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Speaking of memory, here's something I doubt you will ever forget. A bizarre way to learn English. We saw this video on Andrew Sullivan's Web site. He got it from YouTube. We want to know What Were They Thinking? And perhaps eating. Take a look. I h...
Lesson30 Spin-off Technology Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects. They want to know how space research helps people on Earth. Actually space technology helps people on Earth every day. This is called spin-off...
Lesson29 Alcohol Damage to the Young Brain Few teens seem to worry about what alcohol does to their bodies. Cirrhosis of the liver is unlikely to catch up with them for decades, and heart disease must seem as remote as retirement, but recent research...
Lesson28 You Can Be a Super-Achiever Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV sitcoms and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull grinds, their noses always stuck i...
Lesson27 Learning The attitude toward writing that these students have developed is well illustrated by a story told by the Russian writer Chekhov about a kitten that was given to his uncle. The uncle wanted to make the kitten a champion killer of mi...
Lesson26 Human Brain The human brain is divided into two sides called the right brain and the left brain. The two sides work together, but each one specializes in certain ways of thinking. Each side has its own way of using information to help us thi...
Lesson25 Globalization of Food Diversity In the 1990s, when use of the term globalization had become commonplace, it appeared that the long record of interconnections between peoples and places had greatly intensified over the previous 30 years, prod...
