【英语时差8，16】如何赢得朋友和影响力

Yael: Good news, Don, I think I've finally mastered schmoozing with strangers. Don: You have? Y: It all has to do with what scientists call trait transference, the process through which observers deduce facts about other people based on the things th

【英语时差8，16】谈谈杀价

Mike: Hi, Amanda. What do you think of my new sneakers? I just bought them at Wufenpu a few days ago. Amanda: They look pretty snazzy, Mike. I especially like that color-what a striking shade of blue! How much did you end up paying for them? Mike: We

【英语时差8，16】增加自信

Don: Yael, every day I grow closer to my goal of mind control. Yael: What do you mean, Don? D: Check out this study from Ohio State University that says nodding your head to signal approval and shaking your head to signal disapproval not only lets ot

【英语时差8，16】水与永续会议西班牙开幕

Expo 2008, themed on the world's dwindling water resources, opened in the Spanish city of Zaragoza on June 14, days after the riverside site narrowly escaped flooding. King Juan Carlos officially opened the 25-hectare (62-acre) exhibition on the nigh

【英语时差8，16】恐惧的解析

Don and Ya?l quickly run through what happens in your body when you're frightened. D: The anatomy of fear, on this Moment of Science. Y: One nice day you're walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a hug

【英语时差8，16】为什么尸体会浮

Don: Ya?l, I was reading this mystery novel last night, and in it this guy goes missing and then--lo and behold--a week later they find his body floating in a nearby lake. I don't get it--I have a hard enough time staying afloat for ten minutes, and

【英语时差8，16】'Narnia'战争延续到第二集

In The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the four kids from the first movie, based on the series of novels by CS Lewis, are now fully licensed kings and queens of Narnia. They are still stuck in wartime London, trudging around a train station in

【英语时差8，16】谈谈数码相机

Amanda: Guess what, Mike? My parents bought me a digital camera for my birthday! It's the newest model and has all the latest functions. I'm not too sure how to operate it though. Can you please help me, Mike? Mike: It's about time you got a new digi

【英语时差8，16】狼蜘蛛选择交配对象

Ya?l: My cousin is always falling for these obnoxious, awful men who are just like her father. You'd think she'd learn not to make the same mistake her mother made. Don: Well, you know what they say. A woman will marry the man who reminds her of her

【英语时差8，16】绿色门

In this Moment of Science Don gives Ya?l a neat trick to play on her brain. You might want to try it, too. D: Here's a simple demonstration you can do with cool implications. Find a large object that is brightly colored--let's make it a green door. S

【英语时差8，16】NASA火星探测器登陆，科学家开怀

New images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health. The one snag on the lander occurred when the protective sheath around t

【英语时差8，16】男人喝酒比女人行？

Some men brag that they can handle alcohol better than women. Can there be some truth to that? Don and Ya?l talk about that on this Moment of Science. D: If I were you, Yael, if I were a woman that is, I would reconsider that fourth drink you just or

【英语时差8，16】数字感染

Computers are great tools, but they can also be mystifying. Sometimes a program will just stop working correctly for no apparent reason. It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine. But sometimes the solution is not

【英语时差8，16】少年获得美国拼字比赛冠军

Sameer Mishra provided more than just comic relief at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He ended up winning the title. The 13-year-old from West Lafayette, Indiana, who often had the audience laughing with his one-line commentaries, was all bus

【英语时差8，16】外来移民扩大经济大饼

The recent violence against African migrant workers in South Africa has shocked and saddened the world. All over the world in fact, local people are blaming migrant workers for lost jobs. In Taiwan, the debate over the issue of migrant workers has be

【英语时差8，16】享受阅读报纸的乐趣

Last month, our English Department invited a local radio star to deliver a public lecture on the topic of media influence on society. He described the tug of war that has been going on in recent years between newspapers on real live paper (my words f

【英语时差8，16】谨慎兼顾经济与生态

Investors in Taiwan looking for the next big thing are setting their sights on Hualien, snapping up hotels in the eastern county in the hopes of striking gold after the highly anticipated arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. Hualien is famed for its

【英语时差8，16】穿越隧道

Have you even wondered why you can hear FM radio signals in a tunnel longer than AM? Take a ride with Don and Ya?l to find out why. D: What a great day for a drive! How do you like my new Ferarri? Y: Very fancy. D: Best of all, the radio works, so we

【英语时差8，16】挑个词

People who think about language talk about how the sounds of words bear no relation to objects in the world. Indeed, this has been a leading assumption in much of modern literary criticism, philosophy, and even linguistics. Not necessarily so, says B

【英语时差8，16】喂热饿冷

Is it feed a fever, starve a cold? or vice versa. Yael and Don try to clear that up on this Moment of Science. Y: Don, have you heard the saying, feed a fever, starve a cold? D: Sure. But, it's starve a fever, feed a cold. Why? Are you sick? Y: No. S