An assistant at the morphing matter lab drops a few pieces of flat dry pasta into a pot of boiling water. In a few minutes, these rigid flat strips will turn into soft spiral shapes called fusilli that can hold a lot of tasty sauce. Packaging dry pas

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By Doug Levine Washington 30 April 2006 Donald Fagen likes to take his time. It took his group Steely Dan more than 20 years to tour, and it took the singer and keyboardist even longer to tour as a so

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

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Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter andin some casesa little more fun. Here's which ones made this year's unranked list. 每年《时代》周刊都会选出让世界变得更美好、更智能或者更

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And the powerful lobby group Manufacture Australia has chosen controversial former underwear Queen Sue Morphett as its new chairwoman. And she resigned last year as the Chief Executive of Pacific Brands where she axed 1,800 jobs and moved production

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Science and technology 科学技术 Human evolution 人类的进化 Ask the family 寻根问祖 Human ancestry has just got more complicated 人类祖先之谜变得愈加复杂了 ONE of the oddest things about Homo sapiens is that he is alone. 有关

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