Mennyit értettél meg belőle? A híreket megérteni nem mindig egyszerű, de talán ez most nem volt olyan nehéz!

Nézzük mennyire értetted meg! Döntsd el az állításokról, hogy igazak vagy hamisak!

Igaz vagy hamis?

1. A brit kormány be akarja tiltani a közösségi médiát minden 16 év alatti gyermek számára.
2. A szöveg szerint a közösségi média segíti a gyerekek mentális egészségét és boldogságát.
3. A közösségi média funkcióit, például a végtelen görgetést, szándékosan úgy tervezték, hogy függőséget okozzanak.
4. A beszélő szerint az alkohol teljes tiltása is felesleges lenne, ha egy tinédzser néha megszegi a szabályokat.

Ha nem vagy biztos benne, olvasd el az átiratot angolul

Today is a big moment for our country. This is a big step, real change for our children and our future. Because today I can announce that the government will ban access to social media for all children under the age of 16.

Every parent can see it with their own eyes. Social media is making children unhappy. It’s making it easier for bullies to harass and abuse them. And it could even be harming their mental health, exposing them to content that is dangerous because that’s what grabs the attention. It’s designed to be addictive. Of course it is. Features like the infinite scroll, they’re designed to lock you in for hours.

Will it mean that no child ever logs onto social media again? No, but look, um this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock parents of teenagers. They get around other laws, too. Uh but we don’t say, “Oh, look, a teenager managed to get a drink somehow, so let’s not bother banning alcohol sales to children.” We don’t do that, do we? That would be utterly ridiculous. And so, I just don’t accept that argument.

On Sale

Komplett angol nyelvtan rendszerező videókurzus

39,900Ft Original price was: 39,900Ft.29,900FtCurrent price is: 29,900Ft.

Kosárba teszem

Quick ViewCompareAdded

On Sale

ANGOL Nyelvtan+Szókincs – átfogó 40 részes videókurzus, középfokra készülőknek is

59,900Ft Original price was: 59,900Ft.49,900FtCurrent price is: 49,900Ft.

Kosárba

Quick ViewCompareAdded

On Sale

Kezdő szintről középfokra (Level 1-2-3-4-5)

95,500Ft Original price was: 95,500Ft.45,400FtCurrent price is: 45,400Ft.

Kosárba

Quick ViewCompareAdded

Megoldások:

1. Igaz – A beszélő egyértelműen kijelenti, hogy a kormány be fogja tiltani a közösségi médiát 16 év alatt („ban access to social media for all children under the age of 16”).
2. Hamis – A szöveg szerint a közösségi média boldogtalanná teszi a gyerekeket és káros lehet a mentális egészségre („making children unhappy”, „harming their mental health”).
3. Igaz – Kifejezetten elhangzik, hogy az olyan funkciók, mint a végtelen görgetés, függőségre vannak tervezve („designed to be addictive”, „designed to lock you in for hours”).
4. Igaz – A beszélő az alkohol példáját hozza fel, és azt mondja, hogy nem hagynák abba a tiltást csak azért, mert valaki megszegi („we don’t say… let’s not bother banning alcohol sales to children”).

‘Worst car in history’ set for comeback with new makeover

A budget car dubbed the ‘worst in history’ is set to make a comeback. The Yugo, which hailed from the former Yugoslavia, became the butt of many jokes after it was released in the UK and the US in the 1980s. It cost around £3,000, making it the cheapest vehicle on the market at the time. But the car was known for its poor-quality construction, lack of reliability and safety concerns and after an initial rush of customers, demand quickly fell.

Britain imported the Yugo for just ten years, between 1981 and 1991 and production ceased entirely in 2008. A book has even been written about the vehicle’s failure, called The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History.

Now a Serbian university professor is hoping to bring the car back to life, and unveiled a 1:5 scale model version at the Car Design Event 2025 in Munich.

Dr Alekasandar Bjelić, who owns the Yugo naming rights and is linked to the German automotive industry, hopes a fully working prototype will be showcased at Belgrade Expo 2027 and on the market soon after.

Designed by fellow Serb, Darko Marčeta, the new Yugo has a retro 80s look but with slim LED lights front and back and large alloy wheels. Mr Bjelić said the car would initially be sold as an ‘affordable’ two-door model, with potential for ‘different body versions’ in the future.

If plans are given the green light, it will launch with a petrol engine and a choice of manual or automatic gearboxes. He hopes electric versions would also be possible at some point.

Mr Bjelić has promised a ‘fun-to-drive car’ that ‘meets all relevant safety standards’.

The first Yugo was introduced to the UK market under the name Yugo 45 and offered cheaper alternative to rivals like the Ford Fiesta and Austin Metro.

