Working with Clay

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 15, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. 1)Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by the action of wind

Earth and Sky:Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇

Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇 Spiders give many of us the shivers, though they usually leave people alone. Sometimes these spectacular predators instead prey on each other. Learn more about when spiders serve themselves as dinner -- today on Earth and Sky.

SSS 2011-11-21

Male nursery web spiders often woo potential lady-friends with gifts wrapped in silk. Mating may ensue, during which a female unspools the present, expecting to find a tasty treat. But the males can be unscrupulous. Some offerings contain inedible pl

SSS 2012-02-22

This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? The most common types of ingested birth control contain estrogen. But the hormone doesnt just prevent human babies. It may be lowering numbers of frog babies, t

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Is there any sound more annoying than the whine of a [dict]mosquito[/dict]? Yes, mosquitoes are pests through and through. But there's more to their irritating whine than meets the ear. For mosquitoes, that's the sound of love. It's well known by sci

国家地理-2008-07-03 Mating Moments 求偶时刻

Ok, here is the clinic for you guys out there on the Dos and Donts of finding emotional joy and carnal fulfillment in its most primitive form, if you get my drift. This male wildebeest dashes up to this herd of females, oblivious to the fact that ot

国家地理:Octopus Mating 章鱼交配

OK, we are back in the world of the Cyanea octopus. It's mating time. Here's your potential conquest. She doesn't know you're alive. She's too busy cleaning trash from her house. Now you are the perceptive type. You use your sensitive disks for any s

成长的烦恼第四季:Feet of Clay

Mike: How the heck did I let you talk me into getting up before the pigs just to get tickets to a stupid concert? Ben: Because you are broke, and Im paying you five bucks an hour. I hope we get there while there's still some good tickets left. Mike:

娱乐新天地MV 2006-美国超级男偶像 Clay Aiken / Invisible

The Super American Male Idol--Clay Aiken (MTV) No one will lament the passing of the boy band phenomenon; now the American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken has released his first album. He's picked up right where 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys left off, n

基因决定了你配偶的类型

Chances are, youre going to marry someone a lot like you. Similar intelligence, similar height, similar body weight. A new study of tens of thousands of married couples suggests that this isnt an accident. We dont marry educated people because we hap

英文儿童歌曲:The doll of clay 泥娃娃

The doll of clay 泥娃娃 The doll of clay, the doll of clay. Shes a doll of clay. She has got eyebrows.She has got blue eyes which cannot wink. The doll of clay, the doll of clay. Shes a doll of clay. She has got a nose. She has got a mouth which c

TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(2)

How is technology changing love? I'm going to say almost not at all. 科技改变了爱吗？我认为没有。 I study the brain. I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner 我从事大脑研究。我和我的同事们对100多人

A Handful of Clay

There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but it had high thoughts of its own value, and wonderful dreams of the great place which it was to fill in the world when the time came for its virtues to

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-21

1. The Bush administration and Congress are working through the weekend to hammer out a Wall Street rescue plan. President Bush is asking lawmakers to let the government buy 700 billion dollars in bad mortgages from US financial institutions for the

【英语语言学习】TED演讲

I have a daughter, Mulan. And when she was eight, last year, she was doing a report for school or she had some homework about frogs. And we were at this restaurant, and she said, So, basically, frogs lay eggs and the eggs turn into tadpoles, and tadp

Madrid Masters' blue clay banned by ATP

LONDON, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Controversy over Madrid Masters' blue clay has been put to an end as the men's professional tennis ruling body ATP handed a ban on it on Saturday. After careful consideration, I have decided that blue clay courts will not

女性天生有“出轨基因”

Women are 'genetically programmed to have affairs' 女性天生有出轨基因 Women are predisposed by their genetics to have affairs as back-up plans' if their relationships fail, according to a research paper. 研究结果表明，如果恋爱或者

英文摇滚歌曲：Lordi - Who′s Your Daddy

Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah All the vixens stand in line Waiting for my fright night Be the new flesh for the sacrifice Screaming out the mating call I've become the lord of love I break your will I'll break your will for good I

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(2)

We found activity in a tiny, little factory near the base of the brain 我们发现在大脑底部附近有一块活跃的微小的区域 called the ventral tegmental area. 腹侧背盖区。 We found activity in some cells called the A10 cells, 其中

【英语时差8,16】蜗牛（上）

No matter the species, mating rituals are pretty weird. Take the praying mantis. After an intimate tryst, the female mantis bites its partners head off. But when it comes to sexual hijinks, nothing beats the garden snail. During sex, garden snails of