The world's largest archaeological museum opens in Egypt   November 5, 2025

 

What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the show. I'm Coy Wire here with your daily 10 minutes of news. We are halfway through the week and it is your word Wednesday.

 

So listen up to see if the vocabulary word you submitted helped us write today's show.

 

We are starting today with the ongoing federal government shutdown and the impact it's having on a vital safety net program. Now in its 36 day, it is officially the longest US government shutdown in history.

 

As the shutdown drags on, so do disruptions to many essential government operations and services like SNAP benefits for those who rely on government assistance to afford food.

 

More than 42 million Americans need SNAP or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to buy groceries and necessities each month. November payments were initially paused due to the shutdown.

 

But President Donald Trump's administration now says it will distribute partial benefits following a ruling by two federal judges. But the payments will be half their normal amount due to funding constraints. And that's left many unsure whether they'll be able to feed their families this month.

 

The prolonged lapse in government funding has continued to stress food banks, charities and nonprofits set up to assist Americans in need with federal workers going without pay also turning to those sources for aid.

 

prolonged [prəˋlɔŋd] adj. 延长的；拖延的；特别长的

lapse [læps] n.【律】（权力等的）消失，权力失效

 

Turning now to Egypt,which is celebrating its opening of the world's largest archaeological museum, the highly anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum opened over the weekend to some next level fanfare.

 

archaeological [͵ɑrkɪəˋlɑdʒɪk!] n. 考古学的

fanfare [ˋfæn͵fɛr] n.（仪式等开始前的）响亮的喇叭声；夸耀；炫耀

 

We are talking orchestras, flying dancers, fireworks and a drone show against a backdrop of incredible Egyptian relics.

 

relic [ˋrɛlɪk] n. 遗物；遗风，遗俗

 

The billion dollar project took two decades to build that's nearly as long as it took to build the real Great Pyramid of Giza. We had a pyramid, the pyramids. Our Salma Abdelaziz has more.

 

Visitors will be welcomed by the more than 3,000 year old statue of Ramses II. But that's just one of the highlights.

 

There are over 50,000 restored artifacts detailing life in ancient Egypt to explore with the collection of King Tutankhamun as the main attraction.

 

I visited as part of a CNN team in 2018 and saw firsthand how conservationists worked around the clock to restore objects thousands of years old, including King Tut's very degraded sandals.

 

degrade [dɪˋgred] v. 玷污；损害，危害

 

We create a new technique by using some special adhesive. As you saw its condition, it was very bad and here I think it's come to life again.

 

adhesive [ədˋhisɪv] n. 胶黏剂；黏着剂

 

Construction started in 2005, but was delayed several times over the years. First because of the Arab Spring and later the COVID-19 pandemic. But now the museum is finally opening.

 

Pop quiz, hot shot.

 

What do grizzly bears eat most before hibernation?

 

Salmon, Rodents, Berries or Insects?

 

This is a twofer. Grizzly bears chow down on berries and salmon before hyperphagia, an abnormally great desire for food or for bears the process of accumulating fat reserves when they eat for up to 22 hours of the day.

 

twofer [ˋtufɚ] n.【口】半价优待

hyperphagia [͵haɪpɚˋfedʒɪə] n.【医】摄食过度

 

Grizzly bears have lost roughly half of their global range since the 1800s. Canada is one of their last strongholds, but even there they're considered at risk.

 

range [rendʒ] n.（动植物等的）生长区，分布区

 

Today on CNN's Call to Earth, we head deep into bear country to see the innovative ways researchers are keeping tabs on these giants and helping them elude the harmful human impacts to their habitats.

 

keep tabs on 记录; 监视

elude [ɪˋlud] v.（巧妙地）逃避，躲避

 

Bruce McClellan is used to bushwhacking his way through the thick forests of British Columbia.

 

bushwhack [ˋbʊʃ͵hwæk] v. 在丛林中开路

 

But I think this is a really good route. I think I've got a good route this time. Yes, look at that.

 

For it's here that the wildlife ecologist has studied grizzlies for more than four decades.

 

I put my first radio collar on a grizzly bear in 1978.

 

radio collar 无线项圈

 

It takes a lot of skill and not everyone can do that or would want to.

 

But today he's not on a mission to track down bears, instead he's looking for what they've left behind.

 

It's quite remarkable what you can get out of a root of a hair.

 

A hair trap is a way we catch hair. We attract bears to a site with bait and then we string a strand of barbed wire around it. Inside this gas can is very well aged cow's blood.

