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Scientists are predicting a 110-mile sheet of ice -- a chunk the size of the state of Delaware -- will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. The cause is warming ocean waters, and the ice melt has implications for sea level rise well beyo

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San Francisco

San Francisco If you*re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you*re going to San Francisco, you*re gonna meet some gentle people there. For those who come to San Franc

SSS 2009-09-28

Ever get a ringing in your ears after a loud blast of music on your iPod? Thats one example of the usually temporary condition called tinnitus, the sensation of sound even when no sound is being produced. But a new inventioncreated by high school stu

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Today's podcast will be dedicated to the 'th'. English, being quite irregular at times, has two ways of pronouncing the combination of the t and the h. That may seem simple, but getting it right is a key to sounding like a native. I have met many peo

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All you remember about your child being seven is the carpool schedule. You learned to apply makeup in two minutes and brush your teeth in the rearview mirror , because the only time you had to yourself was when you were stopped at red lights. You con

CNN 2011-02-11

Tens of thousands of protestors have gathered in the Egyptian capital, possibly the largest crowd yet. They are still calling on President Hosni Mubarak to resign effective immediately. Earlier about 500 anti-government protestors broke away from the

SSS 2009-01-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

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TED演讲:关于听的艺术(5)

And so on. There is a little bit of a difference there that is worth just thinking about. 等等...但即便是有些许的不同，那也值得仔细想一想。 And I remember when I was 12 years old,and I started playing tympani and percussion, an

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As five European foreign ministers meet in Copenhagen to prepare for an aggreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, scientists in Greenland are warning about accelerated glacier melts. Several years ago, scientists reported that the Helheim Glacier, su

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The U.S. Transportation Department is looking into complaints from some Toyota owners who say they are still experiencing problems with unintended acceleration even after repairs to their recalled vehicles. The complaints raise concerns that safety i

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We all know time is a construct, and right now, it's kept by the very precise tick of an international network of around 500 atomic clocks. 我们都知道时间是个复杂的概念。目前，世界上有一个由大约500台原子钟组成的网络，

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Money Can't Buy It by Annie Lennox Money can't buy it... baby Sex can't buy it... baby Drugs can't buy it... baby You can't buy it... baby I believe that love alone might do these things for you I believe in love alone yeah yeah Take the power to set

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Little Giants companies are leading technology-based SMEs with annual production value over 1 hundred million. They are mostly distributed in the field of strategic emerging industries including aerospace, biomedicine as well as new energy. Tianjin,