The Best UK Festivals of 2020

We’ve picked this year’s best UK festivals——find your favourite and get out there this summer.

All Points East

Returning for a third year after its successful 2018 launch,All Points East is a general 10-day festival that takes over Victoria Park in late May.The opening and closing three-day weekends are given over to music.

Place: Victoria Park

Time: May 22,2020-May 31,2020

Ticket: Adult￡35; Age19-24 with ID￡28;Under18 years old, free

Isle of Wight

Huge headliners is one of the UK’s biggest rock festivals.Now in its 52nd year,the modern-day Isle of Wight festival is a far cry from the hippy(嬉皮士) love-in that landed back in 1968.Nowadays,big-name headliners and commercial rock and pop favorites are the order of the day.

Place: Seaclose Park, Newport

Time: Jun 13-14. 12:00 a.m.-15:00 p.m.

Tickets:￡25 Adult;￡15   Age19-24 with ID; ￡10 under 12 years old, under7, free

Love box

Consistently one of the finest festivals in London,catering for cool kids and party monsters alike,Love box has expanded again to become a three-day event in 2020.This year will be its second in west London’s Gunnersbury Park.

Place:London’s Gunnersbury Park

Time:July12-14. 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Tickets:￡185(adult three-day weekend);￡70(adult day ticket)

Junction 2

Calling all technology heads:in 2020,this big festival is spreading out over two days again following last year’s successful expansion.Junction 2 is a meeting of some pretty serious music minds.

Place:Boston Manor Park

Time:July 15-16

Tickets:￡45 for all ages

On June 12,1942,Anne Frank’s parents gave her a small diary for her 13th birthday.She and her family had been living in Amsterdam for nine years after fleeing their native country in 1933.They could not escape the influence of the war sweeping across Europe.

On July 6,1942,her family was forced to go into hiding.For the next two years,Anne put down her innermost thoughts and feelings to her diary.Her reports of daily life painted a picture of a bright girl.She described her love of writing and her desire to make a career of it one day,saying,“I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people,even those I’ve never met.I want to go on living even after my death.”

She got her wish far too soon.Her diary came to an abrupt end in August of 1944,when she and others hiding in the“Secret Annex”were discovered,arrested,and sent to prison.Tragically,Anne,her sister and her mother,all died there.

Her father,Otto,the only survivor among those who hid in Annex,returned to Amsterdam after the war.He was deeply moved by his daughter’descriptions of life in Annex and her feelings about her family and other residents.He devoted the rest of his life to sharing her story with the world so that the same tragedy that happened to his family might never be repeated.Through her courage,her hope,and her unshakable faith in the goodness of people,her short life left a long legacy(遗产),touching and inspiring generation after generation of people she never met.

I would never forget visiting the Anne Frank House when I was just 23 and thought that I had already been alive eight years longer than she had been.Like millions of people moved by Anne Frank’s story,I have tried my best since then to live my life.We all would do well to remember the wisdom of a young girl who taught us that our differences make life more interesting,but our common men matter more.

As artificial intelligence(AI) systems become more advanced, we can expect them to be used more often in the world of human medicine and health care.

The Georgia Medical Union gives money to the AI project as a part of its Future Health 2025 program, the aim of which is to get great ideas from the lab to the market and support world healthcare and the aging problem.

Georgia Institute of Technology built an experimental robot called PR2 that is capable of abstracting knowledge and developing their own experience to share with other AIs. PR2 can gather information about patient’s information in a big room in hospital.

PR3 is the second robot model that can collect data.PR3 is trained on large data sets gathered from real-life cases. People are sharing more and more of their health data through apps on mobile and wearable devices.PR3 will gather and share all the data with the experimental robot.

Moving around between the PR2 and the PR3, PR4 is an AI Robot which can also be put to work in hospitals to help doctors and nurses spend more time with their patients. Moxi is a robot assistant that helps staff by completing general tasks such as delivering lab samples, collecting laundry or gathering medical supplies.

Together, the robots can make a working group, like a group of bees going about their jobs, or birds moving together as one in the sky. As they work together ,they appear to be learning themselves in the same way living things do.

One problem the researchers had in the beginning was how the robots would communicate with each other. The robot cannot exchange information without WI-FI and GPS equipment does not work with different floors. These robots can work in short distance well. The electric field the robots send out lets them sense what is near them and react to it.

The acceptance of AI in medicine will continue to gather pace in the future as it becomes more widespread.

In 2015,Gardiner and two other friends, founded an online publishing company called JKX Comics(漫画). At the time, the three were pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in different fields at the University of Wisconsin. They decided to use the easy-to-digest cartoon format and light humor to promote scientific knowledge. Their first comic book was published in 2016.The book describes how the common virus copies by telling a story about the virus going clubbing with friends inside a human cell.

“Having comics as a way of opening that door into what science is could hopefully inspire the next generation to pursue STEM(science, technology, engineering and math).”says Gardiner. And comics can make information more accessible by presenting it through both text and illustrations. In 2018,seven more scientists at UW–Madison joined the JKX Comics crew, bringing fields such as psychology, astronomy and microbiology to the table. Local artists were drafted to help illustrate the scientists’ research.

For the volunteer crew, the comics(are now offered online for free) have also given scientists a friendlier face. “We can show who the scientists are…that they are also just people,” says Gardiner, a cancer biologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. “We’re not all geniuses with Einstein-like hair that are antisocial and just have Eureka moments all the time. And using comics is a nice way to tell their story. Their latest, Gilbert’s Glitch Switch, released March 2,sees a biochemist get involved in a video game where he has to test amino acid(氨基酸)combinations to get proteins to communicate effectively.

“There’s a lot of misinformation in our communities,” Montgomery says. “And it scares people away from science. If we could limit some of those misunderstandings when they’re kids or when their parents are reading with them, I think that would be a really good impact.”