When faced with the decision to get out of bed or have a few more minutes of sleep, which do you choose? Believe it or not, that decision could make a world of difference in the rest of your day.
About 85 percent of Americans use an alarm clock to wake up in the mornings, according to sleep researcher Till Roen. And while there are no official numbers on snoozing(打盹), a quick survey of social media makes it clear that hitting the snooze button is a popular pastime(消遣).
As to how the snooze button will affect your day, scientists have mixed opinions. Some scientists think people who hit the snooze button in the mornings are actually clever, creative and happy while some said that hitting the snooze button will ruin your life, or at the very least your day. "I feel that hitting the snooze button has got to be one of the worst things that ever happened to human sleep, " researcher Jonathan Horowitz said. "The chances of you ‘snoozing' and actually experiencing a meaningful rest are close to zero. "
According to some sleep experts, when hitting the snooze button, you are in fact confusing your body and mind, and throwing yourself into a deep state of being sleepy. The body needs some time to wake up. Therefore, when returning to what will be a light sleep for a brief period of time, you are putting your body back into a sleep mode before waking it again. At that point your body won't know what it wants, resulting in a sort of half awaken state.
If you really want to take advantage of an alarm clock, the key is to form a healthy sleep cycle. Focus your efforts on getting enough sleep each night and waking up at the same time each day so that when your alarm goes off you feel rested.
Do you want to travel to the New England Aquarium and experience it? If you are an Aquarium super fan, I believe you must be interested in some information below.
Animal encounter Programs
Dive into the water with a seal. Stand on top of the four storey Giant Ocean Tank to feed the animals. Go behind the scenes of your favorite exhibits. Whether you have an unquenchable curiosity about oceanic animals or you want a brand-new observation on popular exhibits, fascinating Animal Encounter programs are designed for the Aquarium super fans. Call Central Reservations at 617-973-5206 to book your program.
Daily Performances
Don't miss a day in the life of the New England Aquarium. Be sure to catch our daily events, which include penguin feedings, seal training sessions, dives in the Giant Ocean Tank and live animal performances. Our daily schedule will tell you when and where to watch your favorite program. All programs are included with admission.
Special Programs
Join us for family activities at the Aquarium, where we explore the blue planet most days through art, animals and other activities. We focus on one animal every month with Blue Discoveries Family Day, from octopuses to whales. These activities are included with admission. For a fee, schools and other qualifying groups can also choose Explorer Classes for kids and special 3-D showings.
Virtual Tours and Videos
Before stepping foot in the Aquarium, explore some of our special exhibits and learn what to expect. Check out the Field Trip Orientation video before arriving with your group. The How to Be a Shark and Ray Whisperer video gives special instructions on how to best experience our shark and ray touch tank. The Blue Impact virtual tour highlights some of our exhibits as it explains the impact of climate change on oceans around the world.
Trip 1 Black Bear Count
There have been fires in this area in the last few years and the Office of the National Park is not sure how many black bears are still living. Some bears have been seen since the fires, and the Office has asked for young people to help count them. The entire trip will last three hours.
Bookings necessary.
Cost: 15£ for adult, 10£ for child When: March 14, April8
Trip 2 Garland Valley
Bring your drink and lunch for this walk in a beautiful area of the Blue Mountains. Garland Valley is close to the town of Garland but is part of the National Park. Many wild animals live in this area, including many rare birds. This is a great walk for bird-lovers. The trip lasts four hours.
Bookings necessary.
Cost: Free When: May 8, September15
Trip 3 Flashlight Adventure
Put on your warm clothes, bring a flashlight and a pair of glasses, and come for a night walk along the Dungog Valley in the National Park. A guide will lead the tour. Many of the animals you will see on this trip can only be seen at night. The guide will tell you about the lives of the animals you see. Numbers are strictly limited on night trips, so be sure to book early. This walk lasts two and a half hours.
Cost:12£ for child, 15£ for adult When: May 15, July 22
Equipment to be needed:
·Please bring enough water and food for all walks.
·Wear good walking shoes-no high heels.
·Wear a hat for day walks.
·Dress warmly for night walks.
·Children must be with an adult.
·Make sure your flashlight works well and bring extra batteries for night walks.
·Follow all instructions from guides during the walks. The mountains are a dangerous place.
Bookings:
·Bookings for the above trips can be made by telephone (893-4847) or on the Internet at www. blue — mountaintour. com.
Jeremiad Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of our country's persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It's called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than throw your empty chip bags into the rubbish, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.
Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they clean the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, ay them flat, and iron them together. They use liners from old coats to line the insides.
It takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag，and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they're single—serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is "waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around, " Oleita told the Detroit News.
Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800, 000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags.
Sure, it would be simpler to raise money to buy new sleeping bags. But that's only half the goal for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life—and her fellow volunteers. "We are dedicated to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally, " she says.
