【英语语言学习】狗狗是我们最好的朋友

Robyn Williams: One of humanity's first innovations was an alliance with dogs, 40,000 years ago at least. Just look at the article on wolves in this week's New Scientist magazine. One great advantage of wolves and dogs is they are smart, as Stanley C

【英语语言学习】人类种族之间的迫害

I am a Hazara, and the homeland of my people is Afghanistan. Like hundreds of thousands of other Hazara kids, I was born in exile. The ongoing persecution and operation against the Hazaras forced my parents to leave Afghanistan. This persecution has

【英语语言学习】你相信鬼魂的存在吗

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In her new work of nonfiction called American Ghost, writer Hannah Nordhaus investigates a haunting as well as the lost world of 19th-century European Jews who emigrated to the American Southwest. Book critic Mau

【英语语言学习】好家伙

Act One. Takes One To Know One Ira Glass Act One, Takes One to Know One. So after 11 months of stalling, Ben finally headed out to get himself the good guy discount wearing a microphone hidden underneath his shirt. I went with him. Ben Calhoun First

【英语语言学习】人们选择的交通方式

Hello Antony Funnell here, and welcome to Future Tense. Like many people I know, I catch the bus to work. And this is my stop, one sec... Thank-you! Okay, come this way while I talk. Travelling on the bus is pretty straightforward. But getting from t

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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And this is For The Record. There was good news and bad news for the FBI this past week. A congressionally mandated report says the agency has made major improvements since 9/11 but still need

【英语语言学习】新加坡是怎么变富有的

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Despite heavy rains, tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Singapore today to say goodbye to the country's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee was one of the most influential leaders of the last 100 years. He wa

【英语语言学习】成为少年犯后使我开始反省

We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates. New York state is one of only two in the U.S. that automatically arrests and tries 16- to 17-year-olds as adults. This culture of violence takes these young people

【英语语言学习】耻辱的代价

You're looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade. Obviously, that's changed, but only recently. It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit: 1,500 brilliant people, all under th

【英语语言学习】想要了解一个人 先逗笑他

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is For the Record. The White House welcomed foreign dignitaries, national security experts and community leaders to Washington this past week for what was billed as a summit to counter violent extremism. The administration t

【英语语言学习】你们想要知道什么

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Muslims in Germany are under increased scrutiny after several recent threats and fatal attacks that have been linked to Islamic extremists in Europe. And that has sparked criticism from German Muslim leaders, who say that such scru

【英语语言学习】美国监狱中的生活

The United States has almost a fourth of the world's prison population -- more than two million people, to be exact. That number comes from the International Centre for Prison Studies in London. Among the groups working to improve conditions for pris

【英语语言学习】地球人与外星人

Meanwhile, back at the AAAS, ET has not phoned Earth. SETI, situated near San Jose, has not found alien intelligence. So they are, controversially, going for METI, sending messages out instead. Doug Vakoch from the SETI Institute at the press confere

【英语语言学习】汉语会替代英语成为全球通用的语言吗

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently surprised Chinese students when he spoke to them in Chinese. In a talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for about 30 minutes. Although his Mandarin was far from perfect, students an

【英语语言学习】孤独患者

I haven't told many people this, but in my head, I've got thousands of secret worlds all going on all at the same time. I am also autistic. People tend to diagnose autism with really specific check-box descriptions, but in reality, it's a whole varia

【英语语言学习】什么样的生活方式才健康

I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. And I've done this in three parts. So first I started with the mind. And I decided to try to get smarter by reading the entir

【英语语言学习】为什么还留在这里

Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God. I was

【英语语言学习】天气变化

Robyn Williams: And so to WOMADelaide and the comedy of climate change. My name is Robyn Williams, and in 1971 I did my last Monty Python, and it was a raid on the Tate Gallery to put bras and knickers on all the rude statues. And one of the most del

【英语语言学习】大脑训练有用吗

Norman Swan: Amit Etkin is in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in California Amit referred to computer-based brain training. In fact this is all the rage at the moment with a big emphasis on staving off deme

【英语语言学习】火星做“备胎”星球？

We're at a tipping point in human history, a species poised between gaining the stars and losing the planet we call home. Even in just the past few years, we've greatly expanded our knowledge of how Earth fits within the context of our universe. NASA