【推荐1】How To Deal With A Bully

A bully is someone who, out of habit, uses their power to hurt or frighten other people. They enjoy doing physical and emotional harm to others and often leave the victim feeling helpless.     1    . However, these suggestions below can stop the situation from worsening.

Asking the bullies to stop in a firm and confident voice is sometimes an effective measure to deal with them. Sometimes when we do not speak up for ourselves, the bullies continue with their behavior thinking of us as easy targets. In this thought, they assume that we will never speak up to them.     2    .

    3    . If you are with your friends, or if you are in the company of someone, it is less likely that the bully will disturb you. We are not asking you to make a huge circle of friends. Sometimes, all it takes is one loyal friend who will stay by you no matter what.

Some of us are born comedians and we can turn almost anything into a joke.    4    . Turn the situation the bully has created into a joke or just say something funny. This will break the bully’s confidence and they will know that you are strong and sure about who you are. This will make them back off.

It is never easy to deal with all the unwanted bullying even when you have done nothing wrong.    5    . So be brave and take action now!

【推荐3】A patient and I are working on an eating disorder, trying to find out the cause. It turned out to be a relationship break-up in high school. The unpleasant experience led to not eating for a couple of weeks. Then comes a compliment (赞美) from a friend that totally has the opposite effect. “Wow, you look great!” Suddenly, this praise inspires an inner thought: “Oh, people care more about me if I lose weight. So I can control people’s affection by not eating.”

Consider busy parents who don’t notice their child until a good grade appears. In the absence of attention and connection, a sudden strong expression of well-intended praise can bring about the thought, “Wow, my grades make me valuable. I’m noticed when I achieve!” The result can be a twisted view of self-value and an anxiety around grades, exams, and performance. A similar situation occurs with athletic success or high praise for being “nice”. The result is a false mindset: “My worth is totally tied to this desirable behavior.”

So what’s a better way? One answer is to exit the game of “right and wrong” and enter a focus on what needs are present. Returning to our example above, when you see someone has lost weight and you want to give them a compliment, just pause and simply ask, “How are you doing?” See them and hear them. Appreciate them as a person of great value. There may be much more to their inner world than meets the eye.

Similarly, when you see someone’s success, appreciate the hard work they put into it. Ask with gentle curiosity, “How’s it been for you?” Listening with full attention can be a rare gift in today’s world. See if you can understand them from the bigger frame of what they’ve experienced, how they’re feeling, and what they’re needing now.

【推荐1】When George Smith was 31, he became enthusiastic about some ancient tablets in the British Museum. But even after the tablet fragments(碎片) had been pieced together, little had been translated. The 3, 000-year-old tablets remained as mysterious as buried in the ruins. Even so, the English archaeologist (考古学家) decided he would be the man to reveal the secrets. Smith taught himself Sumerian and literary Akkadian. After nearly two decades, Smith had a breakthrough：The complex symbols were describing a story, just like Noah’s Ark!

For thousands of years, humans have been telling stories, sharing the morally even before the invention of writing. In one way or another, much time in people’s lives is spent telling stories. Besides entertainment, stories did give us something more.

Stories can influence people’s emotional lives. Storytelling allows people to peek into someone’s conscience to see how others think and feel. Studies have found reading stories significantly increased empathy towards others, especially people initially seen as “outsiders”, such as foreigners or people of a different race. Interestingly, the more absorbed the readers are in the story, the more empathetic they are in real life. Psychologists tested this by “accidentally” dropping a handful of pens. Those who had previously reported being “highly absorbed” in the story were about twice as likely to help pick up the pens.

But why start telling stories in the first place? Their usefulness in understanding others is one reason, and another theory is that storytelling could be an evolutionary(进化的) mechanism that helped keep our ancestors alive. For example, if you heard, “There’s a monster near that tree, so don’t go over there,” it would not be as effective as told, “My cousin was eaten by a scary creature that lurks around that tree, so don’t go over there.”

Upon translating the 11th tablet, the most important part of the story, Smith told a coworker, “I am the first person to read that after 3.000 years of oblivion(被遗忘)!”

【推荐2】Internet Explorer (IE) has finally been withdrawn from the market.

