【Phat Yeti出品】60-SECOND SCIENCE 官方听力文稿 + 讨论帖 （更新至：2008.03.07）

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Life's U-Shaped Path of Happiness

Hitting your mid forties? Chances are you’re feeling down. But don’t hang your head, you’re just at the bottom of life’s ‘U’ shaped path of happiness. You might not see it from here, but things are looking up. A study in the journal Social Science and Medicine says mid-life malaise is part of being human. Offering proof that misery loves company, researchers found that millions of people from 74 different countries followed similar life paths. They moved from youthful happiness toward mid-life depressions, then back to happiness in their golden years. Earlier studies suggested psychological wellbeing was consistent throughout life. But this report says, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, there’s no getting around that mid-life crisis.

Regardless of cultural differences, financial success or marital status, a period of depression settles over our forties. But our late fifties, we cheer back up. Researchers speculate that, as we get older, unrealistic expectations are tempered by reality. In other words, we learn to expect less from life. But, they say, a happier possibility is that we just get better at counting our blessings.

[ 本帖最后由 豆豆～ 于 2008-2-7 23:29 编辑 ]

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Harnessing Power Wasted While Walking

Last month, the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to warm a nearby office building. If that sounds too…personal, they’re not the only ones thinking about ways to reuse wasted energy. A team of scientists from Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh and British Columbia have come up with a way to tap pedestrian power. They’ve created a device, which straps onto your knees, that can harvest energy from your stride the same way hybrid electric vehicles recycle power during braking.

Their report, which appears in the February 8 issue of Science, shows that walkers can generate about five watts of power without so much as breaking a sweat. That’s enough energy to run 10 cell phones or two computers at once, which could be good news for people who live in countries where access to electricity is spotty. The bad news is: the device could enable commuters to talk on the phone, listen to music, email their friends, play video games, check their stock quotes, and photograph themselves doing it, just by pacing back and forth waiting for their morning latte.  We beseech them not to—on  bended knee.

[ 本帖最后由 豆豆～ 于 2008-2-8 16:17 编辑 ]

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