This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. We see it all the time on shows like Bones and CSI: skeletal remains can yield all sorts of cluesgender, age, past physical traumas, but not the persons

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

In 2008, Burhan Hassan, age 17, boarded a flight from Minneapolis to the Horn of Africa. And while Burhan was the youngest recruit, he was not alone. Al-Shabaab managed to recruit over two dozen young men in their late teens and early 20s with a heav

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

核心句型: Your point makes me sit up and take notice. 你的观点令我刮目相看。 make sb. sit up and take notice 直译过来就是:使某人端坐着并集中注意力,这个短语的正确意思是:令某人刮目相看。因此,

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It is not just humans that get stuck in their ways. For scientists have discovered that old bees have trouble finding their way to new hives as their learning behavior becomes increasingly inflexible. 世界上迷路的不仅仅是人类。科学家发

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? We might think perfect pitch is an innate talent. Well, a study in the American Journal of Human Genetics is providing some evidence for that. Perfect pitch, aka a

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1.Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. 人们总是会低估周围的蠢人数量,这一点无法规避。 Glaringly pessimistic, the first law is meant to prepare you for what's out there,

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ECONOMICS REPORT - When Companies (and Sometimes Individuals) Have to Give Back Money By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, February 25, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report.

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How Did You Get so Intelligent? 你怎么那么聪明? You may have heard people say that hard work is more important than the intelligence you are born with. Recently, researchers noted changes in the brains of individuals immediately after they wer

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Different combinations of sniffing in and out can be used to control a wheelchair. Reasearchers in Israel have developed an electronic controller that allows severely disabled people to control their wheelchairs or computers with a simple sniff of th

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写作的时候,一些常用的词经常映入脑海,但是如果换作另外意思相同却更加精彩的词语,会为你的文章增色不少。例如下面这些: 1.individuals,characters, folks替换(people ,persons) 2.positive, favorabl

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For me, I've conducted and published hundreds of experiments in the forest. 对我来说,我在森林中已经进行和发表过上百次的实验了。 Some of my oldest experimental plantations are now over 30 years old. 有一些我最早进行实

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The Beijing municipal government is encouraging individuals to invest in-of all things-building parking lots. It recently said it needs all parties' efforts to help provide thousands of much-needed parking spaces in the densely populated metropolis.

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police in France, Belgium and Germany have swept up more than two dozen suspected terrorists in the last couple of days as investigators search Western Europe for possible militants. The threat of hundreds of radicalized European c

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For background to asset sales, listen to January 30th 2011. At the National Party annual conference in Auckland today, the Prime Minister, John Key, gave more details of the asset sales. The minimum sale will be a $1000 parcel of shares and all New Z

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Finland is about to embark on an extremely ambitious journey to test one of the most controversial economic theories of our time. 芬兰即将开启一段颇具雄心的旅程,以测试本世纪最具争议的经济理论之一。 The country's soc

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BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China is moving to better protect its 2,500-year-old Grand Canal by encouraging public donations and banning unnecessary construction in the area. The Ministry of Culture publicized a set of regulations to protect the Gran

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Around 7:15 tonight, we know that officer Campbell was in off-duty status, he's walking on the 4400 block of North Marshall with two individuals we believed to be accompanying him at that time. As they walked, these males approached. They announced a

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Home Sweet Home 还是家里好 A surgeon returned from a safari in Africa. 一位外科医生刚从非洲狩猎回来。 How did it go? asked his colleagues. 这次打猎顺利吗?同僚问道。 Oh , it was very disappointing, replied the surgeon. 喔

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世人皆知乔布斯创造了世界上最为成功的公司之一,同样为人熟知的是他喜欢咒骂员工。然而, 最新一项研究称高傲自大、坚决主张的性格帮他走向了成功。 Researchers from Pen States College of Li

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本期内容: Nasa has named the astronauts who will fly the first missions into space on commercially provided rockets and capsules, starting next year. The nine individuals will go up on systems developed by - and contracted from - the Boeing and

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