It came with three petrol options of different capacities, from from 903cc to 1,301cc, with a ‘convertible’ version also available. Four years after its UK debut, the Yugo was also launched in the US, where it was ‘a punchline’ within a year, according to Jason Vuic’s book on the car. ‘Within a year, it was a staple of late night comedy,’ he wrote.

It’s reputation fell further in 1989 when 31-year-old Leslie Pluhar plunged off the Mackinac suspension bridge in Michigan in her Yugo.

She had lost control of the car after being struck with 48mph winds – although her speeding at the time was said to be a contributing factor.

On Sale

Komplett angol nyelvtan rendszerező videókurzus

39,900Ft Original price was: 39,900Ft.29,900FtCurrent price is: 29,900Ft.

Kosárba teszem

Quick ViewCompareAdded

On Sale

ANGOL Nyelvtan+Szókincs – átfogó 40 részes videókurzus, középfokra készülőknek is

59,900Ft Original price was: 59,900Ft.49,900FtCurrent price is: 49,900Ft.

Kosárba

Quick ViewCompareAdded

On Sale

Kezdő szintről középfokra (Level 1-2-3-4-5)

95,500Ft Original price was: 95,500Ft.45,400FtCurrent price is: 45,400Ft.

Kosárba

Quick ViewCompareAdded

In total, 794,428 Yugos were manufactured, although a fairly small percentage of those were sold in the UK. Official registrations show there were only 19 on UK roads by 2018, with reports only nine remain today. In 1997, one reached a rather strange end to its life when it was catapulted through the air.

Cavalry officer Hew Kennedy and his friend Richard Barr built a replica 13th century catapult and sent the Yugo flying to showcase the equipment’s slinging capacity.

Another car that’s had its fair share of jokes thrown at it is the Lada.

source: Metro

érvényes: 2025. június 30.

Music is a splendid thing. It can cheer you up when you’re sad, make you dance like a fool, and allow you to drown out the world when you need to. But music has its scientific uses, too. The documentary Alive Inside details how dementia patients react positively when given iPods filled with their old favorite songs. The music seems to help them “come alive” again. While listening to familiar songs, many of the documentary’s patients can sing along, answer questions about their past, and even carry on brief conversations with others.

“Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience,” says neurologist Oliver Sacks, who appears in the film. “Music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring with it memory.”

The documentary follows recent studies showing that music can improve the memories of dementia patients, and even help them develop new memories.

Here, a look at some other things music has been known to “cure”:

1. LOW BIRTH WEIGHT

Babies born too early often require extended stays in the hospital to help them gain weight and strength. To help facilitate this process, many hospitals turn to music. A team of Canadian researchers found that playing music to preemies reduced their pain levels and encouraged better feeding habits, which in turn helped with weight-gain. Hospitals use musical instruments to mimic the sounds of a mother’s heartbeat and womb to lull premature babies to sleep. Researchers also say that playing calming Mozart to premature infants significantly reduces the amount of energy they expend, which allows them gain weight.

It “makes you wonder whether neonatal intensive care units should consider music exposure as standard practice for at-risk infants,” says Dr. Nestor Lopez-Duran at child-psych.org.

2. DROOPY PLANTS

If music helps babies grow, can it do the same thing for plants? Dorothy Retallack says yes. She wrote a book in 1973 called The Sound of Music and Plants, which detailed the effects of music on plant growth. Retallack played rock music to one group of plants and easy listening music to another, identical group. At the end of the study, the ‘easy listening’ plants were uniform in size, full and green, and were even leaning toward the source of the music. The rock music plants had grown tall, but they were droopy, with faded leaves, and were leaning away from the radio.

3. THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF BRAIN DAMAGE

Of the 1.5 million Americans who sustain brain damage each year, roughly 90,000 of them will be left with a long-term movement or speech disability. As treatment, researchers use music to stimulate the areas of the brain that control these two functions.

When given a rhythm to walk or dance to, people with neurological damage caused by stroke or Parkinson’s disease can “regain a symmetrical stride and a sense of balance.” The beats in music help serve as a footstep cue for the brain.

Similarly, rhythm and pitch can help patients sing what words they can’t say. A study of autistic children who couldn’t speak found that music therapy helped these children articulate words. Some of these kids said their first words ever as a result of the treatment.

“We are just starting to understand how powerful music can be. We don’t know what the limits are.” says Michael De Georgia, director of the Center for Music and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University’s University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.