As Oleita said, "There's the symbolism of using bags that would otherwise land in the rubbish and using them to help the homeless. It's a powerful reminder that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. "
Here are some ways parents can use to encourage a healthy self-image in their children.
Teach what real value is. I think kids sometimes are confused about values. How valuable you are is not measured by how pretty you are on the outside. We were watching the Oscars and my 6-year-old son said, "She is so pretty, " and then quickly looked at me and said you are prettier, Mom. " And I said, "It's okay. There are many people prettier than me on the outside. I know that's not why you love me. "
Tell your kids about "the grass is always greener" syndrome. It is very easy for all of us to see the charm, whether it is in a famous singer or the most popular girl in the school. Do not think too highly of famous people. Maybe they have the same struggles, like wanting acceptance from peers.
Don't be afraid to have conversations with your child about how they're feeling about ads songs, etc. You are the parent! Take a stand and have confidence enough not to be followers and not to purchase clothing, music, or magazines that you don't believe send the right message to your children!
A. Use your mouth.
B. Be patient with your kids.
C. about what problems they might have.
D. It is important to teach children this from an early age.
E. Success is not measured by how famous you are, either.
F. Girls tend to like famous singers while boys prefer sports stars.
G. In fact, kids of all ages want and need boundaries from you.
I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I 1 whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a 2 writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our 3 selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to 4 them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even 5?
Thinking back on the 6, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you're eighteen Years old, twenty-eight seems like a 7 age, but I wasn't feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had 8 me to be.
When the letter finally reached me, I opened it 9. It began, "How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?" It continued to greet me casually 10 we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the 11SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so 12! She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldn't worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn't forget to be present and 13 my life!
14 to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have 15 meet. Instead, she wrote, "I'll 16whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I'm imagining now, I'll support you, because maybe17 I'm imagining is someone else, but you're not someone else, you're me.
I was 18, and tears welled up in my eyes at this 19 through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. 20, I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison(相形之下) to how I'd feel and who I'd be.
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Clues at Ancient Lake Site Reveal Earliest Known Cooked Meal
Scientists have found the earliest known evidence of cooking at an archaeological site in Israel. The discovery has suggested prehistoric humans were able to deliberately make fires to cook food at least 780, 000 years ago.
The detailed study of fish teeth unearthed at the Gesher Benot Ya' aqov site revealed that some of our early ancestors — most likely Homo erectus ( 直立猿人) believed to be the first hominin ( 古人族) (migrate) outside Africa — were able to cook fish, said Dr. Irit Zohar, a researcher at Tel Aviv University' s Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.
No human remains ( find) at the site before, but the stone tools matched found at Homo erectus sites across Africa, Zohar said. She said the lake would have been shallow, and it might have been easy to catch large fish like the extinct Luciobarbus longiceps, which grow up to. 5 feet (2 meters), by hand.
This is an incredibly important discovery the shift to eating cooked meals meant humans spent less energy on the intensive work of searching for and digesting raw food, freeing up . Diet has had a big impact on the evolution of our species. It has been suggested the consumption of meat in particular contributed to the increase in relative brain size of our early Homo ancestors — but they risked ( contract) diseases while consuming the uncooked meat which was likely to be contaminated by infective bacteria, " Linscott said.
"Cooking, however, kills bacteria and increases the energetic value of meat, ( create) a new reliable food source for early hominins. Understanding when this happened is therefore a topic of great interest, because it might help to explain our hominin ancestors evolved the way in which they did. "
The Dog Who Saved Our Family
We met Max at the pickup area of Alaska Airlines five years ago. He was a standard poodle(狮子狗)born on Valentine's Day in 2017， and came to us in a small blue box. We had adopted him from an out-of-state raiser who posted the news on the social network. Our only request was that he have a calm behavior, able to bear the pushing and hugging of our eight-year-old daughter and six-year-old son.
We were a sweet little family:me, my husband, and our children, Sophie and Jake. But for years I'd felt as if we wouldn't really be complete until we had a dog. Also, my husband worked in a business company and had to travel some 200 days a year for his job, and I knew I'd feel safer with a large animal sleeping by the door.
When we opened the box, the last piece of our puzzle fell into place. With his black hair and intelligent eyes, Max was beautiful. He was so small that he fit into the palm of my hand, his big paws lapping over the sides. He was also a little bit scared. As I pulled him close, I felt his heart pound and wondered if we'd done the right thing, taking him from his mother. But it was too late. Sophie and Jake were already fighting over who would hold him next and who should have the right to take a bath for him.
Over the following months, we spent endless hours watching Max play with his Kong toy or roll around the living room floor. Like most poodles, he was smart. He mastered house-training quickly and never chewed on our furniture or shoes. He considered himself one of us.
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One night we were sleeping in the bedroom when I heard some strange noise.
At that time, Max ran towards me.
