Many scientists find that colors can change people’s feelings. It’s very interesting. Some colors can make people feel relaxed, and some colors can make people feel nervous.

Now, this kind of knowledge (知识) is being used in many places. For example, school walls are always painted green because green makes students feel relaxed. It is also good for the students’ eyes. Some books are also green or light blue for the same reason. Restaurant owners not only have to know how to make food, but also have to know how to make money. Here are some things they’ve learned from scientific (科学的) studies. The colour red makes people hungry. Many fast food restaurants have red furniture or walls. Soft colors like pink and light blue make people feel relaxed, so they spend more time eating. Loud music may be nice at first, but it soon makes people want to leave. Hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave. Many restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, use this knowledge to make customers eat faster.

2 . Do your parents check your short massages? Answer your phone? Read your diary? If so, you must be sad. How to solves these problems. Here are three ways that may help you.

Get Their Trust (信任)

Trust is the key to getting more space from your parents. If you don’t tell them the truth and break their rules, they won’t trust you anymore. For example, if you tell your dad you are reading books in the library but then he finds that you and your friends are playing computer games instead. He won’t trust you next time.

Share More Things with Them

The reason why many parents check their children’s massages is that they want to know more about their children. They choose the wrong ways, so result may be terrible. The best way to solve this problem is to share more things with them. When you have dinner with your parents, you can share something interesting that happened in school or ask them for some advice about friendship. All of you may feel better.

Use the Right Way to Speak out your Mind

If you follow the above suggestions, but your parents still check your massages or read your diary, it’s time for a heart to heart talk. Say something like this, “Mom, dad, you taught me to be respectful to others, and I think I’m old enough to make decisions by myself.”

3 . Winter Solstice (冬至) is a very important traditional festival in China. On that day, the Northern part of the world has the shortest daytime and longest nighttime. After the day, the daytime will become longer and longer.

Winter Solstice Festival started from Han Dynasty (朝代). In Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous doctor called Zhang Zhongjing. He was once an official in Changsha. When he returned home for his life, he saw people lived a very hard life and their ears were red with cold in the snowing winter. He was very sad and thought of a way to help them drive out the chill. He asked his servants (仆人) to get some mutton, hot pepper and medicine. Then, cut them up. After that, wrap them with flour (裹上面粉). After boiling, Zhang gave the food to the people there. By eating this kind of ear-like food, these people’s ears all became better. Later, every Winter Solstice, people cook such kind of food which was called dumplings.

Such traditions and customs for the day vary in different areas of China. In northern part of China, people usually eat dumplings and mutton to celebrate the day. However, in the southern part, tangyuan and noodles are the festival foods.

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Who runs the world’s club music?

The Top 100 DJs 2022 list by DJ Mag came out on Oct. 27th. Dutch (荷兰的) DJ Martin topped the list. DJ Mag is a magazine in Britain from January 31st, 1991. As usual, the list comes out around October every year. It’s based (基于) on how popular these artists are around the world. Weeks before the results, people can vote (投票) for their top 5 favorite DJs. Here are the top three.

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5 . Holidays with friends can be great fun and a good way of getting to know each other better. Planning the trip well will help you have a good time. Also it will help you to save money if you start planning earlier.

Going abroad will cost more but be a more exciting experience. Don’t go abroad if this is the first trip you help to organize. Going to a different place in your own country can also be fun and will be cheaper.

Work out how many people you will be able to plan the trip for. Find out how much interest there is for people to go on the trip, and then invite people who you think will enjoy themselves and who you get on well with.

Everyone will have their own idea of what they want the trip to be like, so you should have a meeting. Keep a notebook and write down things to do. If you share ideas with others, you will take a happier trip.

After you decide on your hotel, you’ll know the dates of your stay and be able to book transport, such as bus, train and airplane. Booking transport earlier can save some money, so you‘d better book as soon as possible.

7 . What will humans look like in the future? It sounds like a cool question, but the answer may not be that fun.

A team from Toll Free Forwarding, a US company, built a 3D model of what a human might look like in the year 3000. Her name is Mindy. She looks a little bit scary. The company said the model showed how technology (科技) will change human bodies in less than 800 years.

For example, Mindy’s hands look like she is always holding a cellphone. That’s called “text claw”, according to the team. Mindy also has a much wider neck. It’s called “tech neck”. It’s from looking down at the phone for too long. Muscles (肌肉) in our necks need to be stronger to hold our heads.

Mindy also has another eyelid (眼皮). It can protect the eyes from the blue light of the screens. Her skull (头骨) is thicker. It protects the brain from the radiation (辐射) of computers and phones. Technology is so helpful that humans think less. That’s why humans may also have smaller brains in the future.

Will you spend less time on your computer and cellphone after seeing this scary model?

8 . Tech company has made a powerful robot that can write stories. When you type in “A cat wants to go to space” and ask the robot to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you’ll get the story of a cat called Max. He goes through many difficulties to sing among the stars.

This robot writer is real. It’s called ChatGPT. US company OpenAI made it. It can talk with people, write songs, poems and even jokes. It’s one of the most powerful AI writers.

ChatGPT can write things really fast. We may spend hours researching, understanding and writing a long passage. But ChatGPT can write a good one in seconds. But if you ask bad questions, such as how to make weapons (武器), it will not give you a answer.

ChatGPT comes along at a time when AI can do many creative tasks. The things they create are difficult to tell from those made by humans. This brings many problems, such as the definition (定义) of art. The robot uses words from the Internet, so it can also pick up wrong ideas about certain groups. These are all the things that humans need to solve.

9 . Nowadays Zibo barbecue (烧烤) is an important part of Zibo’s food culture. Zibo also sets up a barbecue association (协会), makes a barbecue map and holds barbecue festivals. The government held the first Zibo Barbecue Festival successfully on May 1, 2023. It showed people the famous barbecue stores, wonderful performances and beer exhibitions (展览).

Zibo barbecue is quite different from others. Unlike the northeastern barbecue, Zibo barbecue has its own feature (特点) : small skewer (串), small cakes and small onions. This is its special way to eat. We call it “soul eating”. The barbecue is still a barbecue, but when the barbecue meets the small onions and the small cakes of Shandong, the feature of Zibo barbecue has become clear enough. The oven stands for the temperature, the small cake stands for tolerance (包容), the small onion stands for openness.

Give yourself a trip without plans. It’s the choice of many young people today. The earliest to drive Zibo barbecue is the group of college students. Taking the weekend high-speed train to Zibo for barbecue has become so popular among them.

Zibo barbecue has become Zibo’s new calling card. It not only offers a chance for people to relax themselves, but also shows the kindness and warmth of Shandong people.

10 . Nobody likes a bully (恶霸). But bullying is a big problem around the world. According to the US National Bullying Prevention Center, one fifth students in the US have been bullied.

Nathan Fellars is an eighth grade student at Centennial Middle School in Utah, US. When he saw classmates being bullied, he knew he had to do something. “People often deal with bullying after the bullying has happened. I wanted to see if there was a way to reduce (减少) bullying before it happens at all,” Fellars told the Society for Science.

After studying more about the causes (起因) of bullying, he had an idea to make the app Bully Block. On the app, students can share their lives, whether good or bad. Others can then post responses (回复). But before the responses are posted, an AI program reads all of them. Only positive (积极的) words will be shown. Fellars believes that this will naturally stop bullying both online and in schools.

“I would love to see my app be used by teachers and students,” said Fellars. “I love knowing that it can help somebody else in the world.” Do you think Fellars’ dream can come true? Do you want to be a person like Fellars?