From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is spending part of his election day on the radio. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, he's urging Democrats to get to the polls in an effort to stem big losses. President Obama taped a seri

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

六招教你成为办公室冷笑话高手 Misleading and surprise: Verbal jokes use this element to the greatest level possible. Basically, this technique relies on cognitive processing errors, turning assumptions upside down, and word confusion. Fo

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Best Tool to Teach Baby Talk? Their Parents' Voice 教宝宝说话最好的教材是父母的声音 A new study says electronic toys are not helping babies learn. Even if companies are marketing them as educational, theyre not teaching the babies any

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The ability to speak two languages can make bilingual people better able to pay attention than those who can only speak one language, a new study suggests. 一项新研究结果显示,同只能讲一种语言的人相比,能说两种语言的双语

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This ability also has an impact on how our memory systems work. 这种能力也能影响记忆系统的运作。 And, indeed, musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions, 的确,音乐家有提高的记忆力功能, creating, storing, and retriev

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter 有些好处,甚至可以看得见,例如大脑灰白质的密度增加, that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, 那里包含了脑部大多数的神经元

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But modulation networks are also activated that deliver endorphins and enkephalins, 不过调制网络也被唤醒,去传递安多芬和脑啡肽, chemicals released when you're in pain or during extreme exercise, creating the runner's high. 这些

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You know all about the dangers of burnout. You even know that working too many hours, like multi-tasking, clobbers your productivity. And yet. There's always that one more task that needs finishing, one more email to write, or one more impatient cust

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1. Write about your problems 1. 写下你的问题 To do complex tasks we rely on our working memory. A more efficient working memory contributes to better learning, planning, reasoning and more. One way to increase working memory capacity indirectly

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Science and Technolgy 科技 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 fiction know,

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The science of music;Sounds wonderful; 文艺;书评;音乐的科学;听起来很美; The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It. By Philip Ball. 音乐本能:音乐的作用机理及人们欲

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now for another in our Thanksgiving week food series: a profile of food writer and cook book author Paula Wolfert, as she calls on her culinary skills to battle back against Alzheimer's. Paula Wolfert has the hands of someone who's bee

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For parents driven to distraction by their children's little white lies, here is the good news. 父母们面对孩子小谎言的时侯都会抓狂,但现在震惊的好消息来了。 Far from being a sign of future problems, research has shown th

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Obesity may have harmful effects on the brain, and exercise may counteract many of those negative effects, according to sophisticated new neurological experiments with mice, even when the animals do not lose much weight. While it's impossible to know

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Working in a well-ventilated 'green' office can help boost your brainpower, researchers have found. 研究人员发现,通风良好的绿色办公室有助于提升脑力。 People whose desk space is well ventilated with below average indoor pollu

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每年,《时代周刊》都选出让世界更美好、更智能、更有趣的发明。今年的也能让你大吃一惊哦! 1.The Levitating Lightbulb 1.悬浮灯泡 Since he was a child, Simon Morris has been obsessed with making objects float

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Unethical Amnesia Explains Why People Conveniently Forget Their Awful Behavior 不道德的健忘症解释了为什么人们很快地忘记他们可怕的行为 It feels bad to be reminded of unsavory actions accidentally insulting a colleague, forge

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Why Changing Your Language Can Change Your Life Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~ Rudyard Kipling I was talking with a client recently (lets call him Dan) when after I asked what stopped him making headway with a certain

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BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhuanet) -- New retirees suddenly confronted with plenty of time on their hands might be happy to learn that reading keeps one mentally alert and abreast of current aff airs, says Ursula Lenz of Germany's working group of senior ci

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托福阅读考试中的词汇题是新托福阅读考试每次必考题型,托福阅读词汇题目的让考生熟知文章中个别单词或短语的具体意思,所以考生理解单词的意思必须符合原文的意思。一般说来,题目

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