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At this fitness clinic, a small group of Malaysians try to shed some excess weight. 在这个健身诊所， 一小群马来西亚人试图减肥。 Sarah Baharudin is 35 years old, 165 centimeters tall, and weighs 110 kilos. 莎拉·巴哈鲁丁35岁了，身高165厘米，体重110公斤。 I eat traditional Malay food, and it's high in fat and calorie. And then on top of that, I did not go for any you know active. I was not active. 我...

At the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, people gathered recently at the African Diaspora Investment Symposium to talk about the future of Africa business. 在硅谷中心的计算机历史博物馆，人们最近齐聚非洲侨民投资研讨会，探讨非洲商业的未来。 In the past, many Africans and especially people like me from the diaspora were not invited to the table to really discuss on issues that m...

Grueling work for little pay, that's the daily reality for millions of children across Africa. 做着辛苦的工作，报酬却十分微薄，这就是非洲数百万儿童的日常写照。 The International Labour Organization estimates about 73 million children in Africa are sent out to work because of widespread poverty, insufficient access to education and conflict, some as young as five years old. 国际劳工组织估计，非洲约...

Since its discovery, food businesses have encouraged high-protein diets, according to research by the University of Oregon. Whether it's bars, shakes or even marshmallows, protein has always prevailed in conversations about health and fitness. Some people think that these kinds of diets are a fad because high-protein products appear on supermarket shelves often. However, these diets have slightly...

In order to survive the cold, emperor penguins must remain on platforms of sea ice for long enough every year to replace weather-beaten feathers with new waterproof coats. Little was known about what is called catastrophic moulting until researchers at the British Antarctic Survey looked at satellite pictures of the frozen continent and spotted brown smudges. They realised they were mounds of feat...

The students in this class reflect the diverse nature of American society. 这个班的学生反映了美国社会的多样性。 Elizabeth Kleinrock is teaching students how to respect differences and challenge prejudice, racism, social injustice, and learn how to be the agents of change in their own lives. 伊丽莎白·克莱因洛克正在教导学生如何尊重差异、挑战偏见、种族主义和社会不公，并学习如何推动生活变革。 If you c...

I wanted one probably for, I don't know, as long as I could think. 我一直都想要一部手机，大概从很早就想要了。 Getting a first cellphone is a rite of passage for many kids around the world, a taste of independence. 对于全球许多孩子来说，拥有第一部手机是一种成长的标志，也是体验独立的开始。 When the bell rings to go home, literally everyone takes out their phones, and they're just like staring down a...

At this Silicon Valley high school, teachers are locking up students' phones. 在硅谷的这所高中，老师们正在没收学生的手机。 Checking their phones and texting and going on social media, and I would confiscate the phone over and over and over. 检查他们有没有在玩手机、发短信、刷社交媒体，我会一遍又一遍地没收手机。 We were just playing for a night, like on top of the desks with their phones, like in th...

Athletes and organizers in Budapest say the water is fine in the fast-flowing Danube river. 布达佩斯的运动员和组织者说，多瑙河的湍急水流很好。 Here it's the current that many people see is scary or causes them anxiety. 这是许多人看到的令人恐惧或焦虑的急流。 In recent years, we noticed that we Hungarians swim very little in the Danube. 近年来，我们注意到匈牙利人很少在多瑙河上游泳。 The event is par...

There's long been concern about the effect that melting ice was having on their ability to hunt seals, their staple diet. But in the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard, something surprising has happened. The bears there have gained weight, and for a polar bear, fatter means healthier. Rising temperatures, though, mean that there are now 100 more ice free days per year in Svalbard than when this stu...

For years, astronomers have hypothesised about life beyond Earth, especially on the closest planet to Earth – Venus. Venus is often named the Earth's 'evil twin' because of its extremely hot temperature and greenhouse effect, which make it toxic and inhospitable. It is also similar in size, mass and rocky composition. 多年来，天文学家一直假设地球以外存在生命，特别是在距离地球最近的行星——金星上。...

It's taken decades and millions of health workers traveling by foot, boat and any other way they had to immunize children from polio. 经过数十年努力，数百万医务工作者跋山涉水、不辞辛劳，通过步行、乘船等各种必要方式为儿童接种脊髓灰质炎疫苗。 Health workers have even braved conflict to prevent a horribly crippling disease. 卫生工作者甚至冒着冲突的危险来预防这种可怕的致残疾病。 We've made tremendous...

I'm kind of awkward a lot of the time. Like even like just standing around feels like I'm not supposed to be there. 很多时候我都有点手足无措，比如光是站在那里就让我觉得自己不该在那儿。 So a lot of people would be like, "Are you new here?" I'm just like, "No, I'm just uncomfortable." 很多人会问：“你是新来的吗？”我就说：“不，我只是不太自在。” So it started five years ago. A guy named Brandon Block w...

