Scientific American 60 Second Science听抄（有音频文件）

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Remember the Sing Fell （Seinfeld）with a（where the） lunatic in a clown costume asked Krayma "if you're （he was）still afraid of clowns?" ? And Krayma said "Yeah." Well he's not the only one. A study of hospitalized kids in England found that they positively hate clowns which are often dipicted on the walls in children's wards. Researchers from the University of Shelfield took a novel approach of actually interviewing children rather than relying on adult ideas about what kids like. They spoke to 254 kids between the ages of 4 and 16, and none of them liked clowns. According to the magazine Nursing Standard, one research said we found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them frightening and unknowable. Some representative comments from kids were the clowns are scary, and they（they're） kind of cribbe （creepy）, the clowns. Yeah. On the other hand, kids do like images of the Simpson's（Simpsons）, Sponch Bob's, Square pans, （Spongebob Squarepants），characters from Monsters ink（Inc.）, pictures of local teams and athletes, and photos of the local region. The researchers created a guy （guide）to kid-friendly（friendlier） hospital and environments at tinyurl.com/ypzofx.

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a novel approach
unknowable --- 不可知的
creepy --- 令人毛骨悚然的；(唉，这个词以前听到过，居然忘了)
the Simpsons --- 辛普森一家
Spongebob Squarepants --- 海绵宝宝
hospitalized --- 就医的;
Monster Inc. --- 怪物公司

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Any successful business person can tell you about the importance of face time actually sitting down with clients co-workers maybe even competitors, but that(there) maybe even more to this whole face to face business than meets the eye or exactly as much as meets the eye, because a new study from ..... University suggests that the successful of a corporation rests squarely on the face of its CEO, the researchers took photos of 50 CEOs from the highest and the lowest ranked fortune one thousand corporations, they showed these pictures to a group of undergraduates, they asked the students to read(rate) each face on whether they(its owner) looked competent, dominant,likeable,mature or trustworthy what they found is that the students' impressions tracked with the company's profites, the more pwerful the leaders like( and leadlike ) the CEO appeared, the more successful the corporation, even though the CEOs will pulling much midland ...(are all pretty much middle-aged white) guys in ties the study which appeared in February issues of Psychological science, just not say(does not indicate) whether profitable company tend to promote people who look like leaders or whether successful CEOs  grow to look the part, if the(either) way looks like a company's financial about the face can actually be about face.

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dance_4u
1-16 原文有几个错的地方
你的文章倒数第三行末尾处，是“does not say,” 不是"indicate",
倒数第四行末尾，听起来好像 were all pretty much ... 而不是 are

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《海绵宝宝》(SPONGEBOBSQUAREPANTS)是美国电视节目历史上最受孩子们喜爱的动画系列片之一。该片曾获得全美儿童电视动画片收视冠军，每个月都有将近6000万观众收看，除了儿童观众以外，还有一半观众都是成年人。曾连续于2002年～2004年获得艾美奖最佳儿童节目奖，并于2004年获得美国电视评论家奖最佳儿童节目奖。而该片创作者及执行制片人史蒂芬·希伦伯格是尼克儿童频道最受欢迎的创作者之一，曾获2002年格雷斯公主电影基金奖，并获得南加州首个环保公益组织"拯救海滩"的最高荣誉。共60集，2004年推出剧场版，2006年央视引进国内，中文片名定为“海绵宝宝”。《纽约时报》编辑梅尔曼对它的评价一样：“这是电视上所曾出现的最有魅力的卡通，它有着干净单纯的快乐，集合了成人的幽默和儿童的纯真.




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谢谢提醒！

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In 2005 a paper in Psychological Science debunked the idea that men have bisexual attraction, theodgay（either gay） or straight, the study concluded. Okay, still up for debate. But what about women? Could bisexuality legitimately exist in women? Well this week, the American Psychological Association published the first launched （longitudinal）new study of female bisexuality. Dr. Lisas Diomond （Diamond）studied 79 women over a ten-year period  in an attempt to define just what femail bisexuality is. Well she found no evidence for the commonly held view that bisexuality is an experimental phase on route（enroute 是这个发音，但不是这个词，^_^） to lesbian （lesbianism）as a more （or）hederalsexuality（heteorasexuality）. Rather, she found bisexual （+ in）women have （is） a distinct and consistent sexual orientation. Interestingly, she also found that as women age, they tend to become more aware of their sexual fluidity, kind of like a sliding ski of sexuality. And thus they tend to turn more toward bisexuality than away from it. Then check this out, even though bisexuals continue to be attracted to both sexes as they age, they are more likely than hederalsexuals（heterosexuals） or lesbians to settle into monogamous relationships. Hum... the more fluid you're sexually, the more stable you become behavioraly. What's up with that?

