【英语时差8，16】谈谈梦想成名

Mike: I'm so excited, Amanda! I just qualified to participate in a singing contest on TV. I'm going to be a famous singer and everyone is going to be listening to my music and saying my name. Girls will be all over me and people on the street won't b

【英语时差8，16】在企鹅蛋壳上行走

Walking on penguin eggshells on this Moment of Science. Yael: Today, we're talking penguin eggs. Don: Why? Y: Penguins lay their eggs on hard surfaces near coastlines, or they might dig burrows if the soil permits. And because they're optimized for s

【英语时差8，16】俄国潜艇缔造下潜湖泊最深记录

A Russian mini-submarine reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, setting a record for the deepest dive in a lake. The Mir-2 has reached the bottom of Lake Baikal at a depth of 1,680 meters (5,512 feet), ITAR-TASS reported from the barge where the submarin

【英语时差8，16】不管年纪多大，感谢信是一定要的啦

Dear Annie: Please settle a dispute between my husband and me. Several weeks ago, I surprised him with a 50th birthday party. It was very low-key and in our backyard. Several of his friends gave him gifts. I handed him the addresses and thank-you not

【英语时差8，16】种族类型及记忆

Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial categories based on their appeara

【英语时差8，16】夏风令我爽

I'd like to look into your past, and predict the future. I bet that the last time you went to the beach, the wind was blowing in off the water. Maybe it was just a pleasant breeze, maybe something a little stronger. But it was definitely coming in of

【英语时差8，16】耳朵疼

It's two in the morning, and like most people you're fast asleep. But then your eyes pop open and your three year old is standing there, tugging her ear and saying, Mommy, my ear hurts. If you're a parent with a young child, this scenario is probably

【英语时差8，16】饥饿如何影响胃口？

Yael: You know how they say you should never go grocery shopping when you're hungry? Don: Everything looks delicious. Y: Yes, well, doesn't it seem to you that food is indeed more delicious when you're hungry? I don't normally care for potato chips,

【英语时差8，16】日出日落

Don: The dawn's early light, or the twilight's last gleaming. Ya?l: Don? D: Yes Ya?l? Y: We've been in this art museum for five hours now, and you've spent the whole time staring at that one photograph of a sunset. D: Are you sure? Y: Of course I'm s

【英语时差8，16】何为先，语言或观察

Yael: Don, what came first? Language or perception? Don: Hey, is this one of those questions with no answer? Y: No definitive answer, but a couple of theories. The first is that the language you speak affects how you perceive the world. D: So people

【英语时差8，16】母亲担心游泳池的安全

Dear Annie: I have four daughters under the age of 10. We live on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, which we value as a safe place to raise our family. Last year, a new family moved in and we've become friends with the entire family. My children love to p

【英语时差8，16】看看自己是否超重？

BMI stands for Body Mass Index, and it's a way to estimate whether or not an adult is over or under weight for his or her height. No equipment is necessary. You can figure out your BMI at home with a calculator. You multiply your weight in pounds by

【英语时差8，16】夜晚所得

Yael is worried about having enough air to breathe, but Don sets her mind at ease. Y: Oh great! This weekend I have to go to another family reunion, where I'll be sharing a room with my seven-foot-tall body-building cousin Bertha. She's nice enough,

【英语时差8，16】沼泽地引爆碳炸弹

The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming carbon bomb if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said. Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the

【英语时差8，16】儿子故意伤害自己

Dear Annie: My adult son, Nick, has been hospitalized more than a dozen times and treated in emergency rooms nearly 100 times over the past 18 years. He has shot himself, stabbed himself in the liver (both accidental) and has had innumerable bouts of

【英语时差8，16】那里，那里......

Sometimes people write to us here at Moment of Science to complain that all we ever talk about are quasars or neutrinos or something. Where's the useful stuff? Well, here's something for you practically-minded listeners. Anybody who has a baby knows

【英语时差8，16】深处睡眠1

Almost every animal ever studied spends a large part of each day sleeping. Sleep is thought to play an essential role in the health of almost all animals. Because of this, scientists have long wondered how cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins, get

【英语时差8，16】自然直升机

Don: [TO SELF] Number 9...osprey. Yael: Hey Don. What's up? D: I'm making a top ten list of the best animals of all time. Y: What's on the list? D: Dingo, aardvark, python, tapir, rhesus monkey, black widow, bullfrog, owl, osprey. Y: That's only nine

【英语时差8，16】丈夫从银行帐户偷钱

Dear Annie: Three years ago, I found out my husband was embezzling funds from our joint accounts and then hiding the money in another account. I discovered it when my kids' school called and told me we were four months behind on tuition. When I confr

【英语时差8，16】家长忽略小孩

Dear Annie: My 24-year-old son and his wife are the parents of two toddler boys and are expecting another baby soon. They live four hours away. I recently learned that my son goes off to work early in the morning and his wife sleeps until noon, while