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It wasn't until I faced a serious illness that I began to6 my relationship with material possessions. When reading about the benefits of living with less, I realized that the very things I'd tirelessly pursued were the source of my7 in my life. This was a turning point for me; I needed to8.

I started my journey to9 by decluttering (清理) my wardrobes. It was slow going10, but I soon got into the swing of things. I went through my wardrobes, only11 the items that I loved and had worn recently and donating the rest to the local charity shop. And it felt so12!

From then on, I13 to shift my mindset towards shopping and buy essentials only. And I started spending my money on the things I would14 for years to come. I travelled to new places and went to concerts with friends, finding these15 more rewarding than buying stuff.

Experts from Stanford's Health Services uncovered this troubling trend: during the day, many Stanford students are seen socializing in cafés, seemingly without any stress or the need to study. However, at night, they start studying, sometimes for the entire night, trying to maintain the image of effortless success. This comes at a high price: tiredness and anxiety are widespread. Furthermore, it leads to a common misconception: true geniuses achieve success with ease, while those working hard are less capable.

In an effort to challenge this misconception, researchers designed an experiment. Participants were asked to observe a series of colors carefully while scientists tracked their brain activity throughout the process. The experiment was divided into two parts: one with easily distinguishable colors and the other with colors that were quite similar, requiring more effort to differentiate. As the difficulty of the task increased, there was a noticeable increase in brain activity, particularly in areas linked to memory and abstract reasoning.

The study reveals that as tasks require more effort, more areas of the brain become engaged. Growth doesn't come from talent alone but from the consistent application of effort. Our brain functions like a muscle. Without effort, even our inborn talents will fade over time.

This pushes us to reconsider the underlying culture that might lead to this phenomenon. Instead of focusing too much on outcomes or singing high praise for inborn talents, we should emphasize the learning process and continuous improvement. By encouraging a culture that values effort, we can help students realize that intelligence is not fixed but grows through hard work. Such a shift would not only reduce the pressures associated with the "Stanford Duck Syndrome", but also have a profound impact on personal development and the future of education.

That moment stuck with me. To this day, I consider it the best punishment I ever received. Mr. McDonald's advice — "Look at the stick with different eyes" — is a great introduction to the concept of Umwelt, developed by German biologist Jakob von Uexküll.

Uexküll's Umwelt refers to the idea that every living creature perceives the world differently, based on its biological makeup and how it interacts with its environment. There is no "one" objective world; instead, every creature experiences its own version of reality. Take bees, for example. To a human, a flower is just a beautiful object with pleasant colors and fragrances. However, for a bee, flowers are much more than that. Bees can see ultraviolet (UV) light, which humans cannot. In a bee's world, flowers reveal intricate UV patterns that act as road signs, leading them to nectar (花蜜). This UV-rich environment helps bees find food and pollinate (授粉) flowers, ensuring both their survival and that of plants.

Similarly, humans also experience the world through their own perspectives (视角), shaped by what they care about and find meaningful. Imagine sitting through a dull presentation, barely paying attention. Suddenly, the speaker mentions a topic that directly interests you, and you become fully engaged. Uexküll's idea teaches us that people, like bees, connect with the world in unique ways. The key takeaway for presenters is to craft their messages to appeal to different interests. By doing so, they have a better chance of reaching and engaging a diverse audience.

"The work we do is important and needs to be preserved, but it's becoming a dying craft," said Bagmanyan,60, who runs the shop and handles piano repairs. "Children are our future, yet music programs are being cut across the country."

However, there is hope for the shop. The Last Repair Shop, a short documentary featuring Bagmanyan and three other technicians, recently won an Oscar for best documentary short film. The film combines their personal stories with reflections from students who have found comfort and joy in music.

Few people even knew the shop existed before the documentary's release. This workshop, in operation since 1959, is believed to be the last of its kind in the country. Bagmanyan and his team provide free instruments and repairs across the school district, often serving children from low-income families. For many of these children, public schools are their only source of musical instruments, which wealthier families can more easily afford.

Since the release of the film, public support has soared. Donations have been made to fund more repairs and strengthen school music programs in Los Angeles. "People are inspired by what we do and want to support a dying art form," said Ben Proudfoot, who co-directed the documentary.

Bagmanyan knows that a poorly maintained instrument can discourage a child from learning. "If an instrument doesn't work properly, a child might give up on music," he said. "But when you know the instrument is going to a student who loves it, it's impossible not to smile."

