【英语时差8，16】动物会笑吗？

If you have a dog, you may have noticed that sometimes it seems to be smiling. But, of course, we know that dogs don't really smile. That's just how dog mouths appear sometimes, right? Perhaps, but according to neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp of Bowling

【英语时差8，16】说不和长大

Yael: Y'know, I've always wondered what you were like as a kid, Don . . . I bet you were a nice, sweet little boy. Don: Actually, Yael, just the opposite. At least that's what I'm told. Evidently I could be pretty difficult as a toddler. Y: Really? B

【英语时差8，16】谈谈星座

Amanda: Mike, can you please pass me the newspaper when you finish reading the sports pages? Mike: Actually, I checked the scores ages ago. Now I'm just reading my horoscope. I recently developed an interest in astrology. I make sure to read my daily

【英语时差8，16】魔术师打破憋气时间世界纪录

Magician David Blaine set a new world record last month for breath-holding: 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The feat was broadcast live during The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the studio audience cheered as divers pulled Blaine from a water-filled sphere. He lo

【英语时差8，16】书写简史

Don: Oh, Yael, I just read the most beautiful poem. No wonder our ancestors developed writing--they probably wanted to treasure poetry for posterity. Yael: Actually Don, writing was developed to keep track of more mundane things, like money. For exam

【英语时差8，16】亲吻表亲

Fans of classic movies will remember the famous dueling banjos scene in Deliverance, the story of four city friends who take an ill-fated boating trip down a backwoods Georgia river. As the friends set out, one of the friends challenges a local boy w

【英语时差8，16】直立行走-2

Last time we discussed how human beings are the only primate that walks on two feet. One theory for how this might have happened says that, when our species was just getting its start, reaching up for fruit was a good thing to be able to do. Those wh

【英语时差8，16】直立行走

Among all the primates, we humans are the only ones that stand on two legs. You may have seen other animals stand on two legs briefly, such as a cat or a dog. But they always return to their original posture. Even apes, who have arms and hands much l

【英语时差8，16】生活在冰川时代

Global warming is a real problem, but would you believe that we are actually living in an ice age right now? Yael and Don discuss it. Y: Brrr! Thanks for lunch Don, but it's a little cold to be walking back to the office. D: Well, it is winter. Y: Ac

【英语时差8，16】充满冒险的“尼莫岛”

Walden Media's latest, Nim's Island, has a terrific premise from the book by Wendy Orr. Abigail Breslin stars as Nim, a smart, independent 11-year-old who lives with her microbiologist dad, Jack (Gerard Butler) on an uncharted South Pacific island. A

【英语时差8，16】肾结石

Kidneys are extremely useful organs. Located below the ribs toward the middle of the back, kidneys make urine by filtering excess water and waste from the blood. Scientists have not yet determined why or how it happens, but on occasion crystals separ

【英语时差8，16】研究人员：接受赞美如获至“宝”，感觉一样赞

Paying people a compliment appears to activate the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash, Japanese researchers said on April 23. They said the study offers scientific support for the long-held assumption that people get a psychological

【英语时差8,16】耶路撒冷

Don: Oh, Yael, I just read the most beautiful poem. No wonder our ancestors developed writing--they probably wanted to treasure poetry for posterity. Yael: Actually Don, writing was developed to keep track of more mundane things, like money. For exam

【英语时差8,16】结合爱情与悬疑的《爱情三选一》

Definitely, Maybe is a slick romantic comedy with an interesting premise and an attractive cast. Written and directed by Adam Brooks, Definitely, Maybe introduces us to advertising man Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds), an about-to-be-divorced New Yorker wh

【英语时差8,16】科学家试图揭开英国巨石阵之谜

Archaeologists set out recently to unlock one of the secrets of Stonehenge, the majestic monument in southern England－when were the first standing stones placed at the ancient religious site? The concentric stone circles that make up Stonehenge, 13

【英语时差8,16】时来运转好“狗”运

No one really knows how many homeless canines roam the streets of Taiwan－some put the number of stray dogs at 500,000, while others estimate there are as many as two million. Sadly, despite various governmental campaigns, little has improved for Ta

【英语时差8,16】东方的狗

Have you ever taken a good look at your dog and wondered, where did this creature come from? Sure, you know your dog came from the local shelter or a pet store, but what about before that? If you were able to trace your dog's lineage back to its orig

【英语时差8，16】成龙李连杰同台角逐功夫之王

The Forbidden Kingdom is a martial arts family film that features the first-time pairing of the world's most popular martial arts stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, their names linked on screen by the letter J like two words on a Scrabble board. The film

【英语时差8,16】地震预报员：加州2037年很可能发生大地震

California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said last month in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude-6.7 quake or larger will st

【英语时差8,16】科学家在南极考察时发现巨大海洋生物

Scientists made surprising discoveries of giant-sized specimens of marine life during a major survey of New Zealand's Antarctic seas that ended recently. Huge sea snails, jellyfish with tentacles up to 4 meters long and starfish the size of big food