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Plastic in food
23-12-2022
British researchers found that when you eat the traditional roast Christmas dinner, 230,000 pieces of microplastics come into your body.
Researchers cooked two roast chicken dinners and they compared the results. They cooked one dinner from ingredients wrapped in plastic, while the other dinner came in no plastic. The first dinner contained seven times more microplastics. Researchers found that if we ate this dinner every day, we would eat 10 grams of plastic. This amount is enough to make two plastic bags.
Many people believe that if they eat no fish, then they won’t eat microplastics. This is no longer true because more microplastics are in the ground than in the oceans.
Difficult words: microplastic (very small pieces of plastic), ingredient (any of the foods which make a dish).
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Parrot Takes GoPro
30-12-2022
In New Zealand, a family was hiking in the Kepler Track, a 60-kilometer hiking trail. They reached a hut to rest and camp, and they put their GoPro camera outside to film kea parrots when a kleptomaniac kea stole the camera.
The bird escaped while the airborne GoPro recorded the flight, and then it recorded the bird attacking it and stripping off pieces of plastic. The family followed the sounds, and the kea flew away when they approached. The son recovered the GoPro as it continued to record.
The kea is famous for being curious and mischievous. The parrot steals things from people to investigate them, such as wallets, jewelry, lunches, and windshield wipers.
Difficult words: kleptomaniac (a person or animal that steals many things), strip off (to pull off in long strips), mischievous (playfully making trouble).
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Many weather apps
27-12-2022
People have many choices for weather apps. Some apps tell you the general, short-term, and long-term weather. Interestingly, the apps show different weather because of weather forecasts.
Weather forecasts are careful guesses to find out the weather. Weather scientists look at the areas of space above the earth up to the sky. They get weather data, and then they use math to find the differences in the areas. They use this data to guess the weather, and they also use estimations and historical forecasts to fill in any data that they don’t know. Sometimes they make mistakes.
Apps show different weather because they get different weather forecasts, and they show the data differently. For daily weather, you can use a short-term and long-term app to guess your weather.
Difficult words: short–term (an amount of time), forecast (to carefully guess something), estimate (to carefully guess something with math).
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World´s largest trees can burn
22-09-2021
Authorities closed Sequoia National Park in California, US, because there were two wildfires close to the park.
There are around 2,400 sequoias in the park, and among them is the tallest tree in the world named General Sherman. General Sherman is 83.82 meters high, and a scientist said that the tree could be between 2,300 to 2,700 years old. Firefighters wrapped thebasesof many sequoias inaluminumblanketsto keep them safe from the fire.
Sequoias are the tallest trees in the world, and they are thousands of years old. Fires are also good for them. It is interesting that fire helps them grow because then they start makingseeds. Fires also burn other trees which is good for sequoias because then they have more space to grow.
Difficult words:base(the bottom of an object or a plant),aluminumblanket(a light silver-grey metal turned into a large piece of material which people usually put on a bed to keep warm),seed(a small oval part of a plant from which a new plant grows).
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Russia and the space station
01-08-2022
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space lab above Earth where Russia, the US, Canada, Japan, and other countries work together.
Many people believe that Russia and the US are important because Russianthrusterscontrol thepositionand US power runs the station.
To the surprise of NASA, the Russian space agency leader suggested that Russia will leave the ISS in 2024. A video showed the leader speaking with President Putin about the country’scooperationat the station, its plan to finish its work, and in 2024, Russia will focus on its space station. Russia’s space agency showed a picture of the planned station.
NASA’s ISS leader replied that Russia has not told its plan to the agency as is part of the international agreement. A US government spokesperson added that the change was unexpected, as the countries had begun an agreement on space flight.
After Russia started to fight with Ukraine, Russia and the US stopped working together well, and the ISS was one of the last positive activities between the two countries. People expected to work together through 2030; earlier this month, Russia and the US agreed to share astronaut flights to the station.
