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SSS 2008-12-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In America theres a feeling of Christmas. But thats not the only winter holiday going on. Jews are lighting Hanukkah candles, Muslims recently feasted

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Health Report - Brain Cancer Like Kennedy's Is Difficult to Treat Senator Ted Kennedy, 76 years old, has a glioma in an area where the best way to fight it may be with radiation and chemicals. Transcript of radio broadcast: 27 May 2008 This is the V

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Anatomy of the Liver he anterior surface of the liver is triangular in shape, made of two lobes. The right lobe is the larger of the two, measuring 6 to 7 inches in length. The left lobe is 3 inches in length. Ligaments connect the upper surface of t

SSS 2009-03-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? How do you do a brain scan on a gorilla. Yeah, yeah, very carefully, right. He sleeps anywhere he wants to, too. But seriously, trying to do an MRI on a gorilla presen

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The Thief and His Mother

A schoolboy stole a book from one of his school-fellows，and brought it home to his mother．Instead of chastising him，she rather encouraged him in the deed．As time went by the boy，now grown up into a man，began to steal things of greater val

SSS 2008-07-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Doctors prescribe Ritalin to hyperactive kids to calm them down and increase their attention span. And college kids have taken to using Ritalin to concentrate

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15At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the Lord 's t

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Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he continued, Youll have to give up work at once and go t

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Learning how to knit might not be at the top of your fall to-do list, but it should be. Not just for your grandmother anymore, knitting has a wide variety of benefits beyond having something comfy to wear/snuggle/give away at the end of the process. 学

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Train在2009年回归乐坛并发行了他们的最新专辑《 Save Me, San Francisco》。其中的《Hey, Soul Sister》以轻松的伴奏，活泼的旋律成了乐队有史以来最受欢迎的单曲，在Billboard榜单上也曾名列前三，还

Scientists find neural stem cell regulator

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很多20几岁的年轻人觉得自己在这个世界上还有大把时间，怎么度过自己的20几岁无关紧要。但事实是，20几岁的人生轨迹非常重要。你在20几岁奠定下的人生基础将会决定你的一生。所以，认真

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