Walking is a complex muscular phenomenon that amounts to allowing yourself to fall slightly forward and then preventing yourself from falling completely by extending your foot. The extended foot halts the motion which was begun partly by gravity and...
What happens if you throw your anchor overboard and there isnt enough chain to reach the bottom? Does the anchor haul you down with it? This sounds a little bit like something that would happen in a cartoon. But for sailors its no laughing matter. It...
Mike: Hi Amanda, what have you been doing lately? Amanda: As you can see, I'm still wearing a cast, so I have been helping out my mom by watching my little sister on the weekends. She has been able to run a lot of errands she never had time to do bef...
One would assume that a shy fish is always shy, but research has found this isnt always the case. Scientists working with two species of damselfish on Australias Great Barrier Reef have discovered that when water temperatures increase by as little as...
The obvious risk of this happening to crowded passenger planes in British airspace was enough for the UK's Civil Aviation Authority to enforce a total ban on flights a move which was mirrored by other northern European countries. The dangers of flyin...
Guessing somebody's age is impolite Dear Annie: May I say something about people who make assumptions about someone's age? My 18-year-old daughter is on the petite side. She is 4-foot-11 and weighs 95 pounds. On several occasions, we have been invite...
Those waves hitting the sand actually begin far out at sea. And it doesnt take much to get them going. A little wind will do the trick. First the wind blows over the surface of the water, generating the little ripples you can see just by blowing acro...
Kate: We also have rooms with second-hand and antiquarian books; we stock sheet music, which a lot of bookshops wouldn't consider stocking; so there's something for everyone there really; we've got a very big children's department with a tank with pi...
Diarmuid: How about the different categories of books? Kate: We have got a large mixture of general trade books and more academic books; we've got a large history section with lots of military history, politics; we've got a big archaeology section wh...
But thats what comes out after we eat asparagus, which is not necessarily the same was what went in. Our digestive systems do some pretty complex chemistry, you know. Plus, the act of cooking the asparagus probably changes the chemistry around a bit,...
Hey Don, do you like asparagus? Yep, I love it Yael, can't get enough. But don't you notice there's a certain problem after you've eaten it? Problem? Yeah, everybody knows that eating asparagus can cause a rather unpleasant smell in your urine. I did...
Its good to be king, as the saying goes. But sometimes having a royal lineage isnt so great. Take the male descendants of Queen Victoria, who was the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom during most of the 19th century. Victorias son, Leopold, died...
Diarmuid: Hello everybody and welcome to Authentic Real English from the BBC. I'm Diarmuid. Jean: And I'm Jean. Jean: Diarmuid! Diarmuid: I'm so sorry Jean! Let me just take this. Hello?... Oh, hi mum. I'm a little bit busy at the mom- Can I call you...
There are several kinds of odor preventing and odor destroying treatments for textiles. For the most part, they work by killing or inhibiting the bacteria and fungi that cause odors. For example, these socks contain Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, or...
Every autumn, citizens of the North American Midwest and Northeast enjoy a spectacularly colorful display as leaves turn various shades of red, orange, yellow, purple, and brown. But autumn also entails the backbreaking work of raking all those beaut...
