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When Ariel Cordova-Rojas rode her bike to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York, last November, she planned to go hiking and bird watching. Bingo! A mile into her walk, she spotted a gorgeous female mute swan near the water's edge. Cordova-Rojas, 30, who had worked at the Wild Bird Fund rehabilitation center in Manhattan, knew that mute swans can be aggressive. But as she approached this one, it didn't move. She was certain that the bird needed medical attention. Cordova-Rojas draped her jacket over the bird's head to keep it calm, gingerly picked it up, and cradled it in her arms. And then a thought struck her: What do I do now?

Her best bet was the rehab center, but that was across the East River and clear on the other side of town. How was she going to transport a 17-pound swan on her bike all that way? Luckily, some bemused strangers driving by offered her, her bike, and the swan a lift to a nearby subway station. On the subway, no one seemed particularly fazed by the feathered passenger. One guy, says Cordova-Rojas, was" sitting right in front of me on his phone. I don't know if he noticed there was as wan in front of him. "

Cordova-Rojas called the rehab center enroute, and Tristan Higginbotham, an animal-care man-ager, picked her up at the subway station and drove bird, bike, and rescuer to the facility. There, staff members determined that the swan might have lead poisoning, caused by ingesting weights used on fishing lines.

The staff got the swan back up on her webbed feet. She even made a boyfriend at the center —another injured swan. Sadly, even with all that TLC, the swan contracted a bacterial infection. Two months after Cordova-Rojas came to her rescue, she passed away.

It is a disappointing ending, but the real story is just how far some people are willing to go to save a swan in the big city-literally. In all, Cordova-Rojas traveled two hours by foot, car, and subway (while hauling her bike). Says Higginbotham, "That's the perfect summary of who she is."

Creating devices that are better for the environment may involve working up a good sweat. That's because engineers are using sweat to make systems that store energy. One such device is a type of capacitor. It is powered by sweat and can be used to charge a device. Researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland developed the device. A capacitor is an electrical component that stores energy physically, in a form very much like static electricity. (In contrast, batteries store energy chemically.)

The system recently developed is a supercapacitor. This is a capacitor with two conducting surfaces on which a charge of energy is stored. The energy it stores can be used later. The energy could power an LED light or a type of electronic. Researchers described their new model May 11, 2020 in a scientific journal. The findings are exciting because devices powered by sweat could pave the way to wearable tech that is both safer and better for the environment. Today's wearable electronics include gadgets strapped to the body, such as watches and fitness trackers. However, engineers are also creating electronics that are part of clothing or stuck onto the skin.

Batteries power most wearable devices today. Yet those batteries often contain chemicals that can harm the environment. That's where the idea of using a bodily fluid comes into play. Electrolytes(电解质) are minerals in your body that have an electric charge. With the device, the sweat serves as the electrolyte. "That's kind of a new way of using sweat, "observes Mallika Bariya. She is a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. She did not take part in the new study. She says electrolytes are an important part of these supercapacitors. They're needed for these devices to provide power. Sweat is interesting, not gross, she argues. It can tell you about someone's health. Also, the chemical makeup of sweat can change depending on what part of the body makes it.

Astronauts get to experience many interesting attractions. When astronauts go to space, they can become weightless. They get to see Earth as a little blue dot. Astronauts get to experience shooting up into space at 20, 000 miles per hour. That is more than three times faster than an airplane. Still, food is not one of the interesting parts of being an astronaut. Space travelers have had to eat strange foods. One example is liquid salt and pepper. They have also had to eat dried shrimp cocktail. The astronauts add water to it to make it a liquid again before eating.

However, the menu for astronauts is going to grow. Scientists have been growing lettuce in outer space. The lettuce is just as safe, nutritious and tasty as lettuce grown on Earth. Gioia Massa works at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She is the lead scientist on the lettuce growing project. She said that growing food in space could be pivotal for astronauts on long missions. Massa says that today's space food may not work for these longer missions. This packaged food is stored for a longtime. The quality and taste of the food goes down. In addition, the vitamins in the food start to breakdown. Massa says the astronauts may not get enough nutrition from these foods during long missions.

She also added that there could be another benefit to growing food in space. Looking after plants could help astronauts emotionally. Space food has improved in recent years. Many astronauts visit the International Space Station (ISS). It is a research station in outer space. Anything sent to ISS has to score at least a 6 out of 9 on a taste test. Even so, astronauts can grow tired of eating the same old vacuum-packed meals. Massa says many of the astronauts end up losing weight.

The space-grown lettuce was similar to Earth-grown lettuce. In fact, some of the space-grown plants had more nutrients than Earth-grown lettuce. The space lettuce also had higher levels of bacteria. This was possibly because the lettuce grew in a warmer, more humid system. However, none of this bacteria was dangerous.

Books cost nothing on Stan Tucker's Leap for Literacy bookmobile, called the Read 'n' Roll. However, they don't come free. Acts are recorded on kindness tickets, which are like cash on the Read 'n' Roll. When the bookmobile shows up at a school, the kids jump into a line to exchange their tickets for books.

