The earth turns on its axis every 24 hours-or so were taught. But, before we had pictures from space, how would we prove it to someone? The rising and setting of the sun and stars in the sky provide pretty strong evidence, but not absolute proof, sin...
Parents of young infants know just how rare and valuable uninterrupted sleep can be. As it turns out, the timing of breast milk production may help play a role in facilitating sleeping in an infant. Some mothers express breast milk during the day and...
Have you ever wondered how heating an egg white turns that uncooked clear goo into an opaque gel? Well, that transparent goo is made of mostly water and proteins. Each protein is a long strand of amino acids that you can think of as a string of green...
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut Sometimes You Really Are One! Y:Hey!Don.What's that you are eating? D:Mix-nuts Yael.Would you like some? Y:Can I see them first? D:Sure! Y:I hate to tell you this ,Don.But there are no nuts in this can. D:There are peanu...
To add to the drama the pair had been the lowest-ranked competitors going into the competition due to their lengthy absence from the ice. But against all odds their superb short programme score from Sunday was enough to see them win the overall compe...
Cats And Colors You can look at that quilt your cat is curled up on and see a patchwork of greens, blues, and yellows. Your cat, however, cannot see color variation in the quilt. And here is why. Both humans and cats depend on the back layer of the e...
OK. Well, compared with China, Shakespeares England was a very very small place Li, a very small place. You know if Ming Dynasty China maybe had one hundred million people, England had three million people. So we are talking about a very small place...
Chinese figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo rolled back the years to win China's first gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday. Their victory came as a fairytale ending to a story that seems more like a Hollywood movie than rea...
Middle Aged Wolves Picture an elk walking through the forest, looking for some berries to nibble. Then, suddenly, a pack of wolves leaps from the bushes, surrounding the startled animal. The wolves close in. The elk looks for an escape route, but the...
Weve all experienced them at one time or another, often right after a big meal. A normal bout of hiccups usually lasts only a few minutes and may contain up to seventy individual hics. Unlike coughing or sneezing which can help clear your airways, hi...
Liu Lei: This is my all-time favourite. William: Ive got a question for you, Liulei. Is there anything you can say in general, when youre talking about comparing English poems, like this sonnet, and Chinese poems from that same era, that same time, 1...
The National Maritime Museum Jean: It sounds like waves on the ocean. Are we on a ship? Lily: No, no, we are here in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.You know, its the leading maritime museum in the UK and the biggest of its kind in the worl...
Green Transport in London Paul: Ready for our green city ride Yang Li? Yang Li: Im really excited! A green city ride on a pedi cab! Of course, you know that London is one of the great metropolitan cities of the world, but how green is its transport i...
The Cutty Sark Burns John: Greenwich is a well-known tourist spot in London. Its also the home of a historically important ship the Cutty Sark. Now, a terrible fire has destroyed the Cutty Sark.The Cutty Sark has been a major tourist attraction since...
The story of plate tectonics begins with the German scientist Alfred Wegener in the early part of the twentieth century. He first proposed that the continents had moved and were still moving. He pointed out a line of mountains that appears from east...
