【推荐1】Spending some time in nature can feel like a relief after staring at a screen or being stuck inside all day. There are plenty of ways to enjoy nature: you can exercise outside, document what you see and even just experience what’s happening.     1    

Exercising outside.

Going for a walk or run is one of the simplest ways to get outside and enjoy nature. You can go for a walk or run in your neighborhood or on a nearby nature trail.     2     You can bike through your neighborhood, or even take your bike to a nearby nature trail. Either way, you’ll get some exercise while you’re enjoying being outside.

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You can use any camera you have — your phone, a small point-and-shoot, or a DSLR. Taking photos outside requires you to really focus on the nature around you. Look for unusual colors, patterns, or animals to photograph.

Experiencing nature.

    4     Instead, enjoy the weather, look at the stars, and take some time to take in where you are. If you have a tent, put it up in the backyard. Otherwise, you can just lay out sleeping bags and sleep under the stars.

Bringing nature inside your home.

There’s nothing worse than wanting to be outside but getting stuck indoors because of the weather. Recreate an outdoor cozy spot inside your house by hanging a hammock in the corner of a room.     5    

【推荐2】Vacationers traditionally like to make use of every second of the day, People rush from site to site, eat all day, and feel tired at last. And when they get to their hotel room at night, they find it hard to sleep. Noisy traffic and flashing city lights aside, many people simply don’t sleep well when they’re away from their own bed. Fortunately, sleep tourism addresses these issues and more.

In order to help them sleep well, special sleep suites (套房) have been thoughtfully designed to offer quiet and darkness. Hotels are investing in artificial intelligence mattresses (床垫) that control climate and have cushions to relieve pressure points. The mattresses can also track sleep statistics and offer vacationers feedback on their sleep patterns.

Some feel that these sleep suites are a result of the problem that many people suffered from a loss of good sleep. “There has been heightened attention to sleep during that time, and likely, because so many people have struggled with this. Now, I think there’s just been a huge shift in our awareness and prioritization on wellness and wellbeing,” said sleep researcher Dr. Robbins.

Sleep suites are a huge advance in tourism and are now found in wellness hotels worldwide. Each offers different ways of helping tour its sleep. Many provide a menu of relaxing teas and a comfortable bed. You can even devote your trip to sleep wellness. Some spa hotels offer a lounger with headphones and mask, and energy healing.

No matter which sleep suite you choose, the goal is to sleep well so you can improve your health and wellbeing. Sinking into a comfortable bed should be the best part of a trip! The hope is that more hotels adapt to this wellness trend and return to the original purpose of a hotel room, which is sleep! Now you can tour around by day and have sweet dreams by night.

【推荐3】A recent study conducted by Gavin Sandercock at the University of Essex in the UK and his colleagues shows just one in 20 people aged 18 to 64 in England are meeting England’s strictest weekly strength training guidelines. Strength training is defined as any activities that strengthens muscles or bone, says Sandercock. This can include lifting weights, body weight exercises and fitness plans.

The teams looked at survey data from over 275,000 adults in this age group. Between 2015 and 2017, these people were asked to estimate how much time they spend doing physical activity each week. They wanted to find out what proportion of these adults in England met the UK’s weekly health guidelines, which recommend 150 minutes of moderate activity a week.

The researchers found that on average just 5 percent of these adults in England met the full recommendation, including strength training. They also found that men were more likely to meet all the guidelines as well as younger age groups. “But the strongest effect that we found when we looked at the variables was education,” Sandercock says.

“There are two main reasons why this could be the case,” Sandercock says. “ People who are more educated may be more likely to know what the UK’s recommended health advice is. On the other hand, it could be that strength training——especially lifting weights——often requires access to a gym which costs money. Higher levels of education have been linked to greater wealth,” he says.

“To encourage greater participation in strength training, I believe we need to raise awareness about its multiple benefits. And we need to stress that strength training is relevant to health and fitness across all age groups and not just for young males. Anyway, there’s still a long way to go.” says Anne Tidedmann at the University of Sydney.

【推荐1】Pupils are small holes located in the centre of the eye. They change size to control the amount of light that enters the eye based on how much is available in the environment. The response of our pupils to light is a basic sensory response, but pupils have been found to change size based on factors other than light.

Researchers hypothesized (假想) that pupils may also change size based on the number of objects that a person sees in their environment. “When we look around, we naturally perceive the form, size, movement and color of a scene. Equally naturally, we notice the number of items before us,” said study co-author David Burr, “This ability, shared with most other animals, is an evolutionary (进化的) fundamental. It immediately reveals important quantities, such as how many apples there are on the tree, or how many enemies are attacking.”

To figure out if this ability lies within the pupils, the researchers presented 16 adult participants with images of dots on a monitor in an otherwise quiet, dark room. As the participants stared at the screen, without being asked to count the dots, a machine measured their pupil sizes. The researchers found that the size of the participants’ pupils changed depending on how many dots they perceived. The participants’ pupils expanded, when they perceived a greater number of dots and constricted when they perceived fewer.

The findings suggest that the pupil is equipped with some mechanism that can sense quantity. “This result shows that numerical information is intrinsically (本质上) related to perception,”said Elisa Castaldi, a researcher at the University of Pisa. “This could have, important practical implications.” For example, similar methods could be employed to detect dyscalculia, a learning disability that makes people have trouble doing maths, in very young children.

【推荐3】Do you have full confidence in your memory? There has been a discussion about whether it is shi or si in the sentence “Thus when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man...” (“故天将降大任于是/斯人也”).

Most people voted si as what they learned at school. However, People’s Education Press, a leading publisher of Chinese textbooks, claimed on Oct 26 that all its textbooks say shi.

Supporters of si feel shocked and say they’ve experienced the “Mandela Effect” — the situation in which a large number of people believe that an event occurred when it didn’t.

Many people believed that former South African president Nelson Mandela died in the 1980s in prison. However, Mandela was alive and well, eventually passing away in 2013. US researcher Fiona Broome created a website to detail her observations of this public phenomenon, coining the term.

Some often joke that our memories have been changed by a strange force. In fact, psychologists have looked into the reasons for the Mandela Effect, as reported on the US-based website Verywell Mind. For example, your mind may fill in gaps missing in your memory to make more sense of it, which is called confabulation (虚构症). However, try not to feel bad — this is not lying, but rather remembering details that never happened.

The Internet may be another reason why we tend to have Mandela Effect events, as the news we read can be false from the beginning. In 2018, Science journal published a study of over 100,000 news stories discussed across Twitter. It showed that false news can spread faster and reach more people than the truth. As a powerful way to spread information, the internet might be the main reason for falsehoods to enter our minds.