Do you want to travel to the New England Aquarium and experience it? If you are an aquarium super fan, I believe you must be interested in some information below.
Animal Encounter Programs
Dive into the water with a seal. Stand on top of the four storey Giant Ocean Tank to feed the animals. Go behind the scenes of your favorite exhibits. Whether you have an unquenchable curiosity about oceanic animals or you want a brand-new observation on popular exhibits, fascinating Animal Encounter Programs are designed for the Aquarium super fans. Call Central Reservations at 617-973-5206 to book your program.
Daily Performances
Don't miss a day in the life of the New England Aquarium. Be sure to catch our daily events, which include penguin feedings, seal training sessions, dives in the Giant Ocean Tank and live animal performances. Our daily schedule will tell you when and where to watch your favorite program. All programs are included with admission.
Special Programs
Join us for family activities at the Aquarium, where we explore the blue planet most days through art, animals and other activities. We focus on one animal every month with Blue Discoveries Family Day, from octopuses to whales. These activities are included with admission. For a fee, schools and other qualifying groups can also choose Explorer Classes for kids and special 3-D showings.
Virtual Tours and Videos
Before stepping foot in the Aquarium, explore some of our special exhibits and learn what to expect. Check out the Field Trip Orientation video before arriving with your group. The How to Be a Shark and Ray Whisperer video gives special instructions on how to best experience our shark and ray touch tank. The Blue Impact virtual tour highlights some of our exhibits as it explains the impact of climate change on oceans around the world.
What kind of people can become scientists? When a group of researchers posed that question to ninth-and 10th-graders, almost every student gave such responses as "People who work hard" or "Anyone who seems interested in the field of science."
Many of these same students struggled to imagine themselves as scientists, citing concerns such as "I'm not good at science" and "Even if I work hard, I will not do well." It's easy for them to see a scientist's work as arising from an inborn talent.
But for high school students, learning more about some struggles of scientists can help students feel more motivated to learn science. Researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University and the University of Washington designed an intervention to change students' beliefs that scientific achievement depends on ability rather than effort by exposing students to stories of how accomplished scientists struggled and overcame challenges in their scientific efforts.
During the study, the students read one of three types of stories about Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Michael Faraday. Intellectual(智力的)struggle stories: stories about how scientists "struggled intellectually," such as making mistakes while addressing a scientific problem and learning from them. Life struggle stories: stories about how scientists struggled in their personal lives, such as not giving up in the face of poverty or lack of family support. Achievement stories: stories about how scientists made great discoveries, without any discussion of coexisting challenges.
Researchers found that students who heard either type of "struggle stories" improved their science performance after-intervention, compared to students in the control group. The effect was especially pronounced for lower performing students, for whom exposure to struggling stories led to significantly better science-class performance than low-performing students who read achievement stories. In addition, students who read struggle stories reported feeling more personally connected to the scientists. By recognizing a scientist's struggles and introducing the growth mindset he or she applied to accomplish great works, the students were able to empathize(共情)with the scientists during their own struggles.
It is likely that most people have the shared feeling: how come Christmas appears to come around quicker and quicker each year? Questionnaires by psychologists have shown almost everyone feels time is passing faster now compared to when they were half or a quarter as old. Most strikingly, lots of experiments have shown that, when older people are asked to guess how long the time is, or to "reproduce" the length of periods of time, they guess a shorter amount than younger people.
In 1877, Paul Janet suggested the proportional theory, where a child of 10 feels a year as 1/10 of his whole life while a man of 50 as 1/50, so the subjective sense of the 50-year-old man is that these are insignificant periods of time.
There are also biological theories. The speeding up of time is linked to how our metabolism(新陈代谢) gradually slows down as we grow older. Children's hearts beat faster than adults'. They breathe more quickly. With their blood flowing more quickly, their body clocks "cover" more time within the space of 24 hours than ours do as adults. On the other hand, older people are like clocks that run slower than normal, so that they lag behind, and cover less than 24 hours.
In the 1930s, the psychologist Hudson Hoagland found body temperature causes different perceptions of time. Once, when he looked after his ill wife, he noticed she complained he'd been away for a long time even if only away for a few moments. Therefore, Hoagland tested her perception of time at different temperatures, finding the higher her temperature, the more time seemed to slow down for her, and that raising a person's body temperature can slow down his sense of time passing by up to 20%.
