【推荐2】“It is with quiet pleasure that we announce our soft reopening of the rebuilt, renewed, reborn Sag Harbor Cinema,” stated a news release, on April 9, 2021. It added, “but this date should not be misconstrued as our grand reopening.”

The Sag Harbor Cinema has been dark since the building had a fire in December 2016. Over the past few years, the cinema has been undergoing a $20 million renovation, including the purchase of the building. During the COVID-19 shutdown, the cinema held sneak-peek tours of the new facility.

“It’s been a long and challenging road to get to this moment,” the cinema’s chair, April Gornik, said in a statement. “But at long last, we are thrilled to be able to open our doors to Sag Harbor, to welcome you back to your new cinema — masked and distanced, of course.”

The reopening begins with a series of Academy Award-nominated films. “Nomadland,” featuring Frances McDormand as a woman who lives out of her van, is a best picture nominee. “Wolfwalkers,” a fantasy inspired by Irish folklore, earned an Oscar nomination for best animated feature. “French Exit” earned Michelle Pfeiffer a Golden Globe nomination. Also playing will be three programs of Oscar-nominated short films — live action, animated and documentary.

“Our vision is always an extremely hopeful one that cinema has a fundamental role to play in our lives,” Hook said. “We hope people remember that it’s not just about what’s going on before your eyes, it’s about experiencing something with other people.”

【推荐3】Food waste is a major issue in agriculture and in homes. If you grow your own food, the last thing you want is to let your hard work go to waste.     1     It begins with the plants you choose, and goes right to the preservation of the harvests. Here are some tips for you.

When you are planning a food-producing garden, it is very important to choose the right plants for the right places. Waste is far more likely to occur if you are growing plants that are not suited to the climate, the soil, or the growing conditions.     2     Make sure they do not just provide food today, but also can adapt to the changing climate. If you make the right plant choices, you are likely to get a good harvest.

Sometimes cooperation is key. In small gardens in particular, people may often have more seeds than they really need. Seeds are usually only viable (可生长的) for a certain length of time.     3     Some waste may also occur because gardeners plant crop but don’t really have the experience to tend them. Find ways to work together with communities –‒ sharing skills and knowledge.

    4     You might, for instance, grow some strawberries inside a greenhouse, with others outdoors. Those grown under cover will typically be ready to harvest a little earlier, and that crop can be out of the way before the outdoor ones are ready. You can also grow different varieties, which mature over different lengths of time.

Once you have grown your crops, it is important to prepare for what needs to be preserved. This can happen in a range of different ways. You need to have the tools and equipment on hand when the time comes. You can freeze, pickle (腌制), or process a wide range of garden produce.     5    

【推荐1】WELCOME TO OUR LITTLE VILLAGE

Little Village is a nonprofit record company that seeks to shine the light of awareness on musicians who might not otherwise be heard, and in doing so further the belief that a life filled with diverse music builds empathy (同感), making for stronger communities and a better world.

Jim Pugh’s work with well-known blues artists and top selling rock musicians has earned him many Grammy Awards, platinum, and gold records. After 40 years in the music industry, the idea for Little Village came to Pugh after taking a step back and thinking about what meant most to him.

Founded in 2015, Little Village is an arts non-profit that uses music as a tool to increase cross cultural understanding. Our day-to-day programming consists of recording and producing underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside their community. Through sharing multicultural music with American roots, we work to deepen understanding and promote empathy.

Little Village artists come from various communities and cultures but all share a common goal of exposing their music to audiences who they would not have otherwise reached.

Little Village seeks out these previously undiscovered artists, and provides them with the tools to launch a successful album (专辑), at no cost to the artist. All proceeds from sales of the albums are given back to the artists as a way to promote artist agency and ownership of their work. Recording an artist helps them connect to their community, while providing Little Village with an opportunity to share their music with the world and win the artist acclaim (高度评价). For more information on our artists, click here please.

【推荐3】Judges Sought for Student Research Showcase

Sigma Xi is seeking professional researchers and science communicators to judge the Student Research Showcase, a science communication competition for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Judges from the following disciplines (学科)are needed April 3- 10 to evaluate and provide feedback on presentation websites.

• agriculture, soil, and natural resources

• cell biology and biochemistry

• environmental sciences

• human behavioral and social sciences

• math and computer science

• physics and astronomy

Each volunteer will judge up to 10 student websites that contain a research abstract, slide show, and video. Judges interact with contestants(参赛者)by posting comments and questions on the sites, allowing flexibility with each judge's personal schedule. No travel is required. The students compete to be named a division winner and receive up to $ 500.

Sigma Xi membership is preferred, but not required, to judge. To volunteer by March 31，go to https://www. sigmaxi. org/meetings-events/volunteer.

The Public Can Help

Everyone can vote for the People's Choice Award winner, based on the quality of the presentation's video. The winner receives up to $ 250.

Find more details at https://www. sigmaxi.org/meetings-eventsistudent-research-showcase.

【推荐3】According to a survey conducted by The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the monarch butterfly is facing a sharp population decline that could soon lead to its extinction.

The monarch butterfly is considered the "king of all butterflies due to its extreme beauty, hence the name "monarch". The most popular among the North American butterflies, the grand black-and-orange in vertebrate（无脊椎动物） is known for its yearly mass migration of up to 3,000 miles from the Baja California Peninsula to California's Central Coast every winter, beautifully covering all the trees along their path.

In 1980, its population was recorded to be about 4. 5 million and by the mid-2000's, there were barely 100,000 remaining. In 2018, the number of monarch butterflies fell down to only 28,260, which makes a 99. 4 percent decline in 39 years.

"It's mind-boggling. We're now down below 1 percent of the historic population," Says Emma Pelton, a Xerces Society Conservation biologist.

A variety of factors could be involved to cause the monarch butterflies' near extinction. One could have a co-relation to the lessening of other insects such as bees and other bird species. Another factor could be due to a number of human economic activities such as urbanization and illegal logging which lessens the butterflies' habitat, and pesticides widely used on corn and soybean crops.

Because of these chains of events, an "extinction   vortex（旋风）” has occurred where the process of   extinction would be near unstoppable since the species won't be able to reproduce and raise their numbers the natural way.

The mass disappearance of the monarch butterfly and other endangered species is a wake up call of our little time remaining to positively shift the direction of the ecological environment for a massive improvement in the near future, in order to help mother nature and all the other living species in this earth.