You might even offer to help with specific tasks, like looking up therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor. To someone with depression, these first steps can seem insurmountable. If they feel guilty or ashamed, point out that depression is a medical condition, just like asthma or diabetes. It's not a weakness or a personality trait, and they shouldn't expect themselves to just get over it anymore than they could will themselves to get over a broken arm. If you haven't experienced depression yourself, avoid comparing it to times you've felt down. Comparing what they're experiencing to normal, temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling. Even just talking about depression openly can help. For example, research shows that asking someone about suicidal thoughts actually reduces their suicide risk. Open conversations about mental illness help erode stigma and make it easier for people to ask for help. And the more patients seek treatment, the more scientists will learn about depression, and the better the treatments will get.

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وبینار تحصیلی فنلاند🇫🇮
ویدیو اموزشی دو دانشگاه فنلاندی LUT و LAB که جمعه ۲۶ بهمن به میزبانی مجموعه Apply Finland بعنوان نماینده رسمی این دو دانشگاه و همچنین با حضور مسئول دانشجویی دانشگاه برگزار شد خدمت شما تقدیم میشود.

در این وبینار مباحث تخفیف‌های شهریه، معیارهای پذیرش و خوابگاه‌ها نیز بررسی شد. در پایان نیز بخش پرسش و پاسخ جذاب برگزار شد و به سوالات مخاطبان پاسخ داده شد که سوالات مطرح شده در این بخش میتونه سوالات شما هم باشه.🇫🇮🎓

💻امکان مشاهده ویدیو وبینار با زیرنویس به هر دو زبان انگلیسی/فارسی فراهم گردیده است. (برای مشاهده با زیرنویس فارسی در قسمت تنظیمات captions را روی Persian قرار دهید و CC رو از روی صفحه نمایش انتخاب کنید).
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🔥دوستانی که قصد اپلای دارن و مدارکشون کامل هست در حال حاضر ۷ تا رشته خیلی خوب در دانشگاه LUT فنلاند ظرفیت داره و فرصت محدود هست.
لینک هایلایت و توضیحاتش رو میذارم حتما سر بزنین و استفاده کنین👇👇

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🟢How innovation and technology can fight global hunger?

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🟢How innovation and technology can fight global hunger?

When you think about innovation and technology, you're most likely thinking about the latest app on your smartphone, or maybe you think about rockets going into space. But what about some of the world's biggest challenges, like global hunger or climate change? They can seem overwhelming or, you know, maybe you just think there should be a nonprofit organization that takes care of that. But why is it that we think so traditionally about some of the world's biggest challenges?
I believe innovation and technology can help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. The barrier is our own thinking. And there's something about this where big global challenges are no different than big global business challenges. So let's change that.
Let's talk about one of those topics, global hunger. Hunger may seem like a remote problem for you, but the effects of it are pretty drastic. Hunger means you do not have enough calories on a daily basis to live a healthy life. And there is up to 811 million people on the planet who are hungry. So what can we do about it?
I think innovation and technology is the answer. A couple of years ago, a friend and I realized that United Nations World Food Programme can feed a child for a full day for only 80 cents. We were shocked. We thought, if more people knew about this, if we made it easy, imagine you were having dinner with your friends and you're enjoying yourselves, wouldn't you want to share your meal with a child in need? And that's exactly why we founded an app called Share the Meal. It's so simple. With one tap on your smartphone, you can share your meal with a child in need for only 80 cents.
And I'm excited to tell you it's working. Over 130 million meals have been shared so far by six million app users across the globe. And Share the Meal was even an app of the year in 2020 by both Apple and Google.
When we started Share the Meal, we had to push really hard to make it a reality. There just weren't so many support mechanisms out there to support social entrepreneurs, when you compare it, for instance, with the number of start-up accelerators for for-profit ventures. Coming from that inspiration, I got the opportunity to start the World Food Programme’s Innovation Accelerator, exactly with the goal of replicating what Silicon Valley does well, but for global social impact. It's a start-up accelerator that supports start-ups and nonprofit innovations globally and helps them scale to disrupt global hunger.
So let's look at two of those examples. The first one is about blockchain. Now, when you think about blockchain, you may think about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but that's not how we think of it. We use blockchain technology so that refugees can go into stores and purchase food. It's an innovation called Building Blocks. And why blockchain? Blockchain helps because it's not my blockchain or your blockchain, it's the neutral blockchain network. And that way it makes collaboration among aid organizations much easier. And how does it work? Every month, aid organizations transfer money to individual blockchain accounts, and then that individual can go into a store, shop for the groceries and at the checkout they pay with the iris scan or with another authentication method. That innovation had first been submitted to us by a World Food Programme finance officer who participated in our innovation boot camp. He then developed a prototype and tested it only two months after starting, in Pakistan with about 100 people, and the next pilot was already with 10,000 refugees in Jordan. And that was so successful, that that solution scaled to over 100,000 people within seven months. And right now, Building Blocks is reaching about one million people, transferring over 300 million dollars of cash to people in urgent need of food.