 

string [strɪŋ] v.（用线）穿，串起

barbed wire 有刺铁丝网

 

It's quite smelly. They'll crawl under or over the wire, hopefully leave a hair or two.

 

smelly [ˋsmɛlɪ] adj.【口】有使人难受的气味的；臭的

 

30 years ago McClellan and his team invented this non-invasive hair trap method to collect DNA samples from grizzly bears.

 

From that hair we can tell the individual, its gender, its species, who's its mother is, who's its father is, roughly where it was born. You learn broad categories of its diet. So we have learned an awful lot about how many bears there are.

 

We know about trends which tells us which way the population's going over time.

 

After crossing a lake and blazing a trail through dense woods.

 

So the hair trap is further along here.

 

Bruce has arrived at his first hair trap site.

 

I don't think anything's been here. Usually when you get here and a bear's been here it's knocked a bait pile all apart and you know smack things around. But that's it. Nope nothing came by.

 

A 2018 province-wide report estimates that approximately 15,000 grizzly bears roam the forests and coastlines of British Columbia. While their overall numbers have remained stable here since the 90s, they still face threats like habitat loss due to human development which has fractured the population.

 

fracture [ˋfræktʃɚ] v. 断裂; n. 裂缝

 

We have a large population, actually most of the world's grizzly bears are just north of here but there's a big fracture that grizzly bears have not been crossing for a long time.

 

We're not looking at bear numbers anymore, we're looking more at their genes and finding out where they were born.

 

Upon arrival the second site looks a bit more promising.

 

So I go along each barb. It's the paper because you can see much better against paper than not looking for... aha bear hair. I'm pretty darn sure we have enough of a sample.

 

barb [bɑrb] n.（箭头、鱼钩等的）倒钩

 

Even in the age of AI this decades-old tool remains vital for tracking grizzlies and works hand-in-hand with newer technology to uncover more about their lives.

 

We use you know game cameras and hair traps at the time to be even more effective. Those are all linked in a geographic information system which enables us to predict where we'll find bears more.

 

As grizzly bears have expanded their distribution and humans have expanded their distribution and there's a lot more overlap now, this work is important because many many people want to live in this world and not have a huge impact on the bears.

 

Call to Earth Day 2025 is tomorrow November 6th where we are embracing the theme guard your green space and urging individual communities and nations to take bold collective action to protect the natural world that sustains us.

 

Sign up at cnn.com slash call to earth day and share how you are guarding your green space.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 a brave new breed of backpackers blazing trails in a whole new way.

 

breed [brid] n. 种类，类型

 

Move over Elton John there's a rocket man renaissance some brilliant boffins that's scientists y'all at a Chinese university have successfully tested a jet-powered backpack that can send pilots zooming through the air at speeds of nearly 60 miles per hour for up to five minutes.

 

boffin [ˋbɑfɪn] n.（极为专注，只对科学感兴趣的）科学家;研究员

zoom [zum] v.（飞机）陡直上升

 

Would you do this? The pack's twin turbo jets can reach a maximum altitude of nearly 5,000 feet.

 

Could you imagine rolling up to work or school like this? Control is handled by the pilot's arm movements but future versions might be capable of flying themselves using autonomous tech.

 

roll up: to arrive in a vehicle

 

The developers say the real world applications stretch to infinity and beyond everything from emergency rescues to special operations.

 

infinity [ɪnˋfɪnətɪ] n. 无限，无穷

 

I will be out the rest of the week but I'm going to be leaving you in the hands of the doctor Dr Sanjay Gupta.

 

Did you know that in addition to being our chief medical correspondent he's a practicing brain surgeon performing procedures every week so here is your chance.

 

What questions might you have for the health expert Dr Sanjay Gupta? Send your questions to 该Email地址已收到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它您需要在浏览器中启用JavaScript。 and I'll tell the doctor be sure to answer some of your questions over the next two days. All right superstars thank you for those submitting words for Your Word Wednesday.

 

Our winner today is Miss Addy and friends at TST Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Ithaca, New York.

 

They submitted elude a verb that means to evade or escape from danger, enemy or a pursuer typically in a skillful or cunning way. Thank you for making us smarter today.

 

pursuer [pɚˋsuɚ] n. 追赶者；追捕者

cunning [ˋkʌnɪŋ] adj. 狡猾的，奸诈的；精巧的；熟练的

 

All right I have a shout out today going to Miss Leftwich and all our wolves at Woodstock Middle School in Woodstock, Georgia. Rise up go make it an awesome day and I want to thank you for being the best viewers on the planet. You complete me.

 

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