【推荐1】Teenagers love to socialize, and these websites give them a chance to do that while playing games, exploring virtual worlds and taking quizzes. Of course, they also need to be safe online and report any cyber bullies (网络欺凌).

Instagram allows teens to upload photos of their daily life and share them with friends. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that must be true because Instagram has around 300 million users who are active each month. The platform is all about photos with short captions (说明文字). When it comes to Instagram’s users, 53 percent of them are aged 18-29, but a big percentage of those may be even younger and simply list their age as 18 in order to log onto the platform.

Habbo Hotel is a place for teens to chat. Each teen receives a personal room to decorate with virtual objects. They can also dress their avatar (网络头像) in virtual clothes or create games to play with friends. The room might have music, be set up like a classroom, or have other features so different avatars can visit one another. Each room teens can interact in has an adult moderator to make sure it stays safe.

Fanlala is a social network that gives teens who love celebrities, music and TV shows a place to interact. Through it, a user can get the latest news and gossip on their favorite shows, as well as take quizzes and polls to test their knowledge. Teens can set up their own profile on Fanlala and interact with other users.

Teen Chat is a place for millions of teens to interact with one another through forums according to their interests. For example, there are chat rooms for those who love anime (动漫) and for those who’ve just started college. There are also chat rooms for things like music, games, and sports. The platform offers a “Friend Finder” tool that will help teens search for people who live locally to them.

【推荐2】American History Museum

Power Machinery

Reopens May 29, 2016 — Permanent

Location: 1st Floor, East Wing

By the late 19th century, America’s Industrial Revolution was moving hill steam ahead. This hall follows the development of the increasingly efficient power machinery that helped the United States become a world leader in industrial production during this time.

Portrait Gallery

Lincoln’s Contemporaries

May 13, 2016-May 12, 2019

Location: 1st Floor, North Wing, Meserve Corridor

This exhibition features Mathew Brady’s portraits of twenty famous persons — from showman P.T. Barium and inventor Samuel Morse to musician Teresa Carreon and clergyman Henry Ward Beecher — who reflect the diversity of American intellectual and cultural life during Lincoln’s presidency.

Smithsonian Design Museum

Energizing the Everyday: Gifts from the George R. Kravis II Collection

April 28, 2016 — March 12, 2017

Location: 2nd Floor

Energizing the Everyday celebrates the exceptional gifts from leading collector George R. Kravis II to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. From radios to furniture, the exhibition displays some of the most influential objects in the history of modernism, alongside some works drawn from the museum’s collection.

【推荐3】A poem competition has been started for pupils aged 4 to 18 around UK. It invites young people to focus on (关注) the “many ways we are connected to the universe”. The competition is part of a national celebration of creativity in the UK.

The winning entries (参赛作品) will be presented in a projection show, which will visit some places around the UK from March to May 2023. This outdoor show will include entries from the competition and run for a week in each place. Winners will also receive other prizes, including books and chocolate, plus continued development.

The rules are as follows:

The competition is free to enter. If you are aged 4-12, your parent will need to allow for you to enter.

Your entry must be original (原创的). Your work is accepted only if this will be its first appearance anywhere in the world.

Poems must be written in English or Welsh and not be longer than 20 lines. You are free to write in any style or form.

You may enter either online through the website or by post to the Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London. All online entries must be received by 23:59 GMT on 19 December 2022. All poems entered by post must be post-dated on or before 19 December 2022.

If you would like to enter online, please continue through the online system on this website. Email AboutUs@poetrysociety. Org if you have any problem.

【推荐2】Twenty-five years ago, most young Britons wanted a career in law, to be a doctor, or, if they were creative enough, to take up singing. But today, things stand differently.

According to a survey by Tesco Mobile, a UK company, the “dream job” of young people aged between 16 and 25 in the UK is a video blogger(博客), or “vlogger(视频博主)”. The survey, carried out among 1,002 people, found that as much as 40 percent of them put vlogger as their number one choice on a list of ideal careers.

This change is undoubtedly as a result of the Internet and social media. They have made it so much easier to reach audience of the world, without having to enter a career in show business in the traditional way.

In the past, the biggest stars were trained by the Hollywood studios; now, anyone with a computer camera can become a star. Vloggers are the big stars of today because they are normal people interacting(互动) with their fans about everyday life.”

However, what people see is only the bright side of being a vlogger and they fail to notice the fact that only those who are successful earn fame and fortune. For every success there are hundreds of others who never get off the starting line. There are the dreams that come true and the dreams that remain dreams forever.

Although being vloggers is popular, some young people choose to follow careers that don’t necessarily earn them fame, but allow them to make good use of the Internet to share their hobbies. Young Israeli David Leshaw, for example, runs a business called the Finishers Club. It’s an online platform(平台) for runners to keep a record of their races. His job allows him to express his enthusiasm, and is always a learning experience. And that’s enough for him.