And here's another example. Did you know that corn flakes and a lot of other cereals have added vitamins and minerals? That's called food fortification, when you add critical nutrients to staple foods we eat every day. That's particularly important when people do not have access to a healthy diet or maybe they cannot afford it. This is where social business called Sanku comes in. Sanku has developed an internet-enabled machine that fortifies maize flour at small mills in Africa. Now they have a market-based model that helps provide fortified, nutritious flour to their clients of the small mills at no additional cost. Right now it's reaching up to three million people and scaling further.
So, does it work? Can accelerated innovation and technology help us tackle some of the world's biggest challenges? When we first started the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, it seemed like a crazy idea that innovation and technology can help us make a meaningful impact on global hunger. But since starting in 2015, we've consistently doubled the number of people reached every year through the innovations that we've supported. In 2021, we've positively impacted the lives of 8.6 million people already. And now we even run accelerator programs for other global problems like primary health care, vaccine delivery or gender equality.
Imagine what the impact could be if you take action today as an individual, as a company, or maybe as a start-up founder. Innovation and technology can enable so much good in the world, and together we can solve the world's biggest challenges.
Thank you.

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🟢What makes muscles grow?

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🟢What makes muscles grow?

Muscles. We have over 600 of them. They make up between 1/3 and 1/2 of our body weight, and along with connective tissue, they bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. And whether or not body building is your hobby, muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Say you're standing in front of a door, ready to pull it open. Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal. First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm. When they receive this message, they fire, causing muscles to contract and relax, which pull on the bones in your arm and generate the needed movement. The bigger the challenge becomes, the bigger the brain's signal grows, and the more motor units it rallies to help you achieve your task. But what if the door is made of solid iron? At this point, your arm muscles alone won't be able to generate enough tension to pull it open, so your brain appeals to other muscles for help. You plant your feet, tighten your belly, and tense your back, generating enough force to yank it open. Your nervous system has just leveraged the resources you already have, other muscles, to meet the demand. While all this is happening, your muscle fibers undergo another kind of cellular change. As you expose them to stress, they experience microscopic damage, which, in this context, is a good thing. In response, the injured cells release inflammatory molecules called cytokines that activate the immune system to repair the injury. This is when the muscle-building magic happens. The greater the damage to the muscle tissue, the more your body will need to repair itself. The resulting cycle of damage and repair eventually makes muscles bigger and stronger as they adapt to progressively greater demands. Since our bodies have already adapted to most everyday activities, those generally don't produce enough stress to stimulate new muscle growth. So, to build new muscle, a process called hypertrophy, our cells need to be exposed to higher workloads than they are used to. In fact, if you don't continuously expose your muscles to some resistance, they will shrink, a process known as muscular atrophy. In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening, also called an eccentric contraction, generates effective conditions for new growth. However, muscles rely on more than just activity to grow. Without proper nutrition, hormones, and rest, your body would never be able to repair damaged muscle fibers. Protein in our diet preserves muscle mass by providing the building blocks for new tissue in the form of amino acids. Adequate protein intake, along with naturally occurring hormones, like insulin-like growth factor and testosterone, help shift the body into a state where tissue is repaired and grown. This vital repair process mainly occurs when we're resting, especially at night while sleeping. Gender and age affect this repair mechanism, which is why young men with more testosterone have a leg up in the muscle building game. Genetic factors also play a role in one's ability to grow muscle. Some people have more robust immune reactions to muscle damage, and are better able to repair and replace damaged muscle fibers, increasing their muscle-building potential. The body responds to the demands you place on it. If you tear your muscles up, eat right, rest and repeat, you'll create the conditions to make your muscles as big and strong as possible. It is with muscles as it is with life: Meaningful growth requires challenge and stress.