Time doesn't necessarily have to speed up as we get older though. It depends on how we live our lives, and how we relate to our experiences.
If you're not at least a bit terrified by the climate and ecological breakdown unfolding before our eyes, you haven't grasped the scale of the crisis. Eco-anxiety, defined as "a chronic(长期的)fear of environmental doom", is on the rise. But redirecting this anxiety into anger and collective action might just pull humanity back from the brink.
We don't yet know how deeply eco-anxiety affects people, but we can learn not to repeat the mistakes of long-gone societies lost to environmental collapse. Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed uncovers the common driver that led to the fall of ancient civilizations such as the Central American Mayan, the remote Pacific Easter Island, and the Mycenae: People accidentally destroyed the environmental resources on which their societies depended.
Today, we are living in a new climate and ecological age. The new normal is one that humans have never before experienced on earth, and that has occurred within a single generation. We can't claim ignorance. Numerous scientific reports show: unprecedented(空前的)wildfires in the Arctic, heatwaves annually breaking records, the Amazon shrinking and drying, and species extinction rates accelerating. Nature's dangerous decline is unprecedented.
So, it's not surprising that eco-anxiety is on the rise. Anxiety is often a private emotional state: We feel alone, stuck inside our own heads, and our emotions stop us from doing the things we want. But anger, directed appropriately, can fuel powerful collective action for change.
We are on a pathway to destroy the global conditions for human survival. Unlike previous civilizations, we have the science and technology to understand our danger and chart a new pathway. This is a moment for all of us to channel our eco-anxiety, fear and anger into energy for change.
Color psychology is the study of how colors affect human behavior, mood, or physiological processes. Colors affect our feelings and memories. Companies choose colors that they believe will motivate customers to buy their products and improve brand awareness.
Color perception is very subjective, as different people have different ideas about and responses to colors. Several factors influence color perception, which makes it difficult to determine if color alone impacts our emotions and actions. In some cultures, for example, white is associated with happiness and purity. In a situation where a woman is wearing a white wedding dress, is she happy because she is influenced by the color white or because she is getting married? To someone from a different culture, wearing white may signify sadness.
While no direct cause and effect relationship between color and behavior has been found, some generalizations about colors and what they may symbolize have been determined. Colors including red, yellow, and orange are considered warm colors. Cool colors include blue, violet, and green. These colors are associated with calmness and coolness.
We see colors with our brains. Our eyes are important for detecting and responding to light, but it is the brain's visual center in the occipital lobes（枕叶）that processes visual information and assigns color. The colors we see are determined by the wavelength of light that is reflected. The brain integrates these wavelength signals enabling us to distinguish among millions of different colors.
A. We don't actually see colors with our eyes.
B. Our brain associates the wavelength with a color.
C. Colors also have been used to treat various diseases.
D. They are even thought to influence our buying choices.
E. These colors are thought to stimulate exciting emotions.
F. The influential factors of color perception include age and culture.
G. This is because white is associated with sorrow and death in those cultures.
There once was an ordinary street in the suburbs where no one cared much for their gardens. The lawns were overgrown, the weeds were 1 and the hedges (树篱) desperately needed to be cut back. It looked very 2 . But when the neighbors saw their 3 , they just looked at each other and laughed.
It seemed too hard to 4 all the gardens and no one could be bothered to make them better because everyone's garden was 5 terrible. No one felt it was urgent to 6 anything. Then a gardener named Bill moved in. Bill was a 7 , hard-working and patient man who started working in the garden as soon as he 8 in the street. He took his lawn mower (割草机) out to cut back the grass and pulled out all of the weeds. Finally, he took up his gardening and started 9 his hedges, making them look like flowers, plants, stones, balls, etc.
Attracted by the 10 , the neighbors walked by and admired the newly manicured (修整的) garden. Over some time, something interesting happened. One by one, the neighbors started to put in more 11 in their own gardens and the sounds of lawn mowers could be heard again. After a few months, the street was 12 from a dirty, unappealing collection of houses to a beautiful avenue that wouldn't be out of place in a stylish magazine.
