This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? Comparisons of different animals have shown that larger brains provide greater intelligence, but they also guzzle more energy and have other consequences. Now scienti

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Health Report - Brains Gain From Physical Activity by Older People This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Increasing evidence suggests that being active can reduce a person's risk of dementia. Dementia is the name for the effects of Alzheimer

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If you scold him, you are like a nanny to him; If he scolds you, it is because he cares for you. If you break your promise, you cannot be trusted; If he breaks his, he is forced to do so. If you smoke, you are a bad girl; If he smokes, he is a gentl

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Lesson 19 Brain 1.He's the brains of our dorm. 2.The brain drain is a very serious problem. 3.I listen to my brain trust. 4.Don't try to brain wash me into believing it. 5.I beat my brains out,but it didn't work. 6.You'd better have your brain on ice

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It's time to rock and roll. Glide, wobble, balance, and slither. Let's try something new to get ourselves moving. Did you know that the part of the brain that deals with balance, also deals with focus? Isn't that interesting. An educational specialis

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Brain scans of men and women exposed to lead during childhood shows residual damage less severe in females Rose Hoban | Washington, DC 18 December 2009 Ever since the ancient Roman era, people have known that lead, a heavy metal long used in paints,

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新电视节目探索人类大脑 In the six-part program David Eagleman demonstrates how our brains create what we perceive as reality and how what we are is a construct within the brains circuitry that is never complete. 在这档六集系列节目中

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Lesson 35 Pick 1.I'll pick you up at the gate. 2.Take your pick. 3.Where did you pick up your French? 4.My health is beginning to pick up. 5.He picks at me about everything I do. 6.She's always picking on me for this. 7.I've come to pick your brains

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said

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Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Brains, For Better And Worse play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:17repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plu

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now the story of two Marines whose brains may have been injured by the powerful weapons they once fired. Military scientists are investigating whether the blast waves from these shoulder-fired weapons can damage a shooter's brain.

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The old expression bird brain, referring to a small or inadequate brain sizeits not all that accurate. Take crows, for example, and other corvids, like jays and magpies. Many corvids have relatively large brains for their body size, and can do amazin

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From the back seat of a cab, the moves a driver makes may at time seem, let us say, daring. In fact, cabbys may actually be better, more edge out drivers than the rest of us, because they know their streets so well. Previous research found that the h

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Don: I'm trying to write a poem to my sweetheart. Can you think of a good metaphor for love? Yael: How about hunger or thirst? D: I don't know about that. I was thinking something like love is a rose, except less clich. Y: You must be talking about a

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Mike: Hi, Amanda. Why don't you sit down and watch this boxing match on TV? It's a championship fight. Amanda: No way, Mike. I hate boxing! I don't understand why people enjoy watching two grown men beat the living daylights out of each other. Aren't

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D:I feel bad for male squirrel monkeys. Y:What?Why? D:Because they cant detect the colors red and greentheyre red-green colorblind. Y:Maybe,but scientists at the University of Washington used gene therapy to make squirrel monkeys produce proteins tha

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Our brains share six of the same chemicals that transmit messages as well as have the same division of regions that process sound, sight and smell. 我们的大脑和果蝇的大脑有六种同样用

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Fae: Help! I still need to buy a gift for my mother and I cant seem to think of the perfect present , something thatll really knock her socks off . Pablo: Why dont you just get her a gift certificate or a gift card ? That way, she can pick out her ow

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Do you remember who won the world series in nineteen sixty- eight, but forget where you left your keys? Are you great at remembering all the details of a story, but lousy when it comes to remembering peoples names? What our brains choose to remember,

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