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still up for debate
longitude --- longitudinal 长久的；经线的；
例句：a longitudinal study of the twins  一项对双胞胎的跟踪研究
diamond （拼写；不是diomond）
enroute (to for)... 在。。。的途中 （注意发音是[ ɑ:n'ru:t ]）
lesbianism
heterosexual --- 异性恋者
heterosexuality
sexual fluidity --- 性取向的易变性
monogamous （注意发音）
settle into monogamous relationship
behavioral --- 行为的；（注意拼写，不是behavoral，而是behavioral）
behaviorally stable --- 行为稳定的；

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Gonna watch the Everfel （NFL）Conference Championship games on Sunday? You'll see evidence for a new finding --- agression is rewarding. And （In）what scientists from Vendabelt University say that it's （is）the first study of its kind. They report that agressive behavior triggers dopomine（dopamine）, a neural transmitter in the brain that is known to be part of the reward system. Dopomine levels increase when people and animals get food, sex and drugs like cocaine. The researchers reported in the online edition of the journal psychal pharmocology that when a caged mouse was faced with an intrusive male mouse that replaced the female previously in the cage. The first mouse got agressive. He bit and boxed the interloper. But when the intruder was removed, the mouse would engage in behaviors that he learned would bring his target back. The researchers think that agression was its own reward. More evidence, when the mouse that was deprived of the female companion got a drug, that inactivated dopomine receptors, he brought the intruder back less frequently. So remember that when Micheal Strayhand is smashing into bread farve, he really really likes it.

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NFL --- National Football League
In what ... say is ...
dopamine --- 多巴胺(一种治脑神经病的药物)
bite -- bit --- bitten
deprive of ...
companion
cocaine （拼写）

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背景知识
                                    Brett Favre,
No.4
四分位.

College Southern Miss
NFL Draft 1991 / Round 2

403 Passing TD(第二位在NFL)
54890 Passing Yds(第二位在NFL)
获得3次常规赛MVP,一次Super Bowl MVP.

Michael Strahan
美国纽约巨人橄榄球队 球星

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唔。。。。
今天一口气写了好多，终于写完了
happy weekend to everybody and to me as well

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ding
楼主好强

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今天换了个人播音，第一遍还不适应啊；晕
这篇有点难

Talk abuot a desperate cry for attention. A palm tree discovered in Madagasga （Madagascar ）at earlyl（literally） flowers itself to death. At the end of its life cycle, a pyrimad of hundreds of tiny white flowers spring from the top of the tree. The flowers drip with nectar announcing the palm swan sontest （song to）swarms of birds and insects. Once pollinated, the tree sends all remaining nutrients to its flowers as they develop into fruit, then it collapses and dies. According to the Kue Royal betandical （Botanical）gardens in London, which announced the discovery, the tree also has a remarkable life. It stands 50 feet tall and has fan-shaped leaves that are 15 feet in diameter, ranked among a （the） largest to the （of）any flowering plant. It’s Madagasga’s most massive palm and even can be spotted on google earth. What’s more a DNA analysis shows that it’s not just a new species but an entirely new genus. This discovery comes right in time, fewer than a hundred of the palms still exist. Conservationers （Conservationists）so（-） now are scrambling to find survivors in （and）harvest seeds. Lucky for the tree that（it puts on） one can’t miss performance.

