Investors in Taiwan looking for the next big thing are setting their sights on Hualien, snapping up hotels in the eastern county in the hopes of striking gold after the highly anticipated arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. Hualien is famed for its...
Have you even wondered why you can hear FM radio signals in a tunnel longer than AM? Take a ride with Don and Ya?l to find out why. D: What a great day for a drive! How do you like my new Ferarri? Y: Very fancy. D: Best of all, the radio works, so we...
People who think about language talk about how the sounds of words bear no relation to objects in the world. Indeed, this has been a leading assumption in much of modern literary criticism, philosophy, and even linguistics. Not necessarily so, says B...
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught－recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help. Police rescued the African gray parrot last month from a neighbor's roof in the city of Naga...
Is it feed a fever, starve a cold? or vice versa. Yael and Don try to clear that up on this Moment of Science. Y: Don, have you heard the saying, feed a fever, starve a cold? D: Sure. But, it's starve a fever, feed a cold. Why? Are you sick? Y: No. S...
Thinking of Juno as just a teenage comedy would be a truly patronizing misstep. The movie centers on the emotional uncertainties of a 16-year-old girl, transforming an outwardly mundane storyline into something extraordinarily affecting and laugh-out...
Don: Say something, Yael. Say whatever you want, but talk directly into my right ear. Y: You're a nut. D: Okay. Now say the same thing in my left ear. Y: Sure thing. You're still a nut. Now what on earth is this about? D: Hold up. Now sing something...
Dear Annie: My daughter allows her 8-year-old son to stay up late at night, watch adult TV and eat lots of sweets. She strongly resents any suggestion that this is not a good thing. The 15-year-old son spends a vast amount of time text messaging, lis...
Nobody likes being lonely. As it turns out, loneliness can be unhealthy as well. The study was done by psychologist John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago. He had thirty three male college students and twenty one female students spend five nights...
After 10 months of cycling and traveling by other means 14,000 kilometers halfway across the world, two young British men completed their incredible challenge last month with a climb to the top of the tallest building in the world－Taipei 101. The m...
Don: I have the weirdest looking mole under my arm. Yael: Hold it. Put that arm back down. I don't want to see your weird mole. Why don't you just tell me what's weird about it? D: Well, it's not a round dot like my other moles, but more like a flesh...
It's time once again for the Moment of Science Pop Quiz. Ready? Here goes. Do birds have teeth? Sure, you can laugh, but what's the answer? No? Maybe? Have you ever looked? In fact, the correct answer is: not any more. Some modern day birds have ridg...
Amoment of crime scene investigation Ya?l: Hi Don, what are you... Don: Shh! I'm watching my favorite TV police drama: Crime Lab! Y: Oh, cool. Hey, what's that guy doing? D: Y'know Ya?l, you do have the right to remain silent... Y: Why is he spraying...
The recent violence against African migrant workers in South Africa has shocked and saddened the world. All over the world in fact, local people are blaming migrant workers for lost jobs. In Taiwan, the debate over the issue of migrant workers has be...
Last month, our English Department invited a local radio star to deliver a public lecture on the topic of media influence on society. He described the tug of war that has been going on in recent years between newspapers on real live paper (my words f...
