The number of obese people in the world now outnumber the underweight people, according to analysis of the trends of adult body-mass index in 200 countries over the last 40 years. The major study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, shows th

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English number words are pretty logical after a point. From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the same principle applies: the tens place followed by the units place. But the teens are different. 英文数字从某个数开始就相当符合逻辑。从21到

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Best friends maybe priceless but the cost of keeping the relationship alive is ?23,870. 最好的朋友也许是无价的,但使友谊长存的成本是2万3870英镑。 According to a study, a BFF (best friends forever) does not come cheap with de

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Breaking up is hard to do. Whether youre doing the dumping or getting dumped, chances are you feel pretty upset. And theres a scientific explanation for this. 分手确实是件难事。无论是你甩了对方,还是对方甩了你,你都可能感

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An interesting question came up Saturday at the MIT Tech Conference on artificial intelligence: Why are most 'serving' machines given female voices?在周六的MIT科技会议关于人工智能的讨论中,冒出了一个有趣的问题:为什么大

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A holiday may be exactly what's needed to re-charge your batteries, but returning to work often leaves us feeling flat. 度假可能正好是你需要充电的时光,但回到工作状态我们总觉得无精打采。 And it turns out that women su

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A conversion chart, supposedly showing the modern-day worth of Jane Austen characters' fortunes, has surfaced on Twitter. At first glance, it seems to show that Mr Darcy's supposedly vast 1803 fortune in Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, worth $331

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If you pluck someone off the street, whether in New York or Seattle or Sacramento, and ask them how many steps people should aim for per day in order to get enough physical activity, theyll probably tell you 10,000. 无论在纽约或西雅图亦或是

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When a bad mood strikes, it's tempting to lean into the emotions and just ride it out. But there are ways to take a more proactive approach -- even with what you eat.Emerging research suggests that the bacteria living in your gut may be impacting you

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When theyre not making sweet love in the zoo or dodging poachers in the wild, giant pandas sit around and munch on bamboo. Their metabolic ability to take it easy has long baffled scientists. 除了在动物园里交配以及在野外躲避偷猎者,

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The classic image of a suit-clad executive throwing back a few scotches after (or during, if you're Don Draper) a day at the office may not be far off, according to new research. 西装革履的管理人员结束办公室里一天的工作,去到酒吧

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A new study suggests the longer you wait to walk down the aisle, the MORE likely you are to end up divorced. 一项新的研究表明步入婚姻殿堂前等待时间越长,最终越有可能离婚。 Nicholas Wolfinger a sociologist at the Univers

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A study of 400 people found that those who were mindful, which means they pay attention to their present thoughts and feelings, were less likely to be obese. They also had lessbelly fat than less mindful people. But it does not prove that higher mind

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The Supper Club, San Francisco, Calif。 晚餐俱乐部 (圣弗朗西斯科,加利福尼亚州) Designed to enlighten all five of your senses, this11,000-square-foot Dutch restaurant is unlike any other diningexperience you will encounter. After b

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Paying over the odds for a ticket to see a film in 3D is the bane of many a cinema-goer's life. 为了一张3D电影票而节衣缩食,省吃俭用,这是许多电影爱好者生活中的一大痛楚。 But there may be a benefit to doing so, as

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Handsome men and women often appear to be blessed with lucky lives. Now research has shown they are cleverer than most people as well. 老天常常赐予俊男美女幸运的人生。如今,研究显示他们其实也比多数人聪慧。 Studies i

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Britain may not be the best place to live, but it is the best place to die. 英国可能不是最适宜居住的地方,但却是最适合死的地方。 The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked the country first in its latest quality-of-death i

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A moggy with his own Facebook page and Instagram account is taking the internet by storm thanks to his expressive eyebrows. 一只拥有传神竖眉毛的小囧猫正在迅速成为网络新宠,它在脸书和Instagram上的照片席卷网络。 Cu

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Women are more likely to be bisexual than men, a study has found. 一项研究发现,相较于男性,女性更有可能成为双性恋者。 The poll of more than 9,000 young adults found that females were also more likely to choose the label mos

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The question of how to win at rock-paper-scissors has, believe it or not, plagued mathematicians and game theorists for some time. While they previously had devised a theoretical answer to the question, an experiment by Zhijian Wang at Zhejiang Unive

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