As of Wednesday, Microsoft would no longer support the once-dominant browser (浏览器) that the legion of web surfers loved to hate - and a few still claim to adore. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

IE’s exit was not a surprise. A year ago, Microsoft said that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, pushing users to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015. The company made clear that it was time to move on. “Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility (兼容) for older, legacy websites and applications,” Sean Lyndersay, general manager of Microsoft Edge Enterprise, wrote in a May 2021 blog post.

Users marked Explorer’s passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a “bug-ridden, insecure POS” or the “top browser for installing other browsers.” For others it was a moment for 90’s memory, and The Wall Street Journal quoted a 27-year-old who was sad to see IE go. A Chinese user said that IE is nothing but corresponding with the changing tide of technology, as new things emerge in an endless stream on the Internet, and people are more likely to pursue advanced technical services, but IE’s presence could not be erased. While there are also netizens that believe that IE sitting back for another five years would not be a problem, just leave IE for those certification examinations, as some exams in China appointed IE registration website because of its compatibility.

“Welcome to Microsoft Edge from now on,” the official account of Microsoft Edge browser announced. Today, the Chrome browser dominates with roughly a 65 percent share of the worldwide browser market, followed by Apple’s Safari with 19 percent, according to internet analytics company Statcounter. IE’s heir (继承者), Edge, falls behind about 4 percent, just ahead of Firefox.

【推荐1】In his lifetime La Tour must have been one of the most admired painters, who was on close terms with courts in Lorraine and Paris and became the King’s Painter to Louis XIII in 1639. However, not many of his works survived. These can be divided into his early “day pieces”, and the later “night pieces”. His sometimes direct realism and unflattering (不恭维的) presentation of the miserable subjects does not at all mean a sympathetic attitude to the socially disadvantaged of the day, on the contrary, issues of this kind were intended to amuse high society, who enjoyed decorating the walls of their homes with such melodramatic scenes. La Tour, affected by Caravaggio, painted various scenes of gambling. In Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds, an inexperienced, wealthy and well-dressed young man is being cheated at cards in the dishonest company of a courtesan (交际花) with her lover and a servant girl. Wine and the promise of love adventure have made the young dandy (好打扮的男人) so light-headed that he does not notice the apparent trick of an ace being drawn from his opponent’s belt.

Most of the paintings by La Tour we have at our disposal the art historians date after 1640. In these works La Tour is captivated with lightning effects which create sharp outlines. This fascination with light brought him great success in his day. However, he was completely forgotten after his death, only to be rediscovered in our own day. La Tour is an example of how artists can pass in and out of favor of the public.

【推荐2】The rapid development of new industries has given rise to a range of new occupations, which will brighten up our country’s employment prospects.

Li Qing, a 29-year-old resident in Fengjie, Chongqing, is an online marketer. Betting on the huge development potential of the agriculture, Li gave up her job as a white-collar worker in Beijing and moved back to her hometown to be an online marketer. She opened a store on an online sales platform, selling mushrooms, potatoes and rice.

Today, many farms in the country’s hinterland(内地)are developing fast, but they need more accessible channels to sell their products. “Over the past three years, our total sales volume has grown to more than 100 million yuan, leading to income growth for more than 1,000 rural families,” Li said. “It’s a business opportunity for me and also a good chance to help farmers earn more money.”

Jin Yi, in his 20s, is a new member of AI trainers. Just like a child learning to walk, AI needs trainers to constantly remind it of the right methods and human beings’ mindset. Through numerous data accumulation and practice, AI is able to recognize human beings’ languages.

In recent years, AI trainers have sprouted up across China as a result of the rapid development of new economic models(模式).“It’s estimated that there is a shortage of about 5 million skilled workers in the AI industry. Shanghai needs about 400,000 AI workers alone, but there are only around 40,000 students majoring in AI at colleges,” said Qiu Xin, Party Secretary of Fudan University.

“I believe our industry will see greater development in the future, along with the advancement of AI. I hope more graduates will join the industry and contribute to the development of AI,” Jin said.

In addition to creating more jobs, new technologies will help transform traditional industries, which will help create more new and higher-paying jobs in the coming years, said Li Chang’an, a professor at the Academy of China Open Economy Studies of the University of International Business and Economics.