【推荐1】As evening fell, five people moved nervously around a baby elephant. All the science, all the ideas leading up to this moment, checked out. But now, it was a question of practice: Would this baby elephant like the newly developed baby formula(配方奶)?Would her body react(反应)well to it?

The five people, keepers at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, northern Kenya’s only elephant orphanage (孤儿院), held one another’s hands. They hoped that she would be healthy. As baby Sera gulped down one bottle after another, they smiled with relief. And in the days that followed, the weak two-week-old put on weight and had the strength to play with the other baby elephants at the orphanage.

The keepers celebrated the breakthrough. The formula was simple and the main ingredient (成分) of the new formula was easy to get: goat(山羊)milk.

The team had been thinking about how to improve their milk recipe for a long time, says Katie Rowe, co-founder of Reteti, in the community-owned Namunyak Conservancy. The orphanage had used human baby formula since its establishment in 2016, but costs were high, cans had to be bought from foreign countries, and ingredients weren’t always natural. “I was looking at the ingredients, believing there were better choices out there,” Rowe says.

The new formula has also been a success for the Samburu community, which sells goat milk to the orphanage. Each morning, Stamen Lemajong’s family and others travel along tree-lined roads to sell more than 150 liters of milk to the orphanage. “We use the money from selling goat milk for everything-taking the kids to school, paying hospital bills,” Lemajong says. “And in times of hardship last year it has been a huge help. Then we could even buy food with it.”

【推荐2】For decades, Frederick Banting and Charles Best were believed to have contributed to the discovery of insulin (胰岛素) between 1921 and 1922 at the University of Toronto (U of T). In 1923, the university created the Banting and Best Chair of Medical Research, followed by the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and the Banting Institute (1930) and, in 1954, the Best Institute.

However, the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Banting and John J. R. Macleod. The physiology professor, who headed up the laboratory where the research took place, had been much more involved in the research than was later acknowledged. After learning that Macleod was honoured alongside him rather than Best, Banting shared his prize money with Best. Macleod, meanwhile, split his share of the prize with the fourth member of the team, J. Bertram Collip, a young biochemist from the University of Alberta. Collip’s essential contribution was producing a purified pancreatic extract (胰腺提取物), which was administered on Jan. 23, 1922, to Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old patient at Toronto General Hospital. That shot was the first successful human trial of insulin.

Much of the early research on insulin took place in the old medical school building at U of T. Opened in 1903, it featured state-of-the-art technology, including facilities for animal research. But Banting, a war-time surgeon, lecturer and medical researcher, was unimpressed. When he arrived in 1921, the operating room had lain unused for years and needed a thorough cleaning to make it usable. Located just below the building’s roof, it also became unbearably hot during the summer. Early laboratory testing took place right there.

In 1982, Michael Bliss, a history professor at U of T, restored Macleod and Collip to their rightful place as co-discoverers of insulin. In 1990, a new plaque (牌匾) acknowledging the cooperation was put up outside U of T’s current medical sciences building.

【推荐3】Not being able to see the world in the same way as others is often considered a drawback (缺陷), but the view from different eyes can also be helpful. 79-year-old Robert is a forerunner (先驱) in underwater robotic technology. Before discovering he was dyslexic (诵读困难的), Ballard believed that’s how everyone else saw the world, but it’s his special ability to take in large amounts of information at the same time that has led to his greatest achievements.

While he finally had an explanation for early learning problems that set him apart from other children, the realization also went a long way toward explaining just how special his gift of vision was. “ I live in an underwater world where everywhere I go is totally dark, so I have to visualize it in my mind, ” Ballard told the Newsweek “ I’m able to take all information into my head and then form a mental image of a world of total darkness. Because I see it in my mind. ”

Ballard is the man responsible for finding the lost ship of the RMS Titanic. Although he is well known for finding the ship Titanic, when the discovery was made, Ballard was on a top-secret mission for the U. S. government. Searching for the storied lost liner was just his cover story.

None of these things would have been possible, he believes, had he not seen the world through a dyslexic’s eyes. In his new book, Into the Deep, Ballard wrote about his personal history and storied career, along with the very important role his dyslexia played in all that he’s finished.

Nearing 80, Ballard is doing more these days. He continues to be actively involved in new projects, which he says “ are like a pack of hounds (猎犬) ” hunting the 3,999,040 remaining ships in the sea. In addition, Ballard is partnering with National Geographic to create a program offering educational opportunities so that dyslexics who come from disadvantaged backgrounds can better achieve their full goals.