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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...

Thanks to data collected by satellites, scientists have a good understanding of Antarctica's icy surface, but what lies beneath has remained more of a mystery. In fact, more is known about the surface of some planets in our solar system than much of what's under the continent's ice. 得益于人造卫星采集到的数据，科学家们对南极洲的冰层表面有良好的认识，但潜藏其下的部分则一直更像是一个谜题。实际上，人...

Many of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch – an idea dating back to the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. But what if this list is incomplete? A sense is anything that can give your body information about the outside world, and some of these don't neatly fit into the traditional five. Modern scientists estimate there may be up to 33 differen...

72-year-old Samaila Adamu is repairing this faulty generator using very unique tools. 72岁的Samaila Adamu正在用非常独特的工具修理这台有故障的发电机。 After losing his vision 26 years ago, Adamu learned to spot motorized faults through sound and touch. 26年前失明后，Adamu学会了通过声音和触觉来识别机动故障。 When people bring generators for repairs, I touched the parts and feel them, then I know wha...

Are you one of those people that sees faces in inanimate objects? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have been trying to find out why this is. They have pinpointed a circuit in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain. It's called the superior colliculus, and it helps us recognise facial features. It triggers movement of the eyes, turning of the head and enables us to detect faces...

As a puppeteer, I make puppets as well. I build my own puppets. I perform. 作为一个木偶师，我也制作木偶。我自己做木偶，自己表演。 If it's my own production, then I have to write the story. 如果是我自己的作品，那我就得写故事了。 People love puppeteers. Whenever I tell people, people ask me, "What do you do?" 人们喜欢木偶师。每当我和别人交流时，他们就会问我：“你是做什么的？” I say, "I'm a puppeteer....

Aggressive medication used during a clinical trial paralyzed her left arm and leg. 临床试验期间使用的强效药物导致她的左臂和左腿瘫痪。 As a nurse, Gersh knew she had to take action quickly in order to get moving again. 作为一名护士，格什知道她必须迅速采取行动，以便恢复行动。 Everything was totally limp and flaccid on the left side. She found Neofect, a tech company that uses games to retrain the br...

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, even polar bears do it. And now a study has shown that kissing likely evolved about 21 and a half million years ago. 人类会接吻，黑猩猩也会接吻，甚至北极熊都会接吻。而如今，一项研究表明，接吻很可能是 2150 万年前出现的。 The mouth-on-mouth kiss is actually something of a biological puzzle, with no obvious survival or reproductive benefits, so the Oxford University-l...

Laughter is so important. Laughter is medicine. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people, one of the best gifts we've ever been given. 笑是如此重要。笑是良药。 笑是两个人之间最短的距离，是我们最好的馈赠。 I've been doing stand-up for 15 years. So, I've seen all different kinds of laughers. 我做脱口秀已经15年了。我看过各种各样的笑法。 There's the inside laugher, they don't make any nois...

My name is Ethan. I'm 10 years old. I worked on some robots and a game. It's kind of difficult. I hope I can make five or to seven games by the end of this week. 我叫伊森，今年10岁，我做过一些机器人和一款游戏，有点难。我希望在本周末之前能制作出五到七款游戏。 Code Ninjas is a center where children, ages 7 through 14, learn how to code. We want to leverage screen time and make it productive. Code Ni...

I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth. 我是个喜欢修修补补的人，也喜欢拼乐高之类的。 But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking. 但是我是来了弗吉尼亚大学之后，才开始接触木工活，然后才意识到我非常喜欢木工活。 I've been just following the plans...

Paradise in peril. As the world battles a pandemic, large swaths of the African continent have been submerged by floods. 天堂岌岌可危。当全世界都在与疫情作斗争时，非洲大陆大片地区被洪水淹没了。 This is the scene in the eastern Ugandan city of Jinja along the shores of lake Victoria. 这是乌干达东部金贾市维多利亚湖沿岸的场景。 Since march flooding has left more than 400 people dead in east Africa....