The Arctic Circle encompasses 4 percent of the global surface. And for hundreds of thousands of people, it's also home sweet home. 1. Eight Countries Own Land in the Arctic Circle The exact dividing line for the Arctic circle falls between the 66th and 67th parallels in Earth's ...
It has been proved that people have a bias (偏向) towards the present, focusing on loud attractions in the moment at the expense of the health, well-being and financial stability of their future selves or community. In business, this bias surfaces as short-sighted de...
A) Several times a month, you can find a doctor in the aisles of Ralph's market in Huntington Beach, California, wearing a white coat and helping people learn about food. On one recent day, this doctor was Daniel Nadeau, wandering the cereal aisle with Allison Scott, giving her some ide...
Epidemics have been happening for as long as there have been people living on Earth. They can be caused by several different factors, such as a virus being carried into an area, or changes in the way people live, like more people living in an area, which increases the chances of them ...
Henry Tyler made the catch of the year on the weekend. When he saw a young child hanging from a sixth-floor apartment balcony (阳台), Henry ran one hundred metres, jumped over a 1. 2-metre fence, and held out his arms to ...
C It took only one night, spent in a sealed room at the Dunn Unit to disabuse one of their patients of the beliefs of a lifetime: her metabolism was fast, not slow. By sealing the room and measuring the exact amount of oxygen she used, researchers were able to show her that her ...
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets -- the astronomical distances which separate us. As a reasonable guess, they might, on an average, be 100 light years away. (A light year is the distance which light travels at 186,...
The path of least time is clearly AB. So some people might say, “Sometimes it is a maximum time.” It is not a maximum time, because certainly a curved path would take a still longer time! The correct statement is the following: a ray going in a certain particular path has the ...
1.Nowadays, lots of people tend to have ___ (日光浴)on the ___ (海边) during holidays in summer. 2.The ___ (棒球) match this afternoon will be put off ___(因为) the heavy rain. 3.The letters NBA stand for National ___ Association. 4.A group of ___ (蝙蝠) ___ (拍动...
For thousands of years, people have told fables (寓言)61(teach) a lesson or to pass on wisdom. Fables were part of the oral tradition of many early cultures, and the well-known Aesop’s fables date to the62(six) c...