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On average, they found that two days was the maximum amount of time that strawberries can be stored without losing nutrients.

Research shows that strawberries are a fragile and perishable fruit. [1] Food scientists examined storage time, temperature, and humidity to test just how delicate this fruit really is. [2] It’s not that strawberries become inedible if they are not kept in optimal conditions. However, the longer the storage time, the greater the loss of Vitamin C. [3] In addition, both being too ripe or not ripe enough has a negative impact on the availability of the antioxidant polyphenol. [4] The presence of polyphenols is important because evidence of their role in the prevention of degenerative diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases is emerging. Therefore, strawberries are best consumed when they are at their optimal level of ripeness: a vibrant, rich red color.

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This variety of media all shares certain qualities that make them distinctly Chinese in their method of artistic expression.

Art produced in the vast geographical area of China goes back to antiquity. Chinese art is one of the oldest continual art traditions in the world, spanning from the Tang to the Ming dynasty across hundreds of centuries. [1] This early art was meant to express the relationship of humans with the natural world. [2] Many types of different media have been discovered from this era, from lacquered boxes to paintings of landscapes, sculptures of a standing or sitting Buddha, and vases made from porcelain. [3] Art was used to express the relationship the people of China shared with a sometimes inhospitable land. [4] Inanimate matter was never painted only for aesthetic purposes. Rocks, streams, mountains, and stars represented visible forms of the invisible forces at work in the universe.

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He designed its uniform himself, a tunic accompanied by close-fitting trousers and a high peaked cap.

Yukio Mishima was a writer from Tokyo and the founder of the Shield Society, which pursued the goal of restoring traditional samurai codes of honor in Japan. [1] Mishima was born in 1925, a frail child who was rejected from joining the military in World War II. [2] He decided to mold himself into the man he aspired to be, devoting his time to mental and physical exercise. [3] He became a martial arts expert and assembled an army of his own. [4] This army was a private militia of young students who had sworn to protect the Emperor of Japan. In addition to commanding the Shield Society, Mishima wrote a tremendous amount about samurai ideals, the belief in heroic destiny, the value of aesthetic beauty, and living a life of honor. His written work expressed a desire to return to traditional Japanese values and promoted the revival of Japanese imperialism.

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This event leads to Holden spending several days on his own.

The Catcher in the Rye is both one of the most beloved, yet controversial, books ever written. Penned by the reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, the story follows the misadventures of a young protagonist named Holden Caulfield. [1] He is not very interested in his studies, and he eventually gets kicked out of a prestigious private school. [2] During this time, Holden explores New York; sleeping in hotels, wandering around Central Park, and getting into various scrapes. [3] Holden’s general cynicism and contempt for those around him is shocking to many readers. [4] However, the primary reason The Catcher in the Rye is controversial is due to the use of language that many find offensive. The novel has been banned from a number of public school curriculums.

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As time passed, these instruments were replaced by bands that mostly played on guitars.

“Highlife” is a type of nineteenth-century African music, so named because people who attended dances featuring this musical genre dressed up in cosmopolitan, sophisticated clothing. Highlife originated in Ghana but spread throughout Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Liberia through Ghanaian workers. [1] Highlife is customarily played with brass instruments, although at times Highlife used an entire orchestra with strings and even woodwinds. [2] Highlife can be described as a tapping melody that is repeated with breaks for instrumental solos. [3] It is still played in an offshoot form, incorporated into reggae and rock. [4] A Yoruba-based outgrowth of highlife called “juju” gained widespread international acclaim in the 1980s and remains popular in African nightclubs into the 21st century.

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The answer to this question lies in a bee’s mathematical abilities.

Peer into any beehive and you will see beautifully constructed hexagonal cells, shapes with six sides, built tightly together. Like humans, bees need food and shelter to survive, and their home doubles as a storage unit. Bees need a secure place where their nectar can be deposited until it ripens into honey. Bees build their honeycombs out of wax. This is hard work as bees have to consume eight ounces of honey to produce one ounce of wax. Common sense might dictate that bees should build their honeycomb cells in circles, but this would be problematic: there would be gaps of wasted space between the cells. [1] Of all possible shapes, hexagons use the least amount of wax and can store the greatest amount of honey. [2] How do bees know this? [3] The industrious bees calculated the area of the triangle, square, and hexagon and figured out that the hexagon was the shape that gave them the most storage space with the least wax. [4] This occurred over the trial and error of the bee’s evolutionary history, and it has paid off. The honeycombs that bees build are so efficient that any professional human architect would be proud to call the design their own.

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However, the overwhelming majority now support Darwin’s theory.

Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. In this groundbreaking book, Darwin attempted to demonstrate that all plant and animal life evolves as time passes. Darwin put forth the argument that this process occurs due to a phenomenon called natural selection. According to the theory of natural selection, living organisms that are best suited to the environment are the ones that successfully procreate and pass on their genes, and therefore their particular characteristics, to the next generation. This was a revolutionary and radical idea at the time that shocked the public. [1] Darwin’s theory provoked fierce reactions from church officials, in particular his hypothesis that man evolved from an ape-like ancestor. [2] Even his fellow biologists were resistant to his ideas at first. [3] A 2001 Gallup poll showed that over 95% now accept evolution by natural selection, although many nonscientists still do not. [4]

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Other early events that are likely to be recalled later in life are weddings, funerals, or birthday parties.

“Infantile amnesia” refers to the fact that almost everyone has difficulty recalling what happened in their lives before the age of three or four. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon. [1] For example, there is a tendency to remember significant events such as a major injury requiring hospitalization or the birth of a younger sibling. [2] However, most daily, routine events are irretrievable; forever forgotten by the individual who experienced them. [3] While there appear to be gender differences, with girls better able to recall early memories than boys, the precise rate at which these memories are forgotten remains a mystery. [4] What is known is that the age at which infantile amnesia ends varies from person to person, and is influenced by both individual and cultural factors.

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Yet, most people have never even heard the name Maurice Hilleman.

When most people think of vaccine development, the names Edward Jenner or Louis Pasteur come to mind. [1] Accordingly, Maurice Hilleman is often referred to as the “unsung hero” of vaccinology. [2] His contributions to vaccinology are unparalleled in the field of medicine. [3] In fact, he developed over 40 vaccines in his career, including the MMR vaccine, which is now administered to approximately 90% of children in the United States. He is believed to have saved more lives than any other medical scientist of the 20th century. [4] According to one estimate, his vaccines save eight million lives a year to this day. His work has made possible the virtual elimination of many infectious childhood diseases in developing nations and has served as the basis for public health measures against other deadly diseases.

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In addition, he painted “Irises,” sold to an Australian industrialist in 1987 for a record $53 million, now on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

In the spring of 1889, famed Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh voluntarily checked himself into a psychiatric hospital in the south of France. This was following such severe bouts of epilepsy that he felt he could not continue to care for himself. As long as he remained stable, doctors gave him permission to paint. He was given two small rooms, one of which he converted into an art studio. During his stay, Van Gogh painted with intense energy. [1] Over the course of a year, he completed over 100 paintings. [2] This art included scenes of gardens, hospital grounds, and the surrounding countryside, which he was permitted to visit only in the company of an attendant. [3] His most famous painting, “The Starry Night,” was completed during this time, and has since been acquired by the New York Museum of Modern Art. [4] Van Gogh’s short and tragic life, which ended in suicide, left an enormous mark on the art world by introducing methods and practices that came to define later modern art movements from Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism.

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But what served us well in the past can be counterproductive or even crippling to people in today’s world.

Fear and anxiety are unpleasant emotions, but they played a crucial role in higher order mammals living in a prehistoric society. At that time, the world was full of real danger, and a fearful response to any possible threat was not necessarily a bad thing—after all, it was better to run away from all snakes than to risk getting bitten by one that might be venomous. [1] Nowadays, a 24-hour news cycle that constantly runs sensational stories can heighten a person’s sense of danger from what are, in reality, nonexistent threats. [2] Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the term “the availability heuristic” in 1973 to refer to the fact that people largely overestimate danger if it is easy to recall or envision. [3] The availability heuristic explains why people are afraid of situations which are extremely unlikely to affect them, such as a shark attack or a plane crash. [4] These events get a lot of news coverage, and over time, we believe that they are a real threat to our lives when in fact they are very rare occurrences.

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In Indonesia, coffee is consumed from glasses; in the Middle East, it is served in tiny brass cups; while the French add milk to their coffee and drink it from bowls.

Originally grown on the plateaus of Ethiopia in AD 1000, coffee spread throughout Arabia with the traders who traveled over mountains with the beans. Coffee is a beverage which is made by grinding roasted coffee beans and pouring very hot water through them. [1] It is a dark, somewhat bitter tasting beverage which is usually served hot, although it can be enjoyed over ice. [2] Coffee is a truly cosmopolitan drink; in fact, over one-third of the world’s population consumes coffee every morning. [3] Both the preparation and serving of coffee vary widely depending on the country and culture. [4] Canned coffee is popular in Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, and Korea. In Japan, convenience stores sell lightly sweetened coffee in cans or bottles.

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The eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom in 1953.

[1] Elizabeth Mary aspired to be a truly cosmopolitan Queen, and visited many newly independent British colonies over which she remained a constitutional monarch. [2] Through these visits, she increased the respect of the English Crown, until financial scandals tarnished the reputation of the royal family. [3] Many people under British rule resented the tax-free status of the royal family and the large monetary allowances given to them. In response, the Queen has given up some of her financial perks, even the tax advantages she previously enjoyed. [4] The monarchy still receives government funds, but Elizabeth backed the elimination of complete reliance on public support that had been enjoyed by all monarchs of Britain for 250 years prior.

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Scientists are sceptical that the sounds are anything more than the imagination of the observer.

