Nuts, Nuts, Good for Your Heart Todays program starts with a word association game. What comes to mind when you hear these words: almonds, walnuts, cashews, pistachios. Are you thinking scrumptious and satisfying? Or unhealthy and extravagant? Health...
Does Diet Soda Cause Depression? Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, I keep hearing about how diet soda is bad for you. This is troubling, since I drink lots of the stuff because has z...
Under Pressure In physics, pressure depends on the amount of force acting on a surface and on the size of the surface. The smaller the surface, the greater the pressure. Lets say that a woman steps on your toe; she weighs 120 pounds. If shes wearing...
What makes the human brain so special? Actually, it mightnot be that special after all. 所以说是什么让人类的大脑如此特别?实际上,这或许根本就不特别。 In 2009, Dr. Suzana Herculano Houzel and her colleagues showed that...
So you made lasagna last night, and it was delicious. 你昨晚做了千层面,而且非常美味。 You saved the leftovers by wrapping aluminum foil over the top of the pan, and putting it in the fridge. 你将剩下的千层面用铝箔纸包好放...
Long ago, clothing was made by tailors or family members specifically for a certain person, exactly in their size to fit them. 很久以前,衣服都是由裁缝或家庭成员量身定做的,因此会刚好合身。 In today's world, most clothi...
If you want to fill a sink or bathtub with water, you need to do one thing first and that's stopper or plug up the drainpipe. 如果你想把水槽或浴缸放满水,你需要做的第一件事这就是用塞子之类的东西堵住排水管。 Lat...
UN officially launched year of Gorilla 联合国正式发起大猩猩年 The Year of the Gorilla began on Dec. 1-a U.N. effort to raise money for primates threatened with extinction from disease, hunting and deforestation. 11月1日由联合国官员发...
Most of us know balloons from festivals and fun fairs, where they are colorful and amusing, but in the 19th century, before airplanes were invented, balloons were used in wartimes to spy on the enemy position. 我们大多数人都知道,人们在节...
Imagine a situation where a person has needlessly been injured by another. 想象一下,如果一个人毫无理由地被另一个人弄伤了。 The injured person is naturally hoping for some help. 这个受伤的人自然希望得到一些帮助。...