百姓科学家

专家曾怀疑美国的九星瓢虫已走向灭绝,直到搜寻瓢虫的志愿者彼得·普廖洛于两年前在纽约长岛的向日葵上发现了一只。这令他兴奋不已,而同样兴奋的还有“遗失瓢虫”项目的参与者们,该项目致力于研究北美的各种瓢虫,并得到普通大众的协助——即所谓的“众包”模式。     

1999年在布列亚河谷布金泉-1 遗址上的考察

1997年布列亚河考古考察已开始对位于布列亚河右岸、巴希列沃村上游11公里、布列亚水力发电站淹没区内的布金泉-1遗址进行考察.[译者简介]裘石,男,1939年5月生,1963年毕业于吉林大学历史系,现为北方文物杂志社研究馆员,邮编150008.     

八世纪早期的唐墓壁画

近几十年来最为杰出的考古发现之一就是唐墓壁,它们为研究唐代人物绘画提供了大量的资料.……     

进城的鸡

猪在大街上逛悠,牛在公园里吃草．曾是19世纪曼哈顿的一景。如今,鸡也成了城市里的家禽新宠,这种情况遍及全美。     

冰火人间

征凝望汤加里罗国家公园的腹地——从胜景之国新西兰最美丽的一片土地上拔地而起的三座高峰——赞叹眼前壮丽景观的时候,你心中难免会冒出关于美学的疑问。     

哈扎比人

他们不种粮食,不养家畜,也不遵循任何历法。他们的口粮来源以狩猎和采集为主,生活方式自一万年前起就几乎未曾变过。他们懂得多少已被世人遗忘的奥秘？     

Determinants of divorce in nineteenth-century Flanders

In 1830, the year Belgium became independent, there were four divorces in Belgium. From about 1870 to 1910, there were about one hundred divorces per year, and since 1910, there have been about 1,000. The aim of this research is to investigate the factors that played a role in the increase in the number of divorces in Belgium in the course of the nineteenth century. The research relates to information from four Flemish municipalities for the period 1800-1913. Results indicate that an explanation of the rising divorce rate can be sought in the psychological and social consequences of the more pronounced shift in marriage, gender and family expectations. Increasing numbers of women threw themselves more and more into their gender-specific expressive gender role, whereas the objective opportunities and attainability of this role did not increase commensurately. The result was role strain: high marriage and family expectations soon come up against intrinsic limitations. As a result of this, both individual and general frustration increased, and this was an ideal social substratum for facilitating divorce.     

西伯利亚，沉睡的土地

在乌拉尔山脉与北太平洋之间横卧着一片幅员广阔而又人迹罕至的帝国——СИОИРВ（俄语西伯利亚的写法．意为“沉睡的土地”）。这是一片神秘的土地,人类很难在这里生存．甚至是极为勇敢的哥萨克人也是直到16世纪才敢踏足这里。长7000公里．宽3500公里的西伯利亚是用来形容无边无际极好的比喻。尽管这里寒冷空旷,人烟稀少．但是却蕴藏着丰富的矿藏。