Few sights are as bewitching as the northern lights. These lights are caused by streams of charged particles from the sun that have been diverted by the Earth’s magnetic field toward the Polar Regions. The interaction of these particles with atoms in the upper atmosphere creates an intense energy, particularly when they encounter oxygen and nitrogen. [1] The charged particles transfer energy to these atoms and excite them, and the energy is released in tiny packets of light called photons. [2] Depending on where in the atmosphere this interaction occurs, different colors will be produced. Oxygen at 150 miles above the Earth’s surface will radiate yellow and green, and nitrogen at 60 miles up emits a beautiful blue. The northern lights are most vibrant during solar storms but are invisible during the day when the sun outshines them. [3] Some people who have spotted the northern lights have reported that they are not only a spectacular sight, but make audible noises like crackles and pops. [4]

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This conflict results in a feeling of anxiety and discomfort.

Cognitive dissonance is a term in psychology used to describe the mental stress experienced by a person who holds beliefs which contradict their behavior. [1] For example, a teacher may scold her students for smoking, yet smoke when not on school grounds and feel guilty about it. Since cognitive dissonance is unpleasant, the individual is motivated to return to a state of consonance, in which their beliefs and behavior are no longer at odds. [2] However, since the individual does not usually want to stop indulging in a behavior that they know is wrong, they often adjust their attitude or perspective rather than quit the behavior. [3] In the example of the teacher, she may resolve the cognitive dissonance by rationalizing that she is old enough to smoke, while her students are not. [4] In this way, she is able to reduce her feelings of anxiety.

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Autism is a complex developmental disability that is usually diagnosed before a child reaches the age of three.

[1] Autism is believed to be the result of a neurological disorder that affects the function of the brain. [2] Autism affects an individual’s ability to communicate and interact socially. [3] In milder cases of autism, the individual may seem introverted and slightly awkward in social situations. [4] He or she may wish to participate in group interaction, but lack the ability to communicate with others effectively. In more severe cases, the autistic person may exhibit a complete lack of interest in social interaction, including failure to make eye contact with others or use spoken language. Although there is no known cure, there have been cases in which children have recovered from early symptoms. Early intervention techniques such as speech and behavioral therapy can improve a child’s prognosis.

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More recently, a new theory has been developed.

For centuries, the colossal stone statues of Easter Island, called “moais” have led to a question that has baffled researchers: how were these enormous statues moved 11 miles from the quarry where they were first carved? [1] Many theories have been tested in the past, such as the use of log rollers, ropes, and wooden sleds. [2] In 1986, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl gathered a team of 17 people to attempt to propel a 13-foot moai that weighed 9 tons forward using twisting motions. [3] However, they had to abandon the experiment when the moai became damaged. [4] In 2003, researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo observed that the fat bellies of the statues allowed them to be tilted easily, and hypothesized that they could have been rocked back and forth over the terrain. They tested their hypothesis and found that with the help of only 18 people, they were able to move the statues a few hundred yards.

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They are like the earth's big flying computers.

GPS

GPS is a system. It means "Global Positioning System." It helps people find out where they are. Let's see how it works. [1] There are machines called satellites in the sky. [2] They move around Earth. [3] They send information to small machines on Earth. These machines are called GPS receivers. [4] GPS receivers can tell you many things. They can tell you where you are. They can tell you how fast you are going. They also tell you where you are going. They prevent you from getting lost.

They are very practical. These days they are common. They are good tools for people who study geography. GPS can help to make maps. GPS is used in cars and airplanes. You can use the GPS receiver in your car. It can find a place you are driving to. Hikers use GPS receivers. Then they don't get lost in the mountains

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Most car engines today are far bigger than they need to be.

Hybrid Cars

Many people rely on cars to get around. This can be a problem for two reasons. The first is that cars cause pollution. With so many cars on the road, the quality of the air that we breathe is reduced. The Earth is our habitat and we must protect it. The second is that cars run on fuel, which comes from oil. There is a limited amount of oil in the world. When our oil runs out, we cannot replace it. Therefore, we should try to conserve oil.

[1] One solution is to design cars that consume less fuel. The most efficient cars today are called hybrids. They run on gas and electricity. They save energy by turning off the engine when the car is not moving. [2] They don't waste gas when they are stuck in traffic. The electricity source is a battery. [3] It recharges itself when the driver uses the brake. That way, the driver never has to plug the car in to charge it. Hybrids also have smaller engines.[4] This means they use less gas. They can go twenty-five to forty percent further on the same amount of gas as a normal car.

Pollution results in global warming, which causes climate change. This can endanger life on Earth. One example of this is the many species of animals that are becoming extinct. As such, there is a global campaign aimed at limiting the amount of pollution we produce. Switching to hybrid cars is a major goal. Sadly, not everyone cares about clean air. They do, however, care about money. As gas prices rise, hybrid cars look more attractive. Some governments fund programs to make hybrids even more attractive. They offer tax cuts to people who buy them. One day, hybrid cars could replace normal cars as the standard vehicle around the world.

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