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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。...

The United States and China recently dispatched rovers to Mars, while the United Arab Emirates sent an orbiter to the red planet, where it is hoped humans one day will tread. 美国和中国最近向火星发射了探测器，同时阿联酋航空公司也向这颗红色星球发射了一颗人造卫星，希望有一天人类会踏上这片土地。 For man and machine alike, experts say landing on Mars is the hardest part of the trip. 专家表示，对于人和...

First there was the keyboard, then the touch screen. 首先是键盘，然后是触屏。 Some tech companies say a wearable pair of glasses could be the next leap in technology, even if it didn't work out for google glass. 一些科技公司表示，即使谷歌眼镜未能成功，可穿戴眼镜仍可能是科技领域的下一次重大飞跃。 In the future we won't be only limited to our smartphones, when it comes to understanding the world aro...

The Work to Ride program basically started with an idea that I had about using horses and youth combining those two to make a difference in the lives of children. “骑马计划”项目基本上源于我一个想法，即把马匹和青少年结合起来，从而改变孩子们的生活。 Our facility, Chamonix Equestrian Center, is located in Philadelphia. And it is bordered on two of the most crime-ridden neighborhoods here in Philadelp...

It's all about changing the narrative of black history, building leaders through the story of my ancestors. 这一切都是为了改变黑人历史的叙事，通过讲述我祖先的故事来培养领导者。 We produce educational toys where children can learn black history in a very fun and creative way. 我们生产教育玩具，让孩子们能够以一种非常有趣和富有创意的方式学习黑人历史。 The focus really is to kind of see black history...

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms. 这是一种黏菌。凯特·张是一名城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命。 Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. 从我还是个小女孩起，我就对自然界感兴趣。我们是夏威...

My name is Dwayne Hendrickson and I'm from Minot, North Dakota, about 50 miles out of Keif. 我叫德韦恩·亨德里克森，来自北达科他州米诺特市，距离基夫约50英里。 But my grandparents lived on a farm near Kief prior to 1968 and a small-town community that everybody knew everybody and everybody helped everybody. 但在1968年之前，我的祖父母住在基夫附近的农场里，那是一个小镇社区，每个人都认识彼此，每个人都...

The researchers discovered that the European hedgehog can hear up to 85kHz, a frequency that's considered ultrasonic, far higher than humans who stop hearing past 20kHz. 研究人员发现，西欧刺猬能听到达到 85 千赫的声音，这已属于超声波频段，远高于人类 20 千赫的听觉上限。 The team now wants to develop sound repellents to be used in cars or lawnmowers that could emit noise at a frequency to scare off h...

Lots of places sell or advertise collagen supplements, but what are the benefits of taking them on a daily basis? A new scientific review by a team from Anglia Ruskin University, published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum, has looked into exactly this, and here's what it found.   很多地方都销售或宣传胶原蛋白补充剂，但每天服用胶原蛋白究竟有哪些益处？安格利亚鲁斯金大学的一个团队在《...

We all know the feeling. You have a big, difficult task to complete, but your phone is on the desk next to you, teasing you with endless distraction opportunities. What's happening on social media? What's going on in the news? Who's messaging me? This constant bombardment of information through our screens, coupled with a tendency to outsource even basic tasks to technology, might be making us unh...

Mornings for Khris Teri of Halo Doughnut means it's time to hand make sweet treats, with flavors such as lemon pop, cinnamon affair along with burnt salty. Everything is made from scratch. 对于光环甜甜圈店的克里斯·特里（Khris Teri）来说，早晨是手工制作美味甜点的时间，有柠檬汽水味、肉桂味以及焦盐等口味。所有产品都是从头开始制作的。 So the financial downturn helped me revisit my passion....

Nigeria is one of the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world for women. 尼日利亚是全球对女性而言最危险的10个国家之一。 The shortage of laws protecting women is compounded by poor law enforcement and traditions that force women to keep quiet about gender violence. 保护妇女的法律本就匮乏，再加上执法不力以及迫使女性对性别暴力保持沉默的传统观念，情况更是雪上加霜。 Tired of physical abuse, some N...

Though it appears to have marched straight out of a superhero movie, the Guardian Exoskeleton is ready for work in the real world. 虽然它看起来像是直接从超级英雄电影中走出来的，但“守护者”外骨骼设备已准备好在现实世界中投入使用。 It's a wearable robot that amplifies its user's strength. 这是一款可穿戴机器人，可以增强用户的力量。 Anybody who's wearing the Guardian Exo can lift up to 200 pounds. 任何...

Farmers in Turkana Kenya face an existential crisis. 肯尼亚图尔卡纳的农民面临着生存危机。 For much of the past year out-of-control swarms of locusts have rampaged through this impoverished region, 过去一年的大部分时间里，失控的蝗虫群在这片贫困地区肆虐，啃食大片庄稼， eating fields of crops and leaving little to sell or feed the farm animals. 几乎没留下什么可以出售或喂养家畜的东西。 Our elders talk...

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。...