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در فنلاند بوروکراسی وجود ندارد و همه چیز به دلیل دیجیتالی شدن بسیار سریع پیش می‌رود. اغوش این کشور همیشه برای سیستم‌های دیجیتالی و جدیدترین تکنولوژی‌ها باز است. در هر سازمان، اداره یا دانشگاه، دیجیتالی شدن بخشی از سبک زندگی فنلاندی‌هاست. برخلاف بسیاری از کشورهای اروپایی که بوروکراسی دارند و برای انجام کارها باید مدارک چاپ کنند و به دفاتر و سازمان‌ها مراجعه کنند، در فنلاند اینگونه نیست. همه چیز دیجیتالی شده است. شما می‌توانید وقت ملاقات رزرو کنید، مصاحبه‌های آنلاین، تماس‌های آنلاین با دفاتر مختلف، پر کردن مالیات، یا حتی مشاوره با پزشک.

در فنلاند بسیار کم پیش می‌آید که چیزی پرینت کنید. من در طول چهار سال زندگی‌ام اینجا تقریباً چیزی چاپ نکرده‌ام. مثلاً زمانی که قرار بود فارغ‌التحصیل بشم، تمام فرآیند فارغ‌التحصیلی در یک روز از طریق چند ایمیل انجام شد. افرادی که در دانشگاه‌ها کار می‌کنند بسیار سریع پاسخ می‌دهند، برخلاف ایران که همه چیز کُند و وقت‌گیر است و برای فارغ‌التحصیلی باید روزهای زیادی صرف کنید. اینجا باور نکردنی است که چقدر همه چیز سریع انجام می‌شود و زمان انسان ارزشمند است 🇫🇮🌱
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سالی سرشار از سلامتی و موفقیت رو برای همگی آرزومندیم.

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🟣Go ahead, dream about the future

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🟣Go ahead, dream about the future

Every science fiction writer has a story about a time when the future arrived too soon. I have a lot of those stories. Like, OK, for example: years ago, I was writing a story where the government starts using drones to kill people. I thought that this was a really intense, futuristic idea, but by the time the story was published, the government was already using drones to kill people.
Our world is changing so fast, and there's a kind of accelerating feedback loop where technological change and social change feed on each other. When I was a kid in the 1980s, we knew what the future was going to look like. It was going to be some version of "Judge Dredd" or "Blade Runner." It was going to be neon megacities and flying vehicles. But now, nobody knows what the world is going to look like even in just a couple years, and there are so many scary apparitions lurking on the horizon. From climate catastrophe to authoritarianism, everybody is obsessed with apocalypses, even though the world ends all the time, and we keep going.
Don't be afraid to think about the future, to dream about the future, to write about the future. I've found it really liberating and fun to do that. It's a way of vaccinating yourself against the worst possible case of future shock. It's also a source of empowerment, because you cannot prepare for something that you haven't already visualized. But there's something that you need to know. You don't predict the future; you imagine the future.
So as a science fiction writer whose stories often take place years or even centuries from now, I've found that people are really hungry for visions of the future that are both colorful and lived in, but I found that research on its own is not enough to get me there. Instead, I use a mixture of active dreaming and awareness of cutting-edge trends in science and technology and also insight into human history. I think a lot about what I know of human nature and the way that people have responded in the past to huge changes and upheavals and transformations. And I pair that with an attention to detail, because the details are where we live. We tell the story of our world through the tools we create and the spaces that we live in. And at this point, it's helpful to know a couple of terms that science fiction writers use all of the time: "future history" and "second-order effects."
Now, future history is basically just what it sounds like. It is a chronology of things that haven't happened yet, like Robert A. Heinlein's famous story cycle, which came with a detailed chart of upcoming events going up into the year 2100. Or, for my most recent novel, I came up with a really complicated time line that goes all the way to the 33rd century and ends with people living on another planet.
Meanwhile, a second-order effect is basically the kind of thing that happens after the consequences of a new technology or a huge change. There's a saying often attributed to writer and editor Frederik Pohl that "A good science fiction story should predict not just the invention of the automobile, but also the traffic jam."
And speaking of traffic jams, I spent a lot of time trying to picture the city of the future. What's it like? What's it made of? Who's it for? I try to picture a green city with vertical farms and structures that are partially grown rather than built and walkways instead of streets, because nobody gets around by car anymore -- a city that lives and breathes. And, you know, I kind of start by daydreaming the wildest stuff that I can possibly come up with, and then I go back into research mode, and I try to make it as plausible as I can by looking at a mixture of urban futurism, design porn and technological speculation. And then I go back, and I try to imagine what it would actually be like to be inside that city. So my process kind of begins and ends with imagination, and it's like my imagination is two pieces of bread in a research sandwich

