About halfway through Netflix’s Love is Blind—a, well, blind love experiment hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey—things get rather controversial…and it has absolutely nothing to do with the contestants’ quests to find true love. 网飞的《Love is Blind》节目是由Nick和Vanessa Lachey主持的和陌生人谈恋爱的节目。但节目播出大约一半的时候，引发了争议，而且跟嘉宾寻找真爱毫无关系。 On Episode 6, contender Jessica fires off a lot of questions to Mark, who is 10 years…
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Imagine you are carrying around a faux Prada bag you bought for six dollars. It looks real. It feels real. But how long can you keep convincing yourself that it is? 想象一下你背着六美元淘来的山寨普拉达四处奔走的场景。它看起来是真的，摸起来也很真。可你究竟要自欺欺人多久呢？ Relationships all too often work the same way. Eventually, the fake label falls off, the seams bust, the handles break. The quality just…
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How can I change my life in 3 months by eating healthy and exercising regularly? 怎样通过健康饮食和定期锻炼在三个月内改变自己的生活？ I lost 110 pounds in my late teens and here are my thoughts: 快20岁时我减掉了110磅，以下是我的想法： Implement small changes consistently. Assume your results will increase with time, and expect a slow start. Give yourself space for mental dissonance the first few…
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Best Book on the Psychology of Investing: “Thinking, Fast and Slow” 关于投资心理学最好的书籍：《思考,快与慢》 Daniel Kahneman knows a thing or two about thinking. He’s a psychology professor at Princeton University. He also knows a lot about finances, having won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. Daniel Kahneman很懂思考，他是普林斯顿大学的一位心理学教授。他还很懂金融知识，赢得了2002年诺贝尔经济科学奖。 His New York Times bestseller, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,”…
DetailsAt an office in San Francisco, if you drop a coffee cup in a robotic waste bin, the machine will automatically sort the cup for recycling. 在旧金山的一间办公室里，如果你把咖啡杯扔进机器人垃圾箱里，它就会自动把杯子分到可回收垃圾里。 The office is one of the first to use the technology, called TrashBot, from a startup called CleanRobotics that is trying to solve a fundamental challenge in recycling:…
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Years ago, 多年以前 back in the middle 1970s, 大约1970年代中叶的时候 my friend, Art, 我一个名叫Art的朋友 used to see a young man about 16 years of age 时常看到一个约莫16岁的男孩 and a large dog walking along the road. 带着一只大狗走过街道 When cars would pass him on the other side, 当另一头的车要从他身前经过的时候 he made eye contact and waved. 他会看着车里的司机，向他招手 Art saw him almost…
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A drug first discovered over 50 years ago and long used as a medicine for coughs and respiratory illnesses appears to show promise in treating a very different kind of sickness: Parkinson’s disease. 有一种药50年前被发现，一直用于治疗咳嗽和呼吸道疾病，现在被发现能治疗一种完全不同的疾病：帕金森病。 Ambroxol, an active ingredient in cough mixtures since the 1970s, has been investigated in recent years for its apparent potential to…
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Chances are, you’ve had to apologize plenty of times in your life. And there’s a good chance you’ve alsouttered the phrase, “I never meant to hurt you.” 生活中你可能要道歉很多次，而且很有可能说过这句话：“我从没想过要伤害你”。 Stop doing that, says author Caroline Myss. 作者卡罗兰·梅斯说：“别再说那句话了。” In a talk Myss ― a spiritual seeker, researcher ― took on the topic of forgiveness and healing, and…
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I know how to use them in places and time, but …… I really don’t know how to use them after pronouns and verbs like, I laugh at you, and NOT I laugh on you or I laugh to you, another example, I lie to you and NOT I lie on you, that’s in my…
DetailsUniversal basic income is a controversial proposal under which the government provides regular, permanent cash payments to each citizen with the intent of lifting everyone out of poverty, encouraging their participation in the economy and covering the costs of their most fundamental needs including food, housing and clothing. 全民基本收入，简称UBI，是一项备受争议的提案，根据该提案，政府无条件地向每个公民提供定期的永久性现金支付，旨在使每个人摆脱贫困，鼓励他们参与市场经济并保证他们最基本的需求，包括食物，住房和衣物。 Everyone, in other words, gets a…
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