Our bodies are amazing. Although things go wrong at times, it's remarkable they work at all when one considers the complexities of their operation. Don and Yal present some awards to a few of the outstanding components. [APPLAUSE] D: Good evening, Ya...
Mike: Hi, Amanda. Why don't you sit down and watch this boxing match on TV? It's a championship fight. Amanda: No way, Mike. I hate boxing! I don't understand why people enjoy watching two grown men beat the living daylights out of each other. Aren't...
Dear Annie: My 15-year-old son, Denny, has always been a handful. I am a single mother and try to keep an eye on him. I don't allow Denny to go to a friend's house unless there is a parent home. Recently, he visited a girl while her parents were home...
Where else would the world's biggest dinosaur live, but in the world's trendiest town? Live may be stretching it a bit. Brachiosaurus brancai has been dead for 150 million years, but he remains impressive, towering more than 13 meters over visitors t...
Dear Annie: My daughter allows her 8-year-old son to stay up late at night, watch adult TV and eat lots of sweets. She strongly resents any suggestion that this is not a good thing. The 15-year-old son spends a vast amount of time text messaging, lis...
Directed and co-written by Andy Tennant (Hitch), the sunken-treasure romance-adventure flick Fool's Gold revolves around a quest for the fabled Queen's Dowry: a boatload of gold and jewels meant to seal a royal marriage deal, that sank in the Caribbe...
The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on a best-selling novel for young people, has no doubt been eagerly awaited by the book's fans, which will most likely be pleased by the filmmakers' visualization of the story's many goblins, fairies, sprites and othe...
The movie 21 offers the appealing notion that success is just a matter of number crunching and calculation. Learn to count the cards in Las Vegas and you'll never struggle for money again. There's a catch: You have to be an exceptional MIT student. D...
Why not? You cry.Well,ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place? The golf ball. So it takes more force to move the bowling ball. And the bowling ball is also the one gravity pulls on more. See the connection? A more m...
Sometimes people write to us here at Moment of Science to complain that all we ever talk about are quasars or neutrinos or something. Where's the useful stuff? Well, here's something for you practically-minded listeners. Anybody who has a baby knows...
Public reaction to a recent proposal at Soochow University to rein in the number of appearances faculty members may make on talk shows was swift and negative. Various voices argued in favor of reasonable involvement by university instructors in polit...
For many people, gaining weight as they age is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, fact of life. Some people gain it in the belly area, some pack on the pounds lower down, in the thighs. Now, not gaining weight at all is probably the best option. But if...
Mike and Aman are talking about airport. A: Mike, I'm so excited about our trip to HongKong. It's the first time I'm travelling overseas with you. Unlike we'll arrive the airport three hours early. There was such a long line at the checking counter....
Mike and Amandar are talking about teen idols. M:Hi, Amandar, what's that magzine you're reading? There is a huge mongi's* picture of Leehong Wang on the cover. A:Oh, this issue is one of celebrity gossip rights I like to read. How else my supose to...
Hi there I'm Ore with the BBC World News for Children. It's Tuesday the 25th of August. Coming up: More details come out about Michael Jackson's death Dutch girl may be stopped from sailing solo around the world And Liverpool manager, Benitez, critic...
