From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. Im June Simms. And Im Christopher Cruise. Today, we examine recent findings about how intelligence develops in babies. We look at when and how babies learn, and the importance

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From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special English. Have you ever had an RSS news feed sent to your mobile phone or computer? If so, you have Aaron Swartz to thank. He helped develop that Internet publishing technology when h

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. Public health officials say tobacco companies are avoiding a worldwide ban on advertising tobacco products to young people by using smartphone applications, or apps. The off

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Im Barbara Klein. And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS, in VOA Special English. Today we talk about two hugely influential computer software tools. Auto-Tune is a software program that can correct the sound quality of musical recordings. Adobe Photos

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Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has once again provoked criticism, this time from an American blogger, after suggesting on Chinese television that the US is the most corrupt country in the world. When you talk about corruption the whole world, is t

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. China has new rules that require people to use their real names when registering for Internet service. The rules also require Internet companies operating in China to remove

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. American colleges and universities awarded about one million seven hundred thousand bachelors degrees in the school year ending in twenty ten. Fifty-seven percent of the rec

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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! (Applause.) Thank you! Thank you so much. (Applause.) It is good to be back in Las Vegas! (Applause.) And it is good to be among so many good friends. Let me start off by thanking everybody at Del Sol High School for hosting

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I'm Jane McGonigal. I'm a game designer. I've been making games online now for 10 years, and my goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. Now, I have a plan for th

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In Argentina the case of a dead prosecutor has riveted the country and caused a political crisis. Alberto Nisman was found in his apartment with a bullet to the head just over a month ago. That was after he accused Argentina's pres

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Norman Swan: One of the things often missing in modern medicine is attention to or respect for the spiritual life of patients and families, which includes miraculous thinking. And that's why Rhonda Cooper developed the AMEN tool. Reverend Cooper is t

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Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; distinguished guests, undistinguished guests - you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. And thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover a

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In which the author answers the question that Freud asked, but never could figure out: What do women want? For good measure, he also reveals what men really want. We love you, are proud of you, expect good things from you, and wish you well. This is

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Lynsey Addario, had been a photojournalist working in war zones for 10 years when she was kidnapped in Libya in 2011 while covering the fighting between Muammar Qaddafi's troops and rebel forces. She was

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Time for some number crunching from our data expert, Mona Chalabi, from fivethirtyeight.com. And she has given us this number of the week. AUTOMATED VOICE: Thirty-eight. MARTIN: That is the percentage of American wives who earn more than their husban

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On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday, I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was reading the paper or something, and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said, Hey,

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On RN, this is The Body Sphere, with Amanda Smith. When it's welcome, it's lovely. When it's not welcome, it's horrible. There's no doubt that these days we're very touchy about touch, especially around children, and for very good reason. But are tab

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lots of people play video games to escape the real world, but a new type of virtual reality experience does just the opposite. It takes you to the streets of Syria and other conflicts zones gripped by very real violence. But as r

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When I was young, I prided myself as a nonconformist in the conservative U.S. state I live in, Kansas. I didn't follow along with the crowd. I wasn't afraid to try weird clothing trends or hairstyles. I was outspoken and extremely social. Even these

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You've probably heard of dusting for fingerprints at the scene of a robbery or a murder. But now investigators can do the same thing for a different kind of crime - killing birds of prey. In Britain and in other parts of Europe,

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