Shopping is good for your health. It’s official! We all know shopping is torturing men, who painfully stand behind their girlfriends or wives until they are done with their shopping, and affecting the bank balance.【小题1】

The next time you go to a mall, and just observe the ladies there, you will see all of them in the best of their moods. Studies confirm it as a form of cure. Come on, let’s face it. When we go shopping, we feel good about ourselves and the place.【小题2】 And it literally is a way to release stress for most women. Shopping releases hormones which are responsible for lifting your moods and therefore good for your mental health.

Cancel all your gym activities, your diet plans and all those trips to the gym. Scientists have found that women spend an average of 4 hours on shopping during a week. 【小题3】 Although most women do not realize or look at it as a formal form of exercise, it is definitely an effective form of exercise and it requires less motivation.

Some studies have led to the conclusion that shopping is one of the best ways to fight depression. A woman tends to be so absorbed in shopping that she can shop for hours without eating or getting tired. That is exactly the reason why girls usually spend hours shopping after a terrible break-up.【小题4】 Therefore, shopping helps overcome depression. Moreover, it is good to reward yourself occasionally with all those things you fancy.【小题5】

Spider monkeys know that the best way to find food is in a group. But when they divide to hunt for fruit, there’s no random (随意的) pairing off. Researchers have found that they use collective computation (群体计算) when they break up into teams.

Typically, the older females lead the rest of the younger monkeys, having the final say in group activities. But that’s not the case for wild spider monkeys living in a protected area near Punta Laguna, Mexico.

When they’re ready to search for food, the monkeys form teams without a single leader picking who goes into which group. Instead, each monkey decides which group to join and when to move to another group.

“The spider monkeys seem to be collecting information about resources by forming these small teams, so that as a group they know their environment better than anyone does on its own,” lead study author, Gabriel Ramos-Femandez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said.

To study the animals’ behavior, researchers spent two years recording 47 different spider monkeys for five hours each day. For hunting for food, they usually formed groups of 2 to 17 monkeys. Researchers worked together with the scientists to find out how a spider monkey decided to stay with or leave a group. Their study found that the monkeys’ decisions were influenced by the decisions of the other monkeys on the team. They would feel out their teammates about the best size and then make their own decisions accordingly.

The results produced teams of many different sizes, which were helpful in finding fruit in the forest. The researchers said that the collectively computed sizes were sometimes not a perfect match based on the food that was available. They suggest a similar study should be used to examine how other groups or systems work, such as flocks of birds or schools of fish.

The latest Chinese mission to space has made Wang Yaping the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk. Before Wang, only 15 women globally had conducted spacewalks since 1984. In the 60 years during which humans have been launched into the orbit, an all-female mission tends to be avoided because it seems like a stunt to purposefully draw attention. But Shenzhou XIII’s six-month journey in space has left much curiosity about the differences between male and female astronauts. Despite great challenges, women’s bodies and minds are uniquely suited for space missions.

First, the weight advantage. Lower body weights are just a small part of it. The rest of the difference comes from the amount of food, oxygen, and other resources needed to keep smaller humans alive. On average, men require 5 to 25 percent more calories a day than women. Smaller people produce less waste, which lowers demands to recycle and remove it. So women are physically more efficient in the sense.

There are considerations beyond the physical conditions. Scientists found that men tend to do well in shorter-term, goal-oriented situations, while women are better in longer-term, steady circumstances, People in steady circumstances are more communicative. Women are born with the social skill, so they are more likely to get along well on long-time space missions.

Does this mean that there is no reason to send men on these missions？Not quite. Data suggests that mixed-gender(性别)teams are the most successful overall.