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A big report released on May 6 warned that nature is in trouble and estimated that 1
million species are threatened with extinction if nothing is done. It said the worldwide
deterioration of nature is everyone's problem. The report was done by the United
Nations, an organization of countries that work together to promote international
cooperation.
"Nature is essential for human existence and good quality of life," the report said.
Food, energy, medicine, water, protection from storms and floods and slowing
climate change are some of the 18 ways nature helps keep people alive, the report
said. It concluded that 14 of those are on long-term declining trends.
"You destroy nature and it's going to bite you back," said Stuart Pimm, an ecology
professor at Duke University in North Carolina. He pointed to how difficult it has been
for China to come back from decades of forest loss. The country has replanted trees
in recent years.
Artistic reconstruction of Callichimaera perplexa with its big googly eyes and wrench-
like claws. Image by: Oksana Vernygora/University of Alberta
Scientists have discovered a new species of crab from the ancient past. It swam in
the sea 95 million years ago.The small, pocket-size crab, named Callichimaera
perplexa, was very different from its modern-day cousins, sporting a tiny lobster-like
shell and legs flattened like oars. The most obvious difference, though, were the
huge eyes bulging from its head. Researchers said the eyes show the creature used
its vision actively for whatever it spent its days doing. However, it's not only the
critter's cartoon appearance that has some researchers tickled. The ancient animal
is also important to science. Javier Luque is a paleontologist who studies fossils from
ancient eras at both Yale University in Connecticut and the University of Alberta in
Canada. He said the "cute" and "unusual" decapod, or 10-legged, crustacean is
going to make scientists "rethink what a crab is."
No surprise to you or most cat owners, right? But Japanese scientists said
Thursday that they've provided the first experimental evidence that cats can
distinguish between words that we people say. So you cats are kind of like
dogs, whose communication with people has been studied a lot more. Dogs
have been shown to recognize hundreds of words if they're highly trained.
Sorry if the comparison offends you, Kitty. Atsuko Saito of Sophia University
in Tokyo says there's no evidence cats actually attach meaning to our words,
not even their own names. Instead, they've learned that when they hear their
names they often get rewards like food or play, or something bad like a trip to
the vet. And they hear their names a lot. So the sound of it becomes special,
even if they don't really understand it refers to their identity. Saito and
colleagues describe the results of their research in the journal Scientific
Reports. They ran four experiments with 16 to 34 animals. Each cat heard a
recording of its owner's voice, or another person's voice. The recording slowly
recited a list of four nouns or other cat's names, followed by the cat's own
name.
Ninguna sorpresa para ti o la mayoría de los dueños de gatos, ¿verdad? Pero los
científicos japoneses dijeron el jueves que proporcionaron la primera evidencia
experimental de que los gatos pueden distinguir entre las palabras que las personas
dicen.Así que ustedes los gatos son como perros, cuya comunicación con personas
se ha estudiado mucho más. Los perros han demostrado reconocer cientos de
palabras si están altamente entrenados. Lo siento si la comparación te ofende,
Kitty.Atsuko Saito de la Universidad Sophia en Tokio dice que no hay evidencia de
que los gatos en realidad agreguen un significado a nuestras palabras, ni siquiera a
sus propios nombres. En cambio, han aprendido que cuando escuchan sus
nombres, a menudo reciben recompensas como comida o juego, o algo malo como
un viaje al veterinario. Y escuchan mucho sus nombres. De modo que el sonido se
vuelve especial, incluso si realmente no lo entienden, se refiere a su identidad.
One hundred years ago, Carrie Chapman Catt, a leading suffragist, was
masterminding the final steps in a challenging process. She was helping get the 19th
Amendment approved so women could vote. People looking to extend voting rights
to women were called suffragists.
Meanwhile, she was also buying a farm called Juniper Ledge. The farm is an hour
outside New York City. There, she had 12 tree plaques created to memorialize the
giants of the suffrage movement. The plaques featured Elizabeth Cady Stanton "the
fearless defender of her sex," Frances Willard "the woman of widest vision" and
Susan B. Anthony "who led the way."
In many ways suffragists were our first women's historians. A walk in the woods with
Catt was like taking a course in suffrage history. However, the story she offered at
Juniper Ledge hints at why commemorating the centennial, or 100-year anniversary,
of women's suffrage in August will be loaded with emotion.
Hace cien años, Carrie Chapman Catt, una importante sufragista, estaba planeando
los pasos finales en un proceso desafiante. Ella estaba ayudando a que se aprobara
la Enmienda 19 para que las mujeres pudieran votar. Las personas que buscaban
extender los derechos de voto a las mujeres se llamaban sufragistas.
Mientras tanto, ella también estaba comprando una granja llamada Juniper Ledge.
La granja está a una hora de la ciudad de Nueva York. Allí, ella tenía 12 placas de
árboles creadas para recordar a los gigantes del movimiento sufragista. Las placas
mostraban a Elizabeth Cady Stanton "la intrépida defensora de su sexo," Frances
Willard ", la mujer con una visión más amplia" y Susan B. Anthony "que abrió el
camino". De muchas maneras, los sufragistas fueron nuestras primeras
historiadoras femeninas. Un paseo por el bosque con Catt era como tomar un curso
de historia del sufragio. Sin embargo, la historia que ofreció en Juniper Ledge da a
entender por qué la conmemoración del centenario, o aniversario de 100 años, del
sufragio femenino en agosto estará cargada de emoción
In Florence, da Vinci's inventions are there for the touching
Clovis Lim visited Florence, Italy, with his family in March and immediately noticed
buses, street signs and banners displayed everywhere in red and white. "Celebrando
Leonardo," read one of them. This year Florence and all of Italy is celebrating the
achievements of Leonardo da Vinci, who passed away 500 years ago. The great
artist and inventor lived in Florence.
Clovis, who is 9 years old, and his mom and sister got a chance to see the inventor
side of the great man in an interactive museum in Florence. The museum is filled
with copies of da Vinci's inventions. The copies are based on his original sketches.
The museum's founder, Gabriele Niccolai, grew up in Florence just like da Vinci did,
hearing stories from his father about the artist's curiosity. Ten years ago, Niccolai
and his father opened the Leonardo da Vinci Museum. They built the first exhibits
together.