After 21 years of service, Bagmanyan sayshis cup is full, knowing that children may carry a love of music with them for a lifetime. "I was planning to retire," he admitted. "But now I'll rebuild the shop to what it once was and keep going a little longer."

Join a meaningful mission to protect endangered sea turtles on the beaches of Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka. This project focuses on caring for injured turtles and giving baby turtles a safe start in the ocean. Volunteers work closely with about 30 turtles currently housed at the center. These turtles were injured by fishing nets, ocean trash, or other human activities. The center also plays a key role in hatching (孵化) and releasing hundreds of turtle eggs every season to restore the turtle population.

Details:

Start Date: Every Saturday or Sunday

Duration: Minimum 2 weeks

Age Requirement:16+

Accommodation: Shared rooms in the volunteer house

Orientation: All volunteers must complete a protection training week in Kandy before joining the project. This week introduces key knowledge about turtle conservation and prepares volunteers for their tasks.

Volunteer Tasks:

Care for the turtles: Clean their tanks, prepare food, and feed the turtles.

Monitor nests and populations: Keep track of turtle nests, collect data on turtle numbers, and learn how to identify different species.

Release baby turtles: Assist in releasing newly hatched turtles safely into the ocean.

Raise community awareness: Work with local fishermen and residents to promote the importance of turtle conservation.

Important Note:

Volunteers should avoid risky social situations, such as visiting bars or pubs on the beach. The organization will not be responsible for any incidents that happen during interactions with locals or tourists in these places.

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With a global collection covering over 5,000 years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the only museum in New York City that can display 20th-and 21st-century works in dialogue with art from different centuries and cultures. It recently hosted an exhibition (title) China: Through the Looking Glass, which explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics (美学) on Western fashion and how China (fuel) the fashionable imagination for centuries.

Since the earliest period of European contact with China, people in the West have been interested in novel objects and imagery from the East, inspiring fashion (talent) from Paul Poiret to Yves Saint Laurent, fashions were filled with romance and fantasy.

Gallery 213 — one of the various themed galleries the exhibition features — showcase the history of blue-and-white porcelain (瓷器), symbol of the lasting cultural exchange between the East and the West. Blue-and-white porcelain items, developed in Jingdezhen during the Yuan dynasty, (bring) to Europe as early as the 16th century. With its growing (popular), potters in the Netherlands, Germany and England began to create their own interpretations. (subsequent), Chinese craftsmen (工匠) responded by producing their own hand-painted versions for export, so a design that came to be seen typically Chinese was actually the product of various cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

This exhibition is a contemporary design achievement that shows the historical richness and ongoing influence of Chinese aesthetics on the Western world, (represent) the East's impact on Western culture.

I almost listened, but a sign in my office, a gift from a student's mother, changed my mind. It said, "We must take5 in order to know where we truly belong." For the first time, I6 my family's advice and made a big move.

I didn't grasp the sign's true meaning until I took a risk again. Two years later, I7 the new job, and moved to Florida. My loved ones thought I was8. I had no plan, no permanent residence, but I bought the sign with me. The only9 was my desire for more adventurous experiences.

I finally created my dream business as a coach for people with ADHD (多动症) and10 my first client within the first week. Then,11, my former boss called, offering me the chance I once12. I expressed my gratitude, of course, and then without hesitation, I13. Since then, I've moved to many new offices for my own business. However, the sign remains a constant14 that adventurous experiences always await, and by weleoming them, I could discover my true15 in life.

That is not to say there have not been periods of ill health. Frommer's, the grandfather of American guidebooks, was sold in 2012 for $ 22 m to a company, which reportedly planned to end the series' print run. (The following year Arthur Frommer, its founder, bought it back.) Lonely Planet, the best-known travel publisher, has been through several owners at ever-lower valuations.

Now guidebooks still keep coming out when all the information you could need is in your pocket. Print is a useful medium for information on the go. Books can be drawn randomly on and dog-eared, and they need no charging or Internet access. They can be easier to run through than social media, websites ore-books. Rick, author of America's bestselling guides to European destinations, published his first guidebook 44 years ago, but still researches many of his books, making adjustments and constantly updating them. His publishers, being more business-minded, also produce pocket guides, which combine the tips with photographs.

