【推荐1】Happiness is subjective. However, certain factors can definitely produce more happiness than others. Like living in a small town where you have wide open spaces, beautiful views, easy commute (通勤), less pollution, and a pace that is just right for you to enjoy life. If you do want to get away from the madding crowd for good and settle somewhere more peaceful, you can check out these towns.

State College, as the name suggests, is a typical college town and all the life is associated with the Penn State University, its largest employer. Apart from academics and sports, the small town offers other quality-of-life features like low crime rates, great healthcare facilities, affordable housing options which are surrounded by mountains and forests.

Stillwater, true to its name, offers its residents a peaceful life. With practically no traffic, the average commute time is only around 15 minutes. Biotechnology, agribusiness, publishing, and even software in close contact offer this small-town residents lots of jobs and health incomes. Endless activities offered by the nearby Oklahoma State University often keep people busy.

Located near Savannah, Tybee Island is a small town hid away from the fast-paced city life. Most people don't know about this barrier island which is known for its wide, sandy beaches, and most importantly for dolphins swimming offshore which can be witnessed almost daily.

Located on California’s central coast, Monterey has long been a destination for literary fans. Its one-time center of the sardine-packing (沙丁鱼包装) industry, Cannery Row, has been made forever famous by novelist John Steinbeck. It also attracts a lot of visitors for the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium (水族馆).

【推荐2】For students or teachers who are planning an educational trip to China, or parents who want to arrange educational and meaningful things to do in China for children, here we offer travel tips on what to do and learn for educational tour in China.

▶How to make dumplings. Dumpling is the most common food in China, and it has so many fans in the world for its deliciousness, and has become a must-order food in a Chinese restaurant for foreigners. Dumpling in China is easily home-made food, and most families would make it by themselves. While having an educational trip to China, you could learn how to make dumplings.

▶How to make Chinese traditional handicrafts (手工艺品), like Chinese knots (结), and paper-cutting. Small fine Chinese traditional handicrafts are very beautiful and have blessings (祝福) for life, thus people would like to make them and put them in houses. Chinese knot is made by strings through special weaving, and it has blessings of safety, health and happiness, and you could hang it in houses or cars. Chinese paper-cutting is pasted on window glass, and used to decorate houses in Spring Festival, and it could be designed into different shapes, such as animals, flowers, and letters. You could totally get this two skills, and make Chinese knot and paper cutting to decorate houses.

▶How to make terracotta warriors (兵马俑), china, and pottery. When visiting Terracotta Warriors, you would admire its greatness and excellent skills. But please remember, you could make your own terracotta warriors and bring them home. Outside the Terracotta, there are stores for you to experience how to make terracotta warriors. Besides terracotta warriors, you could also go to experiential stores to learn how to make china and pottery.

【推荐1】Arecibo, a giant radio observatory is located in the lush mountains of Puerto Rico, did some of the dreamiest work in astronomy. But it was forced to stop operations this year after suffering unprecedented damage, and officials now believe that it is beyond repair. Instead of trying to fix it, they’re going to tear it down.

Arecibo has provided observations for discoveries within the solar system and well beyond. It is considered one of the best spots for studying potentially dangerous asteroids near Earth. Over the years, Arecibo has faced danger and damage, but it has always endured. In its lifetime, it has experienced earthquakes and storms, including the hurricane that spoilt Puerto Rico in 2017, which damaged some of the dish.

The trouble began in August. A metal support cable weighing thousands of pounds slipped out of its socket and dropped sharply into the cavernous, 1,000-foot-wide radio dish in the middle of the night. The cable, installed in the 1990s, was considered fairly new for an observatory that began operations in 1963, and the incident confused Arecibo’s officials. The cable “definitely should not have failed in the way it did,” Ashley Zauderer, the Arecibo program director at the National Science Foundation, which owns the telescope, said. But earlier this month, just days before engineers were scheduled to try to stabilize the telescope, another piece of hardware came smashing into the dish. A main cable, one of the originals installed when the observatory was built, had cracked, causing even more damage.

Engineers are now working to quickly outlined a plan to pull down the telescope before it collapses on its own. Arecibo’s failure is a different fate than astronomers are used to. Hardware of all sorts ages and breaks — Hubble, another famed telescope, is operating with fewer working parts than it launched with 30 years ago. But it is unusual to wreck an observatory because you have no other choice, and so unexpectedly too.