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Peter Rabbit hops into Beijing’s UCCA Lab The world-famous Peter Rabbit and his friends, from British novelist Beatrix Potter’s children’s books, jumped into the UCCA Lab in Beijing, ready to take children and adults on a new adventure with an exhibition. Once visitors come to the exhibition. Potter’s life stories, which describe her as a writer of more than 60 books, a wise businesswoman and a nature lover, will spread before them. First, Peter’s family, all in sculptures (雕塑) greet visitors in a “rabbit hole”. Then they are led into Potter’s living room and can discover her love for nature through all those rocks and insects (昆虫) she collected as a child. They can also read the first version (版本) of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which Potter wrote for the five-year-old son of her friend. Then visitors start “A Great Adventure” in the garden. Here visitors can take part in activities from hide-and-seek and saving Peter Rabbit to a flower pot (花盆) workshop, to get knowledge about plants and animals, and a fuller understanding of the hero’s adventurous spirit. In the third part. “A Fierce Battle”, visitors can watch the scene (场景) in The Tale of Mr. Tod, where Peter Rabbit and Benjamin are having a fight with their neighbors to save Benjamin’s stolen baby. After Peter Rabbit’s adventures come to an end, “Tell Me Another Story”, the fourth part, guides visitors into a tailor (裁缝) shop, where visitors can try on all the clothes worn by Potter’s animal characters. The exhibition ends in “A Beautiful Legacy (遗产)”, where the visitors are encouraged to express whatever they want to say about Potter and her literary (文学的) works through writing or drawing. The exhibition will give people a deeper understanding of Potter’s works and her commitment (贡献) to nature conservation (保护), according to the Beijing museum. If you go: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm, before Septembers 5; UCCA Lab, 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao L.u, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Is fake grass better than a living grass lawn? What do you need to know? · Fake grass is made from different types of plastics and used in gardens as well as sports grounds. · More and more people are using fake grass to replace living grass lawns (草坪) and cover other outdoor spaces. · One company selling fake grass has sold 50% more compared with last year. · Some people think fake grass is bad for wildlife and the environment, and mustn’t be sold. Environment protectors’ opinion There has been a large rise in the number of fake lawns. Environment protectors say fake grass lawns destroy (破坏) wildlife habitats (栖息地) at a time when we should be trying to improve the environment, which is not friendly to animals, birds or insects like bees which are important to us. However, looking after a garden can be hard work, which not everybody is willing or able to do. LAST WEEK’S POLL (投票) Last week, we asked if fake grass was better than a real lawn. Most readers said they preferred the natural kind of green space, especially because it’s much better for wildlife. Yes—fake grass makes gardening easy Fake grass not only looks tidier, it’s also easier to care for, especially for people who find gardening difficult or boring. Fake grass can be swept and cleaned, but a natural lawn needs mowing (修剪), weeding (除草) and watering, which takes effort and isn’t always good for the environment. A fake grass lawn looks fresh, bright and colourful in a shady (背阴的) outdoor space. No—fake grass should be replaced with real grass Gardens bring all kinds of nature into our lives. Birds can peck (啄食) through lawns for bugs and worms, and underground wildlife will not be starved of food. Plastic grass also heats up more than a natural lawn. In warm weather, it can be too hot for bare (光脚的) feet or paws to stand on. Also, there is now no easy way to recycle plastic lawns, so most will end up in rubbish dumps (堆). One of the best things about real grass gardens is that it’s rewarding (值得做的). You can’t plant flowers on a plastic lawn. Even a tiny real grass lawn—which provides food for birds and a home for insects, plants and other wildlife—is better than a fake, plastic one.

Scientists train AI to read human thoughts Scientists have created a new tool that can turn people’s thoughts into words. It works by using an AI program called GPT-1 to translate brain activity words. In order to achieve this, scientists did a lot. First, scientists got everything ready before the tests. They invited some volunteers. Each spent sixteen hours listening to stories in a scanner (扫描仪). They imagined the stories as they heard them, and the scanner recorded their brain activity. GPT-1 made connections between the ideas in the stories and the recordings of the listeners’ brain activity. Then came the tests. The scientists did them in three different ways. Test 1 The researchers played a new story. GPT-1 was only given recordings of the volunteers’ brain activity. But the words that GPT-1 predicted (预测) were very similar to the words in the story that they were listening to. The words weren’t exactly the same, but they often carried the same meaning. For example, when a volunteer was listening to a story about a woman who didn't have a driver’s license (驾照), the program came up with this: “She hasn’t even started to learn to drive yet.” Test 2 The scientists also carried out the test when volunteers imagined their own stories. “It really works at the level of ideas. The ideas are the same but expressed in different words,” says Alexander Huth, one of the scientists behind the study. Test 3 The researchers showed the volunteers silent movies, with no spoken words at all. GPT-1 could still figure out (算出) the basic ideas. After the tests, the scientists say that GPT-1 is the first AI program to turn what people are thinking into words without brain surgery (外科手术). The tool isn’t something that can be easily used today, mainly because of the size and the cost of the scanner. In the future, they believe, a similar but cheaper tool could help people who have lost the ability to speak because of an injury or disease. The scientists say their tool can’t be used to “read people’s minds” without permission (允许). The tool only works if the person wants to share their thoughts.