Difficult words:thruster(a machine that moves a vehicle),position(the location of a vehicle or an object),cooperation(shared work between peoples or groups).
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Maasai (Mas-i-ah)Olympics
14-12-2022
On Saturday, hundreds of people competed in Kenya in the Maasai Olympics. Young men competed in spear throw, athletics, high jump, and other sports.
Maasai leaders and conservationists wanted to protect animals. Instead of lion and other animal hunts, young Maasai men train for the Olympics to win medals and money. The event is becoming more popular among young Maasai, and it is an important ritual for them.
Maasai Olympics reduce the hunt of animals. With around 2,000 lions, Kenya is only one of a few places where the lion population is not falling.
Difficult words: spear (a long weapon with a sharp end), conservationist (a person who works to protect the natural world), ritual (a formal ceremony).
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New Lego factory in the US
20-06-2022
Danish toymaker Lego is planning to build a new factory in the US. The factory will be in Virginia, and it is a part of the company’s plan to move toy creation closer to its biggestmarket.
Recently, theglobalsupply chainhad many problems, and the cost of transportation increased, too. A factory in the US was a good way to lower the effects of global problems.
The new factory will have 160,000 square meters, and it’ll give jobs to more than 1,760 people. Currently, it gives jobs to 24,000 people in all the world, and it makes around 100 billion colored bricks every year. Last year, the company made more than $8 billion.
Difficult words:market(a place or country, where people buy and sell things),supply chain(all the activities and the people which make products and send them to customers),global(all over the world).
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One Year ago: Illegal gold mining in Brazil
The Amazon is the largest forest in the world, and it is home to millions of animal and plants. Indigenouspeople also live there for whom it is more and more difficult to survive in the modern world.
The land beneath the Amazon contains special rocks called minerals, such as gold. Gold brings inminers. The goldminingbusiness is illegal, and it causes serious damage. Miners destroy forests,poisonrivers, and they bring diseases to indigenous people. Nature needs many years to return to a normal situation, and sometimes, it is not even possible.
The Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro wants to change a law, which will make mining in the Amazon legal. This is very bad news for the indigenous people. Currently, nearly 30% of Brazil´s gold comes from illegal business.
Difficult words:indigenous(something that exists in a place naturally),miner(a person whose job is to get minerals from the ground),mining(the industry which gets coal and other minerals from the ground),poison(to kill life by putting chemicals in water, air, or ground).
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Kamikaze drones
21-10-2022
On Monday, Russia attacked several Ukrainian cities withdrones. The attack happened during morning rush hour when many people and cars were in the streets.
Videos showed drones as they flew towards the capital city of Kyiv. People heardgunshotsas police tried to stop the drones. The drones were so-called kamikaze drones.
The kamikaze drones carried bombs which exploded when they hit buildings. The explosions set many buildings on fire and killed at least 10civilians. Some reports said that the bombs came from Iran.
One week before this attack, Russian rockets hit many Ukrainian cities. They destroyed important buildings, bridges, and public places, too. Russia has declared martial law in it's own country, most Russians don't support the war and protest the killing of innocent Ukrainians.
Difficult words:drone(a small flying device which people control from the ground),gunshot(the attack of a gun),civilian(a person who is not a police officer or a soldier).
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One Year ago: 85-year-old woman finishes college
In 1948, Jihad (G-hawd) Butto (Boo-toe) from Israel left school. She was only 12 years old. She always lovededucationand reading books.
All of Butto´s friends knew how much she loved learning new things. They told her about a course at a university which she could join. Butto said that it was never too late to go back to school, and sheenrolledwhen she was 81 years old. Butto studied languages, religion, and mathematics, and last week, she got adegree, at the age of 85.
Some people thought that teachers helped Butto study, but it was not true. Butto helped other students with school, and teachers often made her an example for the others.
Difficult words:education(learning in a school),enroll(to officially join a course),degree(a title which a student at a college or university gets when he finishes a series of courses).
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