SSS 2011-07-28
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(七)月
英语课
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now. Well, now it’s your chance to turn the tables, picnic and otherwise, on these summertime pests, because researchers at North Carolina State University want your ants—for science.
The project, on the web at schoolofants.org, is calling on teachers, students and citizen-scientists of all ages to help catalog the kinds of ants that live in urban areas: at your school, where you work or outside your front door.
They supply a collection kit 1 that comes with nine vials pre-loaded with cookie crumbs 2. Just plop a few vials on the lawn and some on the sidewalk, wait an hour, and then ship your samples back to the scientists. They’ll identify the ants and load the data onto an interactive 3 online map where you can see your specimens 4 and check out the biodiversity in your backyard.
You could turn up something special, like the elusive 5 Bigfoot Ant, North America’s rarest ant species, or be the first to find a common species unknown in your area. Either way, the ants you mail off will never crawl up your leg again.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Karen Hopkin.
1 kit
n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物
- The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
- The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
2 crumbs
adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的
- The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
- This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。