I watched the video and I was like, what a crazy sound. And then after it ended, I like heard the sound in the background. 我看了视频，心想这声音也太不可思议了。 视频结束之后，我好像听到了背景里的声音。 It's quite loud actually. Since then, I've been hearing it almost every afternoon or evening. 其实声音很大。从那以后，我几乎每天下午或者晚上都能听到。 The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing. Th...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps the most famous person to survive pancreatic cancer. 美国最高法院法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格或许是胰腺癌幸存者中最著名的人物了。 She's actually done it twice. Ginsburg's cancer was found early, which is rare. 她实际上两次战胜了病魔。金斯伯格的癌症发现得很早，这种情况实属罕见。 Chemotherapy is one treatment for a pancreatic cancer. But only 9 per...

Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on weaning yourself off paper towels. 从小事做起：把水瓶换成可重复使用的，然后可以换咖啡杯，接着努力戒掉使用纸巾。 And there's different ways, you know. Then, maybe you want to start buying local food and eating less meat. 有不同的方法。也许你会想开始购买本地食材并减少肉类摄入。 I mean, d...

No peeing on plants or mailboxes, that's my rule. This is Gretl, she's just a puppers. 不准在植物或邮箱上撒尿，这是我的规矩。这是格蕾特，她是只小狗。 She is a cavalier king poodle mix. The five most important things to be successful in the dog walking business to me, number one, integrity. 她是一只骑士贵宾犬混血。对我来说，在遛狗业务中取得成功的五个最重要因素，第一是诚信。 It's what you do when no...

This is what your brainwaves look like at any given moment. To the untrained eye, it's just a jumble of lines. 这就是你大脑在任何时刻的脑电波形态。在外行人看来，这不过是一堆杂乱无章的线条。 For AJ Keller and Alex Castillo, it's a treasure trove of data. 对AJ·凯勒和亚历克斯·卡斯蒂略来说，这是一个数据宝库。 The pair have created Notion, a 900-dollar wearable device that captures and processes brainw...

The 24-carat gold pendant features the Tudor rose and a pomegranate bush, the personal symbol of Katherine of Aragon. 这枚 24K 纯金吊坠上刻有都铎玫瑰和石榴树丛纹饰，后者是 “阿拉贡的凯瑟琳” 的个人象征。 Discovered by a metal detectorist in a field in Warwickshire in 2019, it's believed to be the only surviving piece of jewellery directly linked to Henry VIII's 24-year marriage to Katherine. 这枚吊...

From singing at concerts to singing 'Happy birthday'. Around the world, humans have been singing in unison for millennia. Some anthropologists even think our ancestors may have sung before they could speak. "Lullabies are sung to children, and then songs are sung at funerals", says Alex Street, from the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, who thinks that our positive response to music...

OK, I'm not proud of it, but sometimes when I'm watching TV, I might not actually be watching. Sometimes I'm just more tempted by my phone. Be honest, do you do the same? If you do, then we're not alone, lots of us watch TV with our phones in our hands. How is TV changing to accommodate this? 好吧，我并不为此感到自豪，但有时当我看电视时，我可能实际上并没有在看。 有时我只是对手机更感兴趣。 说实话，...

In central Kenya, local say people are being driven away from their homes by a cactus. 肯尼亚中部地区有传言称，一种仙人掌正迫使当地居民背井离乡。 Many people have moved out because their goats and cattle are dying. The people of Il Polei and Muneshwara are fleeing to other places. Many have left. 很多人因为山羊和牛不断死亡而搬离，伊尔波莱和穆内什瓦拉的居民正逃往其他地方，许多人已经离开。 The opunt...

Millions of people flock to the Trevi Fountain every year to take photos and make a wish as they flip a coin into the water, but there have long been complaints from locals about overcrowding. Now two lanes are being set up: one for residents, who get free access to the fountain, and another for tourists, who have to buy a ticket. The fees will go towards upkeep of the fountain and managing visito...

You may have heard of the idiom 'once in a blue moon' to describe an event that doesn't happen often. But can the Moon really be blue? Our closest neighbour in this vast galaxy, the Moon, orbits the Earth like a natural satellite. Unlike many of the other planets in our Solar System, ours only has the one moon. If you flew to it, you would land on grey rocks. This is because the lunar surface is m...

Cave art is seen as a key evolutionary moment, marking the point that humans began to think in truly abstract, symbolic ways. The kind of imagination that underpins language, religion, and science. 洞穴艺术的出现被视作进化史上的一个关键时刻，它标志着人类从这个时间点开始用真正抽象和象征性的方式思考。正是这种想象力，构成了语言、宗教和科学的基石。 Uranium dating confirms that the latest discovery is...