Some people today might be early risers because of DNA they take after Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago,suggests new research. When early humans migrated from Africa to Eurasia roughly 70,000 years ago, some of them mated with Ne...
Today, I’m going to introduce to you a magazine that features the art of living. The Idler was launched by Tom Hodgkinson, back in 1993. With the intention of providing a bit of fun, freedom and achievement in the busy world, it is now published bimonthly. In every issue, you will...
Schedule your Monday morning so that you've got some uninterrupted time to concentrate. Researchers found that people lost significant time when they switched from one task to another.38Give yourself an hour or more of time to...
still thinking of "a wide mansion tens of millions of people, great shelter all the poor people in the world are happy." A child who was born in the countryside and suffered from long-term economic difficulties, resulting in low self-esteem in his adolescence, he should be more ...
But what is happening today is extraordinary, judged by the standards of the past. It is language extinction on a massive scale. According to the best estimates, there are some 6,000 languages in the world. Of these, about half are going to die out in the course of the next century: ...
Good morning. Today's lecture will focus on how to make people feel at ease in conversations. I guess all of you sitting here can recall certain people who just seem to make you feel comfortable when they are around. You spend an hour with them and feel as if you've known them half...
W: Mr. David Jackson, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is known for his non-fiction books of adventure. Today, we go on a different kind of adventure: Jackson's life of parenting his offspring. David, as a parent of an 11-and a 14-year-old, what is the most interesting issue ...
B) He became a professor of Mathematics. C) He fell in love with Natasha Willoughby. D) He distinguished himself in low temperature physics. 3. A) Discovering the true nature of subatomic particles. B) Their explanation of the laws of cause and effect. ...
Forget BlackBerrys or wedges: the most desirable accessory for huge numbers of adolescent girls today is a cigarette. The trend began in the 1990s, when girls started to overtake boys as smokers; the gap grew to 10 percentage points in 2004 with 26% of 15-year-old girls smoking compared ...
William Shakespeare was born more than 450 years ago. He is 1 regarded as one of the greatest writers in history and is still influencing artists today. However, his language is too old-fashioned and difficult 2 because his time was quite different from today. This has 3 to a discussion:...