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Madagascar --- 马达加斯加
literally --- without exaggeration
drip with --- 往下滴。。。充盈
swan song --- 最后作品, 天鹅临死时的叫声; a final performance or effort
swarm --- 蜂窝；群；(vi)云集；聚集
botanical （这个音不熟悉）
genus
conservationlist （不是conservationer）
scramble --- to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling 大概是摸索，费力的努力爬。。做
to harvest seeds
a one-can't-miss performance/opportunity/chance/appearance
a once-in-a-lifetime chance

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还是以前的老播音听起来亲切 Cynthia Graber, Karen Hopkin, Steve Mirsky

When you hear things like human DNA differs from chimp DNA by only a couple of percent, you can’t help but wonder how can that be? How can so few changes make such a big difference? Researchers working with fruitbats and mice think they have an answer.  And in adolescent animals genes, there’re short snips （And it lies less in the animal's genes than in the short snippets）of DNA that control when and where and how vigorously genes are turned on. If you’ve ever thought a bat is basically just a rodent with wings, you’re not too far from the mark. One of the most obvious differences between bats and mice is their forearms. Mice have these stubby little legs, and bats have these large leathery wings. But even those differences are not as major as you might imagine. Mice and bats both have a gene called PRX-1, which regulates limb development. But the gene is more active in the budding wings of bats. So the researchers took the piece of DNA that controls PRX-1 activity from a bat and stuck it into a mouse. The result --- pictured in the January 15th issue of Genes Development --- mice that have longer front legs. Okay, they didn’t sprawl （sproout）wings. But the study shows that even small changes can have big consequences.

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（句型） It lies less in ... than in ...
snippet --- a short piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) 对应动词是 snip （剪）
rodent --- 啮齿类动物；啮齿类动物的；
far from the mark ---- 脱靶；离目标太远；完全不正确
stubby --- 粗短的；
leathery ---  皮质的；(注意拼写 不是lethery)
budding ---  growing 成长中的
sprout --- 萌芽；长出；（晕，这个词好像以前听过，居然又忘记了） -_-!!

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It’s the kind of thing we can look forward to more in the coming years. Personalize drug regiments（regimens） based on our individual DNA. An example of this new kind of personalized medicine is illustrated by a study in the January 23rd issue of the journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found that hypertension patients had better results with different drugs depending on the patients’ genetic profiles. Currently, for the most part, doctors will put people with high blood pressure on a standard BP medication and see if it works. If it doesn’t, fail,（they will） try another drug until this trial on aera （and error）system finds a good one. But genetically profiling could let physicians know immediately which patient will respond to which drug. The study of genetics in BP meds included over 38,000 subjects with high blood pressure in the US and Canada, or （who are）taking part in a large motel center（multicenter） trial. With personalized genomic sequencing becoming affordable in the next few years, many of us should finally know in advance not just our risks for disease but what medication will be most effective.

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regimen --- 养生法；生活法则 (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
multicenter 多通道；（注意multi 的发音）



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Most school kids know that snakes can see with their noses. Vipers in particular have these organs on their nod （noggins）that allow them to see heat which helps them find their warm-blooded prey. If that’s not wild enough for you, now physicists from Germany and Kansas say that snakes can hear with their jaws, an idea they’ll present in the upcoming issue of Physical Review letters. See, snakes don’t have actual ears, at least not on the outside, but they do have fully formed inerial （inner ear）systems, complete with the cocalia （cochlea）, the fluid-filled bone that harvests sound. But in snakes, the cocalia is connected to the jaw bone. So if you want to pass （walk past）a snake that’s resting with its head on the ground, the vibration from your foot steps jiggle with （-）the snake’s jaw which shakes the cocalia, so the snake can hear your move.  In fact, the physicists found that this whole listening with your mouth setup can sense even tiny vibrations made by scampering rodents so （or）other small prey.  And because the snakes can unhinge their jaws one side at the time, they may be able to hear in stereo, which means that tapping on the glass of rattlesnakes is a bit （exibit is）actually twice as annoying as  anyone never （ever） realized.

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noggin --- informal terms for a human head
viper --- 毒蛇
jaw --- 颚；
inner ear （连读发音啊，晕，没有听出来；）
rondents or (连读了，晕，听成了 rondents so)
cochlea --- 耳蜗
jiggle --- 轻摇；微动 move to or fro
fluild-filled
harvest the sound
listening-with-your-mouth setup 用嘴巴听的装备
setup --- equipment that serves a specific function
scamper --- 奔跑；蹦跳 scampering rodents
rattlesnake exibit
unhinge --- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed



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