So as a storyteller, first and foremost, I try to live in the world through the eyes of my characters and try to see how they navigate their own personal challenges in the context of the space that I've created. What do they smell? What do they touch? What's it like to fall in love inside a smart city? What do you see when you look out your window, and does it depend on how the window's software interacts with your mood? And finally, I ask myself how a future brilliant city would ensure that nobody is homeless and nobody slips through the cracks.
And here's where future history comes in handy, because cities don't just spring up overnight like weeds. They arise and transform. They bear the scars and ornaments of wars, migrations, economic booms, cultural awakenings. A future city should have monuments, yeah, but it should also have layers of past architecture, repurposed buildings and all of the signs of how we got to this place.
And then there's second-order effects, like how do things go wrong -- or right -- in a way that nobody ever anticipated? Like, if the walls of your apartment are made out of a kind of fungus that can regrow itself to repair any damage, what if people start eating the walls?
(Laughter)
Speaking of eating: What kind of sewer system does the city of the future have? It's a trick question. There are no sewers. There's something incredibly bizarre about the current system we have in the United States, where your waste gets flushed into a tunnel to be mixed with rainwater and often dumped into the ocean. Not to mention toilet paper. A bunch of techies, led by Bill Gates, are trying to reinvent the toilet right now, and it's possible that the toilet of the future could appear incredibly strange to someone living today. So how does the history of the future, all of that trial and error, lead to a better way to go to the bathroom? There are companies right now who are experimenting with a kind of cleaning wand that can substitute for toilet paper, using compressed air or sanitizing sprays to clean you off. But what if those things looked more like flowers than technology? What if your toilet could analyze your waste and let you know if your microbiome might need a little tune-up? What if today's experiments with turning human waste into fuel leads to a smart battery that could help power your home?
But back to the city of the future. How do people navigate the space? If there's no streets, how do people even make sense of the geography? I like to think of a place where there are spaces that are partially only in virtual reality that maybe you need special hardware to even discover. Like for one story, I came up with a thing called "the cloudscape interface," which I described as a chrome spider that plugs into your head using temporal nodes. No, that's not a picture of it, but it's a fun picture I took in a bar.
(Laughter)
And I got really carried away imagining the bars, restaurants, cafés that you could only find your way inside if you had the correct augmented reality hardware.
But again, second-order effects: in a world shaped by augmented reality, what kind of new communities will we have, what kind of new crimes that we haven't even thought of yet? OK, like, let's say that you and I are standing next to each other, and you think that we're in a noisy sports bar, and I think we're in a highbrow salon with a string quartet talking about Baudrillard. I can't possibly imagine what might go wrong in that scenario. Like, it's just -- I'm sure it'll be fine.

And then there's social media. I can imagine some pretty frickin' dystopian scenarios where things like internet quizzes, dating apps, horoscopes, bots, all combine to drag you down deeper and deeper rabbit holes into bad relationships and worse politics. But then I think about the conversations that I've had with people who work on AI, and what I always hear from them is that the smarter AI gets, the better it is at making connections. So maybe the social media of the future will be better. Maybe it'll help us to form healthier, less destructive relationships. Maybe we'll have devices that enable togetherness and serendipity. I really hope so. And, you know, I like to think that if strong AI ever really exists, they'll probably enjoy our weird relationship drama the same way that you and I love to obsess about the "Real Housewives of Wherever."
And finally, there's medicine. I think a lot about how developments in genetic medicine could improve outcomes for people with cancer or dementia, and maybe one day, your hundredth birthday will be just another milestone on the way to another two or three decades of healthy, active life. Maybe the toilet of the future that I mentioned will improve health outcomes for a lot of people, including people in parts of the world where they don't have these complicated sewer systems that I mentioned. But also, as a transgender person, I like to think: What if we make advances in understanding the endocrine system that improve the options for trans people, the same way that hormones and surgeries expanded the options for the previous generation?
So finally: basically, I'm here to tell you, people talk about the future as though it's either going to be a technological wonderland or some kind of apocalyptic poop barbecue.
(Laughter)
But the truth is, it's not going to be either of those things. It's going to be in the middle. It's going to be both. It's going to be everything. The one thing we do know is that the future is going to be incredibly weird. Just think about how weird the early 21st century would appear to someone from the early 20th.
And, you know, there's a kind of logical fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet Union would still be around today. But the future is going to be much weirder than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, scary things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.
Thank you.

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🔥فرصت استثنایی تحصیل در یکی از معتبرترین دانشگاه های فنلاندی در رشته های فنی مهندسی. شروع ترم پاییز امسال.

