【英语时差8,16】清新空气有利延长寿命

Don: Time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear Yal and Don, I know that it's important to have clean air, but why? Besides making the air smell better, what's the advantage of reducing air pollution? Yal: Interestin

【英语时差8,16】精彩不断的「玩命关头4」

Fast Furious re-teams Vin Diesel and Paul Walker for the first time since 2001's The Fast and the Furious. A simple world where everything falls into an easy hierarchy is essential, so that the audience can concentrate on what's important: street rac

【英语时差8,16】麦克和亚曼达正在聊去动物园

Mike: Sorry, my little brother and sister are taking forever to get ready to go. They should be here soon. Amanda: Are they excited about seeing the pandas? Mike: What pandas? Didn't you hear the news a while ago that they're fake? They're really bro

【英语时差8,16】蚊子爱言论

Is there any sound more annoying than the whine of a [dict]mosquito[/dict]? Yes, mosquitoes are pests through and through. But there's more to their irritating whine than meets the ear. For mosquitoes, that's the sound of love. It's well known by sci

【英语时差8,16】龙卷风的预测

Yal: What are you doing with that shovel, Don? Don: I'm digging a hole for a tornado shelter to get ready for next winter, Yal. Y: A tornado shelter for winter? D: Yep. We're going to have lots of tornadoes in the midwest this year. Y: How could you

【英语时差8,16】蜜蜂的死亡

The survival strategies of some species can seem counter-intuitive to us until we examine them in detail. Let's take the example of bees, which die after stinging once, because the stinger tears out their insides. How can this self-destructive trait

【英语时差8,16】蘑菇也能变为柴油？

Don: Time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. Yal: A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, Scientists know that one day we'll run out of oil and other natural sources of energy. Beyond solar power and wind power and ethanol, what are

【英语时差8,16】鸟类中不同的行走方式

Last time we were thinking about why some birds hop and other birds walk. We decided that you can't make any blanket statements about this, because there will always be exceptions. But in general it's true that larger birds are more likely to walk an

【英语时差8,16】闻起来像雨的时候

If you've been outside before a rainfall in the spring, you might have noticed a particularly fresh or sweet smell that seeps into the air a few minutes before the first drops begin to fall. If you're familiar with this smell, it's a great way to pre

【英语时差8,16】考虑健康饮食

The Ministry of Education and the John Tung Foundation recently sponsored a two-week camp for underweight and overweight children from grades three through six. Nutritionists taught the students about sugar and grease content in a variety of foods, a

【英语时差8,16】如何防御霜冻你的花园：抗冻植物

How To Defend Your Gardens From Frostbite: Antifreeze For Plants D:Why is the glum face,Yeal? Y:I spend a small fortune on plants for my garden this year,but an early frost destroied half of them. D:You are not the only person who is lost plants to a

【英语时差8,16】厨房造纸术

How To Make Paper In Your Own Kitchen Paper is an indispensable part of modern life. In fact, each American uses about 600 pounds of paper every year. Where does all this paper come from? Actually，paper making technology is really quite simple, so

【英语时差8,16】Chinese Folk Tales in London 中国社区

lets hear from this lady, Veronica Needa. Where does Veronica live? Hello there, my names Veronica Needa, I have a Chinese name too, my Chinese name is Li Wi Kei, which is in Cantonese because I come from Hong Kong, and I make my home in London now.W

【英语时差8,16】向癌症进化

Evolving Toward Cancer Is it possible that humans evolved to get cancer? Thats what scientists at Ben Gurion University in Israel claim in a study. They found that the same genetic mutations involved in the evolution of modern humans also gave rise t

【英语时差8,16】Margaret Thatcher 玛格丽特.撒切尔

I have only one thing to say. U-turn if you want to. The ladys not for turning. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 until 1990.Very few were indifferent about her.Often called the Iron Lady. But she is the only woman to have held t

【英语时差8,16】Dame Judi Dench 朱迪.丹奇夫人

Im an entirely animal kind of actress you know. I do it on a kind of instinct. And of course theres so much research you can do but then youre acting with other people and its what they give you. That was Dame Judi Dench.Judi Dench has been acting fo

【英语时差8,16】用普通人的细胞制造干细胞

Making Stem Cells From Ordinary Adult Cells Most cells in our bodies are unipotent, that is they stay the same throughout their lives. For example, once a skin cell, always a skin cellthey never start turning into brain cells. The exception is stem c

【英语时差8,16】群居的剑齿猫

Social Saber-Toothed Cats Whats more dangerous than meeting one saber toothed cat? Meeting a gang of them. The saber toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, existed in North and South America until 10,000 years ago. It was lion sized, but with a heavier build

【英语时差8,16】Charles Dickens 查尔斯.狄更斯

Charles Dickens. One of the best and most read English authors. I havent read any Charles Dickens books, so I dont know. I always kind of perceived them as being quite long and boring and too much detail. Long, boring and too much detail? Shame on hi

【英语时差8,16】超流=超级怪异

Superfluid = Super Weird Imagine youre enjoying a nice cool drink on a hot summer day when all of a sudden your cool liquid leaps out of the cup towards the sun, or starts climbing up the sides of the cup and spills over the edge. You might think you