VOA标准英语2010年-Website of the Week - Discover Magazin

Science news, multimedia¹, blogs, and more

Art Chimes | Washington DC 19 March 2010

Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative² online destinations.

This week it's a place for up-to-date science news presented with a bit of a quirky edge.

DiscoverMagazine.com is the web version of the print Discover Magazine, and it is a science news site that includes all kinds of information, all kinds of news about science, technology and the future, says web editor Amos Zeeberg at DiscoverMagazine.com. The site takes its name and some of its content from its print cousin, but goes beyond what you'll find in the pages of the magazine that's delivered to 600,000 subscribers each month.

Recent stories on the website feature micro-size aircraft, fake³ science served up by Hollywood, and real research underway in Antarctica. But Zeeberg says the website is more than just magazine articles online.

"We also have a lot of multimedia that works really well online: photo galleries that are quite popular and have great imagery there, and of course video that we have online, which - hard to do that in a magazine."

And the site is host to eight blogs (at last count), featuring individualized takes on the latest science news.

"It takes a lot of advantage of the strengths of the Internet. So we have a lot of news that goes on here. We're putting up probably around 15 or 20 blog posts a day because people are online all the time, and they want to know about what's happening new in science."

Amos Zeeberg hinted that in the coming months they'll be introducing a web-based TV show, but that was all he could say about it for now. So keep your eyes open for that and other great science-related content at DiscoverMagazine.com, or visit our site, VOAnews.com, for the link to this and hundreds of other Websites of the Week.
 

1 multimedia   

adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体

参考例句：

• Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
• Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。

2 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

3 fake   

vt.伪造，造假，假装；n.假货，赝品

参考例句：

• He can tell a fake from the original.他能分辨出赝品和真品。
• You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.你可以很容易地编造一个借口而不与他一同外出。