Here's What Playing an Instrument Can Do for Your Brain 弹奏乐器对大脑有什么积极影响 Great news for all you musicians out there: Playing an instrument may boost reaction time, according to a new study. The added perk is something people
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Reminiscing with friends about the good old days may be fun, but it's unlikely to be accurate. Social pressure when recalling a shared event with somebody else who was also there causes false memories to be formed, according to scientists. People reg
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It is often said it is a man's world. 人们常说，这是一个男人主宰的世界。 So it should perhaps be no surprise that the key to earning more is to think like a man. 所以，当研究者发现，多赚钱的关键方法就是采取男性的
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If you've ever stuck rigidly to a diet, managed to lose weight but then piled the pounds back on, it's not your fault. 如果你曾严格坚持节食并减肥成功，但之后体重却又反弹，这不是你的错。 After about five years, 41 per
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These days, a lot of people are thinking about how best to make a change in the world. Some might imagine that its best to try to rise above emotions like anger and fear and focus on taking action. But science suggests that embracing feelings of frus
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Traveling makes us feel sick because modern transport tricks the brain into thinking we have been poisoned, a neuroscientist has said. 一位神经系统科学家近日表示，现代交通工具会诱导大脑认为我们已经中毒，所以旅行常
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世界上最美丽的英文情话 １：I love you not because of who you are,but because of who I am when I am with you. 译文：我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。 ２：No man or
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Do you feel young at heart? There are many lessons adults can learn from children to make their lives easier, less stressful and more enjoyable. 你觉得自己心态年轻吗？阅历丰富的成年人可以向孩子学习，活得简单些,少些压力
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《哈利波特》斯内普教授扮演者艾伦里克曼（Alan Rickman）因癌症在英国伦敦去世，享年69岁。到现在很多人仍然沉浸在Alan过世的悲伤中无法自拔。《哈利波特》的工作人员们也纷纷在自己的社
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When my husband and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary at our favorite restaurant, Lenny, the piano player, asked, How did you do it? 当我和丈夫在我们最喜欢的饭馆庆祝结婚38周年纪念日时，那个弹钢琴的莱尼过来问道
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A German official said Tuesday the country can sustain up to 500,000 or more newasylum-seekers or more every year, a comment that comes as hundreds of thousands of people from war-torn countries across the Middle East and Africa are making their way
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Men find thinner women attractive because they associate their body shape with youth, fertility and a lower risk of disease. 男人们总觉得纤瘦的女性迷人，这是因为男性把体型和年轻、生育能力还有患病风险低联系在一起
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The social networking site's founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook is working on the feature following years of requests for the function. 在大家呼吁Facebook增加这一功能数年之后，这家社交网站的创始人马克 扎克伯格透露
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双语:翁帆给杨振宁的情书 Cold here, icy cold there. You belong to neither, leaves have withered. Your f ace is pale and blue, a tearful smile. Something in your eyes, whispers words of last good-bye. My heart sinks down, tears surge out. 天下
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Guys, want to look sexy and get the girl? Don't smile too much. Look brooding or show a bit of shame instead. Women, ignore that advice. Women find happy men less sexually attractive than those with expressions that show pride or hint that they have
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Marc刚过完他的30岁生日，并分享了他近几年刚刚明白的30个道理。 These are simple lessons about life in general that he picked up while traveling, living in different cities, working for different companies (and himself)， and
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我今年28岁，不怎么回忆过去，更不觉有什么憾事。但是有时我仍恨不能早点懂得这些年来所体悟出的道理，也希望我在学校的时候曾经学过这16个道理。 A teacher probably spoke about some of these 16
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As a recipe for losing weight, tucking into a slice of chocolate cake at breakfast would seem an unlikely fantasy. 每天早餐进食一大块巧克力蛋糕，还把这当成减肥的方法。你说，这有可能吗？ But a full breakfast that inc
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Hong Kong was the staging point for a conference described as Asia's first transhumanism event, in late 2011. 2011年底，香港举办了据说是亚洲第一个超人类主义（transhumanism）活动。 (Note: don't bother to check the English-Chi
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