Dogs see the world through different lenses (视角). 【小题1】. Do you want to know what your dog is thinking at all times? If so, keep reading to figure out what they have on their minds!

【小题2】. Pups (小狗) have a habit of chewing on things during the teething time. It does not mean the same thing when they are not puppies anymore. There is a chance that they just need to get more physical activity. One way to treat the problem would be to take your dog out for a walk.

How they bark. Dogs bark for a lot of reasons. Loud and frequent barks will mean there is an urgent issue (情况). Maybe they could feel danger lurking and want you to know about it. Short and soft ones, however, mean that they feel playful. 【小题3】.

Bringing you toys. Your dog might not want to play even if their toy is in their mouth. A theory says that this is their way to please their human. 【小题4】. They trust you so much that they want you to have their prized object. For this reason, you might hurt their feelings if you simply throw the toy away!

Pacing back and forth. Is your dog pacing? Well, it probably means that they are excited, nervous, or bored. 【小题5】. When they go around in circles, it likely means that they want to play. It is similar to the way dogs greet each other upon first meeting.

If you’ve ever taken a class in drawing, painting or pottery and in spite of your best effort, couldn’t make the final result look anything like the model shown, you may have thought, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.”

According to some scientists, who for the past 20 years have put the elusive subject of creativity through the rigors of research, you are underestimating yourself. Da Vinci you may never be, but when it comes to creativity, we are all somewhat blessed. It’s learning to foster this unique tool of extraordinary productivity, and then applying it in everything you do, that counts to tell you from figures like Da Vinci.

“Even if we don’t have the good fortune to discover a new chemical element or write a great story, the love of the creative process for its own sake is available to says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Creativity: Flow and Psychology of Discovery and Invention.

Most people believe creativity has been awarded to those perceived to have special talent. We look upon these “creative geniuses,” as we often call them, with awe and a bit of envy, and most people assume they’re born with the good genes, or, as if in Greek mythology, acquire from some kind of divine inspiration.

There is no argument that the world is never short of highly talented and creative people. They are masters of their trades and stand heads-and-shoulders above commoners, making new pathways for others to follow, and providing greater context and understanding of our world. It could be said that without creativity humanity would not evolve so rapidly.

But like a publicly recognized creative baseball player who sharpens his skill through years of continuous training, giving up other pursuits for the sole passion, people who show the slightest reluctance for arduous labor are bound to witness their boasted ability disappear.

After closely studying 91 creative and influential people, including novelists, playwrights, composers, musicians and scientists, Csikszentmihalyi concludes that no one would ignore the sweat they shed and their almost insane willingness to follow their creative endeavor to the very end, wherever that may be. These are the very things we all can master, so long as we’d like to.

Young children are more likely than adults to have their opinions influenced by robots according to a new research. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, compared how adults and children respond to an identical task when in the presence of both their peers (同龄人) and robots.

It showed that while adults regularly have their opinions influenced by peers, something also shown in previous studies, they are largely able to resist being persuaded by robots. However, children aged between seven and nine were more likely to give the same responses as the robots, even if they were obviously incorrect.

The study asks people to look at a screen showing four lines and say which two match in length. When alone, people almost never make a mistake but when doing the experiment with others, they tend to follow what others are saying.

When children were alone in the room in this research, they scored 87% on the test, but when the robots joined in, their score dropped to 75%. And of the wrong answers, 74% matched those of the robot.

Professor Belpaeme said, “People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. But as robots will soon be found in the home and the workplace, we were wondering if people would follow robots. What our results show is that adults do not follow what the robots are saying. But when we did the experiment with children, they did. It shows children can perhaps have more of an affinity (亲和力) with robots than adults, which does pose the question: What if robots were to suggest, for example, what products to buy or what to think?”