【推荐2】Anger is the most destructive emotion. When you are in a temper, you make ill-considered decisions that you will probably regret.     1     What can be done to prevent anger from ruining our lives? Here are three ways that you can fight against the causes of anger.

You need to change your attitude to the way the world works.     2     Also, you need to accept that not everyone has the same standards as you, nor will they behave in the same way that you would in a given situation.

    3     There are occasions when anger can be directed in such a way as to achieve great things. Martin Luther King was angry about the lack of civil rights in the USA. Gandhi was angry about British domination in India. They both used that anger to motivate themselves to fight against injustice.

Reacting angrily is a hard habit to break. But habits can be broken. The trick is to avoid reacting when faced with a situation that is usually annoying. Anger is a negative reaction, but in this type of situation, there is no need to react by forming positive thoughts. You need to learn not to respond at all.     4    

In conclusion, you must recognize that anger is something you can control.     5     Make changes to your lifestyle and attitudes, and you will find that you will turn angry much less often.

【推荐3】Things to Remember When You’re Having a Bad Day

Even the hardest days contain lessons that will help you be a better person. Feeling down? Consider these things to remember when you’re having a bad day.

No one promised life would be perfect.

    1    Don’t base your happiness on meeting every expectation you set for yourself. It is good to be ambitious, but you’ll never be perfect. If you expect otherwise, your life will be filled with disappointments.

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Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Don’t kid yourself into thinking success will come quickly. It isn’t easy to be patient, but anything worth doing requires time.    3    .

Without hard times, you wouldn’t appreciate the good ones.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to give up, that is strength.    4    . It is hard to find much to smile about when you fail, but how else would you improve yourself? If you look at failures as a part of your growing process, you’ll stay positive and follow your goals for as long as it takes.

It’s OK to cry sometimes.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this feeling, we are only robots. Don’t be afraid of crying.    5    Instead, it is an acceptable way to let go of your depressed feelings. If you let those feelings build up without release, you’ll have a much harder time dealing with them later.

【推荐2】For years, doctors have given blood to patients who need it to survive. These “transfusions (输血)” usually involve giving red blood cells to patients.

Blood transfusions aren’t as simple as taking blood from one person and giving it to someone else. There are several different blood types, and they don’t all mix well. If someone gets a transfusion of the wrong kind of blood, their body will reject the blood cells, causing problems.

A new trial is being carried out in the United Kingdom. What’s new in the experiment is that people are being given red blood cells that were created in a laboratory. The scientists used stem cells from a blood sample to grow billions of brand new red blood cells. So the red blood cells in the experiment never actually existed inside anyone.

There are several reasons why this could be even better than a regular blood transfusion. For one thing, the red blood cells that are created can be adjusted for people with different blood types. That will be extremely helpful for people with rare blood types.

Also, the red blood cells created are brand new, meaning they last longer. Red blood cells live for about 120 days. A normal transfusion has red blood cells of all different ages. That means only a part of them are brand new. If the lab-created red blood cells last longer, it could mean that patients will need fewer transfusions.

To test the safety of the lab-grown red blood cells, researchers have given a couple of teaspoons of lab-created blood to two healthy people. Both people seem to be doing just fine after the transfusions. In all, the red blood cells from the lab will be tested on 10 people, and compared to normal transfusions.

The new process isn’t expected to replace normal blood transfusions, which will remain hugely important. Though the technology level has improved, growing red blood cells in a lab is extremely expensive. And a lot of work and testing still need to be done.

But if it’s successful, in the future the process could make life much easier for patients who often need transfusions—even those with rare blood types.

【推荐3】Look at the center circles of Diagram A and Diagram B. Which of the center circles looks larger? In Diagram B? In fact, they are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces？Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see.

Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “visual illusion (错误)”.