By day, Clark Kent is a dedicated journalist who strives to shine truth and fight for the little man in Metropolis. But when the shy, small-town man removes his glasses, Clark Kent is gone. In his stead lies Superman, who no one in Metropolis seems t

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

10 Ways to Help Improve Your Memory1. Drink in Moderation. While you may think drinking has a tendency to mess with your memory, drinking and improving your memory have an interesting relationship. Drinking too much will cause your memory to become f

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Science and Technology 科技 Computer security 计算机安全 Blame game 推脱责任 How to mimic human laxness with computers 如何用计算机模拟人类错误 TO ERR is human, but to foul things up completely takes a computer, or so the old s

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Diagnosing dementia 痴呆症的诊断 Advance warning 病情恶化预警 How to detect Alzheimer's before symptoms appear-if you are a woman 作为一名女性,如何在症状出现前诊断阿尔茨海默氏症 ALZHEI

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Human decision-making; Not so smart now; 文艺;书评;人类的决策;聪明不在; Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. 《思考,快与慢》丹尼尔卡尼曼著。 Towards the end of Thinking, Fast an

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Catch yourself daydreaming while washing the dishes again? If this happens often you probably have a pretty capable working memory, new research suggests. 洗碗的时候发现自己又在做白日梦了?新的研究表明,如果你经常做白日梦

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Catch yourself daydreaming while washing the dishes again? If this happens often you probably have a pretty capable working memory, new research suggests. 洗碗的时候发现自己又在做白日梦了?新的研究表明,如果你经常做白日梦

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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. 花高价买票看3D电影是许多电影院常客的烦恼之源。 But there may be a benefit to doing so, as a study has claimed that 3D films exercise

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We know what people most often regret before they die:我知道人们去世前经常后悔的几件事: 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.希望曾有勇气活出自己,而不是依他人

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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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BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Middle-aged white women drinking alcohol moderately are more likely to stay healthy than nondrinkers, according to a new study from Harvard. The study has followed about 14,000 mostly white women since 1976. As a resul

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If you are looking for a loan, serving your bank manager breakfast might just do the trick. 如果你准备申请贷款,不妨为银行经理准备早餐,问题即可迎刃而解。 A compound found in eggs makes people much more generous, new re

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Many of us have reached in our pockets, feeling a vibration, wrongly believing our mobile phones have just rung. 许多人都曾有过这样的错觉:觉得手机在振动,于是去口袋拿手机,结果手机根本没响。 The phenomenon even

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我很拖拉,我一直都这样。这是性格缺陷,我承认。我试过各种方法想克服这个习惯:列出要做的事情的清单、邮件提醒以及各种各样列表之类的方法,但是只有一件事管用,那就是:现在就

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Good news for chocolate lovers: eating the sweet treat has been found to have a positive association with cognitive performance, according to a new study. 接下来这个消息对巧克力爱好者来说绝对是极好的:根据最新一项研究显示

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This comes from the work of the feminist linguist Julia Penelope. 这来自于著名的女权运动者和语言学家朱利亚佩内洛普。 It starts with a very basic English sentence: 就是一个很简单的英语句子。 John beat Mary. 约翰打

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And we managed to boil it down to nine. 我们试图归结为九点 In fact we've done two more Blue Zone expeditions since this 其实在这次蓝区远征前 and these common denominators hold true. 我们已经调查了两个蓝区 And the first o

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Science and technology 科学技术 Forensic science 司法科学 Ignorance is bliss 无知即是福 Forensic scientists know too much about the cases they investigate 法医科学家对他们调查的案子知道得太多 AS ALL fans of crime fictio

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The importance of context also arose in Mr Thaler's work on mental accounting. 背景的重要性还出现在了赛勒有关心理演算(mental accounting)的研究中。 In thinking about money, people tend to compartmentalise, grouping certain

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Exercise seems to be good for the human brain, with many recent studies suggesting that regular exercise improves memory and thinking skills. But an interesting new study asks whether the apparent cognitive benefits from exercise are real or just a p

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