halo, brainwave, cerebral cortex, sedentary, esophagus. fluctuations. "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales"

Last year, scientists found that people who worked 10 years in sedentary jobs, or jobs that don't require a lot of energy expenditure, had twice the risk of colon cancer and a 44% increased risk of rectal cancer, compared with people who had never worked sedentary jobs.
 去年，科學家發現，與那些從未從事過需要久坐工作的人相比，那些坐著工作10年的人，或是工作中不需要消耗太多能量的人，罹患結腸癌的風險高出一倍，罹患直腸癌的風險高出44%。
And in March, scientists found that the rate of cancers linked to obesity and lack of physical activity, such as cancers of the kidney, pancreas, lower esophagus and uterus, rose every year from 1999 through 2008.

今年3月份，科學家發現罹患癌症的幾率與肥胖程度和缺乏體育運動有關，比如從1999年到2008年間，腎癌、胰腺癌、食道癌和子宮癌的發病率每年都在增加。

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Their Noonday Demons, and Ours

By JOHN PLOTZ

Like early medieval monks, we too are prone to the ills that come with solitary, sedentary, cerebral work.

The next time you see a motorist obliviously straddling two lanes, don’t fault bad driving, but genetics.
下次你見到開車者不自覺地跨雙線道行駛，別指責他們開車技術差，而要怪遺傳作祟。
In a study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researcher Steven Cramer found that people with a certain gene variant performed more than 30 percent worse on a driving test than people without it.
在最近發表於「大腦皮層」期刊的一項研究中，研究人員柯拉默發現，身上帶有一特定基因變異體的人，比沒有這種變異基因體的人在駕駛考試中要遜色30%以上。

Overheard: Applicable

What next, the iEngine? A decade ago, General Electric was the world's most valuable company, but Apple is now number one. Still, GE can share in Apple's halo with a range of apps for the iPhone and other smartphones. This week, GE issued a release reminding the mobile masses of such titles as Sleep On It (which tracks your sleep), Moody Me (which tracks your mood) and Fit Friendzy (which tracks your workouts).

For game lovers, there's Patient Shuffle, which challenges players to manage the constant traffic of patients into a hospital by assigning them rooms and matching them with doctors. "The more happy (and alive) patients you discharge, the higher your score," GE explained in a release.

The conglomerate also highlighted industrial strength apps like MyEngines, to track the servicing of your jet engine. Almost as much fun as Angry Birds, no doubt.

halo ：光圈；光環；光輪：畫（鑲）在天主或聖者頭上環繞之圓圈或固體圓盤，以表示其神聖性。又稱 nimbus 。參閱 aureole 。

ROBERT KRULWICH: Everybody wants to know what exactly causes this. So Dr. Ramachandran and his graduate student, Lindsay Schenk, designed an experiment...

LINDSAY SCHENK: So we're going be reading your brainwaves with this cap.

brainwave
IN BRIEF: n. - The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation; (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph.

 interplay 非 INTERACTIONS

fluctuations  翻譯成漲落，不恰當

  He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems,^[2] in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".^[3]

原子から惑星のスケールまでの物理システムの無秩序と変動の相互作用の発見

║諾貝爾物理學獎讚詞║☆

「Parisi發現了從原子到行星尺度的物理系統中，無序和漲落的相互作用。」

sedentary
(sĕd'n-tĕr'ē)
adj.

1. Characterized by or requiring much sitting: a sedentary job.
2. Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise.
3. Remaining or living in one area, as certain birds; not migratory.
4. Attached to a surface and not moving freely, as a barnacle.

[French sédentaire, from Old French, from Latin sedentārius, from sedēns, sedent-, present participle of sedēre, to sit.]

[形]((通例限定))((形式))

1 〈像などが〉座った姿勢の；〈仕事が〉座ってする；〈病気が〉座業による

a sedentary statue
座像.

2 〈人が〉座りがちな, 座りっきりの.

3 《動物》定住性の（⇔migratory）；〈貝などが〉固着性の

sedentary birds
定住性鳥類, 留鳥.

━━[名]座りがちな人, 座業者.

sedentarily sed'en·tar'i·ly (-târ'ə-lē) adv.
sedentariness sed'en·tar'i·ness n.