【英语时差8，16】早上好，Dave

Conscious, human-like machines are so popular in science fiction that it may come as a surprise to learn Artificial Intelligence researchers aren't even sure what it means to ask whether a computer will ever think. In the middle of the last century,

【英语时差8，16】太太的朋友原谅她出轨的事情

Dear Annie: My wife has been having an affair and I have filed for divorce. Our children do not know about the infidelity yet, but I'm sure it will come out. I am the husband who cooks, cleans and cares for our children. I massaged her feet. I sent f

【英语时差8，16】丈量地球的棍子

On our last program we discussed a simple experiment run by an Alexandrian named Eratosthenes in the third century B.C. By noting that, at the same time of day, sticks in the ground cast different-length shadows depending on whether they were in a no

【英语时差8，16】垂直迁移

Imagine if the only way for you to eat were to trek twenty-five miles on foot to a restaurant and then trek all the way back home afterwards. Imagine that this restaurant is a buffet, so you can't carry anything home in a doggie bag--you carry only w

【英语时差8，16】假设思维

Imagine that you hit a deer with your car. You don't suffer any physical harm whatsoever. Your car suffers cosmetic damage, but you have insurance. So the question is this: are you the type to feel lucky to be alive? If you had been driving faster or

【英语时差8，16】丈量地球

How big a stick would you need to measure the planet? A thousand miles long? A million? How about three feet? That ought to be enough to do it, as an ancient Alexandrian man named Eratosthenes figured out. Eratosthenes was a multi-talented man who li

【英语时差8，16】为健康干杯，啤酒含有抗癌物质

Researchers in Germany say that a cancer-fighting substance found in hops could be enhanced to brew a special anti-cancer beer. The discovery could lead to healthier beers and food supplements. The result could one day be that when you hold up a glas

【英语时差8，16】神谕处

If you're planning a trip to Greece in the future, you'll want to schedule a visit to the temple of Apollo at Delphi. This famous temple was the home of the Pythia, a specially chosen and trained woman who according to legend channeled the voice and

【英语时差8，16】水上运动

In 1993, water aerobics was only for senior citizens or patients in rehab. Nowadays, it encompasses a variety of trendy underwater sports, all of which are healthy. The body has 90 percent support when under water. That means the joints only have to

【英语时差8，16】痛苦的念头

Despite the wisdom of the constitution, it is simply not true that all people are created equal. Some are faster than others. Some are better at math and some are musical geniuses. And some people have a higher threshold for pain than others. But as

【英语时差8，16】数羊不是入睡的唯一途径

It's 3 a.m., pitch dark, and you can't sleep. How can you survive the next day after being awake so long the night before? Difficulty sleeping is a common problem, but there are ways to escape it. Falling asleep is something passive and not forceable

【英语时差8，16】外星人来电，说什么？

the previous show Don and Yael discussed communication from other worlds. Well, as it turns out if E.T. does try to phone it will be much more complicated than can you hear me now? D: Okay, Yael, so suppose one day scientists pick up a transmission t

【英语时差8，16】有机农业在泰国慢慢萌芽

When Anothai Kongwattana decided to open a healthful vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok she ran into one minor problem: She couldn't find any organic vegetables on the market. Her solution was to launch her own organic farm. With the help of her husban

【英语时差8,16】飞屋环游记影评

When Pixar Studios creators of computer animated films including Finding Nemo and The Incredibles made Cars, it was a bad sign. That film was supposedly about the value of old things, especially mourning the death of Route 66. But it was really about

【英语时差8,16】小心「毕业班倦怠症」大流行

I've recently spoken very directly with a few of my students about a malady that afflicts a certain small percentage of students in that final run of days that lead to the big one: GRADUATION DAY. That malady is not the dreaded H1N1 virus, nor bronch

【英语时差8,16】以歌传情的鸟儿

Bird Communication Through Song Bird song is lovely to hear, a romantic addition to any landscape, but what exactly does it mean? Just like we must learn to talk, birds learn to sing. They listen to their parents and try to imitate them, often stumbl

【英语时差8,16】儿子被错误指控所伤

Dear Annie: My 15-year-old son, Denny, has always been a handful. I am a single mother and try to keep an eye on him. I don't allow Denny to go to a friend's house unless there is a parent home. Recently, he visited a girl while her parents were home

【英语时差8,16】哪一个先落地？

Why not? You cry.Well,ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place? The golf ball. So it takes more force to move the bowling ball. And the bowling ball is also the one gravity pulls on more. See the connection? A more m

【英语时差8,16】蜂蜜：天然保鲜剂（上）

Leave it on the shelf too long and honey begins to crystallize. Heating the honey returns it to its original condition, but if you add water, you could ruin the honey completely. Thats because honey, which is a preservative in its original state, fer

【英语时差8,16】人类大脑的进化（下）

Other anthropologists think its because meat-eating isnt the key at all, that the real key is cooked tubers, like yams. They say an increase in calories is whats important when it comes to the development of larger brains, and that cooked tubers woul