【推荐2】It’s said that cats are not just pets to us all these years. They are, in fact, learning from their owners and taking them as models. Scary, huh?

A new study from the University of Messina shows that indoor cats who live closely to their owners copy the lives of their owners. For example, they sleep at the same time and eat at the same time. Just like a parent for a child, the same is true for a cat owner and his cat.

Many owners think their cats are as family members, so they spend much time with cats, hoping to give the best care and love for their cats. This is one of reasons the cats learn from their owner’s actions.

Another reason is that cats are clever animals with a long memory. Jane Brunt, director of the Catalyst Council, told Discovery News. “Cats watch us and notice our actions, knowing where their food is and what time to eat meals, where the washing areas are and how to open the cupboard door that’s closed.”

A new study also shows that cats understand 25—35 basic men’s words, such as food, eat, sit, no, stay, and stand. If owners train a cat to learn these words, cats will got closer to them. But in fact, cats can’t understand our ‘meows’.

So try to do better when you are in front of cats. If you spend a lot of time searching the kitchen, your cat will copy you and take food to its bowl for the night meal, too. That’s why cat owners and cats overweight rates often seem to synchronize.

Next time you reach for your kitchen, think twice. If your cat is watching, maybe she will overeat as well.

①The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games opened on February 4, which coincided with “Lichun,” the first of the 24 solar terms（节气）in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, showing the start of spring. “Lichun” also became an important element at the opening ceremony.

②Lichun is called “Start of Spring” in English. It is the first solar term in the year. It also shows the change of the season and marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The date for Lichun usually comes on February 4 or February 5 in solar calendar. After Lichun, days become longer and nights become shorter, while weather is getting warmer. The following is some information about this solar term.

Stand the egg

③In China, it is said that the egg can be set up on the first day of the spring. It is believed that if someone can make the egg stand on the first day of spring, he will have good luck in the future. Try to stand eggs today on your own. If you succeed in the challenge, it means good luck is coming.

Hold a special ceremony（仪式）

④People in China began holding a special ceremony on the day of Start of Spring about 3,000 years ago. In ancient China, people mainly lived on farming, and the change of seasons greatly influenced farming. Spring is the season for planting. After Lichun farmers may start to work in the field. And vitality（活力）heads back to all lives. For city people, time has come for them to do outdoor activities and enjoy warm sunshine.

Eat special food—Chunjuan

⑤People try to eat something new to keep the spring. There has been a long history of eating chunjuan during Lichun. People will wrap some vegetables with chunjuan. Besides enjoying chunjuan with vegetables, farmers will also send chunjuan as presents to each other.

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【推荐2】An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new “super-Earth” type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.

Unlike any of the planets in our solar system, the nearly 1,600 known super-Earths are larger than Earth, but lighter than icy planets like Uranus and Neptune.

Researchers at Belgium’s University of Liège said that they found another one while using Earth-based telescopes to check the existence(存在) of a different planet first discovered by a NASA satellite in the same solar system.

NASA’s satellite found planet LP 890-9b, which is about 30% larger than Earth and orbits its sun in just 2.7 days. ULiège researchers used their telescopes in Spain to take a closer look at the planet. That’s when the stargazers(天文学家) discovered another planet, LP 890-9c, which is 40% larger than Earth and takes 8.5 days to orbit its sun.

Francisco Pozuelos, a researcher, said that the planet could be suitable to life though being a 3.7 million miles from its sun. Earth, by comparison, is located over 93 million miles away from our sun. “Although this planet orbits very close to its star, at a distance about 10 times shorter than that of Mercury around our Sun, the amount of stellar irradiation(照射) it receives is still low, and could allow the presence of liquid water on the planet’s surface, if it has enough air,” Pozuelos said. “This is because the star LP 890-9 is about 6.5 times smaller than the Sun and has a surface temperature half that of our star.”

It is a common experience: You’re checking through a social media page, and you see pictures of friends traveling or going to parties. Suddenly you start to wonder why you are not doing those things. Are you missing out on something fun or exciting? This experience is known as FOMO—the fear of missing out. In some ways, people have always been worried about missing out on social events. But with the rise of social media, FOMO is becoming much more common.

While wanting to take part in exciting things is completely normal, it can bring about some negative (负面的) effects. For some people, it leads to an obsession (沉迷) with checking their phones to find out what other people are doing. Even while doing things that are fun or necessary, people can feel like there’s something better going on elsewhere. This strong wish to connect can make them disconnect from the people they are actually with. It stops them from being satisfied with the good things in their lives. It can even be dangerous; some people try to check messages while driving.

So what can we do to overcome FOMO? Firstly, it is important to remember that what people prefer to pick and choose to post on social media doesn’t necessarily show their life overall, so we only know a small part of anyone else’s life. It is also important to accept your limitations. You can’t be everywhere and do everything that might be interesting, and that’s OK. It might even be necessary to turn off your phone or log out of social media for a while. Stay away from the constant reminders of everything that’s happening in the world. You can even set particular times in your day to check email or social media. By stepping away for a time, you can view others’ lives in a reasonable way. Finally, focus on the things in front of you. Relish them, do them well and let everything else go. When you are fully involved in life, you will worry less about what you are not doing.

Don’t let the fear of missing out cause you to miss out on the good things you have in life. Relax, enjoy what you do and let other people enjoy their lives without envying (羡慕，嫉妒) them.