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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...

  A Big Social Media Change for Teens  2024.11.19 語音檔連結 Many teenagers are on social media. Some of their accounts are changing … 有很多青少年用社群媒體，有一些帳號將會有很大的改變。 In Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA, new teen accounts are keeping teens safe online. They are for 13 to 17-year-old teens. Next year, teens here will get them too. 青少年帳號會保護 13 到 17 歲的青少年，目前在澳洲、加拿大、英國跟美國進行，明年台灣也會有! Experts say social media is bad for teens. It has lots of bullies and strangers. And some teens cannot stop looking at social media! 專家說社群媒體對青少年來說是不好的，它有很多陌生人跟霸凌者。有一些青少年可能會用到上癮! Teen accounts are private. Teens talk with people they want to talk with. Bullies and strangers cannot talk with teens. They cannot see pictures or write in teen accounts. 青少年帳號會是私人的，能用來跟朋友聊天，但陌生人或霸凌者沒辦法跟他們講話，或是看他們的照片。 With teen accounts, teens cannot see everything on social media. Parents say how long their teen can use it. This means teens cannot look at social media for too long... or too late at night! Parents can see who thei...

  Many People Want to Be Flight Attendants  2024.11.18 語音檔連結 What do you want to be when you grow up? Maybe you want to be a firefighter or a police officer. You can help people. Maybe you want to be a race car driver. You can drive fast! 你長大之後想做什麼呢? 也許你想當消防員或警察幫助別人，或是當賽車手開快車! How about a flight attendant? You can fly around the world! Many people want to be flight attendants. 也有很多人想當空服員，飛來飛去環遊世界。你想當空服員嗎? An airline in Taiwan needs new flight attendants. More than 1,300 people want the jobs! How many new flight attendant jobs does the airline have? They have 12! Wow! Most of those people won't become flight attendants with this airline. 台灣有一間航空公司在徵求空服員，超過 1300 個人申請! 但是他們絕大部分會失望，因為公司只需要 12 個人。 Why does the airline need 12 new flight attendants? It bought some new planes. And more people are flying now. They don't worry about COVID-19 now. 為什麼需要新的空服員呢? 疫情之後有更多人想要旅行，所以航空公司買了新飛機。 The flight attendants will fly from Taipei or Kaohsiung. They will fly in Taiwan and to other countrie...