It is authenticity (真实性) and content selection that print books are selling; therefore, the more content out there, the better for guide publishers.

Perhaps, in time, apps with similar features may take off in the West. Artificial intelligence is another emerging challenge. Like a good guide, AI's promise is that it can do complicated research and produce a summary, so Frommer's, for its part, experimented with using AI to offer tailor-made answers to people's questions on traveling, which only found that it was making things up too often to be useful. Nothing makes a person reach for their trusty guidebook more than a misleading tip.

APOPO has already trained the rats to find hidden bombs on the ground, detect illness in humans and locate people buried by earthquakes. Now, it also has taught them to use their powerful noses to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. The illegal wildlife trade is the transport of wildlife across countries' borders to sell them. Criminals disguise an item in lots of ways, including painting it so it looks like wood or cutting it into pieces and coating it in chocolate so it looks like a sweet.

These tricky acts make it hard for humans to detect illegal goods. However, African giant pouched rats can do them a favor. They are particularly well suited to spotting the hidden goods, with a highly developed sense of smell that can tell the difference between lots of scents (气味), and a small body that can fit into tight areas in piles of boxes humans couldn't reach to search properly. And the rats are cheap to train to bring good results.

The rats were taught to associate a clicking sound with a food reward, and then they were put in a container with holes in the bottom, with scent samples below. The researchers wanted the rats to identify certain scents whileignoring others. A rat could point out a certain smell to the researchers by keeping its nose in a hole for three seconds. When the rats chose the right scent, they heard the click sound and were rewarded with food, so they learned which smells to identify over time.

Researchers later tested the rats at a port in Tanzania where they hid items they hoped the rats would find. Each rat wore a tiny cloth with a little ball attached, and when they found something, they pulled on the ball, causing a sound. The rats found more than 83% of the hidden items. Thus, APOPO is now working on sending its "HeroRATS" out to detect real crime.

At 33, I brought my specialty to the world stage at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (残奥会). My journey began when I was selected for wheelchair repair at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympics. I returned for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, and by the time Paris rolled around, all this earned me a place on the team once again.

Much like the medical care provided to athletes, wheelchair repair ensures athletes can compete and live comfortably. The mission at this Summer Paralympics was demanding, with more events, and a greater variety of wheelchairs for athletes, and wheelchairs differ depending on the sport, requiring specific repairs based on how they're used. For example, wheelchair basketball causes heavy wear and tear, while swimmers' wheelchairs suffer from poolside exposure.

After graduation, being a mechanical engineering major, I found myself at a crossroads in my career.

While many of my classmates pursued traditional paths in the mechanical industry, I chose a different route: committing my skills to serving individuals with disabilities. Witnessing their toughness, I saw it as an opportunity to enhance the lives of people with disabilities, and an honor to assist them. On the field, athletes rely on their devices to compete; off the field, these devices help them live comfortably and move freely.

Now, I have taken on a new initiative, which is aimed at empowering individuals with disabilities by training them to repair their own wheelchairs and developing a sense of community support. When a wheelchair stops working, it's often much more challenging for someone with a disability to go out and find a repair shop compared to able-bodied individuals. So I aim to teach them simple repair techniques, enabling them to assist one another with basic fixes.

Visit our book clubs where love is shared as much as stories! Our book club meets every 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 PM. We currently have three Book Clubs — Adult, Middle-Grade and Autistic-led (自闭症主导). If you want to join us, please respond by phone, in person, or by email. Copies of the book are available at a discount to book club members

Please visit our event page to see the most recent book club pick and other events we have coming up. There are currently no fees to join the book club, BUT there are a few added benefits to being an active member.

Added benefits

●Attend a book club meeting (virtual or in-person) and receive 20% off the next book club read.

●Attend a book club meeting and receive an additional 10% off the purchase made during the day of the book club meeting.

●Exclusive (独享的) shopping hours during the day of the meeting. Not attending in person? Don't worry — one of our associates will pick your books out for you. We can arrange for drive-up pickup or shipping. We won't charge any shipping fees for orders over $20．

Book club members also take part in helping us review advanced reader copies of upcoming books to be released. Additionally, we will continue to offer both limited in-store seating for our meetings and a video call option.

It all started when my dad brought home a very big surprise — which was actually a very little surprise. "Ta-da!" he announced pulling a sheet off a cage, magician-style. "Meet Mr. Nibbles!"

"A hamster(仓鼠)!" I cheered.

"He's so cute," said Tex. "Hello, Mr. Nibbles, I already love you so much." Tex whispered.

Seeing how we reacted, dad smiled, "Well, congratulations, Mr. Nibbles. You have found yourself a new home!"

It took a few weeks for our fuzzy (毛茸茸的) friend to get comfortable. At first he poked (探出) his head out of his cage only to take a sip of water and fill his cheeks with food. But once he got settled in, he was happy and playful. He sometimes slid away from the cage, and even begged for food, making a hissing (嘶嘶声的) sound as if saying thanks. Having Mr. Nibble 's around made our summer much more fun.

Before we knew it, it was time to go back to school. I was excited to see friends I hadn't seen in a really long time, but, to be honest, I was also nervous about all the new stuff. That's why I made sure I was extra prepared. My plan was to wake up early, put on my carefully laid-out clothes, eat my carefully chosen breakfast, and place my thought-out lunch in my carefully arranged backpack. Then I'd ride my carefully cleaned bike to school and enter my brand-new classroom. Hopefully, preparing ahead of time could make me feel calmer going into the back-to-school day!

Everything went according to plan — until, well, it didn't My new teacher, Mr. Jax, who seemed very serious, started out by going over the class rules. Then he asked each of us to say a quick something about our summer vacation. Most kids seemed pretty shy after being apart for a while and said only a few words. Soon it would be my turn.

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Does AI Creation Have Artistic Value?

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DeepSeek, a remarkable Chinese-made AI, has recently burst into the global spotlight. It(develop) by a group of talented Chinese researchers with the aim of (advance) artificial intelligence technology.

What makes DeepSeek stand out is its powerful capabilities. It can handle a wide range of tasks, from natural language processing to image recognition. In natural language processing, it can generate high-quality text, answer complex questions accurately, even engage in intelligent conversations. When it comes to image recognition, it can identify various objects and scenes with impressive precision.

The success of DeepSeek is not (accident). It benefits from the continuous investment in AI research in China and rich talent pool in this field. The researchers behind DeepSeek (make) numerous efforts to improve its algorithms and performance. They have also incorporated the latest technology (breakthrough) into the development process.

Moreover, DeepSeek has found application in many industries. In the medical field, it can assist doctors diagnosing diseases by analyzing medical images and patient data. In the education sector, it can provide (personalize) learning resources for students. In the business world, it can help companies with market analysis and customer service.

DeepSeek continues to gain popularity, it is playing an increasingly important role in promoting international cooperation in the AI field. It shows the world the remarkable achievements of Chinese AI technology and boosts the confidence of the Chinese scientific community.

When I think of the toughest moments of my life, many have turned out to be1 in disguise. The most severe one was being pretty much kicked out of my Ph. D．program at the University of Georgia in 2016, after I2 all my jobs in California, even sacrificing my intern license（实习医生执照）. The program in Georgia turned out to not be the right3 for me despite my best efforts. I mainly went because they offered to4 my tuition, but I didn't examine the program carefully enough.

The whole year was riddled with exhaustion, anxiety, insecurity, fear, and exclusion. I was in therapy myself for most of the year to cope, and the only thing that made it5 was a lot of support from my family and friends. I was utterly6when I went back home; it felt like my7 was over.

Fast forward to today,8, I can see that getting driven out of the Georgia program was one of the best things that ever happened to me. As the saying goes, "Fate loves irony." I thank all my professors for making me see what I couldn't back then: I'd9 in the right program. In 2017, when I10 to a doctoral program in San Diego, I began to succeed and now my business and career are doing exceptionally well.

Looking back, I am deeply grateful I11 up in San Diego and happy that I didn't stay in Georgia. Ironically, the research and writing training from the University of Georgia12 me to develop my academic, professional, and personal writing. In short, I worked hard in Georgia and it13; the learning and growth I experienced were14.

As my personal example demonstrates, life is a total rollercoaster; what seems like good or bad news now can turn out to be the15 in the future.

It involves bringing older and younger people together to support each other. After all, old people represent a huge unused resource: they include retired engineers, doctors, teachers and business people with years of experience.

In some projects, retired people help out in primary schools, to hear children read and offer them individual support. Similar projects are run in secondary schools and even universities. Other projects involve sending children and teenagers into old people's homes on a regular basis to teach them "digital skills", to entertain them or simply befriend them and listen to their stories and advice. The students can either live rent-free in exchange for household chores (家务杂活) and support for the homeowner, or they can pay a reduced rent in exchange for chatting with the older person regularly and keeping an eye on their health and well-being.

Intergenerational volunteering projects have had a truly significant impact on both sides. By bringing together people of different generations and socioeconomic backgrounds, they have built trust, respect and friendship.

A. These are important for the structure of society.

B. Studies have shown that retired people can still contribute to society.

C. Intergenerational volunteering can provide a solution to these problems.

D. Volunteering may even help young people discover a new interest or passion for life.

E. They may face the challenge of finding a job without work experience or practical skills.

F. Elsewhere, there are projects that match university students with wealthy elderly people who have spare rooms.

G. Young people, too, have valuable skills to share, most obviously their up-to-date knowledge of technology.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant neatly sums up this method alongside other systems and qualities in his new book. "Being a creature of discomfort," Grant writes, "can unlock hidden potential in many different types of learning." This is just one character skill the Wharton professor believes can unlock an individual's potential to do greater things than their background or experience might suggest. This is essential for more than learning a skill or a language; this is what he says takes individuals to the pinnacle of their industry.

Grant writes that universities and companies should take more steps to recognize potential, and where an individual has overcome difficulties like growing up in poverty. This quantifying the unquantifiable could be done, he suggests, by looking at the rate of change of a student's grades as well as the final score.

The example of Mexican-American José Hernández comes to mind. The astronaut attained his dream of joining NASA after being rejected countless times by a system that did not take into account his different experiences working as a farm labourer when he was young and overcoming struggles.

Systems, therefore, need to change to find the best people. This is also a key message in the book: Improve the pipelines so that better people come up in the future.

There are plenty of people who will go to the same place every year, because they're comfortable and familiar with it. People are experiencing less and less the places they are at. They might be there in body, but not necessarily in mind, because a lot of people are constantly thinking: "How am I going to present myself to my social media group back home through my posts on Facebook or Instagram?"

But this is just one side of the problem. On the other side, our travel has taken a toll on the environment. It is reported that the carbon emissions from air travel accounted for 2.5% of global emissions in 2019, and this figure may be three times by 2050.

I admit that there has been a considerable increase in people's awareness about the environment. And some people say that this can eventually lead to a shift in our behavior as tourists. However, I can't share their optimism. A lot of research has been done into the extent to which tourists are willing to adapt their behavior. And even those people who regularly consume or behave in an environmentally friendly fashion actually temporarily forget their environmental commitments, and behave like normal tourists. They do suffer some kind of eco-guilt, but nevertheless they continue to travel, and they continue to fly.

I'm old enough to remember when tourism was just the summer holiday, and you would look forward to those two weeks a year when you would go on holiday. It was special and meaningful, but nowadays it is so easy to travel. Travel is now seen as a right, not as a privilege. However, to some extent, I hope there will be a significant rise in the cost of travel, or at least in air travel. In my opinion, only in this way can people realize the value of travel experience and really enjoy it. Also, only in this way can many problems arising with the development of tourism be properly solved.

It started when garbage man Durson Ipek found a bag of abandoned books when he was working and then it snowballed from there. Ipek and other garbage men started gathering the books they found on the streets that were ready for landfills (垃圾填埋地) and as their collection started to grow, so did word of mouth. Soon, local residents started donating books directly. The library was initially available only to the garbage employees and their families to use but as the collection grew, so did public interest and the library was opened to the public in 2017．

"On the one hand, there were those who were leaving these books on the streets. On the other hand, others were looking for these books," Ankaya mayor Alper Tasdelen told CNN. "We started to discuss the idea of creating a library from these books. When everyone supported it, this project happened."

All the books that are found are sorted and checked for condition. If they pass, they go on the shelves. Today, the library has over 6,000 books that range from fiction to nonfiction and there's a very popular children's section that even has a collection of comic books. An entire section is devoted to scientific research and there are also books available in English and French. The collection has grown so large that the library loans books to schools and educational programs.

"Village school teachers from all over Turkey are requesting books," Tasdelen told CNN. The government has to hire a full-time employee to administrate the library.

This library is incredibly popular. It is frequently filled with the children of the city's workers and students from nearby schools. There is a waiting room set up for readers and chess boards for the people who visit the library. You can even enjoy a cup of tea in the waiting room.