Traditional food such as Guilin Rice Noodles, Snail Rice Noodles, Rolled Rice Noodles（卷筒粉）can be found around most streets of Guangxi, which is in South Central China.

The famous snack Snail Rice Noodles is also called luosifen in Chinese. Luosifen is usually sold at roadside stands（路边摊）in night market in Guangxi. It is cooked easily and tastes good! The dish is made up of rice noodles boiled and served in soup made from river snails and pork bones which are cooked for hours.

The food was listed as part of Liuzhou’s intangible cultural heritage（非物质文化遗产）in 2008 and became popular after being introduced in the program A bite of China（舌尖上的中国）in 2012.

Since then, luosifen restaurants have developed quickly across the country. Many restaurants have been set up in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong. It is becoming a popular snack at home and abroad. It’s said that 28.4 million bags of luosifen were sold on Taobao last year, becoming the most popular snack in the online market. It was also one of the best-selling foods during COVID-19 outbreak（爆发） in China.

Besides the traditional export （出口）markets, including the US, Australia, France, the food has also been sent to new markets such as Singapore and New Zealand.

【推荐2】Kurzweil is an inventor with some interesting ideas on how humans will soon be able to live much longer than the average（平均）78 years they do now.

The first challenge is how to stop our bodies from getting old and dying. Kurzweil doesn’t see this as a problem. With gene technology we’ll soon be able to “turn off” genes that cause ageing and disease.

This technology is getting cheaper and better. Kurzweil believes that from 2022, we’ll be adding more than a year to the average life.

Of course, if we’re all going to live longer, then there are going to be more of us on this already overcrowded（过度拥挤的） Earth. Many people think there are likely to be problems with resources such as food and energy. Kurzweil doesn’t agree. He says that the same technologies used to increase （提升） our lifetime will also be used to help with food production and energy needs. For example, he says, sunlight can give us 10, 000 times more energy than we really use now. We just need to develop the technology to make better use of it and make it cheaper. There are also new technologies that can recycle water cheaply. This means that dirty water can be made clean again at a very low cost. When you think that 80% of disease in the developing world is because of dirty water, you can see how this technology might help change the world.

But what are we going to do with all this extra time? Won’t we all get bored? Again Kurzweil says “no”. For a start, we won’t be stuck in old bodies. We’ll stay young for years. This will mean we’ll be able to try many more things than we can now.

The future according to Ray Kurzweil looks good—and we might just be around to see it.

【推荐3】Imagine a dog you don’t need to train. Instead, you can program it to do whatever you want. You don’t need to imagine it. Meet Spot, a dog-like robot from US company Boston Dynamics.

In March, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii (庞贝考古公园) in Italy gave Spot a new job. Pompeii is a famous “time capsule (胶囊)” from the ancient world. Thousands of years ago, a nearby volcano (火山) covered the city in ash (灰). Many people died, but the ash kept buildings safe until someone found it in 1748.

So, what is Spot doing in Pompeii? It walks around the site with a 3D scanner (扫描仪). There are many narrow, underground tunnels (隧道) in Pompeii. Thieves used the tunnels to steal things. The tunnels bring safety problems to the ancient buildings. Robot dogs are small enough to go through these tunnels and find any changes to the buildings.

According to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, new director of the site, this is the first time anyone has used a robot to help protect an archaeological site. “It’s a breakthrough and it would allow us to protect the ruins with greater speed and in total safety,” said Zuchtriegel.

Spot will also work with a 3D-scanning drone (无人机). The two tools will check the site regularly. They will look for any damage (损坏) that may need a repair. As art magazine ARTnews said, Pompeii is turning into a “Smart Archaeological Park”.