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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Health care providers are thinking a lot more about the end of life and trying to emphasize the quality of that life. Lahey Hospital outside of Boston is taking a musical approach to make their patients a little more comfortable. P

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Millions of Americans recharge their phones and screens and laptops before they go to bed at night, but do they recharge themselves? Arianna Huffington says we're in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis that creates anxiety as w

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Hello, Antony Funnell here, and welcome to another edition of Future Tense. In opening the program today I have a special guest. I'm pleased to be joined by scientist and entrepreneur James Bradfield Moody. James is a former executive director with t

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I dedicated the past two years to understanding how people achieve their dreams. When we think about the dreams we have, and the dent we want to leave in the universe, it is striking to see how big of an overlap there is between the dreams that we ha

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On the path that American children travel to adulthood, two institutions oversee the journey. The first is the one we hear a lot about: college. Some of you may remember the excitement that you felt when you first set off for college. Some of you may

【英语语言学习】伯纳德总统演讲

Thank you all very very much for being out here today. Let me just make a brief comment and take a few questions. We dont have an endless amount of time. I have to get back. Let me just say this. This country today in my view, has more serious crises

【英语语言学习】寻求违禁药品的解决方式

We've been looking a lot at the issue of addictive drugs, opioids. Heroin is the one we think of first, but there are lots of legal prescription painkillers which are also classified as opioids - also addictive, but certainly medically necessary to t

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【英语语言学习】在太空中行走

This is For the Record. (SOUNDBITES FROM MOVIES) WILLIAM SHATNER: Space. TOM HANKS: Houston, we have a problem. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Astronaut is awestruck. SANDRA BULLOCK: What do I do? SHATNER: The final frontier. MATT DAMON: I'm going to have to sc

【英语语言学习】人与马的相伴

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a spot on the grasses of the Serengeti in which the steps of small three-toed ancestors of horses seem to fall into the same path as the footprints of early hominids. Were they walking together, hunting together, or did two

【英语语言学习】我正在看着你

Excerpt from The Truman Show: Good morning! (Good morning!) Oh, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight. Hahaha, yup. Lynne Malcolm: Hi, it's All in the Mind on RN, I'm Lynne Malcolm. Today we look at the impact that p

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o that's Johnny Depp, of course. And that's Johnny Depp's shoulder. And that's Johnny Depp's famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Winona Ryder, and he had tattooed on his right shoulder Winona forever. And

【英语语言学习】年轻的移民寻找安全的居所

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Among the thousands of asylum-seekers pouring into Germany every week are scores of children who are alone. Most of these unaccompanied minors are teenagers sent by their parents to escape poverty and violence. NPR's Soraya Sarhadd

【英语语言学习】无家可归的年轻流浪儿

Bob Cunningham: Tonight we've got lasagne, a vegetarian korma, steamed rice, and salads. David Lewis: Which of those do you expect to be the most popular? Bob Cunningham: The lasagne by a mile! David Lewis: It's almost dinner time, and staff at this

【英语语言学习】语气词的使用

Amanda Smith: It's through languagethe sounds that you make with your mouth, with your tongue, your teeth, vocal cords, and lungsthat we convey meaning to each other. But there's a whole range of noises we make that are not words. They still communic

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So a few years ago, I did something really brave, or some would say really stupid. I ran for Congress. For years, I had existed safely behind the scenes in politics as a fundraiser, as an organizer, but in my heart, I always wanted to run. The sittin

【英语语言学习】人类的第二大脑

Hi, it's All in the Mind on RN. Today, why the gut has been dubbed our second brain. David Perlmutter: There are some absolutely avant-garde researchers who have finally made a huge leap and have decided to look for brain answers outside of the brain

【英语语言学习】纯净水净化系统

(From an Omni Processor promotional video:) Bill Gates: Over 2.5 billion people have no access to safe sanitation. We asked brilliant engineers to help us solve this problem, and one of those engineers actually has proposed a solution where the waste

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【英语语言学习】双重间谍

ARUN RATH, HOST: What does it take to be a double agent, to convince a foreign government that you're working for them when you're actually spying on them? Years of special study and training, right? NAVEED JAMALI: I had none. It consisted of probabl