Four amazing books for children
TrooFriend
Sarah's parents are always busy, so they invest in the latest artificial intelligence － a TrooFriend 560 Mark IV － to keep their daughter company. Having a robot friend may not be as straightforward (简单的) as they expect, though, especially when it starts to develop human feelings ...
Polly Pecorino
When Mr. and Mrs. Snell, the dishonest owners of Happy Days Zoo, steal a baby bear, it' s up to Polly Pecorino to help. Can she be brave enough to stand up to the Snells and return the bear cub to the woods? Full of attractive pictures, this is a lovely story of a kindly girl and a lost bear.
Pages & Co: Tilly and the Book wanderers
Tilly has lived above her grandmother's bookshop ever since her mother disappeared. One day, Tilly realizes that characters from books are appearing in the shop. With the help of the main characters in Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland, Tilly sets out to discover what happened to her mother.
Laugh Out Loud
Written by James Patterson, this book is about 12-year-old Jimmy's attempts to set up a book company that is run by people his own age. Jimmy loves reading and uses this as inspiration for the company, making it as imaginative and fun as Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. The book has lots of funny and clever references to other books for young people.
Bailey Martin's running route starts on the gray gravel (砂砾) of her family's driveway. She'll run around the seven large bins and a garage on their farm. One full lap around is perfect for a runner like Martin. It's exactly 400 meters.
"If you can balance running at full speed on gravel, you can do that on the track too. I've definitely fallen a few,timcs taking these corners a bit too sharp," Martin said. It's a small price to pay for Martin, who enjoys the familiarity of the route. Every little thing helps when you' re blind.
At age 12, Martin was discovered to have acute macular neuroretinopathy, a rare disease without a known cure. About six months later, it cost Martin her vision. She was blind.
Martin didn't want to give up sports － she didn't want to lose the most important part of her life. Her mother said, "She hit lots of trees. She hit every ditch (沟渠). It didn't stop her. If she wants to do it, she'll figure it out."
Martin's story reached officials at OrCam, a technology company. The company developed a product called MyEye, which was created to help the visually impaired (受损的). The product sits on a user's glasses and with a camera, takes pictures of text, faces or other things. It then reads back what it sees to the user through a small microphone near the ear.
An OrCam official wanted to try it out on some users. The company was looking for visually impaired people with athletic backgrounds. Martin was suggested. OrCam told her to make a tape telling her story. The tape inspired company officials.
Martin is driven to keep going and keep competing. The fact that she's overcome as much as she has even surprises and inspires herself.
"I look at my past self as more of an inspiration," Martin said. "Sometimes, I look back and appreciate how I got through and became the person that I am."
On 21 October, 2021, fans celebrated the 80th anniversary (周年纪念) of Wonder Woman's first appearance in a comic book. Wonder Woman' s publisher, DC Comics, said, "She is far more than just a warrior (战士). She's an ambassador for peace who champions love and compassion (同情心)"
Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics Issue 8 in 1941. The character was created by William Moulton Marston and drawn by Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman's powers include superhuman strength, reactions and speed. She can fly, has super senses and does not age.
In 1975, Wonder Woman got her own TV series starring Lynda Carter, which was hugely popular. In 2017, the first Wonder Woman film was released. It was the first superhero film to be directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, and in 2020 Jenkins went on to make the sequel (续集), Wonder Woman 1984. When accepting an award, Jenkins said, "Lynda Carter is the woman who, when I was a child, came to life and showed me a woman who is everything. So incredible and strong but also sweet and thoughtful. That's what inspired me to make my movie."
Wonder Woman's story has changed many times over the years. One version says that her real name is Diana and she is a princess from an island. One day a pilot crashed his plane on her island and a competition was held to see who would take him back to the "Man's World". Diana won and took the pilot back to the US, where she took on the identity of Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman was not the very first female superhero but she is one of the most famous. She has been a constant in comics for 80 years. To appreciate what she has taught us, DC Comics has decided to highlight 23 inspiring women who are trying to make the world a better place in a new book. DC Comics says, Wonder Woman reminds us that there are no restrictions on what we're capable of － no limits to what we can achieve and no compromise (妥协) on justice and equality for all.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation arrives on Apple TV+ nearly 80 years after the story's first publication. It's the first big adaptation of the famous science fiction novels － but it is going beyond just the events of that original 1951 novel to integrate elements from across Asimov's vast universe, including the subject that he's most famous for: robots.
Over the course of his career, Asimov is probably best known for both Foundation, and his robot stories and novels. In his introduction to his 1990 collection of robot stories, Robot Visions, Asimov explained that he wanted to flip the script on the types of robots that he'd grown up reading about in magazines. "I determined to write a robot story about a robot that was wisely used, that was not dangerous, and that did the job it was supposed to do." His first story was Robbie, published in 1940.
Asimov collected the various short stories that made up the Foundation and Robot worlds into two novels. I. Robot brought together nine of those original robot stories and came out in 1950, while the Foundation stories were released in three volumes called Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. But he kept the two series separate, noting in his memoir (回忆录), "If I got tired of one of them (or if the readers did), I could continue with the other with a minimum of troubling overlap (重叠)."
Midway through the 1960s, Asimov ended up taking a bit of a break from writing science fiction novels, but was eventually enticed (怂恿) back in the early 1980s by his publisher, Doubleday. "Isaac, we want you to write a novel for us," editor Betty Prashker told him. A follow-up call from Doubleday clarified: "When Betty said 'a novel' , we meant `a science fiction novel'; and when we say `a science fiction novel' , we mean 'a Foundation novel.' " Dutifully, Asimov began to think up a continuation of the story, which would eventually become Foundation's Edge, the fourth volume of the series. When it hit bookstore shelves in 1982, it was an immediate bestseller.
