立陶宛的跳水爱好者们最近把二十多张当地摄影艺术家的作品放入该国西部的一个湖中，开创了立陶宛国内首个水下艺术馆，并声称在水下欣赏艺术是完全不同的一种体验。据当地跳水专业协...
To most thoughtful people, unemployment benefit embodies a painful trade-off. It's the mark of a civilised society, clubbing together to provide assistance to those in need. It is also, regrettably, an incentive to remain unemployed. At its worst, un...
Here are 10 tips to help you create a productive and memorable college experience. 下面是关于如何建立一个有成效的、值得回忆的大学生活的十条小建议。 1. Answer the question, Why am I going to college?回答问题：我为什...
Working women who thought they might live to see Britain's pay gap finally shorten will have to hold out for another 57 years, according to a research published on August 19. Forty years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, the study showed that the g...
A new article in a special section on Culture and Psychology in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Associationfor Psychological Science, explains that people in different cultures think about work in different ways。 日前，一篇...
As China tries to graduate from the world's factory to a nation with a strong middle class, its peasants still aren't ready to make the leap. According to official statistics, China's urban-rural income gap reached 3.33:1 in 2009, the widest since 19...
It seems skydiving isn't enough for German college student Ludwig Fichte, who had to plunge 4,300 meters in a rubber dinghy while tackling Erno Rubik's twisting challenge. And he cracked the Cube's mystery in 31.5 seconds with 2,500 meters to spare. 看...
A short period of gorging on junk food has a more permanent effects on body size and the way it stores fat even after the initial weight is lost, the study found. The gluttony changes fat mass the percentage of fat in the body for more than two years...
全世界的父母都会对自己的孩子宠爱有加，甚至有些会越俎代庖替孩子处理很多事务。为了让新生尽快开始独立生活，美国一所大学特意为他们举办了一个正式的父母告别仪式，仪式结束后，...
每个人都应该找到一种激励自己的方式。只有这样，才能明白因何而活，缘何伤感，亦幸福。 来自幸福计划的格雷琴鲁宾为我出了个好主意：每天写下一句话。我想这样一种方式能帮助大家更...
当我和丈夫在我们最喜欢的饭馆庆祝结婚38周年纪念日时，那个弹钢琴的莱尼过来问道：你们是怎么过来的？ 我知道，对于这个问题无法简简单单地来回答。但随着周末一天天的临近，我开始...
States with a highly educated populace and higher taxes on cigarettes have fewer smokers, according to a new Gallup study of poll data。 The study found that one out of five American adults smoke, a number that has held relatively steady in recent y...
As New York Fashion Week approaches, its British style maven Victoria Beckham that seems to be at the forefront of many fashionistas minds. From her recent British Fashion Council nomination for designer brand of the year to landing the front page of...
Researchers found almost half of wallets misplaced at cultural centres were retrieved by their owners. 研究者发现那些在文化中心遗失的钱包中，有近半数最终归还失主。 The social experiment, carried out across five British c...
日本富士通实验室的研究人员开发了一种无线充电系统，可同时给一定范围内的手机、数码相机及手提电脑等各种移动设备充电，无需使用电缆。该系统最早可于2012年正式推出使用。该系统被...