One person's action showed everyone what could be achieved with a little 13 work. It's easy for us to 14 the environment around us because no one else cares about it. Remember what you positively do not only 15 yourself, but also results in a change to the whole world.
"New Recruits Wanted!" The sign caught my eye. It revived my 1 of becoming a firefighter. I just retired and was getting sixty already. But years spent as a First Aid Attendant had built a certain "rescue 2 "in me that gave me the confidence to fill out an application.
To my delight, I was 3 for training, as the oldest recruit, though. It was 4 . We were required to crawl around with extremely heavy devices on our backs, searching for victims in the dark. Afterwards, my poor old knees screamed, my back ached, and I thought about 5 . One day, my friend paid a visit and 6 a book to me as a present, which was illustrated with firefighters in action. And it was signed with a personalized message of 7 , encouraging me to follow my dream. As I 8 through the pages, I marvelled (使……惊叹) at the courage and dedication of these 9 individuals. It gave me strength to 10 . I knew then what mattered were my attitude and perseverance, not my age.
Over the next few weeks, the training continued to be 11 , but I never lost focus again. 12 , I was certified as a firefighter. I found a place where I fit in. Then came my 13 moment in 2014, when my peers voted me Firefighter of the Year.
Now, It's been almost ten years since I walked into the fire hall, wondering if I was being 14 . Here I am, rapidly approaching seventy. I know that you are never too old to 15 your life; never too old to take on a new challenge; never too old to follow your dream.
The Japanese government has been urging the public to reduce wasted food for years as the country wastes large amount of food every year despite its low level of food self-sufficiency rate.
More than half of the wasted food comes from related enterprises, (main) from substandard food, returned food, and food leftovers from unsold products in restaurants. The rest come from household leftovers, food thrown away before (eat), and food that is over-processed and wasted during cooking.
In recent years, smartphones (play) a major role in cutting down on wasted food. In 2018, a mobile app (call) TABETE, which means "Please eat" in Japanese, was launched in cities like Tokyo and Osaka, (aim) to use digital technology to "save" any food might go to waste.
The app allows stores (post) pictures and prices of foods that need to be "saved"，while consumers can search for nearby stores, place an online order, pay for them and then pick them at an agreed time. They also mobilize local shops to become TABETE (member), showing food materials they might waste and appealing to the public to "save" them.
Cheemi was a poor orphan living in Pune. Nobody knew where she had come from. Yet everyone accepted the frail little girl and named her Cheemi — the little sparrow. She helped people by doing odd jobs for them, such as fetching vegetables from the corner shop or looking after babies when their mothers went shopping.
Everybody in the neighbourhood liked Cheemi, except Kaki. Kaki was the richest woman there. Cheemi, in her eyes, was dirty and inferior to her. Therefore, she would not allow Cheemi into her big house. The house was almost like a mansion with big wooden carved doors and huge halls. Surprisingly, the windows of the rooms decorated with beads and curtains, were very small.
Kaki lived with her son, her daughter-in-law Gauri and her little grandson, Chotu. Chotu was a great favourite with the girls. Gauri was a very nice, educated lady and didn't mind Chotu being carried by others. Kaki, however, never allowed Cheemi to touch Chotu. How Cheemi wished she could play with him!
That year, Panshet Dam collapsed and the waters of the Mutha river, near Pune, had entered the city. The water rose fast. There was confusion everywhere. Police vans were trying to help.
When water entered their house, Kaki and Gauri were on the ground floor. Within seconds the water rose. The police persuaded Kaki and Gauri to climb to the top floor. In the hurry and confusion, they forgot that Chotu was sleeping on the first floor!
The staircases were flooded. It was impossible to get to the bedroom on the first floor. The door to the room was closed but not bolted. Any moment the water could rush in. The women panicked. "Chotu!" they cried. "What'll happen to our Chotu?"
Suddenly the police discovered that one of the bedroom windows was open, but it was too small for an adult to crawl (爬) in. Only a child could. But no one was willing to let their children take the risk.
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Out of nowhere, Cheemi appeared.
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Loud cheers greeted Cheemi.
