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THE PROBLEM OF CHILD LABOUR
Child labour is a significant issue that (7) ________ many children worldwide. It often forces them to work long hours in poor conditions, affecting their (8) ________ and mental health. Many children are unable to attend school, which has a long-term impact on their futures. (9) ________ these challenges, organizations like UNICEF are (10) ________ providing better opportunities for children. They believe that through offering education and protection, child labour can be significantly reduced. Although child labour still remains in (11) ________ parts of the world, efforts are being made to (12) ________ its impact.
[Adapted from UNICEF - Child Labour]

The "greenhouse effect" is the warming that happens when certain gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap heat. (18) ________ , like the glass walls of a greenhouse. First, sunlight shines onto the Earth's surface, (19) ________ and then radiates back into the atmosphere as heat. In the atmosphere, "greenhouse gases trap some of this heat, and the rest escapes into space. The more greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere, (20) ________.
Scientists have known (21) ________ since 1824, when Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth would be much colder if (22) ________ had no atmosphere. This greenhouse effect is what keeps the Earth's climate livable. Without it, the Earth's surface would be an average of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit cooler. Scientists often use the term "climate change" instead of global warming. This is because as the Earth's average temperature climbs, winds and ocean currents move heat around the globe in ways that can cool some areas, warm others and change the amount of rain and snow falling. As a result, the climate changes differently in different areas.

AVICII'S LIFE AFTER REHAB
Once he completed his month in rehab, Avicii seemed to have a new outlook on life. He was meditating regularly, reading about the collective unconscious, and got a puppy. After not performing for a long period of time, he returned to the stage in 2016 at Miami's Ultra Music Festival. It was announced a few days after this gig that he would not be performing live anymore. Avicii chose not to perform so that he could focus on bettering his mental health.
Despite appearing to have new-found stability, Avicii still struggled to deal with his mental health issues. While continuing to suppress the anxiety and depression that he frequently felt, Avicii also started to become disinterested in his music career. During this time, he was smoking and drinking on occasion which may have resulted in a resurgence of his disassociation feelings.
He told Tereza Kacerova, his girlfriend at the time, “What if everyone around me is just a projection in my mind? Sometimes I just think these things. About how nothing really matters.”
Avicii started to focus heavily on meditation which he found to be helpful in clearing the "nonsense" from his mind. He believed that a deep form of meditation taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a way to exercise his brain which he had decided would lead to his happiness. Despite this form of meditation typically being done in 20 minute increments, Avicii would sometimes spend full days meditating in an attempt to reach enlightenment faster.
(Adapted from https://www.addictioncenter.com/)

Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of complicated numbers and symbols while others see beauty [I]. Now, thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into beautiful and instructive illustrations [II]. This exciting new tool is named Penrose after the mathematician Roger Penrose, who is famous for using diagrams and other drawings to communicate complicated mathematical ideas [III]. Penrose enables users to create diagrams simply by typing mathematical expressions and letting the software do the drawing [IV].
Unlike a graphing calculator, these aren’t restricted to basic functions, but can be complex relationships from any area of mathematics. “Some mathematicians have a talent for drawing beautiful diagrams by hand, but they vanish as soon as the chalkboard is erased,” said Keenan Crane, an assistant professor of computer science and robotics. “We want to make this expressive power available to anyone.” Diagrams are often underused in mathematical communication, since producing high-quality illustrations is beyond the skill of many researchers and requires a great deal of time and effort. Penrose addresses these challenges by letting diagram-drawing experts turn their knowledge about creating diagrams into computer codes so that other users can access this capability using familiar mathematical language and a computer. “We started off by asking: ‘How do people translate mathematical ideas into pictures in their head?’” said Katherine Ye, a Ph.D.student in the Computer Science Department who is involved in the development of Penrose. “The secret sauce of our system is to empower people to easily ‘explain’ this translation process to the computer, so the computer can do all the hard work of actually
making the picture.”
Once the computer learns how the user wants to see a mathematical object visualized – a vector represented by a little arrow, for instance, or a point represented as a dot – it uses these rules to draw several candidate diagrams. Users can then select and edit the diagrams they want from a gallery of possibilities. A special, simple-to-learn programming language was also developed so that they can easily convey the ideas in their minds to the Penrose system, Crane said. “Mathematicians can get very picky about notations,” he explained. “We let them define whatever notation they want, so they can express themselves naturally.”
The researchers will present Penrose at the SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, which will be held this July. “Our vision is to be able to dust off an old math textbook from the library, drop it into the computer and get a beautifully illustrated book – that way more people understand,” Crane said, noting that Penrose is a first step toward this goal.
(Adapted from sciencedaily.com)