英语考研

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people. Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different...

Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we fit” in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place pe...

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s big difference between being a writer” and writing. In most cases thes...

It is everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.Language learning begins with liste...

Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences,...

The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: store in the refrigerator.”In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed we...

The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a ma...

After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report: The damage and death toll (死亡人数) could have been much worse.More than 60 people died...

Even plants can run a fever, especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away-straight up. A decade ago...

A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashi...