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Professor David Alais from the University of Sydney led the study. His team ran an experiment with 600 people. They showed the participants hundreds of food images one by one. The participants had to move a slider and click to rate how attractive the food looked and guess its calorie content.

After analyzing the results carefully, they discovered something called serial dependence (序列依赖). This means that if you saw a food you really liked or thought had a high calorie count, you were more likely to rate the next food higher than you normally would. On the other hand, if the previous food didn't look good to you, the next one would probably get a lower rating. This effect is automatic (自动的), just like when the wind blows on your skin or you see a bright red flash. It's related to how our senses work, and it's connected to a part of the brain that scientists have only recently learned about.

This could affect how we make choices on delivery apps or digital restaurant menus, where consumers are faced with food decisions based on many images of food. Maybe the food that seems more attractive isn't really the one we want the most. It could be because the previous image made it seem better. Restaurants and marketers can also benefit from this knowledge. Restaurants can arrange their menus to make customers like more profitable dishes. For example, they can put high-profit items after some really attractive food pictures.

After further research is carried out, this could also be used in the treatment of eating disorders. They can use this "simple sensory process" to help those who overeat or undereat change the way they think about food.

But there is hope. A new generation of young gardeners is breathing life into an old trade, opening up exciting nurseries across Britain and Ireland. Jonny Bruce is one of these new gardeners, who started the Field Nursery. With the help of his part-time worker and friend Daniel James, the nursery already has two greenhouses and a shed (工具棚) for potting plants. Jonny Bruce hopes to start selling plants in the autumn.

Bruce's love for growing plants started during his training at Great Dixter in East Sussex. "I was really inspired by how the nursery and the garden worked together," he says. "I knew by the end of it that I wanted to work in a nursery." Bruce spent the next four-and-a-half years working in the Netherlands. There, he saw many new plants and was inspired by their passion for protecting the environment.

Returning to the UK, he looked for land to start his own nursery. "I got really lucky. A developer had bought this field as part of a larger land package, but couldn't build on it. They needed to do something positive with the land, so I was able to achieve that with my proposal — that's what made this whole project possible."

Bruce views the Field Nursery as an opportunity to increase biodiversity. He and Daniel are planting many native trees and making habitats for insects. This stress on nature provision (供给) challenges the plant nursery of the past. It shows that nurseries can function in harmony with wildlife. Jonny says, "It's hard work, but we feel we can do so much with the land to connect people — it's really exciting."

Hayo-Went-Ha Camps has seen an exciting start to its 2025 summer registration. Since opening on October 20, 2024, over 450 campers have signed up, showing a 7% increase compared to last year. This increase comes from both returning families and new ones eager to join.

Creative Solutions and Community Support

The camp has received amazing support from families. A parent from Cincinnati offered to recruit (招收) new campers, and the camp is now working with families across the US. Those interested in being local ambassadors can reach out to help spread the word about the camp's magic.

Pathways to Growth: A Journey of Transformation (改变)

At Hayo-Went-Ha Camps, we take pride in our Pathways to Growth, which guide campers through a progressive journey of personal development and outdoor adventure. Starting with basic outdoor skills, younger campers build confidence and mastery in a supportive environment. As they grow older, the challenges strengthen—ranging from one-day trips all the way to extended backcountry expeditions—designed to stretch their limits and inspire growth.

Throughout their journey, campers experience increasingly ambitious wilderness trips, each one designed to push their boundaries. Highlights include trips to places like Isle Royale in Lake Superior and Killarney Provincial Park in Canada. These adventures help campers gain skills and connect with nature.

Looking Ahead: Growing Our Community

Despite the successful early registration, the camp aims to build an even more exiting community. By sharing inspiring stories of the "Pathways to Growth," we hope to attract more campers.

Don't wait—register now for an unforgettable summer!

Early in my teaching career, I heard countless excuses — most of them made up, many of them amusing — for why students didn't have their homework. And, yes, "the dog ate it" was one of them. As time passed, I grew tired of hearing "I don't have my homework because...". So I quit accepting any excuse.

When I was transferred to an inner-city middle school, I took my no-nonsense attitude with me. "No excuses, no extensions!" I warned my eighth graders on the first day of school. I collected homework at the beginning of each class. When a student didn't have it, I never asked why. Instead, I sighed loudly, shook my head in dramatic disgust and with the student looking on — recorded a zero in the grade book. I soon gained the reputation I thought I wanted.

Then, one afternoon, shortly after the dismissal bell rang, Anthony approached me. "Could I talk to you a minute?" he asked shyly, not taking his eyes off the floor. "I know you don't accept any explanation, but I don't want you to think I'm a slacker because I come to school without mine so often."

Anthony looked up at me for the first time, and I could see that his lower lip was quivering. "It's just that...well, my dad moved out, and my mom waits tables at night, so I have to take care of my little brothers. Sometimes they cry a lot, and it makes it hard to concentrate."

I put my hand on Anthony's thin shoulder. "Why are you just now telling me..?" I stopped in mid-sentence. I knew why. So I changed the question. "Would it help if you stay here after school and work on it before you go home?"

He swallowed hard and nodded.

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The next day, I made an announcement to all my students.

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Having read their stories, I learned more about these kids.

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May 21st this year marks the first International Tea Day, which was named officially the United Nations on November 27th, 2019. To celebrate festival, a number of events took place at the Chinese Businessman Museum in Beijing on Thursday.

The chairman of the China Culture Promotion Society (address) the opening ceremony. "As a main promoter of the International Tea Day, the birthplace of tea and the (large) tea-producing country, China has a (responsible)to work with other countries to promote the healthy development of the tea industry. It can help to build a community with a (share) future for mankind," he said.

The "First International Tea Day Tea Road Cooperative Initiative" issued (发布) at the ceremony calls for people working in the tea industry to come together to promote international cooperation cultural exchanges. A four-year tea promotion —Tea Road Cooperative Plan — was also issued in accordance with the initiative.

(strengthen)the connection with young people, the event included a number of public promotional activities on social media, (invite) twenty-nine tea professionals from around the world to have thirty-six hours of uninterrupted live broadcasts.

The Chinese Ancient Tea Museum was officially unveiled (揭幕) at the ceremony, opening (it)first exhibition: The Avenue of Truth — A Special Exhibition of Pu'er Tea.

First, I passed through the rotunda (圆形大厅), which I had5 through many times before without ever truly looking at it. Then, I found a fashion6 made by students and took my time appreciating their7 and hard work.

Late, I was8 with a full-size copy of a large brontosaurus (雷龙). You wonder what that brontosaurus might have been thinking about before it9 and how it might have felt about living in an airport. You wonder what the10 might look like in the future. I waved to all the security cameras, hoping that there was someone11 on the other side, having a good laugh.

I12 my airport adventures that night. I thought little of the posts when my flight took off. By the time my plane13 , they were going viral. As a writer, I would have14 this to make me happy. But I began to feel a deep sadness. Has everyone grown entirely15 to the beauty all around us?

The crop protection products farmers use to control many plant diseases are almost the same as the drugs doctors use to treat infections, including fungi (真菌). Fungi are continually mutating (变异), and with a life cycle measured in days or weeks, they mutate quickly. When a mutation produces resistance to a chemical-killing fungi, fungi will jump to any host that provides a welcoming environment, such as a human body. And if the treatment for the fungal infection involves a drug similar to the fungicide encountered on the farm, Fungi may develop quickly in the human body-just as they did in the field.

An obvious solution is to use less fungicide in the field. Reducing fungicide use would not only slow the development of the drug resistance, it would help restore diversity to the fungal world. Fungicides are a must in the farming community. Plant diseases pose a major problem for farmers globally-in some crops, disease can reduce harvests by more than 70 percent-and failure to deal with the problem can mean financial ruin.

Just like Fungi-or, indeed, any living thing-plants continually evolve. This is how natural gene editing (基因编辑) works, and without it, we'd all still be single cells in a salty soup. Through natural selection, almost any plant will eventually produce resistance to Fungi. But this can take centuries, so we don't have the time to wait.

On the other hand, advances in genetics have given us an understanding of nature's gene editing process in plants, helping us develop resistance to a disease. Gene editing techniques can then enable us to produce disease resistance-just as nature would do, if given enough time.

Instead of "climate change" the preferred terms are "climate emergency, crisis or breakdown" and "global heating" is favoured over "global warming", although the original terms are not banned.

"We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue," said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. "The phrase ‘climate change', for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity."

"Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terms, and using stronger language to describe the situation we're in," she said. Other terms that have been updated, including the use of "wildlife" rather than "biodiversity", "fish populations" instead of "fish stocks" and "climate science denier" rather than "climate sceptic".

Earlier in May, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has inspired school strikes for climate around the globe, said: "Can we all now call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?"

The update to the Guardian's style guide follows the addition of the global carbon dioxide level to the Guardian's daily weather pages. "Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically – including a measure of that in our daily weather report is symbolic of what human activity is doing to our climate," said Viner in April. "People need reminding that the climate crisis is no longer a future problem – we need to tackle it now, and every day matters."

This time when she was a little off balance on the horizontal bar (平衡木), she became so worried that she lost self-control and fell off. This failure was followed by several more in other events. Afterwards in order to avoid people at the airport, she trailed along behind the team. She found that very few people greeted her and reporters seemed to shun her. However hard she tried, she couldn't turn the tide; she was a complete failure. Indeed, who would side with a failure?

All of a sudden, she saw a pair of shoes in front of her. Who could it be? She raised her bent head slowly and saw a navy blue suit, long legs, and then a clear fair face. Before her stood the stewardess with her hands behind her back, speaking with a smile, "I watched your performance on the television. I knew you would come home today. So I am here especially to welcome you."

"I did very poorly." She lowered her head again.

"No. You did your best."

"But I failed."

"Nobody can avoid failure. I believe failure is as important to you as success. Failure belongs to the past, and victory is the future." The stewardess's voice came gentle but firm.

Hearing these words, the girl raised her head. The stewardess held out her hands from behind her back with a big bouquet of colorful flowers, and presented it to the girl. The strong fragrance seemed to turn into a magic, powerful current that went through her body. She was moved to tears. Flowers are usually given to victorious heroes. Why to the disgraced loser?

The books that are included in this list can meet your reading needs at any time of year.

Nobody Will Tell You This but Me

Bess Kalb

In this book, the author shares the advice her beloved grandmother Bobby left her. Bobby was a powerful woman who should never be underestimated, and she was very knowledgeable about the family's traditions and secrets. The book proves that family bonds can endure through generations and beyond death.

We Came Here to Shine

Susie Orman Schnall

We Came Here to Shine focuses on the strong female friendship between an aspiring journalist and an unlucky actress at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Leaning on each other, these two ambitious women struggled against adversity (困境) at a time when women had little say.

A Star Is Bored

Byron Lane

Favored by television star Jonathan Van Ness, this novel is partly based on the author's experiences as the former personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, a legendary American actress. The book follows Charlie Besson, the new assistant to the Hollywood icon, Kathi Kannon. Their three-year journey together is an unforgettable adventure that is funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful.

Fast Girls

Elise Hooper

The story in Fast Girls took place during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Betty Robinson, Louise Stokes, and Helen Stephens overcame difficult pasts to attain Olympic glory as the world's fastest female athletes. Beyond the athletic journey, they also aimed to challenge the social standards of what females can achieve.