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The tradition of sending greeting cards has withstood the rise of digital communication. Though often inexpensive, cards can convey our thoughts and emotions. Their rich history spreads over centuries of civilisations across the world, building a culture of card giving along its way. 发送贺卡的传统经受住了数字通信的兴起。 尽管卡片通常很便宜，但它可以传达我们的想法和情感。 他们丰富的历史在世界各地...

All women who come here, who don't have legal papers and don't know anyone, 所有来这里的女性可能没有合法的身份证件，也可能不认识任何人， regardless if they have a high school diploma or even a Ph. D, they start braiding hair until they can do something else. 不管她们是高中生还是博士，在学会做别的事情之前都会来这里编辫子。 I was a shopkeeper in Burkina Faso. I used to buy goods there and sell them...

Years ago Jamila Larson saw hundreds of children were living in homeless shelters in Washington D.C. So she decided to seek it for herself. 几年前，贾米拉·拉森(JamilaLarson)看到数百名儿童住在华盛顿特区的收容所受罪，于是她决定亲自去一探究竟。 I really wasn't prepared for what I saw. I saw half-dressed children in the hallway with no toys, rows of metal bunk beds, sheets for doors, no scre...

I have always like being outdoors ever since I was a little kid. 我从小就喜欢户外活动。 It's always been like foraging, you know, just kind of goes along with that, and just like learning about what the plants are and what you can eat. 这就像觅食一样，自然而然了解到这些植物是什么，以及哪些可以食用。 Reading this Native American ethnobotany book, I was just looking up what tribes lived in this regi...

Welcome to Story Time From Space to all of you, in school, at home or at your local library or whatever you may be. 欢迎来到太空故事时间，无论你是在校、在家，还是在当地图书馆，或者在其他任何地方。 Astronaut Christina Koch is reading a book about space exploration and a future mission to Mars, a book carried aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station. 宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫正在读一本...

Science is everything. Science is how society accomplishes being a society. 科学就是一切。科学是社会得以成为社会的方式。 Science is how everything gets done. It's how we move forward. It's how all our products get built and made better. 科学是一切得以实现的方式。科学是我们前进的动力。科学是我们制造所有产品并使其不断完善的途径。 We wouldn't be anywhere if we didn't have scientists constantly asking...

This may look like an ordinary plastic straw and it may even be like one too, but it is not made of plastic. 这看起来可能像一根普通的塑料吸管，但它并非由塑料制成。 Cameron Ross started the Celise BioProducts company to produce single-use plastic alternatives from plant materials like these. 卡梅隆·罗斯创立了Celise BioProducts公司，利用这些植物材料生产一次性塑料替代品。 They are made of polylactic...

Across the gallery, mannequin after mannequin is dressed in some of the most memorable outfits of the Queen's life. 展厅内，一个个的立式模特身着女王生前最令人难忘的经典华服。 Her wedding dress has been painstakingly restored, and there are shows of diplomatic dressing. 她的婚纱经过悉心修复，正与她一系列外交场合礼服一同展出。 The 1950s ball gown from her first state visit to America, and a glitteri...

Overpriced shop-bought sandwiches, underwhelming food from your work canteen or pricey local restaurants. If those are the alternatives, then it's unsurprising that many of us think leftovers make the perfect lunch. Leftovers are a good way to cut down on food waste. If you've cooked them yourself, then you can be sure what all the ingredients are and where they've come from. But how safe are left...

If you've been on one of these calls, you've probably experienced people talking over each other. And then, there's this. 如果你参加过这样的电话会议，大概经历过大家互相抢话的情况。然后，就会出现这样的状况。 If someone's dog comes into it or someone stops paying attention, then you might miss what someone is saying. 如果有人的狗闯进来了，或者有人走神了，那么你可能会错过别人正在说的话。 Ryan Ottens'...

Hello everyone, we're excited to see you. The participants do a meet and greet. 大家好，我们很高兴见到你们。参与者见面并打招呼。 Kasmo is a three and a half-year-old golden retriever. 卡斯莫是一只三岁半的金毛猎犬。 Before going into virtual breakout rooms, there, the children read to pal dogs and their owners for 30 minutes, Spending 15 minutes with two different pups. 在进入虚拟分组讨论室之前，孩...

These people can breathe life into pretty much anything: out-of-fashion jeans, boring dresses, torn canvas totes and even car tyres. 这些人几乎能让任何东西焕发生机：过时的牛仔裤、单调的连衣裙、破旧的帆布包，甚至是汽车轮胎。 My necklace was made of tyres, inner tub, recycle, so basically you can touch it. 我的项链是用轮胎内胎回收制成的，你可以摸到它。 Dedication to sustainability and a bi...

