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New ideas are frequently very slow to be accepted. Scientists such as Galileo, Louis pasteur, and Edward Jenner were laughed at because they held theories that were not accepted. Respect for new ideas

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Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the se

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For worse or for better, humans are changing the course of evolution. On February 26, we talked about how fishing practices may be driving the evolution of

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. What do a hummingbird, a moth, and a maple tree have in common? They all use a similar trick to fly. Okay, okay, a maple tree doesnt fly. But its seeds k

SSS 2010-08-16

This is Scentific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? At Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California, a plant called Tidestroms lupine is holding on for dear life. Its survival has been threatened by the appear

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Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but they also need to make sure that their animal asssistants don't digest the very seeds that are meant

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A beetle invasion in the United States has killed at least twenty million ash trees. The invasion of the emerald ash borer was first discovered near Detroit, Michigan, in two thousand two. Experts b

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Agriculture Report - The Seeds of Weed Control Advice for suppressing the growth of unwelcome plants. Transcript of radio broadcast: 17 March 2008 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When is a plant a weed? When its undesirable quali

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Progress Against Witchweed, a Killer of Sorghum Crops in Africa Researchers may someday copy proteins found in alligator blood to produce infection-fighting drugs for people. Transcript of radio broadcast: 19 May 2008 VOICE ONE

VOA慢速英语 2007 0501a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A boy carries cassava in the Democratic Republic of Congo A new project will try to protect twenty-one of the world's most important food crops by securing their seeds. Organizers say the project w

VOA慢速英语 2007 0520

VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Appleseed. Many people considered him a hero. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Johnny Appleseed Johnny App

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A Yale student carries beets grown on an organic farm near the university in New Haven, Connecticut Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People might think beets

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帮助中非共和国恢复农业生产 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said farmers in Central African Republic are in urgent need of seeds and tools. Several years of conflict and violence have disrupted agriculture and created widesprea

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在托福考试中，听力是一个很重要的环节，而在听力备考的过程中，词汇又是非常重要的。 在托福听力的备考过程中，我们细细翻一下TPO资料，如果发现连审题都有着困难，那么，这时候就建

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These common leftovers are often discarded but you could be throwing away nutritional goodness, natural remedies and even cleaning products. Click through to see the food scraps you could be reusing. 这些普通的剩菜通常被人们丢弃，但可能

别浪费：10道你意想不到的厨余美味

Looking to save money? How about cut food waste?Consider food scrapsthose bits and pieces of leftover fruit, veggies, meat, and yes, even cheese, that youd normally throw away or compost. 想省钱？何不减少食物的浪费呢？考虑下做饭剩下

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The story is told of two boys who were walking through a field and found some corn seeds scattered across the ground.They each took one of the seeds home and planted it. 这是一个关于两个男孩的故事。他俩穿过田地时，发现地上有一

英语小达人 267 Think Like a Lawyer

Think Like a Lawyer 律师思维 The professor of a contract law class asked one of his better students, If you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it? 合同法教授问他的一个好学生：如果你要给某人一个橘子，你

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如果一颗小小的苹果树种子静静地躺在你的手心里，你会想到什么？就是这样一颗小小的种子，引发了作者的遐思：为什么不是每颗种子都能长大？为什么不是每个梦想都能开花？读读下面这

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Located on the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic, the Global Seed Vault is home to millions of seeds. The facility is surrounded by permafrost and is naturally cooled to around -3 degrees Celsius. And the main vault is cooled even further to -18 degrees