【推荐1】Many people find eating insects, like crickets (蟋蟀), quite a treat. But raising crickets could be challenging as well! After Jrasnatt Vongkampun and Marisa Arjananont, high school seniors, first tasted crickets, the 18-year-old food lovers sought out a cricket farm, hoping to find why the insects were tasty. There they learned about a major problem faced by the cricket farmers. As crickets are kept in close quarters, bigger crickets often attack the smaller ones. When attacked, a cricket will give up its own leg to escape the grab. But after abandoning a leg, the animal will often die. And even if it doesn’t, losing a leg makes it less valuable to buyers.

The girls were determined to solve the problem. They left the farm with a few hundred cricket eggs. After some research, they learned that colored light can influence the behaviors of some animals, including insects. Might colored light cut the risk of cricket fights? To find out, they transferred 30 newly hatched larvae (幼虫) into each of 24 boxes. The crickets in six boxes were exposed to red light. Six boxes to green light and six boxes to blue. The last six boxes of crickets lived in natural light. “Throughout, we documented how many crickets lost legs and died. The share of crickets with missing legs stayed at about 9 in every 10 among those living in red, blue or natural light. But fewer than 7 in every 10 crickets who grew up in a world of green lost legs. Also, the survival rate for crickets in the green box was four or five times higher than in the other boxes,” they report.

Obviously, creating a green-light world for crickets is a solution that could be brought to the farms. Jrasnatt and Marisa are already in talks with the farmers from whom they bought their cricket eggs. Will green lighting boost their profits?

【推荐3】Carmen Herrera: “Every painting has been a fight between the painting and me. I tend to win. But you know how many paintings I threw in the garbage? I wouldn’t have anything were it not for my husband. He didn’t have a hand in anything? But no, they say that behind every great man there is always a woman. Well, behind a great woman there is always a man. You need it; I was very lucky. You don’t decide to be an artist; art gets inside of you. Before you know you are painting, you are so surprised. It’s like falling in love.”

Born in Cuba in 1915, Carmen Herrera lived in New York and Paris and eventually settled in New York where she lived till now. Through the years, she worked quietly and created a huge quantity of paintings. While living in New York in the 1950s, she made reductive, hard-edged abstractions that predate(早于) the works of artists such as Lygia Clark in Brazil and Ellsworth Kelly in the US. Her works also proved her foresight as Minimalism and Op Art took hold in the 1960s, and with later developments in the works of American painters such as Brice Marden Agnes Martin, both of whom are represented in the collection.

It wasn’t until 2004, at the age of 89, that Carmen Herrera sold her first painting; like many women artists of her generation, her works were overlooked despite her friendships and associations with great male artists like Barnett Newman. Now, however, the artist and her works are now receiving much-deserved attention in and beyond the US. Herrera’s paintings have entered the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Tate Modern; the Walker’s acquisition is special in that.

【推荐2】He's considered the father of the digital revolution and technological innovation, and apart from that, he was also known as a design perfectionist. In 2010 alone, he had a net worth of $8 billion. There is no single creator in the technology industry who is more creative and inspirational than him. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc., is known as one of the most daring CEOs of all time.

On February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, United States, a baby boy named Steve Jobs entered the world. Who could have predicted that this person would cause such a great shift in the information technology and media industries? The way Steve Jobs showed the world the new products he was working on was truly out of this world, and that's why millions of people all over the world loved his creations.

Steve Jobs launched his company with his friend Wozniak. When they were in their early 20s, they came up with the idea for the Apple Computer. Steve Jobs' Volkswagen car and Wozniak's beloved scientific calculator (计算器) were sold to finance their pair startup. Jobs and Wozniak made great efforts to design computers which were more user-friendly, convenient, and affordable. In the 1970s, they accomplished what would become the company's highest achievement.

Whether it was the Apple Lisa in the 1980s or his time spent away from Apple, Steve Jobs' company and ideas did not always meet with success. He did, however, realize that difficulties can serve as obvious occasions for reflection and improvement in the future. So what can we learn from him? When an innovation your company has invested (投资) in doesn't succeed, it can be frustrating. However, after the difficult time in the beginning, it's important to take the lessons learned and make success again, just like Steve Jobs did.