1 . Moving back home is a reality for a lot of adults right now and the trend is increasing for a lot of reasons, for example, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic trouble.

A recent study offers insight into how adults can navigate the often embarrassing experience of moving back in with their parents. Researchers conducted this study to learn more about how adults who move back in with their parents manage that process, how they think about it and how they talk about it. Researchers think the findings are valuable because they provide some guidelines that people can use to help ensure that moving back home is a step forward instead of a step backward.

For this study, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 31 adults between the ages of 22 and 31. And the findings were straightforward. On one hand, study participants were certainly aware of the stigma associated with moving back in with one’s parents as an adult though both parents and their grown children may give and expect respect in their relationships. However, it was equally clear that making the decision to move back in with one’s parents as an investment in the future helped people think about the decision in a positive way and communicate about it in a positive way.

Specifically, the researchers find there are four things people should do to make moving back home a positive experience for themselves and their parents:

●Communicate clear expectations. For example, do the children pay rent? Are they expected to be home by a certain time each evening?

●Contribute to the household. Grown children should be made clear what they will do to benefit the larger household, such as attending to housework.

●Lay out intended timelines. The people moving back home should think out how long they will be living with their parents, what their career and financial goals are, and how living with their parents will help them achieve those goals.

●Embody (表现) adult behavior. Adults returning home should avoid slipping into habits formed when they were children, if they want to be treated as adults.

2 . Humankind’s growing need for food is in conflict with thousands of other species’ need for space. By 2050, humans may need to clear an additional 3.35 million square kilometers of land for agriculture. Changing the largely natural habitat would remove more than 17,000 species from the land, researchers report in Nature Sustainability.

“But changing how, where and what food is grown can reduce the effect,” says scientist David Williams of the University of Leeds. “We can feed the planet without making it too bad.”

To figure out how, Williams and his colleagues first identified habitat most likely to be cleared for cropland. The team then calculated how much food 152 countries would need to feed their growing population and mapped where crops would likely be grown in each, based on past land use changes. By 2050, the world’s 13 million square kilometers of cropland would need to increase by 26 percent, the team found. That growth is largely concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia.

The researchers then put these estimates (估计) on distribution (分布) maps of nearly 20,000 species. While almost all of these species would lose some habitat, the team estimated 1,280 species would lose at least 25 percent of their range and that 96 species would lose at least 75 percent.

“Changing the global food system could cut these losses,” the team says. Among the changes are improving crop output and increasing food imports for food-poor countries. Adopting these measures would actually reduce the world’s cropland area by 3.4 million square kilometers by 2050 and result in just 33 species losing more than a quarter of their natural range, the team found. “Achieving that may be difficult and needs governments’ effort,” Williams says, “but emptying our plates at the family dinner tables could still have big effects.” “The world needs to feed a growing population, but it can be done more sustainably (可持续地),” he says.

3 . In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde tried to change the way men dressed. In summer, he said, the standard dark suits were too heavy and hot. _______, men should wear light shirts and shorts.

Did anyone follow his _______? Certainly not. They just laughed.

Last week, Mayor of New York said he was concerned about New Yorkers in the heat. He suggested dressing _______. His words were not meant for the women, who already know how to _______ hot weather in light clothing and little dresses. But what about the men? Have they made any changes? No. The mayor himself _______ to go to work in a dark suit.

It didn’t seem _______. The women all looked so cool, while the men were all _______.

So the next day, I put on _______. As I walked down the street, I felt quite cool but very _______. Everybody looked at me. Some people even ________. At noon I went to the park. As usual in summer, there were lots of people eating lunch. Some men had ________ their jackets, but they all were wearing long pants. I sat beside a man eating sandwiches. He asked me, “What country are you from?” I told him I was from America.

My ________ surprised him. “I wish I could wear shorts too,” he said. “But all the other men in my office are wearing long pants, so I have no ________ but to follow them.”

After lunch, two young men were pointing at my shorts and ________. I guess some things haven’t ________ since Oscar Wilde.

The next day I wore long pants again.

4 . A 2020 study by Balbix found that 99% of the people surveyed reused their passwords between work accounts or between work and personal accounts.     1    

For example, a 2019 study by Google found that 59% of the people they surveyed used a name or a birthday in their password. And 24% admitted using a password like one of these below: 1234, 12345, 123456, etc.     2     Since both personal and work accounts are accessible from the same device with the same password, it simplifies the work a bad actor has to do in order to breach (攻入) your systems.

    3     The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Password Guidelines are widely regarded as the international standard for password best practices. Following these guidelines—and insisting your employees do the same—will help protect you against threats from weak or stolen passwords. Password managers can simplify the work required for your employees to follow these guidelines.

It's more secure to require your employees to use more than one authentication (身份验证) factor to access mobile company applications.     4     They'd need to check on their identity with additional authentication factors in order to log in.

Finally, you can also perform passwordless authentication.     5     For example, in the event that a mobile device is stolen or accessed illegally, requiring a facial scan (扫描) or a finger scan as a primary or secondary authentication factor could still prevent unauthorized access.

9 . It’s well-known that facial recognition is widely used in shopping, home security, and law enforcement and millions of us use it to open our smartphones. But privacy advocates are raising alarms about the growing use of facial recognition technology.

The American administration recently proposed a rule to use facial recognition to identify and photograph all people entering and leaving the United States, including American citizens. That idea was scrapped after big objections from lawmakers and activists, but the administration is moving ahead with more limited use of the technology in a number of airports and other ports of entry say it makes the public safer and so far, they’ve had very few complaints from travelers.

However, a growing number of, both in and out of the government, say any type of facial recognition is just like illegal surveillance (监视). They say it exchanges too much freedom for too little security. Many note that once the government has a database of Americans with their photographs, there’s no telling what it could be used for. Beyond the privacy concerns, security experts are also worried that a huge government database could be a major target for a data breach (数据泄露). Some say it could give hackers access to data from millions of Americans.

Mike Howell, a former consultant of the Department of Homeland Security, suggests a possible solution: simply erase the information after it used. “The big question for,” says Howell, “is how the government largely will protect the data. We want the data we collect to keep us safe from threats, not to, you know, make unsafe. “Finally, the administration may have the final say on the future of facial recognition, with more regulations being advised to keep it in check.”