4. TEEN LOITERING

Public libraries, malls, and train stations already know this: Teenagers typically don’t like classical music. In fact, they dislike it so much that “it sends them scurrying away like frightened mice,” says the LA Times. The theory is that when the brain hears something it dislikes, it suppresses dopamine, “the pleasure chemical.” And as teenagers’ moods fall, they go elsewhere to find something to bring it back up.

So if you want the neighbor kids to get off your lawn, turn up the Tchaikovsky.

5. HEARING LOSS

OK, maybe music can’t cure hearing loss, but it may help prevent it. A study of 163 adults, 74 of them lifelong musicians, had participants take a series of hearing tests. The lifelong musicians processed sound better than non-musicians, with the gap widening with age. “A 70-year-old musician understood speech in a noisy environment as well as a 50-year-old non-musician,” explains Linda Searling at the Washington Post.

6. A BROKEN HEART

Not the kind caused by rejection, but the kind caused by a heart attack. Music can help patients who are recovering from heart attacks and heart surgery by lowering blood pressure, slowing the heart rate and reducing anxiety. As a preventative, try listening to “joyful” music, or songs that make you feel good. Research says listening to songs that evoke a sense of joy causes increased circulation and expanded blood vessels, which encourages good vascular health.

7. POOR SPORT PERFORMANCE

In 2005, a UK study found that listening to music during sports training can boost athletic performance by up to 20 percent. That’s roughly equal to the boost some athletes get from illegal performance-enhancing drugs, except music doesn’t show up on a drug test. For best results, try music with a fast tempo during intense training and slower songs during cooldown.

8. GRUMPY TEENS

In a 2008 study, researcher Tobias Greitemeyer wanted to study how lyrics impacted teenagers’ attitudes and behavior. To do so, he exposed one group of teens to “socially conscious” songs with a positive message, like Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World.” Another other group listened to songs with a “neutral” message. The researchers then “accidentally” knocked over a cup of pencils. The group listening to positive songs not only rushed to help more quickly, but picked up five times as many pencils as the other group.

9. ILLITERACY

A 2009 study comparing two groups of second graders from similar demographics suggests learning music boosts reading abilities. The only major difference between the two groups was that one learned music notation, sight-reading and other skills, while the control group did not. Each group was tested for literacy before and after the school year. The end-of-year scores for the control group improved only slightly from their beginning of the year scores, while the kids with a music education scored “significantly higher,” especially on vocabulary tests.

10. SLUGGISH ALCOHOL SALES

Are you a wine store owner suffering from an overstock of German vino? Try pumping some German tunes through your store. A 1999 study showed that doing so boosted German wine sales, and similarly, playing French music boosted French wine sales. Customers said they were completely oblivious to what music was being played.

11. WINE SNOBBERY

Ever purchased a bottle of wine with recommended listening printed on the bottle? Well, makers of cheap wine may want to consider that tactic. A group of researchers say certain types of music can “enhance” the way wine tastes by up to 60 percent. In a study, wine-drinkers rated white wine as 40 percent more refreshing when it was accompanied by “zingy and refreshing” music (“Just Can’t Get Enough” by Nouvelle Vague was their go-to zingy song). The taste of red wine was altered 60 percent by “powerful and heavy music” like Orff’s “Carmina Burana.”

“The tongue is easy to dupe.” says Jonah Lehrer at Wired.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some $8 chardonnay that needs a little help from Tina Turner.

source: Mentalfloss

Ismételjük át még egyszer, miről is olvashattunk. Válaszolj a kérdésekre magyarul!

1. Milyen pozitív hatással van a zene a koraszülött babákra?

2. Milyen hatással volt a rockzene a növényekre?

3. Hogyan segít a zene az autista gyerekeknek?

4. Mire lehetne felhasználni a komolyzenét a tinédzserekkel kapcsolatban?

5. Milyen kísérletben teljesítettek jobban a zenészek másoknál?

6. Hogyan segít a zene a szívproblémákkal küzdő embereknek?

7. Milyen hatással lehet a zene a sportolókra?

8. Mivel igazolták, hogy a dalszövegek hatással vannak a tinédzserekre?

9. Milyen hatással van a kottaolvasás tanulása a gyerekekre?

10. Hogyan befolyásolta a borvásárlókat a zene?

11. Mi történik, ha borivás közben zenét hallgatunk?

Válaszok:

1. Csökken a fájdalomérzésük, többet esznek, gyarapszik a súlyuk, segít elaludni nekik.

2. Magasra nőttek, de a leveleik kókadtak és hervadtak voltak és a hang forrásától ellenkező irányban hajoltak el.

3. Énekelve könnyebben ki tudják mondani a szavakat, amiket különben korábban nem tudtak.

