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第2109期:How a snack is born
Episode 470
Are you feeling peckish? Maybe it's a while until your next meal, so perhaps now you're thinking about reaching for a brightly coloured packet with s…
2 years ago
第2108期:Photography through the years
Episode 471
Now, pretty much everyone has a camera in their back pocket – in the form of a smartphone. It's easy to take hundreds of photos without needing to re…
2 years ago
第2107期:Don't feel guilty about guilty pleasures
Episode 472
You might have heard of the expression 'a guilty pleasure' – maybe it's the chocolate bar you buy on the way home from work, or the new clothes that …
2 years ago
第2106期:Why Is Canada Limiting Foreign Students?
Episode 473
Canada recently announced a two-year limit on the number of foreign students given permission to study in the country. The move is partly to ease a g…
2 years ago
第2105期:Forest fires and the destruction of trees
Episode 474
This report confirms what many people have long suspected. More and more trees are being destroyed as forest fires are getting worse all over the wor…
2 years ago
第2104期:Unseen Charles Dickens letters go on display
Episode 475
In February 1866, Charles Dickens threatened to move away from his part of Kent [in the UK] because of the loss of a Sunday postal service. “I should…
2 years ago
第2103期:It Has Never Been More Costly to See the Super Bowl
Episode 476
Tickets for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell …
2 years, 1 month ago
第2102期:Brain stimulation boosts memory
Episode 477
Our brain works by firing off electrical impulses. The team at Boston University used this in order to boost memory.
我们的大脑通过发送电脉冲来工作。美国波士顿大学的研究团队就利用了这…
2 years, 1 month ago
第2101期:Ship restoration: Medieval vessel is worlds largest 3D puzzle
Episode 478
At 30 metres long, weighing 25 tonnes, it's thought this salvage wreck, found in 2002, was built around 1449 from Basque-country wood and was involve…
2 years, 1 month ago
第2100期:Elon Musk Neuralink Announces First Human Implant
Episode 479
Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has placed an experimental brain device in a person in the first human test of the technology.
埃隆·马斯克表示，他的公司 Neur…
2 years, 1 month ago