Tucker was teaching kindergarten in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2014. It broke 'Tucker's heart, and it gave him an idea for a way to get books to kids. Now working as a waiter and camp counselor, Tucker started his program during a year off from teaching in 2015. Sometimes he was lugging more than 1,000 books in a car for giveaways at schools. He now gives away 2, 500books a year. More than 13, 000 students have traded kindness tickets for books.

However, he added, "At every turn, something has happened to keep this going. "For example, he met country singer Zac Brown, an Atlanta native, who came into the restaurant where Tucker worked. Tucker asked Brown's five kids about school. Because he liked the way Tucker inleracled with his family, Brown told him, "Maybe we can help each other out. "Brown was starting a summer camp and offered Tucker a camp counselor job and an old tour bus for a bookmobile.

He used it to expand his program. Five hundred kids participated in a writing program in which they were given blank books to write in. A few of the books they wrote were chosen by the Leap for Literacy board to be illustrated and published. Tucker hopes to one day fill the bookmobile with those books.

A. Over the past five years, Leap for Literacy has grown.

B. To build the program, Tucker knew he needed something to count, so he started counting acts of kindness.

C. The currency to buy them is kindness.

D. Another fortunate turn was the $25, 000 check he got on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in2019.

E. How Tucker got the nickname" Stan the Man" is part of the inspiration he shares with kids.

F. A student approached him before a book fair to say he wouldn't be going because his mom didn't have any money.

G. Tucker, who loved books as a kid, said it seemed impossible to make his dream work on a waiter's pay.

Marty Verel, a 50-year-old kidney transplant recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.1like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck scheduling an appointment. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were slow and 2. "I felt 3, "Nancy says.

Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three from a Cleveland suburb who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to get appointments for4individuals. So Nancy5Zwinggi on Facebook: Can you help? Twenty-five minutes later, Zwinggi responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other6. Nine minutes after that, Zwinggi reported back-Marty had an appointment to get the vaccine.

Zwinggi's vaccine7started on February 1, when she learned that her parents –her father has leukemia and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition - were 8 to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Zwinggi, who has helped her husband develop websites, discovered just how9it was to book an appointment. "It was like trying to get a World Series ticket, "she says.

She applied strategies that web insiders are 10with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. "I work11. I drink a lot of coffee, and I'm a fast typer, "she says. Soon enough, Zwinggi had secured appointments for her 12.

Zwinggi decided that helping others would be her way of13to the society. "I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic," she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was14with bookings. By March 2, she'd secured appointments for 400people, a feat that made Nancy conclude, "Marla is some sort of COVID-1915."

Tianwen 1, named after an ancient Chinese poem, was launched by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on July 23, 2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southernmost island province of Hainan. kick-started(启动)China's first mission to another planet.

(drive) by a combination of 48 large and small engines, the spacecraft traveled more than 470 million km and carried out four midcourse corrections (中途调整) and a deep-space trajectory maneuver (轨道修正) before entering orbit of Mars on February 10, 2021.

The China National Space Administration made public on June 11, 2021 four pictures. They were taken by the Tianwen 1 robotic mission, (show) the Zhurong rover (火星车) on the Martian surface and (scene) of its landing site.

Three pictures were taken by Zhurong's cameras, and displayed the rover's upper stage, its landing platform and the environment of the landing site. Another picture (shoot) by a separate camera, displaying the rover and the landing platform together.

A fabric Chinese national flag and a drawing of mascots of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games are (notice) in the landing platform's picture. Also in this photo, the tracks of Zhurong on the surface can be (clear) seen.

The group photo of Zhurong and the landing platform was created by a small camera, wasoriginally attached to the bottom of the rover and then placed Martian soil when the rover traveled about 10 meters to the south of its landing platform.

Not on his route!

On a lazy Sunday morning, 54-year-old Winston Douglas drove his bus along a normally bustling but then quiet Ormond Street in the Peoples town section of Atlanta. A woman using a walker was slowly crossing the street, so Douglas, a driver for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid' Transit Authority (MARTA), tapped the brakes as he turned the wheel to the left to go around her.

As he did so, he noticed a muscular young man in his early 20s standing shirtless on the side-walk. That wasn't all that unusual for a late summer day in Atlanta. What was unusual was that the man was staring at the woman walking across the street.

Douglas was wondering, "Why was he staring at the woman?" Within seconds, he saw the man sneak up behind the unsuspecting woman and rob her of the wallet. The woman fell on the sidewalk because of the force from behind. Realizing what was happening, she cried," Help! Help!" The man tried to attack her to stop her screaming. But she fought back. The two collapsed onto the road between two parked cars, and the man continued his assault. The bus passengers witnessing the attack gasped. June Jarrett thought she was watching a horror movie come to life. Screaming at him to stop, she said, "You're killing her." And he looked up at the driver and just continued to assault her. Douglas immediately stopped his bus. Quickly unbuckling his seat belt, he threw open the folding doors and jumped out.

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