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Haruka: I know you love Zen, the concept of Zen. When did you start learning it?  Haruka：我知道你喜欢禅宗，喜欢禅宗的概念。你什么时候开始学习它的？  Mark: I started learning about Zen philosophy when I was in college Mark：我在大学的时候就开始学习禅宗哲学  Haruka: In college?  Haruka：大学里？  Mark: Yeah. Zen's not really a religion, but I've studied it in a religion cla...

Wine made by ancient methods is gaining new fans.  用古老方法酿造的葡萄酒正在赢得新的粉丝。  Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fruit like grapes.  葡萄酒是一种由葡萄等水果制成的酒精饮料。  Natural wine uses methods that reduce processing and harmful effects on the Earth. Research company IWSR Drinks Market Analysis found that people in the U.S. are seeking natural wine in in...

Paul Lane uses his mouth and face to push buttons and guide his virtual car on Gran Turismo, a game on the PlayStation 5. It is how he has been playing for the past 23 years, after a car accident left him unable to use his fingers. Paul Lane 在 PlayStation 5 上的 Gran Turismo  游戏中用嘴和脸按下按钮并引导他的虚拟汽车。在一场车祸导致他无法使用手指后，他在过去 23 年里一直这...

The items were first discovered deep inside the cave in the 19th Century. But scientists have only recently realised that they're much older than previously thought – 6,200 years old – to be exact.  这些草编凉鞋于19世纪在一处洞穴深处首次被人发现。但科学家们直到最近才认识到，它们比之前想象的要古老得多，确切地说，已有6200年的历史。  Some parts of the sandals didn't survive, but the intrica...

Did you know many adults sit down for more than nine hours a day – maybe you're one of them! Whether it's working at a desk, sitting motionless in a car, bus or train or lounging on the sofa watching TV, we have a much more sedentary lifestyle than our parents and grandparents did. The question that this raises is just what is it doing to our bodies?  您知道吗，许多成年人每天坐着的...

A team of scientists is studying the sound of the forest in Ecuador to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) could follow animal life in recovering environments.  一组科学家正在研究厄瓜多尔森林的声音，以了解人工智能 (AI) 如何在恢复环境中追踪动物的生命。  When scientists want to measure new forest growth, they can study large areas of land with tools like satellites and lidar.  当科...

An alliance of environmental groups is calling for new federal rules to protect an endangered whale from crashes with ships.  一个环保组织联盟正在呼吁制定新的联邦规则，以保护濒临灭绝的鲸鱼免受船只碰撞的影响。  The groups presented their demands in a document, called a petition, provided to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on September 28.  这些组织在一...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced last week that it will invest $40 million in African drug makers. The money will help produce new messenger RNA vaccines in Africa. The continent’s people were the last to receive vaccinations against COVID-19 during the pandemic.  比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会上周宣布将向非洲制药商投资 4000 万美元。 这笔资金将有助于在非洲生产新的信使 RNA 疫苗。 在...

About 85% of 18-year-olds in the UK who applied to university this year were accepted. That is roughly the same as last year. What's different is that the number of applications was down, and so the number of new students setting off for university is too.  在英国今年申请大学的18岁青少年中，约有 85% 的人被录取。录取比例与去年大致相同。不同的是申请人数有所下降，因此即将步入大学的新生...

The Mona Lisa is the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting of a woman with a mysterious smile.  《蒙娜丽莎》是列奥纳多·达·芬奇的著名画作，画中的女人带着神秘的微笑。  This week, the painting gave up a secret.  本周，这幅画透露了一个秘密。  Scientists used X-rays to examine the chemical structure of an extremely small part of the more than 500-year-old painting. The researchers disco...

We're all familiar with the idea of climate change and how our planet is warming. Extremes in temperature have become more commonplace, making parts of the world difficult to live in. But one place where excessive heat is making life very uncomfortable is our cities. Luckily, innovation might be keeping a lid on it.  我们都熟悉气候变化的概念以及地球如何变暖。 极端温度已经变得越来越普遍，使得...

Haruka: Mark, you have a podcast, right?  Haruka：马克，你有播客，对吧？  Mark: Yes, I do.  马克：是的，我有。 H aruka:  What's your podcast about?  Haruka：你的播客是关于什么的？  Mark It's called Zen Sammich, but it's about Zen, but I also cast the net pretty wide. So I talk about a lot of different topics.  马克：它叫 Zen Sammich，但它是关于禅宗的，但我也把网...

