纽约尼克斯华裔后卫林书豪(Jeremy Lin)一夜间成为全球华人的骄傲。美国人是称奇叫好还是不以为然?潘吉、Jenny和嘉宾Michael精彩呈献。他们也会聊聊格莱美、现在最火的网络音乐库Spotify和iTu

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Hot Chilies Cool Down Gut Inflammation in Mice红辣椒可缓解肠炎 The ingredient that makes hot chilies hot is called capsaicinand it can set your mouth on fire. But the spicy compound has a soothing effect too: in your gut, it kicks off a chemi

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Seeing One Solar Eclipse May Not Be Enough 观看日全食会上瘾?8.21.日全食来啦! I expected to have this interesting intellectual experience, and instead it was just completely visceral. 我很期待这种有趣的科学体验,而且这完

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Americans like their homes to reflect their personal tastes. Many do-it-yourselfers enjoy fixing up their house and making it more livable. They often try to create a eozy atmospehre so that when they're at home, they'll really feel at home. 美国人喜

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Throughout their history, Americans have been people on the move. The early immigrants had to travel to get to the New World. Once they arrived, they settled along the East Coast. But they weren't content to stay there. Explorers and traders journeye

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Every winter some twenty million tons of salt are dumped on America's road.That sodium chloride melts the ice, so it prevents its formatin, helping to prevent accidents. But road salt has its downside. This is not very economical because salt is main

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This is Scientific America's 60-second Science. This will just take a minute. Losing your job is bad for you, but it could be good for the rest of us. because a study shows the recession lowers mortality in the population over all, even the out-worki

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Your Cat Thinks You're Cool 猫咪认为: 你是最好的 We tend to see house cats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, g

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Bacterially Boosted Mosquitoes Could Vex Viruses蚊子也能抑制病毒传播? It may sound strange, but scientists are celebrating the survival and spread of tens of thousands of mosquitoes they released in Northeastern Australia. The whole thing

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大家印象中的美国人都是很奔放的,什么都敢说敢做,其实美国人也有害羞的时候啦!哪些话题是美国人不好开口的呢?赶快听听今天的节目吧! 美国人的禁忌 本节课的重点词汇: 1. shy 害羞

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Sharks aren't typically thought of as vegetarians. Or even omnivores. But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethead shark, consuming copious amounts of seagrass. 锤头鲨通常不被认为

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Fecal Transplanters Fish Out Key Ingredient These days, antibiotics are no silver bullet. In fact, if you get them in the hospital, you may end up with an additional infection. Like the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diffwhich infects more than 300

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Your Cat Thinks You're Cool We tend to see housecats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, given a choice, Fluffy would proba

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Brain Scan Might Reveal Appetite for Risk Here's the gamble: Twenty bucks guaranteedor a 50/50 chance of winning sixty bucks?Which would you choose? 赌博游戏规则:20块钱押宝...或50/50赢取60块钱的机会?你会选择哪一个? The answ

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Planting Milkweed for Monarchs? Make Sure it's Native Monarch butterflies depend on milkweed. They lay their eggs on milkweed, and their caterpillars eat only the leaves of the plant. No milkweed means no monarchs. So the best way to help declining m

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To See Gun Injury Drop Hold An NRA Meeting The annual meeting of the National Rifle Association is coming up in May. It's scheduled for Dallas. And if past events are any guide, gun injuries may actually go down in Texas, during the event.When a conv

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Psychologist Saho Takagi, a graduate student at Kyoto University in Japan, strolls into one of Japan's many cat cafes. These establishments allow customers to pay an hourly fee for the chance to cuddle some cats. They're popular in Japan because so m

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Ravens Crow with Individual Flair There's a well-known conspiracy of ravensthat's what you call a group of ravensthat likes to hang out near a zoo in the Austrian Alps. Every day these ravens conspire to steal the food that's set out for the wild boa

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Right Whales Seem To Think Before They Speak As animals grow, the sounds they make change. But some sounds continue to change, even after an animal matures. That's true for humans, and now it turns out to be true for North Atlantic right whales, too.

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Head to the mountains, and if the steep trails don't slow you down, the thin air will. There's less oxygen up thereso strenuous activity can leave you dizzy, out of breathor worse. But even though you're beat, biochemical processes are already busy a

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