What to do, where to go

Take your kids for a walk on science's wild side. These festivals are full of video games, cutting-edge(尖端) tech and fun!

Festival of Learning     16-20 June

Come and join Bournemouth University as we celebrate the joy of knowledge at our Festival of Learning. We'll be sharing our learning and knowledge through 80+ free events that explore our scientific research. Come along, get inspired and learn something new with hands-on sessions, workshops, talks and exhibitions for all ages!

Summer Science Exhibition     2-8 July

Royal Society invites you to its annual exhibition, showing the UK's most cutting-edge scientific research. From the very first3 D model of the Milky Way, to using quantum physics(量子物理学)in solving mental health problems, this is your chance to meet the extraordinary scientists carrying out research that is likely to change our lives. Alongside a host of exhibitions, you can also attend one of 30 talks, family shows and workshops. Join our journey of discovery this July. Evening opening--Tuesday 3 July, adults only.

Power Up     3-19 August

Get your game face on and play awesome games from the past 40 years, from Pong and Pacman to Minecraft and Mario at the Museum of Science and Industry. Whether you're a family dropping in for a 90-minute session or a gamer at an adult-only evening session, test yourself to the limit. Book before 21 June for 20% off selected tickets.

Norwich Science Festival     19-27 October

Celebrate the wonderful world of experiments, discoveries and exploration at Norwich Science Festival. Enjoy inspirational exhibitions hands-on family activities, inspiring talks and cutting-edge discoveries. A festival for all age groups and all levels of knowledge.

Tom liked to make up stories about the giants that threatened(威胁)the peace of his own land ,but he knew that the real giant in his life was Janice. Of course, it wasn't only Tom and his best friend John that Janice was after. She had two friends, Wilma and Bobby, who were almost as big as she was,and the three of them would wander around the playground, grabbing up rocks, running through jump ropes, and laughing while second graders screamed. They would even stand outside the girls' room every morning and make the little girls give them their milk money before they'd let them go to the bathroom.

Belle, Johns little sister, unfortunately, was a slow learner. Her daddy had brought her a package of Twinkies, and she was so proud that as soon as she got on the school bus, she forgot every-thing she knew and yelled to another first grader, "Guess what I got in my lunch today, Billy?”

“What?”

“Twinkies!”she shouted so loud that you could have heard her in the back seat even if you were deaf in both ears. Out of the corner of his eye, John thought he saw Janice brighten up.

When they sat down, Belle was still talking about her Twinkies loudly. "My daddy brought them to me from Washington.”

John threw another look at the back seat. “You better shut up about those Twinkies”he said in her ear. “You just jealous(嫉妒的) because Daddy did bring you none.” “OK.” He turned to Tom to say, “warned her,didn’t I ? and Tom nodded back.

Neither of them was too surprised to see Belle come screaming toward them at rest time. “She stole my Twinkies!”John sighed. “Belle, didn't I tell you?”

In Woods Chan's class at a High School in California, students chat with each other in Spanish.Arabic(阿拉伯语) and Mam, a Mayan language from Guatemala. The students have only been in the US for a few weeks or months. Many students were from different countries last year. Woods Chan became concerned when she started hearing the Spanish-speaking students laugh when their classmates spoke Mam or Arabic.

Woods Chan came up with an idea. She asked her students to take turns teaching a little bit of their home language each day. Students taught their peers(同伴) how to count from 1 to 10, how to introduce themselves and how to say basic phrases or words like, ""Cool. "Then, they recorded themselves saying those phrases in short videos and wrote vocabulary words on the whiteboard.

Woods Chan saw the difference in her students. She said they grew more confident after seeing their own language on the whiteboard and hearing it in the videos. They started making friends with each other across cultural lines. Other students who were not in that class would come in and see something written in Mam on the whiteboard and say, "Hey, that's Mam! I speak Mam!”

The project also helped students understand their peers better. Orlando, a 17-year-old student from El Salvador, said he never knew Arabic or Mam even existed before he came to the US and heard his classmates talk. Now, he thinks it would be good for all students in his school to learn a little of their peers' home language. "When I first got here,”he said in Spanish, “I thought, ‘No one talks like me. I'm the only one,’ and I felt alone. Now, I don't feel so bad anymore.”

Knowledge of other languages can help Woods Chan's students beyond the classroom, too.Languages like Mam are becoming more and more common in the US. Some Oakland graduates have gone on to become Mam-English interpreters(口译员)to help fill a lack of interpreters in all kinds of settings.

Would you give your Social Security (安全) Number to the worker at the supermarket? Of course not, right? Yet, if you're like most people, you wouldn't hesitate to give out a different, but equally important number to the same person.

Experts now say that your cellphone number may be more pivotal than any other personal information in the eyes of spammers(垃圾邮件发送者) and identity thieves. In other words, you should guard that cellphone number with your life.

Today, your cellphone number will likely be with you for a very long time. That means if spammers get your cellphone number, it will be much harder to get rid of them. It also means that over the years, your cellphone number will be linked to a lot of personal information from contact lists to bank card numbers, all information that hackers would love to get their hands on.

A few years ago, German security researcher Karsten Nohl showed what he could get using only a person's cellphone number. Califomia Congressman(国会议员) Ted Lieu was given a new cellphone for a day and Nohl was given that cellphone number. Using just that number, Nohl was able to find Lieu's location and movements throughout Los Angeles, read his emails and text messages, and record phone calls between Lieu and his team. And Nohl did all of this from his office in Berlin using just a cellphone number.

Still think it's a good idea to post your number on the Internet?

When you sign up for an account(账户)online, you usually provide your email address and a password. But if you forget that password, many of these companies will send you a password retrieval code(检索码)to your cellphone. Let's say you post something for sale online and you include your name, email, and cellphone number. You've now given a potential(潜在的))thief everything he needs to hack into any of your online accounts. Therefore, it just makes sense to protect yourself by guarding that number as closely as you would guard any other personal information.