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Jan 19, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
Difficulty: Summiteer (Level 3)As the days get shorter and the weather turns colder, many Hongkongers are experiencing the “winter blues”. Lolita Schmalenberg, a psychotherapist at Lifespan Counselling, said the change in mood could be a sign of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). “SAD is a type of depression connected to the changing seasons, and it usually affects people in [autumn] and winter when the daylight hours are shorter,” she said.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Doris Wai
6 hours agoLupus has long been considered incurable—but a series of breakthroughs are fueling hope. Lupus, doctors like to say, affects no two patients the same. The disease causes the immune system to go rogue in a way that can strike virtually any organ in the body, but when and where is maddeningly elusive. …
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Doris Wai
Mount Everest is growing taller thanks to a river mergerEarth’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, is 8.85km above sea level – and it is still growing. Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas have been …
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Doris Wai
2 days agoCNN — Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, new study has found. The space agency planned the DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, …
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Kelly Fung |Doris Wai
More than 45,000 Hong Kong students sit inaugural university entrance exam for citizen and social development subjectMore than 45,000 students in Hong Kong have taken the first university exam for the citizen and social development subject, which focuses on testing their knowledge about the nation’s security and development. Teachers said Tuesday’s test was vastly different in terms of the demands it placed on students compared with the controversial liberal studies exam it replaced.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
More than 4,000 swimmers welcomed New Year’s Day by diving into freezing waters for the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. Many of them wore quirky costumes such as starfish suits and superhero outfits. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club has been hosting a public New Year’s Day Plunge since 1903. The event raises money to support local charities in New York. Some believe jumping into cold water on New Year’s Day is a way of saying goodbye to bad things from the past.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
In our solar system, Earth is the only planet we know of where humans can live. But what if there was life on other planets in the past? Mars is the closest planet that could possibly support life. Irena Hui, an assistant curator at the Hong Kong Space Museum, tells Posties all about Mars and what scientists are learning about this planet. What conditions are like on MarsMars is the fourth planet from the sun, right after Earth. It is about half the diameter of Earth.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing shooting stars flashing. These shooting stars are meteors, which are small pieces of rock from space burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Comets are icy bodies made of frozen gases, rock and dust. As comets go around the sun, they leave behind trails of remains called debris. This debris is what makes meteoroids. Meteoroids can also come from rocky objects in space called asteroids.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
Imagine floating in space and exploring new planets. Being an astronaut is a dream job for many kids, but how does someone actually achieve this goal? Irena Hui, an assistant curator at the Hong Kong Space Museum, tells Posties about what astronauts do and what it takes to become one. What astronauts doAstronauts are people who are trained to explore space. But to even be selected to join a space programme, they usually are required to be experts in science subjects, such as biology or physics.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
scmp.com | Doris Wai
In 1989, something important happened for kids around the world. Leaders of many countries came together and made a promise to protect children and help them grow. They created a treaty called the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The treaty says that anyone under the age of 18 is considered a child. It promises that every kid has the right to be safe, stay healthy, and go to school. The idea behind the convention is that children are not objects that belong to their parents.
