The Art of Smart Guessing Several years ago, interviewing candidates for a job, I grew tired of asking What experience do you have? So I decided on a one-question quiz to find out how resourceful a thinker the new hire might be. Here it is: You are o

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Whether you like it or not, we use numbers every day. 不管你喜不喜欢,我们每天都会用到数字。 Some numbers, such as the speed of sound, are small and easy to work with. 有些数字比如音速,数值不大,容易计算。 Other

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Unit 25 The Art of Smart Guessing Several days ago, interviewing job candidates, I grew tired of asking What experience do you have? I decided on a quiz to find out how resourceful a thinker the new hire might be. Here it is: You are on a yacht saili

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 14, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we report about two scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, who helped l

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Oppenheimer and Fermi By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Sunday, November 14, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special

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VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we report about two scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, who helped lead the world into the nuclear age. VOICE ONE: It is J

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The Fermi Paradox Back in 1950, the Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with friends. Conversation turned to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. According to the popular story, Fermi fell silent for a moment and then ask

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You all know this story. 你们都知道这个故事. In the summer of 1950, 在1950年的夏天, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, 美籍意大利心理学家 and atomic-pile builder, 和原子堆创造者 went to lunch at L

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Weve recently been talking about the Fermi Paradox, attributed to Nobel-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. According to reasonable estimates of how many stars have planets, how many planets may be suitable for the evolution of organisms, and so on, our

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