Children love sweet things to eat, and when mom or dad bakes some fresh cookies, it's a real treat. Of course, lots of cookies means some of them must be put away for later days. Many kitchens have a cookie jar for that purpose. Parents may warn thei

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Yal: What are you doing with that shovel, Don? Don: I'm digging a hole for a tornado shelter to get ready for next winter, Yal. Y: A tornado shelter for winter? D: Yep. We're going to have lots of tornadoes in the midwest this year. Y: How could you

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Heavy air on this Moment of Science. Here's an oxiny question: does air weigh anything? At first it might seem preplexing, on the one hand, air just seems floating, I mean, to say something is as light as air is to say its weighlessness, is isn't? Bu

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Basically its very interesting because its so varied. You never have the same day twice. And the patients that you meet are all very different, they come in with different characters and different illnesses so it makes your job very interesting in th

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Don: Time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear Don Yal, I've been reading a lot about climate lately, and I know that the earth stores lots of carbon in different places, like in the ocean and in plants. Are there a

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Husband spoiling video game indulged stepson Dear Annie: My 21-year-old stepson, Sam, is smart, strong, healthy, good-lookingand lazy. He dropped out of college after two years, and his life's ambition appears to be never to work another day in his l

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Have a Crush on Tracy: I think I should tell everyone that Li and I have just been reading some celebrity magazines. Weve been reading about the lives and loves of our favourite celebrities. Li: I discovered that Brad Pitt is Tracys favourite celebri

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Chinese figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo rolled back the years to win China's first gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday. Their victory came as a fairytale ending to a story that seems more like a Hollywood movie than rea

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Hull Jo:Now, today Jean, I thought Id introduce my home town to everyone. Jean: Your home town? Where is that then? Jo: Well its a place called Hull. I spoke to Karen, who has lived in the city on and off for a number of years. Where in Britain is Hu

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

During the fraction of a second that a saccade takes, images sweep over our retinas at high speed. Yet we dont get a feeling of motion, because our brain suppresses visual perception during saccades. Otherwise, the world might look to us like a bad h

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You would have thought it hard to miss one six-metre-high scowling demon let alone twelve. But the authorities at Bangkok's main airport say they are relocating their spirit statues to the check-in area, where they are thought more likely to be notic

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Diarmuid:This year I decided to go on holiday here in the UK instead of going to a foreign country. Feifei: So you had a staycation? Diarmuid: Exactly. This year I had a staycation. S.T.A.Y.C.A.T.I.O.N. Feifei: Staycation. it sounds like the word vac

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Daya: I absolutely love shopping online, you get the best deals online, you get designer goods for cheaper as well because they have sales online, if you're into your designer clothes. You can have an express service where you can have your goods in

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Waiter: A table for one, Madame? Jean: No, erm, for two. I'm expecting someone. Waiter: Of course. Here we are. Jean: Thanks. Waiter: Excuse me. Something to drink in the meantime, Madame? Jean: Yes, oh, sorry. Yes. I'll have a glass of water, please

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Generally in the past just go out for a few drinks then see what's up. I dont like anything too obvious or structured or whatever. I quite like cinemas, which is quite rubbish, but theyre quiet so if you dont get on with the person you can just watch

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Used detergent labels and toothpaste tubes from Indonesia are going from landfills to fashion frills on bags and wallets sold in Singapore, Australia and the United States. The fad known as trashion has gained mainstream acceptance with chic, urban d

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No, trust me, the balloon wont pop! It better not. see? Wow!you are right. How come it not poping? As long as the flame is beneath the water in the balloon, the water absorbs most of the heat and the rubber doesnt get very hot. But won't the water ev

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Although snails can and do successfully mate without stabbing each other, studies have shown that darted snails store one-hundred-sixteen percent more sperm than undarted snails.

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Parallax is a phenomenon by which we can judge the distance to things just by looking at them. Astronomers use parallax to calculate the distance to stars. Do you need a gigantic computer-based observatory to use it? Not at all. Your finger will do n

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For many scientists, a species success is measured by sheer numbers. In that case, the most successful species known to man is a type of bacterium known as S-A-R-11, or SAR-11 for short. Scientists estimate that there are two-hundred and forty times

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