The Titanic lies nearly 4,000 metres down in the Atlantic, but she's so huge that in the gloom, cameras can only show tantalising snapshots of the decaying ship – never the whole thing.  泰坦尼克号船体残骸沉没在大西洋海下近4000米处，由于船体巨大，在昏暗的海底，相机只能拍到这艘腐朽沉船的局部照片，很难捕捉到船的全貌。  This new full-sized scan reveals the wreck in its entirety. Using ...

Todd: Okay, here's another thing. It's a little bit impolite. What about looking at other people's monitor over their shoulder? 'Cause you just mentioned the BTS. One thing I have to admit is, because I don't have my phone out and I am looking around, I have a tendency to see, wanna check and see what's on everybody's phone. And it's total intrusion. It's creepy in a way, but it's also because in...

Todd: So I'm here with Angela, and in a previous interview we were talking about kids and technology and devices, and how these days often people look at their device when they're with another person. How do you feel about that? If you're eating with somebody, you're at dinner, is it okay to check your phone?  托德：我和安吉拉一起在这里，在之前的一次采访中，我们讨论了孩子、技术和设备，以及现...

It was a criticism about her Afro-braided hair that led Ruth Essel to create what she calls a safe space for Black dancers.  正是对她的非洲辫子头发的批评促使露丝·埃塞尔为黑人舞者创造了她所谓的安全空间。 The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when she was a child, teachers and others all but punished her for not following the traditional ballerina way.  伦敦黑角芭蕾舞学...

The West Coast of the United States produces over 90 percent of America’s wine, an alcoholic drink. However, the area is also prone to wildfires.  美国 90% 以上的葡萄酒（一种酒精饮料）产自美国西海岸。然而，该地区也容易发生野火。  Such fires cost the American wine industry billions of dollars in 2020. The smoke affects the flavor of the growing grapes that later become the wine. And, the...

For 20 years, volunteers examined the UK and Ireland kilometre-by-kilometre, writing down the flora they found. This so-called plant  atlas , made by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, is the most complete picture of plant life ever recorded in the UK. 二十年来，志愿者们对英国和爱尔兰一公里一公里地统计，记录下了所发现的植物群。由英国和爱尔兰植物学会编制，这本 “植物图集” 是英国有记...

Pickleball. It's got nothing to do with pickles – it's a sport. It has been described as a combination of tennis, badminton and table tennis. Picture a small plastic ball soaring through the air that you need to bat back to your partner, or partners.  匹克球。这与泡菜无关——这是一项运动。它被描述为网球、羽毛球和乒乓球的结合。想象一个小塑料球在空中翱翔，您需要将其击回给您的一个或多个伙伴。 Many...

For the last few years, researchers at the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas in Brazil have been  interbreeding  different coffee plants that are naturally very low in  caffeine  in order to create trees where decaf beans are grown naturally. 在过去几年里，巴西坎皮纳斯农业研究所的研究人员们一直在杂交培育不同的天然低因咖啡植物，以培育出自然生长低因咖啡豆的树木。 And the results s...

Three scientists in the United States won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. The three won for their discovery of quantum dots, a technology widely used today to make displays for electronic devices and medical imaging.  周三，美国三名科学家荣获诺贝尔化学奖。 三人因发现量子点而获奖，量子点是一种当今广泛用于制造电子设备和医学成像显示器的技术。  The Royal Swedish Aca...

Pope Francis on Wednesday is opening a gathering of bishops and others to discuss the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the discussions include subjects that have never been considered before. 教皇方济各周三将召开主教和其他人士的聚会，讨论罗马天主教会的未来。 有些讨论包括以前从未考虑过的主题。 For the first time, women and non-clergy can vote alongside bishops i...

Indoor food growing operations are seeing both successes and failures in the United States. Some companies in the food industry are investing even as competitors fail.  在美国，室内粮食种植业务既有成功也有失败。即使竞争对手失败了，食品行业的一些公司仍在投资。  California-based Plenty Unlimited this summer began work on a $300 million indoor plant, while Kroger announced that it will be i...

At almost a foot long, researchers say the knapped-shaped stone  axe heads , thick at the base and tapering to a finer point, would have been so heavy that it would have been hard to handle by early humans, sparking  speculation  that they may have had a  ceremonial  purpose. 这些被敲击而成形的石制斧头有将近一英尺长，底部较厚，至尖端逐渐变细。研究人员说这些斧头如此沉重以至...

We all start as a single  egg   fertilised  by a  sperm , but those  steps , going from a group of cells to something you can see and recognise on a baby  scan , are poorly understood, so scientists have created  embryo   models  in the lab to explore this crucial time. 我们每个人的生命都是从一个受精卵开始的，但从起初的一组细胞发育成婴儿扫描影像中可以看...