4. Ha zavar, hogy a ház előtti füvön lógnak, komolyzenével el lehet őket űzni, mert ha olyat hallgat az ember, amit nem szeret, az kellemetlen érzéseket kelt benne és menekülésre készteti.

5. Jobban fel tudták dolgozni a hangokat, jobban értették a beszédet zajos környezetben.

6. Csökkenti a vérnyomást, a pulzust és a szorongást.

7. Akár húsz százalékkal is növelheti a teljesítményüket.

8. Egy kísérletben a véletlenül kiöntött ceruzákból a pozitív szövegű dalokat hallgató tinédzserek többet és gyorsabban szedtek fel.

9. Az ilyen gyerekeknek jobb a tanulmányi eredményük, különösen a szókincs terén teljesítenek jobban.

10. Amikor német zenét játszottak a német borból vettek többet, amikor pedig francia zenét, akkor a francia borból.

11. Finomabbnak találhatjuk a bort, attól függően, hogy milyen zenét hallgatunk.

She announced in March that she had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer that was detected after abdominal surgery earlier in the year and would begin the treatment.

Her updated statement Monday says it has been a difficult year for her family but it has provided perspective on life and being grateful for simple but important things, such as “loving and being loved.”

She thanked supporters for their kindness and compassion and told those fighting cancer that she remains by their sides.

Read the full transcript:

“As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment. The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family. Life as you know it can change in an instant and we have had to find a way to navigate the stormy waters and road unknown.The cancer journey is complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you.

With humility, it also brings you face to face with your own vulnerabilities in a way you have never considered before, and with that, a new perspective on everything. This time has above all reminded William and me to reflect and be grateful for the simple yet important things in life, which so many of us often take for granted. Of simply loving and being loved.

Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus. Although I have finished chemotherapy, my path to healing and full recovery is long and I must continue to take each day as it comes. I am however looking forward to being back at work and undertaking a few more public engagements in the coming months when I can.

Despite all that has gone before, I enter this new phase of recovery with a renewed sense of hope and appreciation of life. William and I are so grateful for the support we have received and have drawn great strength from all those who are helping us at this time. Everyone’s kindness, empathy and compassion has been truly humbling.

To all those who are continuing their own cancer journey – I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand. Out of darkness, can come light, so let that light shine bright.”

source: CNN

Air travel at the moment is, putting it lightly, a bit of a mess: hampered by loads of queues, lengthy delays and thousands of cancelled flights. What’s worse is that, for travellers, much of it is so unpredictable. Airports can go from decent one day to crappy the next – there’s no telling what kind of chaos you might get caught up in.

But presumably, some airports must be worse than others, statistically speaking? Well, if you’re into numbers, a new report from travel agency Hopper is here to help you work out which airports you should avoid at all costs.

Using data from the Official Aviation Guide, a provider of data and analytics for airports, Hopper has worked out how European airports were performing in July, focusing on the number of delays and cancellations up to July 10.

And the worst airport in Europe right now is… Brussels Zaventem! Belgium’s busiest airport, Zaventem has seen a whopping 72 percent of flights delayed in the period, with 2.5 percent cancelled.

Brussels is followed by Frankfurt International, which saw 68 percent of flights delayed and 7.8 percent cancelled, and Eindhoven in the Netherlands, which had 67 percent of flights delayed and 1.8 percent cancelled.

By contrast, the best-performing airport in Europe is Milan’s Bergamo, which only had three percent of flights delayed and one percent cancelled. Similarly reliable is Gran Canaria’s airport (with eight percent delayed, 0.3 percent cancelled) and Bucharest’s Otopeni International (ten percent delayed, 1.7 percent cancelled).

Here is the full ranking of Europe’s worst airports in July, according to Hopper’s study.

1. Brussels Zaventem, Belgium (72 percent delayed, 2.5 percent cancelled)
2. Frankfurt International, Germany (68 percent delayed, 7.8 percent cancelled)
3. Eindhoven, Netherlands (67 percent delayed, 1.8 percent cancelled)
4. Luton, UK (66 percent delayed, 2.7 percent cancelled)
5. Budapest Liszt Ferenc, Hungary (65 percent delayed, 2.1 percent cancelled)
6. Lisbon, Portugal (65 percent delayed, 4.8 percent cancelled)
7. Paris Charles de Gaulle, France (62 percent delayed, 3.1 percent cancelled)
8. Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands (61 percent delayed, 5.2 percent cancelled)
9. Nice Côte d’Azur, France (60 percent delayed, 3.4 percent cancelled)
10. London Gatwick, UK (59 percent delayed, 1.4 percent cancelled)

source: TimeOut

Pick the best possible way to finish the sentences.