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Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, 你是否曾经在杂货店里排队等候， innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? 毫无念头的浏览着杂志书架时，有一首歌在你的脑海里响起

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So a little unknown secret is -- 那么, 一个不为人知秘密是 -- did you see the one with the guy, he's got the Web cam? 你有没有看到一个带着网络摄像机的家伙? The poor PC guy. They're duct taping his head. They're just wrappi

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Every year, millions of monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles to alight in one specific forest in Mexico. How do they know what direction to flutter? Scientists had thought that an insect GPS system in their brains steered them in the right dire

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How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -17

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Navigation, 3-D Printing in Sensing Technology Lead to New Apps

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TED演讲:通过卫星追寻秘鲁遗落的文明(2)

This is why I am so excited to share with you all today 因此我是那么激动，迫不及待想要与你共享， that we will begin the 2016 TED Prize platform in Latin America, more specifically Peru. 我们将在拉丁美洲开展2016TED奖金平

China Releases HD Satellite Images

On June 6, China published the first batch of photos captured by Gaofen-1, China's first high-definition earth observation satellite. Those pictures will provide valuable information of natural condition and disaster prevention. Li Dong has the detai

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The most ambitious of these studies is the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by experts from Birmingham University And Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Austria.-As people walk over the Stonehenge landscape, they are aware of Stonehenge. They may

60秒科学:Mice Sensing Leptin Stave Off Diabetes

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雅思阅读词汇：探索太空生命(5)

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The Art of Public SpeakingUsing LanguageHave you ever played Pictionary1? The point of the game is to draw words so people watching you can guess them. Some words are easy ?nbsp;house, bird, and television, for instance. Even people without artistic

China's hi-res mapping satellite expanding coverage

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NE China to set up two drone bases for marine surveillance

NE China to set up two drone bases for marine surveillance SHENYANG, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Two drone bases will be established in northeast China's Liaoning Province for real time surveillance on coastal waters, local authorities said Saturday. One of

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(12)

And the final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part, 最后，只是再一次重申，这个研究的实际应用方面， and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of the

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(6)

Why this is interesting is because in the past decade we have found that this is not just some anomaly of this ridiculous, 这个发现之所以有趣，是因为在过去十年间，我们发现这种现象不只局限在这种古怪的、 glow-in-t

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