The new video ad from a Mexican restaurant chain, titled The Scarecrow, is already making a big impression. The ad for Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants has received over 6 million views in just a week. The visually stunning commercial criticizes ho

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【轻松英文阅读】外国人比赛演唱日本歌曲

On December 24, Nodo Jiman the World! was broadcast on Japanese television. In this Japanese TV program foreigners compete with each other singing Japanese pop songs in Japanese. This year, 15 people representing 11 countries took part in the competi

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【轻松英文阅读】禁止无人机

One town in Colorado may never be getting delivery by Amazon drones, if one man has his way. You may have heard about Amazons Jeff Bezoss plans to create a drone delivery service called Air Prime. With Air Prime, products would be delivered to your h

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【轻松英文阅读】科学家的新发现

Recently, some researchers in Australia were excited about messages from a distant galaxy. But it turns out that the signals were from a completely different source. The scientists at Parkes Observatory in Australia specialize in radio bursts- short

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【轻松英文阅读】如何更好地入睡

Unfortunately , a lot of us are familiar with sleep deprivation . Here are some steps to making your bedroom more sleep-friendly. First of all, you should get bills and work related items out of the bedroom. You want to make your bedroom less chaotic

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【轻松英文阅读】寄生虫

A single-celled parasite, know as Cyclospora , has been causing illnesses in several states. The states reporting the highest number of cases are Texas, Nebraska and Iowa. The disease causes flu-like symptoms such as nausea , fatigue and diarrhea . C

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【轻松英文阅读】脑洞足够大的戒烟广告

Some people are calling it the best anti-smoking ad ever. It is certainly very popular. At the time of writing of this article, the video titled Smoking Kid has hit 2 million views. It was created in Thailand by the ad agency, Ogilvy Asia for the Tha

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【轻松英文阅读】灯光的危害

Without a doubt, artificial light has made our lives more convenient. In fact, our modern civilization would not be possible without Edisons invention. However, scientists are recently discovering that there is a dark side to the artificial light tha

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【轻松英文阅读】如何应对炎热的夏季

Summer is here and though it is the time for outdoor fun and play, it is also the time to start thinking about protecting ourselves from extreme heat. Extreme heat can cause serious health problems. But, you can do something about it. little sunshine

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【轻松英文阅读】节能型车

The Tesla Model S finished the first half of this year with 8% of the luxury car market in the U.S. The pricey PEV (Plug-in electric vehicle) outpaced such famous luxury car models as the Audi A8 and the BMW 7-series. What is striking is that Tesla,

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【轻松英文阅读】你的手机省电吗

What do you think are the biggest energy users in your home? Your list most likely includes your A.C., fridge, washing machine, etc. But you would be surprised to know that your smart phone is one of the biggest energy hog in your home. Charging the

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【轻松英文阅读】水母入侵

These jellyfish have a comparatively harmless sting, but they have shut down a nuclear power plant in Sweden. The power plant, located on the Baltic coast, had to be shut down to prevent overheating after an onslaught of jellyfish. The jellyfish clog

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【轻松英文阅读】室内帐篷更保暖

Heres a great idea for keeping warm this winter from South Korea. South Korea can get pretty cold in the winter months. With temperatures around -8 degrees outside, it can be very difficult to keep a room warm. This is especially true this year in So

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【轻松英文阅读】登山者引起的环境污染

It has been more than 60 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the summit of Everest. The summit was a lonely and pristine place in those days. These days, however, the summit is a busy place. Almost 4, 000 people have climbed to t

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【轻松英文阅读】切尔诺贝利森林面临的危险

Something strange is happening in the forests around Chernobyl. More precisely, it is what is not happening that is the problem. When leaves fall and trees die there, they are not decomposing properly. Scientists visiting the dead forests noticed tha

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【轻松英文阅读】14岁少年的智慧

It started as a simple science project by a 14-year-old boy in Pennsylvania. Now, it has the potential to save the U.S. government over 200 million dollars a year. Garamond and Times New Roman Comparison After hearing that his school district was tak

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【轻松英文阅读】科威特妇女的离婚诉求

Couples divorce for all sorts of reasons: disagreements about money, cheating, abuse, different ideas on how to raise kids, but a woman in Kuwait has a most unusual reason. It appears she cannot take her new husbands poor table manners. The unidentif

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【轻松英文阅读】隐形的塔

When construction is finished in 2014, the 450-meter tall Tower Infinity will be one of the 10 tallest structures in the world. But you may not notice it. Why is that? Unlike most skyscrapers, Tower Infinity has been designed not to stand out. Thanks

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【轻松英文阅读】最孤独的星球

The earth may feel like a pretty lonely place in the vastness of space. But it would be hard to find a lonelier place than planet PSO J318:5-22. The planet is floating free in space without a star to orbit. It is all-alone in the darkness of space. I

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【轻松英文阅读】电子邮件

Before there was Gmail or even Yahoo mail, there was Hotmail, a free web-based E-mail service that was the first of its kind. Because when Microsoft released Hotmail in 1996, most people could only have one E-mail account, with only limited storage,

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