On the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean rests one of history's most fantastic failures, the unsinkable RMS Titanic. 在北大西洋海底躺着历史上最引人注目的失败之一——号称“永不沉没”的泰坦尼克号。 The salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc has so far recovered more than 5,000 pieces of dinnerware and coins from the wreckage. 打捞公司泰坦尼克号公司到目前为止已经从残骸中打捞出了5000多件餐具和硬币。 They say after...

Would you be the same person if you'd grown up in different surroundings? How might you be different if you'd grown up in an urban versus a rural environment, or in a different country altogether? This is the age-old, nature-nurture debate that has had people pondering for many years. Is your personality written in your genes or shaped by your experience? Most experts agree that it is a combinatio...

The Atlantic salmon and the goonch catfish from Nepal are some of the 30 flagship fish species which had been prioritised for global conservation by the UN. 大西洋鲑和尼泊尔巨魾均属于被联合国列为全球优先保护对象的 30 种旗舰鱼类。 Population data of more than 15,000 species of freshwater migratory fish, which make up half of all fish species, were assessed by a team of international scientists to i...

Doodle dogs , bred from a  poodle   crossed  with a different  breed , have grown in popularity in recent years, but the Royal Veterinary College says they don't always behave as expected, particularly around training, anxiety and  aggression . “杂交贵宾犬”，也就是贵宾犬和其它犬种的杂交后代，近年来大受青睐。但皇家兽医学院表示，这类混种犬的行为表现并不总能如人所愿，尤其是在...

This looks like a spaceship and just like a spaceship, this machine is helping scientists go where they've never gone before, 这看起来像一艘宇宙飞船，正如宇宙飞船一样，这台机器正在帮助科学家前往他们从未涉足的领域， in the quest to decipher what science has never been able to explain, the origins of the universe. 致力于破解科学至今无法解释的谜题——宇宙的起源。 They can confirm the existence of the s...

Internationally celebrated Cambodian American composer Chinary Ung has been awarded one of the highest honors in the U.S., a lifetime membership at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 享誉国际的柬埔寨裔美国作曲家洪靖年荣获美国最高荣誉之一，成为美国艺术文学院终身会员。 Ung will be officially inducted in May. The 77-year-old composer was chosen based on his artistic merit in music composition....

The concept continues to blow my mind. It really will enable astronauts to explore. 这个概念仍然让我惊叹不已。它真的能让宇航员进行探索。 Dr. Pascal Lee has literally gone to the ends of the earth to test equipment for NASA. 李天龙确实曾到地球的尽头为美国宇航局测试设备。 We want astronauts to go to Mars, be effective explorers, to pick up rocks, to examine fossils potentially, to look for life. All...

Britain is looking for new partners and it is eyeing Africa. 英国正在寻找新的合作伙伴，并将目光投向了非洲。 With 1.2 billion people and eight of the world's 15 fastest-growing economies, Africa offers world-beating returns on investment, according to a report from the Overseas Development Institute. 海外发展研究所的一份报告显示，非洲拥有12亿人口，全球15个增长最快的经济体中非洲占了8个，投资回报率全...

Its length isn't what makes the path special, says Natural England's Neil Constable, who led the project. For him, the important thing is it means you can now reach the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and follow the sea for as long as you like. 这条步道的长度并非它最特别的地方，这是该项目负责人、英格兰自然署官员尼尔·康斯特布尔的看法。对他而言，最重要的一点是这条步道的建成意味着现在...

Animals build their homes to achieve different living goals. Bees build hives to store and protect food, spiders spin webs to catch prey and beavers build dams to create pools. But, as you walk around a town or stroll along a countryside pathway, you may notice some unique homes up on the treetops – nests. 动物建造家园是为了实现不同的生活目标。 蜜蜂建造蜂巢来储存和保护食物，蜘蛛结网来捕捉猎物，海...

Streaming video platforms have given filmmakers massive budgets and allowed them to make creative and artistic films and series free of the restrictions of cinema or broadcast time slots. But, maybe, just maybe, not everyone wants a three-hour long work of creative genius. Minute-long micro-dramas are taking the entertainment market by storm. 流媒体视频平台为电影制片人提供了大量预算，使他们能够不...

Years ago discrimination against people with disabilities often started right at birth. 多年前，对残疾人的歧视往往始于出生。 When I was born, a doctor came in to my mom and explained to her my diagnosis in this way, your son is a midget like you see in the circus. 当我出生时，一位医生走进来对我妈妈这样解释我的诊断结果：你的儿子就像你在马戏团里看到的那种侏儒。 So in that one sentence, that he said...

Two young children, a boy and a girl, hold a sign that reads "BRING OUR MOM BACK". 一个男孩和一个女孩举着一块牌子，上面写着“BRING OUR MOM BACK”。 This painting called "Simple Immigration" is the work of an 18-year-old Dominick Cocozza, and has already made its way to the US capitol in Washington D.C. 这幅名为《简单移民》的画作出自18岁的Dominick Cocozza之手，现已在美国华盛顿特区的国会大厦成功展出。...