SSS 2008-04-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Chirisopher Intagliata, got a minute? But mum, that's not fair! sound familiar? Even as children we hate getting gypped, whether it's fewer slices of pizza or lousy presents from Santa. More surpri

SSS 2008-03-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. You've probably take you depth perception for granted. It allows you to easily judge distances. Each eye sends a different signal to the brain, and the

SSS 2011-06-21

This is Scientific American sixty seconds science. I am cythina Graber. This will just take a minute. You are lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth.in no time. It turns out that not just the relaxation of being

SSS 2009-11-25

Maybe its happened to you. You think you have a fever. So you pop a thermometer in your mouth and try to breathe through your nose to get an accurate reading. But youre totally stuffed up, so you experience this moment of complete panic because you c

爆笑英语口语 第107期:美国人的笑点

Language Points 1.Your brain has two parts: left and right. Your left brain has nothing right. Your right brain has nothing left. 2.-do you speak english? -yes -name? -XXXX -sex? -2 or 3 times a week -no no . I mean male or female? -yes. male , femal

美国英语听力80篇3 Lesson56

[00:05.75]Last month, scientists announced that they recorded the first detailed maps [00:13.06]of the development of a child's brain between the ages of three and fifteen. [00:19.98]Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles School of

听一分钟英文：Coffee-咖啡

Scientists and doctors cant make their minds up about coffee. One study says its really bad for us and the next report says its good for us. Ive even read that 10 cups a day is good for our brain. I like a cup of coffee at certain times of the day. I

【英语语言学习】潜在的爱

Ive just returned from a few weeks in Kazakhstan, a large country between Russia and Afghanistan. Home again, I changed my phone message to: Just back from Central Asia, which isnt Bali. Yes, the trip had been disturbing, physically and emotionally.

TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(6)

And so I stumbled, then, on a statistic that really came home to me. 结果我发现了一个震惊的数据。 It was a very interesting academic article in which I found that 67 percent of singles in America today who are living long-term with some

The Sound Of Silence

The Sound Of Silence Hello, darkness, my old friend, I*ve come to talk with you again, because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain

减肥不成功 只因“反应慢”

Some people find it more difficult to stay slim than others because their brains are slow at recognizing when they are full, a study claims. The team at Yale University found that in rats some have nerve endings which are more sluggish at signaling w

SSS 2008-09-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? While Im talking, youre not just passively listening. Your brain is also busy at work, guessing the next word that I will savor before I actually speak it. You thought

SSS 2008-10-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Senior citizens across the world love keeping their brains busy with crossword puzzles, sudoku or word jumbles. These brain-teasers actually help keep neurons firing

SSS 2008-07-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It took 13 years and countless hours of research to unravel the human genome. Now neuroscientists want to do their fields version. A small group of rese

SSS 2009-11-10

What you eat affects more than physical health. Two new studies have added to the growing evidence linking the stomach and the brain. In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers studied how junk food can trigger ad

SSS 2009-07-15

Modern humans are masters of multitasking. We eat while driving, watch TV while studying, and of course talk on our cell phones while doing, well, everything. How do we do it? A study in the July 16th issue of Neuron suggests that though we can train

SSS 2009-07-13

According to neuro scientist from Briton's Kill? University, dropping the F bomb(does he mean fuck here?) can actually relief physical pain, in the up coming August ?? issue of the Journal NeuroReport the researcher says swearing is a different pheno

SSS 2009-02-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes you want something so badly it hurts, usually something that someone else has. Now a report in the journal Science shows that the agony of envy

SSS 2011-06-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Youre lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth. In no time(snoring). It turns out thats not just the relaxation of b

学外语最佳方法：造一个文化孤岛

Are you trying to learn a new language in a foreign land? You might be better off if you stopped looking at that picture of your family and friends. 你是否正身处异国他乡，正在努力学习一门新的语言？如果你能放下那张家人和