14-05-09 The intelligent Zhang Zi and the clever Hui Zi were strolling on the bridge over the Haoshui River. Zhuang Zi said, The fish is swimming freely and unhurriedly in the water. What a pleasure! Hui Zi said, You are not the fish. How could you know that...
14-05-09 Once Zhuang Zhou went to Marquis Jianhehou to borrow provisions(食品,规定) . Marquis Jianhehou said, Yes, but you have to wait until the end of the year when the taxes have been collected. I will lend you three hundred jins of gold. Zhuang Zhou r...
14-04-25 A patron in Montreal cafe turned on a tap in the washroom and got scalded. This is an outrage, he complained. The faucet marked C gave me boiling water.But, Monsieur, C stands for chaude - French for hot. You should know that if you live in Montreal...
14-04-23 On Earth Week--and in fact, every week now--trees in mountains across the western United States are dying, thanks to an infestation of bark beetles that reproduce in the trees' inner bark. Some species of the beetles, such as the mountain pine beetl...
14-04-16 A thirsty Fox looks for water. It's so hot today. And I'm so thirsty. There's no water anywhere. The Fox keeps looking. Far away, he sees something. Wait ! What's that? I think it's a well. I'm saved! There must be water there. The Fox runs towards...
14-04-06 In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent pictures back to Earth depicting an icy Saturnian moon spewing water vapor and ice from fractures, known as tiger stripes, in its frozen surface. It was big news that tiny Enceladus -- a mere 500 kilometers in...
14-04-02 The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite(磷灰石) , says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Boyce and his co...
14-03-31 The largest earthquakes occur where oceanic plates move beneath continents. Obviously, water trapped in the boundary between both plates has a dominant(占优势的) influence on the earthquake rupture process. Analyzing the great Chile earthquake of...
14-03-28 New Caledonian crows may understand how to displace water to receive a reward, with the causal understanding level of a 5-7 year-old child, according to results published March 26, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Sarah Jelbert from Univ...
14-03-20 Toy food is a food dish that comes premeasured and premixed and so requires only a minimal amount of preparation. 玩具食物是用预先切好、拌合好的食材,只需极少准备工作就能制成的一盘食物。 To make toy food, you just need to get a little piece of this,...