✅️بدون محدودیت سن و گپ تحصیلی
✅️ویزای دانشجو و همراهان قطعی
✅️حتی با دیپلم تجربی، فنی حرفه ای و انسانی امکان اپلای هست

اگر ایلتس اکادمیک ۶/۵
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مجموعه اپلای فنلاند نماینده رسمی دانشگاه های فنلاندی🇫🇮🎓

در این کانال تلگرام با انتشار ویدیوهای سخنرانی TED و متن کامل آن‌ها به زبان انگلیسی، یک منبع ارزشمند برای یادگیری زبان انگلیسی فراهم شده است. مشاهده ویدیوها در موضوعات مختلف مانند علم، هنر و تاریخ همراه با مطالعه‌ی متن، به بهبود مهارت‌های شنیداری، دایره لغات و درک مطلب کمک می‌کند. همچنین، آشنایی با نحوه بیان ایده‌ها توسط سخنرانان حرفه‌ای، مهارت‌های گفتاری شما را تقویت می‌کند. این روش یادگیری طبیعی و جذاب، فرآیند تسلط بر زبان را مؤثرتر و لذت‌بخش‌تر می‌سازد.
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چرا تماشای ویدئوهای TED برای یادگیری انگلیسی فوق‌العاده است؟ 🎤📺

🔹ویدیوهای TED Talksچطور ساخته می‌شوند؟
سخنرانان حرفه‌ای یا متخصصان، ماه‌ها روی متن، ارائه و بیان خود کار می‌کنند تا یک سخنرانی کوتاه اما الهام‌بخش ارائه دهند.

🔹 چرا برای یادگیری انگلیسی مفیدند؟
✅ زبان واقعی و روان – برخلاف کتاب‌های درسی، سخنرانی‌ها طبیعی و پر از اصطلاحات رایج‌اند.
✅ گستره‌ی موضوعی وسیع – می‌توانید در زمینه‌های موردعلاقه‌تان یاد بگیرید و زبان را همراه با دانش عمومی تقویت کنید.
✅ تقویت مهارت شنیداری و درک مطلب – با لهجه‌های مختلف انگلیسی آشنا می‌شوید و گوش شما به زبان طبیعی عادت می‌کند.

🎯 پس همین حالا یک ویدئوی TED را انتخاب کنید و از یادگیری لذت ببرید! 🚀
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🇫🇮تحصیل در فنلاند، شرایط و نکات (وبینار)

ویدیوی وبینار تحصیلی مشترک با دانشگاه LAB فنلاند، که حدود یک ماه پیش با همکاری تیم اپلای فنلاند و نماینده رسمی دانشگاه برگزار شد به صورت کامل در کانال یوتیوب منتشر شده و میتونید مشاهده کنید.

سرفصل‌ها و موضوعات مطرح‌شده در وبینار:

✅ معرفی کشور فنلاند و سیستم آموزشی پیشرفته آن به‌عنوان یکی از مقصدهای محبوب دانشجویان بین‌المللی
✅ بررسی موقعیت شهرهای لاپن‌رانتا و لاهتی، محل استقرار دانشگاه‌های LAB و LUT
✅ معرفی رشته‌ها، مقاطع تحصیلی، شرایط پذیرش، هزینه‌ها و تخفیف‌های ویژه دانشجویی
✅ اطلاعات کامل درباره‌ی خوابگاه‌ها و مسکن برای دانشجویان مجرد و متأهل
✅ بخش پرسش و پاسخ زنده با مسئول دانشگاه

کانال تلگرام | پیج اینستاگرام |  کانال یوتیوب

‏دوستان ببخشید وسط بدبختیامون یه نکته گرامری بگم چون دیدم اکثرا این اشتباه رو در توییت‌های انگلیسیشون میکنن:

«اینکه قبل از کلمات اختصاری (مخفف‌ها) مثل USA یا CIAو... a بگذاریم یا an بستگی به تلفظ اون کلمه داره نه حرف اولش!
‏مثلاً جمله:
- He is a FBI agent
غلطه و صحیحش:
- He is an FBI agent
چرا؟ به تلفظ FBI توجه کنید:
ef- bi- ai
تلفظ با e شروع میشه پس an می‌گیره
‏یا:
- I saw an UFO
غلطه. دیگه میدونید چرا:
yu-ef-o
و y اولشه پس a صحیحه

چند مثال:
- She is a US citizen
- I have an MBA degree