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New Year's Special (Part I): Calendars!   2025.01.01 語音檔連結 There are many days for the new year all over the world. Why? Well, different cultures use different calendars. 你知道世界新年的日子很不一樣嗎? 因為每一個文化有自己特別的月曆。 Today is New Year's Day on the calendar most countries use. It's solar. It uses the sun. 大部分的國家都是今天過新年，因為他們用陽曆來算時間。 Now it's month seven on a different calendar. Muslims use this calendar. It's lunar. It uses the moon. The new year is in June on the calendar that most countries use. It begins when a new moon comes. 但是對於伊斯蘭教徒而言，現在是陰曆的七月，他們用月亮計算時間，新年是在我們陽曆的六月。 In Taiwan, we say our calendar is lunar. But it's not! It uses the moon AND the sun! The new year begins when the new moon closest to the first day of spring comes. It's between January 21st and February 21st on the calendar most countries use. 那台灣也使用陰曆嗎? 其實我們的農曆，是同時用太陽跟月亮算時間! 新年會在春天第一個新月慶祝，通常在陽曆的1月21日到2月21日之間。 Now it's the Year of the Dragon. Soon it'll be the Year of the Snake! 現在是龍年，但我們很快就要迎接...

Boy Breaks Vase and Gets Lesson  2024.11.26 語音檔連結 One day, a family went to a museum. They looked at many old things. The family has a four-year-old boy. He saw a vase. It was three thousand five hundred years old! 一個四歲的小男孩跟他家人到博物館，他看到一個三千五百年前的古老瓶子。 The boy wanted to see the inside of the vase. The vase was tall. The boy was small. So he pulled it a little... Uh-oh! 他想看看瓶子的裡面，但是瓶子放太高了，所以他輕輕拉了一下……。 The parents heard the crash. They saw their boy! They saw the broken vase! There were many pieces! Oh no! The boy was scared! He cried! 他的爸媽轉頭看到小男孩，以及地上破碎的瓶子，小男孩害怕地哭了。 But the museum workers were very kind. They knew it was a mistake. And they wanted kids to feel welcome. So they invited the family to come back. 博物館工作人員很和善。他們知道這是個意外。所以後來又邀請男孩一家人來博物館。 The family came back. The boy saw how the vase was fixed. The museum workers showed him that mistakes are a part of learning. 男孩在博物館看到修補古老瓶子的過程，工作人員想讓男孩知道，犯錯是學習的一部份。 The museum workers hope more kids will visit. They want everyone to know it'...

  Scientists Think Mars Has Lots of Water  2024.11.25 語音檔連結 Water is important for life. On Earth, there is no life with no water. That is the same for other planets too, like Mars. 水非常重要，沒有水就沒有生命，在火星上也是。 Scientists think Mars had lots of water billions of years ago. Then all the water on Mars went away. Where did it go? Maybe some water went into space. But where did most of it go? No one knows. 科學者認為火星在幾十億年前有水，但之後水慢慢消失了，是跑到太空了嗎?沒有人知道。 But now scientists think there is lots of water there. What? Mars is very dry! It has cracks! Where is the water? 但科學家說，那裡現在還是有很多水，火星這麼乾，還有很多裂縫，怎麼可能有水? Scientists think the water went down into the cracks. They think the water is deep in Mars now. They think it is 10 or 20 kilometers deep! 科學家認為水應該在裂縫深處，在火星地底 10 到 20 公里深! Scientists think there is lots of water. It can make an ocean. It can cover all of Mars. It can be one or two kilometers deep. But it's deep in Mars. 科學家認為那些水足夠變成 1到2 公里深的海洋，覆蓋整個火星，只是現在在地底下。 Is there life on Mars? No one knows...

  Scientists Studying Lobster Color  2024.11.22 語音檔連結 Lobsters live at the bottom of the ocean. They have long bodies and ten legs. Their big front legs have big claws! Watch out! 龍蝦住在海底，牠們有長長的身體跟十隻腳，小心哦! 牠們的兩隻前腳有巨大的鉗子! Most lobsters are dark red or brown. But lobsters can be other colors too. 大部分龍蝦是深紅色或是咖啡色，但是還有其他種顏色。 There are orange lobsters, blue lobsters, white lobsters, and light blue lobsters. Some lobsters have one color on their left side and one color on their right side! 有橘色、藍色、白色還有淺藍色的龍蝦。有一些龍蝦身體的左邊跟右邊顏色不一樣! Fishermen say finding colored lobsters was difficult. But now they are finding more! They find colored lobsters in some parts of the U.S. 漁夫說以前要找到彩色龍蝦很難，但是現在在美國某一些地方，它們有發現比較多。 The food that lobsters eat can decide their color. The DNA of lobsters also decides their color. Scientists want to test the colored lobsters' DNA. They want to know why lobsters are different colors. Now they are making tests. These tests don't hurt lobsters. 龍蝦的顏色會受到基因跟食物的影響。科學家正在做實驗，希望更...

  As Glaciers Melt, Submarine Looks at Mud Piles  2024.11.21  語音檔連結 In Greenland, big, slow ice rivers are melting. These are glaciers. Climate change is melting them. 在冰島，因為氣候快速變遷，巨大的冰川正在融化。 Water from melting glaciers makes oceans rise. Rising oceans can flood cities near them! One billion people live in these cities! 融化的冰川讓海平面升高，可能會淹沒海邊的城市！有十億個人住在這些城市裡。 Scientists are studying piles in front of glaciers. They are made of mud and rocks. Maybe they keep warm ocean water away from glaciers. Maybe they make glaciers melt more slowly! 科學家正在研究冰川前的堆積物，它們是由泥土和岩石組成。也許能把溫暖的海水擋在冰川外面，讓冰川融化得慢一點! But it’s too dangerous for people to go to the piles! Big pieces of ice can fall! So scientists sent a robot submarine. They moved it with a video game controller! 但是，親自調查那些堆積物很危險，隨時會有冰塊掉落！所以科學家們派了一艘機器潛水艇，並用遙控器控制！ The scientists got information about the piles! Maybe it will help them make glaciers melt more slowly. Maybe one day walls will be put in front of glaciers! 科學家現在更加了解那些堆積物，也許有一天，...

  F1 Race Car in Taichung  2024.11.20 語音檔連結 Something very exciting happened in Taichung. A fast race car raced on Shizheng Road! Sixty thousand people came to watch! It was a fun, noisy day! 台中有一件刺激的事情！一輛超快的賽車在市政路上飆車，吸引六萬人來觀看，是熱鬧的一天！ This was Taiwan's first F1 showrun! In a showrun, race cars drive on city streets. People are close to the race cars! 這是台灣第一次F1賽車表演，人們可以在熟悉的街道旁，近距離觀看賽車飆車 ! But what is an F1 car? "F1" means "Formula One." That's a very fast racing sport. F1 cars are very fast. They have one seat. The cars are open, so F1 drivers wear a helmet. The big, wide tires are outside of the car. These cars race on racetracks all around the world. F1 的意思是 Formula 1，也就是一級方程式賽車，會在世界各地比賽。這些車子只有一個座位，而且是敞篷的，所以賽車手得戴上頭盔。車子外面有大大的輪子。 For the showrun, Taichung made sure the road was smooth. An F1 driver zoomed along the road! His race car roared! He made the car spin! 台中特別把道路弄得平滑，讓F1車手可以在路上呼嘯而過，還讓車子原地旋轉！ He drove three times. Each time he did more. He made the car...