favors as a 21-year-old university student.
Three weeks later, before the night of my final exam, the snow had fallen steadily. The next day, I laboured to the bus stop. For an hour, I stretched my neck, praying desperately that a bus would come. Then I gave up. I hoped I could find some help from my neighbors as the cold wind pushed me toward my apartment. On opening the door, I found myself face to face with a woman at the mailbox. She had a set of keys in her hand. Obviously she had a car and just as obviously, she was going out. In that split second, desperation overcame pride, and I blurted, "Could you possibly give me a lift?"
An odd look crossed the woman's face, and I added, "Oh, I live in 4R. I moved in recently, and I can't drive. I am in an urgent need to go to school for my final exam." Then, she agreed without delay, "Sure!"
On our way to my school, she spoke so warmly that I stopped feeling uncomfortable. "You remind me of my grandmother," I said. A slight smile crossed her lips. "Just call me Grandma Alice as grandchildren do."
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When she dropped me off, I thanked her again and again and stood there waving as she drove away. Back home as I walked up the stairs, I heard a neighbor saying to Grandma Alice, "Good night, Mrs. Green." |