【推荐1】Dynasty Exploration

6 Days Beijing-Xi’an

Full Itinerary (预定行程)

Day 1 Arrival in Beijing

Our guide will greet you at Beijing Capital Airport and take you to the reserved(已预定的) hotel.

Meals: No meals

Accommodation (住宿): Holiday Inn Central Plaza Hotel

Day 2 Beijing

In the morning, you’ll meet other members at the hotel. Here starts your exciting trip. First comes a walk across Tian’anmen Square. The Forbidden City is your next stop. After enjoying a healthy lunch, you’ll visit the Temple of Heaven. In the morning, you’ll enjoy the excellent Chinese Kung fu Show at a Red Theater.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast(西式自助早餐), A healthy lunch

Day 3 Beijing

Your guide will take you to visit the Badaling Great Wall first. Lunch is arranged on your own. Afterwards, you’ll be taken to the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb. On the way back, you’ll visit the Bird’s Nest Stadium.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

Day 4 Beijing-Xi’an

In the morning, you’ll travel around the Summer Palace Garden. Then enjoy the old Beijing culture by visiting Hutongs. After a healthy lunch, you’ll fly to Xi’an. There, the local guide will welcome you and take you to the hotel.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, A healthy lunch

Accommodation: Shangri-la Golden Flower Hotel

Day 5 Xi’an

Your visit today will start from the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. Around noon, we’ll arrange a homely cooked healthy lunch. In the afternoon, explore the Small Wild Goose Pagoda. In the evening, the Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show will give you great enjoyment.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Home-cooked healthy lunch

Day 6 Departure from Xi’an

The whole morning will be devoted to the City Wall and Shaanxi History Museum. And a healthy lunch will be arranged at a local restaurant. After that, you’ll head to the airport by yourself. For departure flight tickets, please feel free to contact us.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, A healthy lunch

【推荐2】It's 3 a.m. and you're wide awake for the second night in a row. You get up and come to the kitchen for some warm milk that mom says will put you to sleep. So why are you eating a bowl of ice cream with a side of cookies?

You may have heard about two hormones (荷尔蒙) that control our urge to eat: leptin and ghrelin. "The 'l' in leptin stands for lose: It controls appetite and therefore contributes to weight loss," said sleep specialist Dr. Raj Dasgupta, the associate program director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Keck Medicine of USC. "The 'g' in ghrelin stands for gain: This fast-acting hormone increases hunger and leads to weight gain." When you don't have enough sleep, research shows, ghrelin levels increase while leptin lakes a nose dive. The result is an increase in hunger.

But food is food, so that doesn't explain why we want candy instead of carrots. To answer that, you have to look at another system of the body: The endocannabinoid (内源性大麻素) system. It manages everything from sleep to appetite to pain and more.

In a study published in 2016, Hanlon compared the circulating levels of 2-AG, one of the most abundant endocannabinoids,in people who got four nights of normal sleep (more than eight hours) with those in people who only got 4.5 hours. People who were sleep-deprived (缺乏睡眠) reported greater increases in hunger and appetite and had higher afternoon concentrations of 2-AG than those who slept well. They also had a rough time controlling their urges for high-calorie snacks.

All of this research is so new that science doesn’t yet know how it all fits together or what can be done about it. And that brings us to the bottom line: There's not going to be a pill any time soon for the sleep-deprived junk-food people. Instead, you'll have to do what the doctor says to reduce your improper cravings (渴望) in the middle of the night: get more sleep.

【推荐3】Walter, a 3-year-old dog that survived on its own for almost a year recently came back to his owner, who said she never gave up hope that he was still out there.

Kate Olson, who lives in New Hampshire, celebrated the safe return of Walter, who was lost last year. “There is a part of me that just always knew that I was going to get him,” Olson said.

Olson was visiting her boyfriend's parents in St. Louis for the holidays when Walter escaped. Walter was on a walk with her boyfriend's parents and “he just got so frightened that he backed out of his collar and he just took off,” she said.

Olson, who got Walter as an 8-week-old puppy, searched for Walter for two weeks without any luck. She said it was hard to go back home knowing he was missing.

To continue her search for Walter, Olson posted (发帖子) all over social media asking for help. She created a Facebook group called “Where's Walter?” to get help from people in the community.

A member of that Facebook group saw a post about a dog sighting (目睹) and sent it to Olson. Luckily, the dog in the photo was Walter.

Walter was caught by an organization called Lost Paws Trapping. “13 days shy of living in the woods, avoiding everyone he met and finally on Friday the 13th, Walter has been trapped.” Lost Paws Trapping wrote on its Facebook page.

Olson said seeing Walter after nearly a year was extremely emotional. “I had to control my feelings just because…I was in shock,” she said.

Despite living on his own for the past year, Olson said Walter seemed physically unharmed and should be OK. She is thankful for her happy ending and her friends on social media who helped track down Walter. Her advice to anyone with a missing pet is “just to keep trying.”

“Not everybody does have this ending,” she added. “I never in a million years thought that I would be one of them.”