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Today is Queen Elizabeth II’s 96th birthday. Although landmarks such as the Tower of London will launch a cannon salute to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, the Queen, who has recently reduced appearances due to her health, has opted for a private The residence, Sandringham House, is said to have been spent the day at the late husband Philip’s favourite manor cottage.
And because the British monarch has the tradition of “two birthdays” , in addition to the “real birthday”, the Queen will also celebrate the official birthday this year in the beautiful June as usual, and will also be the longest reigning British man. Sovereign, celebrate the 70th anniversary of his accession to the throne.
Gayon: Toy maker Mattel launches special edition Barbie to pay tribute to the Queen
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Global Hotspot
Under the dual pressures of global warming and modern intensive agriculture, parts of the world are heading for a sharp decline in insect populations and ecosystems on the verge of collapse, according to a new study published in the journal Nature by University College London. The “insect apocalypse”.
The study pointed out that in the most affected areas, the number of insects has dropped by nearly 50% (49%), and the number of species has decreased by 27%. Due to the important role of insects and plants in the process of pollination, the current “insect crisis” is staged. “It could ultimately impact human health and food security. Scholars suggest that careful management of agricultural areas, such as protecting natural habitats near farmland, may help to make sure that important insects can still thrive.
Insects support all life on Earth, including us. We must protect them better in return.
Climate change and farming driving insect decline Combined pressures of global heating and farming can halve insect populations in some places – study. bbc.co.uk
out of gender
The acceptance of LGBT in South Korean society is still low, and the military is the most unfriendly workplace environment for LGBT. Previously, after undergoing gender reassignment (transsexual) surgery, the military was dismissed by the military on the grounds of “physical and mental disabilities”. It’s a pity to end up on a dead end. In addition, the country’s military code prohibits sexual behavior between male soldiers, even during vacations and off-duty periods. Violating the law can be sentenced to up to two years in prison.
In 2017, the South Korean military launched a large-scale investigation into the outflow of soldiers’ sex videos. More than 10 people were prosecuted for sex with men. Two of the soldiers were convicted and sentenced. Two defendants refused to accept the verdict and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
South Korea’s Supreme Court rejected the military court’s ruling on the 21st, finding that the legal provisions do not apply to consensual sexual acts that occur outside the military camp while on duty, and pointed out that the moral concept that homosexual acts constitute obscenity must keep pace with the times, and define these acts as Crime unreasonably violates soldiers’ sexual autonomy and rights to non-discrimination, equality and dignity and the pursuit of happiness.
Human rights groups see the ruling as groundbreaking and help address LGBT discrimination in the military, and have called on the Constitutional Court to rule the provision unconstitutional — the Court has ruled it three times in the past, most recently in 2016 year.
The Supreme Court of Korea reversed the convictions of 2 soldiers jailed in 2017 for engaging in consensual same-sex sexual acts while off duty. This decision is an important triumph in the fight against discrimination faced by LGBTI people in South Korea 
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South Korea: Landmark judgement on same-sex sexual acts in military a huge victory for LGBTI rights Responding to the Supreme Court of Korea reversing the convictions of two soldiers jailed in 2017 for engaging in consensual same-sex sexual acts while off duty, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: “This groundbreaking decision is an important triumph in the fight against… amnesty.org
I can’t just see
Many readers may have tried intermittent fasting methods such as “16/8” and “12/12”, which have become popular in recent years, but a study published in the “New England Journal of Medicine” showed that, For the same calorie intake, limiting eating to 8 hours does not lose more weight than eating all day.
For the year-long study, 139 overweight subjects were given a daily upper limit of calories, the difference being that the experimental group had to eat between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., while the control group had no limit.
After a year of low-calorie diets, both groups successfully lost weight (average weight loss of 14 to 18 pounds), but there were no significant differences in weight loss or health indicators such as waist circumference, body fat, blood sugar, and blood pressure. The researchers point out that this suggests that the benefits of intermittent fasting are overwhelmingly due to counting dietary caloric restriction (rather than the fasting itself) — there is no benefit to eating in between.
“There is no benefit to eating in a narrow window,” one diet researcher said. 
Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating In a yearlong study, participants who confined meals to certain hours lost no more weight than those who ate at any time. nyti.ms
Quote of the Day
The ” 2022 Global Chinese College Students Short Poem Contest ” held by Shanghai Jiaotong University in China recently announced the entries for the audition, and many poems directly pointed to the epidemic in China (such as the viral “Unnecessary Leaving School “, and the ” Historical Records ” depicting Li Wenliang, the whistleblower. ) and Xuzhou Iron Chain Girl ( “A woman grows at the head of his bed ” and other social issues, but they cannot escape the fate of being blocked and disappearing.
Further reading
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An Exploitation of Poverty for the Poorer: Three Narratives of Chinese Women’s Trafficking
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Jia Xuanning’s column: You won’t die from COVID, anything else can happen
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