Along with the development of society, more and more problems are brought to our attention, one of the most serious issue is the gray population. Nevertheless, the significance of elderly people in society cannot be overstated. As...
Scientists must know how complete the record is in order to find out how long the extinction of dinosaurs took. To use the movie example, it's like trying to find how much time has passed since an event (like a murder) occurred. If all of the frames are present, we know the amount...
Yesterday, I ventured into the conversation for the first time with my 15-year-old daughter. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I asked her if she’s heard of “13 Reasons Why.” She attends a Christian school, and to be honest, my perception is that she lives a fairly sheltered l...
忠君爱国的传统。 ③经过几千年的文化积累和节俗传承，吃粽子、赛龙舟、纪念屈原已经成为当今流传范围最广的端午节俗活动，融进了世代中华儿女的生活记忆。 ④端午节，是如下以后的第一个重要节日，也是我国首个入选世界非物质文化遗产的传统节日。 ⑤汉魏以后，被附加了纪念屈原、伍子胥等历史人物的...
American poets who have probably never sat on a meditation cushion. There is the famous opening of theTao Te Ching—in English translation: “The Way that can be ‘Wayed’ is not the Way.” The same is true of Zen. If you put it in some box, it is no longer Zen. The teachings ...
of slavery in the United States for eighty years. The simple fact of the matter was thatNational Securitydepended upon slavery at the time: the North needed the South to be a functioning economic unit of the Union, if unity was to have any value in staving off the great powers of Europe...
Aymara is another of the important native languages of Peru. The language has more than two million speakers throughout the Latin American continent. The Andean regions of Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia enjoy being part of this wonderful native language.But in Peru, only 1.7% and 2% of...
those who have been fellow voyagers at sea; and it is always a surprise and perplexity to inexperienced travellers that it can be so, and that those who have been so much to each other for ten days can melt away into space and disappear as though the brief intimacy had never existed. ...
The way things are going today, the North American continent is heading toward Asia, and if nothing changes dramatically the two continents will fuse into a fifth supercontinent. Africa is already on its way to Europe, closing the last remnant of the Tethys that we know as the Mediterranean ...
During the Eocene Epoch 50 million years ago, the planet was actually ice-free. So what happens if the glaciers melt today? What about the polar ice caps? What would actually happen if all that ice was gone? How would it change the world? Scientists have a pretty good idea of...