TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(6)

What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, 关于睡眠呢？在慢波深度睡眠时，我们的神经胶质细胞冲洗着我们大脑中的脑脊液， clearing away metabolic wast

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Numerous studies have shown that lack of sleep hurtsit can lead to weight gain, diseases, and of course weakened cognitive functioning. But a bad night

为什么总感觉睡不够?

人的一生中，将近三分之一的时间是用于睡觉的。刚出生的婴儿几乎每天要睡20个小时；即使成年后，每夭至少要睡 6～7小时。 不管睡眠时间长短如何，睡觉看来是人必不可少的行为。这一点

The joys of writing

The fortunate people in the worldthe only reallyfortunate people in the world, in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and authors are perhaps one of

乔布斯传 第43期:印度之行(3)

As Jobs was eating, the holy man---who was not much older than Jobs---picked him out of the crowd, 乔布斯在吃的时候，那位圣人---其实也不比乔布斯大几岁---从人群中选中了他， pointed at him, and began laughing maniacally

【一起听英语】睡眠与学习的关系

长期的睡眠不足会导致学习能力下降，睡眠与学习有一定的关联，你知道吗？ Rob: Hello, Im Rob and this is 6 Minute English and Im joined this week by Finn. Hello Finn. Finn: Hello Rob. Rob: This week, were discussing sleep

科学研究表明，9件事使你缺乏吸引力

There are plenty of traits and behaviors that can make you look worse and chances are, youre guilty of at least one. 有许多特点和行为使你吸引力降低，至少你可能会对其中的一个行为感到愧疚。 Read on and find out how yo

The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail

The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the otherFoxes that being tailless was

沉迷上网影响免疫力更易感冒

Spending too much time online can increase your risk of catching a cold or the flu, scientists have warned. 科学家近日警告，上网时间过长会增加患感冒和流感的几率。 Those with greater levels of internet addiction are more lik

想苗条最好多多睡觉

A study found that people who sleep less tend to be fat, and experts said its time find if more sleep will fight obesity. Weve put so much emphasis on diet and exercise that weve failed to recognize the value of good sleep, said Fred Turek, a physici

简单的“10-3-2-1-0睡眠公式”让你每天效率爆棚

Finding peace and quiet in todays 24-hour society can be tricky but a simple technique could help boost your productivity, it is claimed. 外媒称，在如今每日分秒必争的社会，寻找一份平静和安宁并不容易，但下面这份简单

Seven hours sleep enough for teenagers: study

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- How much sleep do teenagers need? The more, the better? Not really. Researchers from Brigham Young University found that seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines

向前一步:第183期 全能女人是个神话(16)

A 2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 2012年一项对职业人士的调查显示，80%的调查对象在离开办公室后还会继续工作， 38 percent checked email

9个职场小诀窍，摆脱疲倦的困扰

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

英语美文：写给妈妈们

For Moms This is for all the mothers who DIDNT win Mother of the Year last year, all the runners-up and all the wannabes, in- cluding the mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care. This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bl

严厉的爱--孩子受益终身

Children brought up according to tough love principles are more successful in life, according to a study. The think tank Demos says a balance of warmth and discipline improved social skills more than an laissez-faire, authoritarian or disengaged upbr

研究：交通噪声缩短寿命

Traffic noise can shorten your life, new research suggests. Having to endure rumbling lorries, honking horns and screeching tyres has been linked to shorter life expectancy and a higher risk of stroke. 一项新研究表明，交通噪音可能会让你

睡眠不足的女性容易发胖

A study conducted on more than 68,000 middle-aged US women suggests that females who don't get enough sleep may end up adding some extra pounds over years. Researchers followed 68,183 middle-aged women for 16 years and found that those who slept 5 ho

减肥瘦身英语口语话题 第2期:甚至不要称之为节食

Unit 2.Dont even call it a diet. 第二单元 甚至不要称之为节食 Words hold great power. Some people dont mind the word diet.To others, it spells torture and deprivation. If youre in this group，dont tell yourself youregoing on a diet.Say y

8招教你睡个好觉

It's being described as the next health hazard after junk food binging and sedentary living: chronic sleep deprivation. 慢性失眠一度被认为是继垃圾食品和久坐不动之后的又一健康杀手。 At a major sleep conference in Boston t