In this Moment of Science Don and Yael discuss a scientific way to choose the perfect date movie. Don: Okay, Yael, if you were me, would you take your date to a violent action flick or a romantic movie? Yael: A romance, of course. D: Well, there migh

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Amanda: Hi, Mike. What are you reading? Mike: Oh, these are just some books I picked up at a local poetryfestival that took place a couple of weeks ago. Even though a lot of what the featured poets read wasn't in English, it was still neat to see tha

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A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and A Friend by Mercer and Marianna Mayer 1 One day a boy went fishing with his dog and his frog.He sat by the side of a pond and patiently waited for a fish to bite. 2 All of a sudden he felt a bite! 3 It had to be a big fish be

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you shouldnt quit drinking milk. It is a good source of calcium after all.what you should do is stop consuming dairy on an empty stomach period. On an empty stomach, dairy moves faster through your intestines and is more likely to cause you intoleran

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It seems that the key trend in the entertainment industry these days is the adoption of 3D. Following the success of 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, the video game business is keen to muscle in on the action with Nintendo announcing

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Dutch police said the pilot was arrested in the cockpit. He is suspected of flying with a forged licence for more than a decade. The police said he had once had a commercial pilot licence but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger fl

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For those of us lucky enough to always have enough food and water, it may be hard to imagine living through a drought. A drought occurs for a variety of reasons, usually including a lack of rainfall and warm temperatures.Soil moisture severely dwindl

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Shopping and Hummingbird s 购物和蜂鸟 Yal: Did you know, Don, that your shopping habits maybe similar to a hummingbird s? Don: Are you going to tell me that hummingbird s are also sold on flash colors and miracle diamonds? Y: No. But it turns ou

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Why Alien s Wont Eat Us Are alien s going to eat us? Thats more of a science fiction question. But science does have something to say here, and sometimes purely imaginative questions are great tools for helping us think about how the real world works

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Stutter ing Ear 用耳朵治口吃 Remember that kid in your grade school class who stutter ed ? Well, he was in good companya whopping three million people in the United States alone are affected by this problem. 还记得小学时班上那个说话结

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The Eye of the Dung Beetle A number of animals, including honeybees and butterflies, use sunlights polarization in their navigation s , but the dung beetle is the first animal ever discovered to use moonlights polarization to guide its travels. Polar

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Surprise at Stonehenge 神奇的巨石阵 Wizard s and aliens aside, actual scientists dont have much to say about Stonehenge. That is, until now. Just recently, a four-thousand-year old gravesite was found within three miles of Stonehenge. The tomb

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The Real Bigfoot 真的有大脚怪吗? Everybody has heard of Bigfoot, the gigantic ape-like creature that supposedly haunts the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Plenty of enthusiasts believe Bigfoot is real, though there isnt any evidence that w

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Variety in Diet D: Oh! Good to have buffet , I love buffet s . I like to get a taste of lot of different things. I like to nibble a little of this, and a little of that. Who wants to eat a mass of potatoes when you can also have chicken, corn and gra

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Are You Looking at Me? 你在看我吗? You know how eye contact is a pretty important component of interacting with people,right? So scientists recently tested this by measuring peoples brain activity as they responded to pictures of angry people

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Is Heading in Soccer Dangerous? 头球危险吗? Is heading in soccer dangerous? Its a question that has met its fair share of controversy. If youve never played soccer, heading may look pretty dangerous to the poor brain. Where else in life do you

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Getting Rid Of Cavities Don: Sorry, I'm late. I was brushing my teeth. Yal: Brushing your teeth! Right before A Moment of Science? Why? D: I'm trying to get rid of a cavity . Y: Get rid of a cavity ? Are you stuck with a cavity once you have it? D: I

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二手空气 Big cities, with all their pollution , have an effect on trees No doubt. In the countryside. Say what? Big cities affect the trees in the countryside? You got it! According to a study conducted by Jillian Gregg, who now works at the EPAs

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Snake Vision Snakes have heat-vision that allows them to catch their dinners in the dark. True or false? True! It isnt quite right to call it vision, thoughmore accurate would be to say that certain specie s , such as rattlers, have pit s just under

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Hawaiis Next Island Look at a map of Hawaii and youll see volcanic islands strung out like pearls on a necklace. The biggestand the youngestis Hawaii, in the south-east corner. As the islands stretch away to the north-west they become older and more

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