H.G. Wells, born in 1866, was trained as a scientist, a rarity among his literary contemporaries, and was perhaps the most important figure in the genre (类型) that would become science fiction. Writers in this tradition have a history not just of imagining the future as it might be, but of inspiring others to make it a reality.
Audiobook, Airplane, and Television
Wells imagined forms of future entertainment. In When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), residents use fantastic forms of technology like audiobooks, airplanes and television sets.
Visitors to The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) meet odd creatures created by the madman doctor in human-animal hybrid experiments that may predict the age of genetic engineering. , though today human immune systems (免疫系统) still ultimately reject such efforts.
Lasers (激光)
Martians in The War of the Worlds (1898) give off what Wells called a Heat-Ray. . It would be more than six decades before Theodore Harold Maiman fired up the first operational laser in 1960, but military thinkers had been hoping to weaponize (使.......武器化) the conceptual laser before it was proven practical.
Atomic Bombs (原子弹)
. The atomic bombs he introduces in The World Set Free (1914) fuel a war so disastrous that its survivors are moved to create a unified world government to avoid future conflicts.
A. Genetic Engineering
B. Directed-energy Weapons
C. It can burn enemies with a noiseless flash of light
D. It is often a warning about the consequences of technology
E. Here are some of the incredible Wells predictions that have come true
F. Wells recognized the damaging power that might be created by this weapon
G. Scientists are working towards the possibility that animal organs could save human patients
When Nadia Nadim was a child, she and her family escaped Afghanistan. They arrived at a refugee camp (难民营) in Denmark. It was there that Nadia was finally able to 1 . "I came to a refugee camp where there was access to 2 , and I felt like I could be a child again," she said.
In addition to learning French, Nadia started 3 the "easiest language of all", also known as soccer. At that time, she didn't even 4 there were female professional soccer players. All she knew was she had fallen in love with the 5 and she was great at it.
Nadia worked hard in the refugee camp to become the best 6 she could be, and it certainly 7 ! She went on to become a professional athlete and she has been a(n) 8 player for the Portland Thorns, Manchester City, and Paris Saint-Germain, whom she 9 to win the championship for the first time in the league's history.
Another driving force behind her hard work is the 10 of living in poverty in the refugee camp.
"What I went through as a kid made me the person I am," Nadia said. "I really enjoy winning and I want to 11 no matter what because I don' t want to go back to being 12 ."
With her 13 in mind, Nadia is already thinking ahead to when her days as a football striker are over. When she's not training or competing, she's taking 14 classes to become a doctor. As if that wasn't enough, she also speaks 11 languages 15 !
Nadia recently made Forbes' list of "Most Powerful Women in International Sports". She's using her newfound fame to champion a number of charities. She's also working to build sports clubs in refugee camps around the world. She hopes to give refugee children the gift of sports!
"I'm probably going to be the last person who can influence someone's life," she said. "Being able to do that for other people will be amazing.
Co-op Food is one of the UK's widespread supermarket chains, running more than 3,800 stores (national). The company has today launched a new service enabling customers (do) a whole grocery shop on Amazon with same-day delivery, while also expanding the use of (robot) from 200 to 500 units and offering this option to a wider geographic area.
Co-op Food has been partnering with Starship Technologies, a tech company head office is in San Francisco. Recent research has shown that close to 70% of Starship's customers are favour of robot delivery.
Using the Starship Food Delivery app, customers will choose from over 3,000 grocery items that will be delivered in as little as 20 minutes. The robot (use) a mixture of computer vision and GPS to pinpoint (精准定位) (it) exact location, while using Starship's proprietary (专有的) mapping techniques to ensure accuracy. It has a "situational awareness bubble" around it, (feature) 12 cameras, radars, neural networks and more to detect obstacles (障碍), whether that is a dog a man. The robot will always stop at a safe (distant).
Music has always been an essential part of my family. As a little girl, I often watched my mom singing with others. As I grew older, she and I would sing while we did the dishes or hung clothes. My brother Dean was also a musical soul. In good time or in bad, there was always music in our house. It shaped us, comforted us, and gave us a way to express feelings that might otherwise have gone unspoken.
After Dean became a father, we learned that his oldest son was on the autism spectrum. My nephew Carl did not handle social situations well, and sometimes even to speak aloud outside the family for him was a struggle. He worked very hard to overcome his fears, so much so that the year he was eight, he decided he wanted to be part of a music program with the other children in his Sunday school class. The part he had been offered was one that required him to sing a verse all on his own—a solo.
My brother carefully explained to him that this would mean singing in front of the audience. There would be no one singing with him. Carl considered this very carefully.After a couple of days, he decided that he would accept the part. He explained to us that he believed he could do it because it was a very special occasion. He said he knew his daddy would help him to be the best singer.
For over a month, he and his father practiced together. Every evening would find them locked away in the music room. My brother played the guitar, and my nephew's small voice came from somewhere deep down inside his little body. He gained confidence, and when the day of the concert arrived, he was certain all would go well. My brother waited backstage, giving Carl double thumbs-up, and he came out to sit with the rest of the family to watch and take photos.
Paragraph 1: When it was finally time for Carl to sing, the music played on, and he froze.
Paragraph 2: Everyone turned to see who was singing, while I knew it was my brother.
