It’s a Friday morning in Boston, which means Dr. Jim O’Connell is making his rounds. He might be more comfortable inside an exam room, but that’s not where his patients are. O’Connell is one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the homeless in the city.
More than 550,000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no access to care. O’Connell and his team,
O’Connell went to Harvard Medical School and was on his way to a prestigious oncology (肿瘤学) fellowship when his chief suggested he
“You realize, ‘You know what, I’m just a doctor. And what I can do is I can get to know you and ease your suffering, just
And his patients are grateful. “This man is unbelievable!” one remarked. “He’s like Jesus,” another added.
When asked about
In the fall of 1903, O. Henry was living in a room at the small Hotel Marty in New York City. He had published a few stories in local magazines, but was still relatively unknown when editors at the New York World newspaper sent a young reporter
O. Henry was the pen name used by William Sydney Porter, who was born in North Carolina. At the age of twenty, he moved to Texas.
In 1902 O. Henry moved to New York City and started trying to sell his stories. In a few years his luck changed for the better, and his position with the New York World helped make him a
Future living: what will the home of tomorrow look like?
What will our homes be like in the future? Growing cities, shrinking living spaces, and climate change are major challenges
Energy efficient and carbon neutral
One of the greatest challenges for homes of the future is our increasing energy consumption, something that cannot be covered by fossil fuels going forward.
The trend to downsizing
Living more efficiently not only means improving energy use and reducing one’s own carbon footprint, but also building to save space. Rooms
Trends for living and working under one roof
Over the last few months, the office
Imagine you are out fishing on the high seas - the wind and water are clean and comfortable and you begin bringing up your first catch of the day. That's when everything goes wrong. Your fishing nets are tangled up (缠成一团) in older, abandoned fishing tool, and you're unable to untangle them. Your equipment
Ghost fishing is what abandoned fishing tool does. It still catches fish, but no one benefits. Trapped fish die and attract scavengers (清道夫)
Environmental agencies estimate that 10 percent of all seawater litter is lost or deserted fishing tool
It's not the intention of the majority of fishermen to lose their tool. In most circumstances bad weather is to blame. But in other cases fishermen throw their tool in the ocean on purpose, risking expensive fines. But to them, it's worth the risk
By marking tool with electronic tags and utilizing GPS technology, owners are more likely to recover lost tool and less likely to abandon it. Currently, ownership regulations are reportedly very weak. Leading the effort for tagging fishing tool and creating accountability is the GGTI (Global Ghost Tool Initiative).
Ghost fishing poses a serious threat to the fishing industry worldwide, and a global effort is needed to solve it.
Remote Work Slows Senior Housing Market Recovery
With the rise of remote work, the market for senior housing has met with problems in its recovery. Only a few old people choose to live in senior-living communities
When more adults began working remotely during the pandemic (流行病), they were able to check in on aging parents easily — they
Experts have been analyzing the phenomenon in different ways. Some found that the greater flexibility to care for parents
The age at which people enter senior housing is also increasing,
Still, many senior-housing operators are optimistic. When
Grand Chinese New Year Celebration Held in London
More than 700,000 people in London joined in a celebration on February 11 organized by the London Chinatown Chinese Association to welcome the Year of the Dragon.
The celebration was claimed by the organizers
During the parade, significant attention
At noon, the event reached its climax on the center stage in Trafalgar Square, with notable figures from China and Britain participating in the eye-dotting ceremony of two lions, symbolically
Zheng Zeguang, China’s ambassador (大使) to the UK,
Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, spoke highly of the contributions of Londoners of Chinese origin. “One of the reasons why London is the greatest city in the world is
In addition to the lively parade and stage performances, there were cultural workshops, interactive games, and food stands set up around Trafalgar Square.
No Filming at Concerts and Movie Theaters on Phones
“Please, no flash photography.”
Polite requests like this can be found in museums all over the world, but they generally don’t discourage people from taking photos of
The patent,
Many musicians and performers have banned cellphones from their shows
But the patent also raises questions about the sort of power that this technology would be handing over to
Given the company’s rigid support of personal privacy when it comes to police requests to break into users’ devices, it’s possible that Apple just
DNA analysis reveals two waves of migration
The results of the study, published in the Science Bulletin, revealed two major migration waves in history. In this pioneering study, scientists from Fudan University
The Hexi Corridor, was a narrow yet crucial link
Historical documents attest (证实) to the Hexi Corridor’s significance as a crossroads
The DNA analysis pinpointed two outliers (异常样本) dating to the Wei Dynasty and the Tang. Further examination revealed one had approximately 50 percent western Eurasian ancestry and
Walking and Using a Phone is Bad for Your Health
Spend time on any crowded sidewalk and you’ll see heads bent over and eyes cast downward. One recent study of college students found that a quarter of people crossing intersections
When you walk and use a phone at the same time, you automatically adjust
Looking down at a smartphone while walking can also increase the amount of force
It’s now widely accepted that walking in natural spaces is good for your mental health. It appears that
Most of us understand that walking and using a phone can be risky. Some cities, like Honolulu,
If you’re distracted by a phone, you’re definitely putting
What If You’re Not Good at English?
Researchers whose first language is not English can spend around twice as long reading an English scientific journal article as native speakers. For a PhD student, that can mean
These statistics,
The team found that among scientists who had published only one paper in English, scientists from countries
At conferences, even those who overcome obstacles face difficulties in presenting their work in English. Germana Barata, a researcher who