Whoa, look what the cat dragged in! You really look tired. Is something wrong?
Throw on some shoes. Let's go to the mall. I want to buy a new phone. They're on sale!
How can you put up with your neighborhood? Do you really like living in the city? There's so much noise!
Am I ever happy we took our bags on the plane. Imagine waiting for our luggage to be unloaded with all those people at baggage claim!
Oh man, you look sick as a dog. What's up? Do you have the flu or something?
We're having a housewarming party! My sister bought a new condo by the sea. She moved in a few months ago but now is settled and ready to celebrate!
Hey, have you ever broken a bone? I did! I broke my collar bone when I was skiing 3 years ago.
How do I get to the Grand View farmhouse? The farmer is an old friend of mine.
Some of my friends get to school by bus.
Goodbye hot smelly city. I'm so happy we're on our way to the countryside.
It is nice to get out of the city together. This getaway should be the best yet.
As we enter the plane we look left and see the pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit ready to fly the plane.
Look at the long line to check in at the ticket counter. Next time let's do it online.
Our family loves to eat from our garden.
Hey, the hostess is ready to seat us. It's good we didn't have to wait too long to get a table.
Dana wants to plant lots of vegetables and flowers in her garden this year.
We met a lot of fellow backpackers traveling through Europe.
It's so hot! I have my swimsuit. Do you want to go to the beach?
Dr. Gunther von Hagens invented plastination -- the groundbreaking method of preserving anatomical specimens for study. His BODY WORLDS exhibits are a museum sensation.
Want to go to the movies tonight? I’m really in the mood for comedy. They’re showing two old Charlie Chaplin films, the funniest ever!
A bunch of us are getting together this Saturday night to catch a movie. Wanna come?
Don't stand on that chair, it's wobbly! It isn't safe. Hold on, why are you trying to get up on a chair?
I have a dentist appointment today. It's just a checkup. But, ever since I was a kid I've hated going.
Oh no! There's a checkpoint up ahead, the police are looking for drunk drivers! What are we gonna do?
It’s chilly in our winter and I love it!
The restaurant only takes cash. I need to stop at an ATM before we go.
Do you know which airline has a 'Disneyland' plane? This one is Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-990.
I love to walk barefoot on the beach. It's great to feel the sand between your toes!
"Are you looking for Leo's Pizza? It's just around the block from here."
I don't know. I don't usually go to the movies. I prefer to watch films online, it's cheaper!
It's 100 degrees outside, but my room is cool since I have air-conditioning. My cat loves it!
On Sundays I spend time outside in the park.
Our appetite for salt is programmed into our brains. Now scientists believe that cocaine and heroin are particularly addictive in part because they usurp that programming.
Ivan stared at his new math textbook with eyes wide open. This class was going to be harder than he expected!
Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down.
That movie was fantastic. The lead's performance blew me away!
Look up! There's a red cardinal above us
The Chief Vizier and architect for the King designed the Great Pyramid so that its sides are exactly aligned with the points of the compass.
Cinema now brings in way more money than in the olden days. However, old-fashioned cinemas like this one in Brooklyn New York sure are fancier than what we typically see today.
In the early days of cinema, actors did their own stunts. Stars in silent films, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, took great risks to make their films funny. They thought it was part of a comedian’s job.
Following months at sea, Rockhopper penguins gather in large colonies to breed, often returning to the same nest each year. They usually seek out their previous year's mate as well.
I'm applying to many different companies for a job. With luck I'll hear back from a couple of them!
Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
The computed tomography scanner, or CT scanner, was originally designed to provide cross-sectional images of the brain. The word tomography comes from the Greek word tomos, meaning "section," and graphia, meaning "picture."
It is dawn in the Andes. A grimy carpet of red dust stretches over rolling featureless hills towards a horizon dominated by the icy cone of Chile's Licancabur volcano.
During World War I, Marie Curie, with help from her daughter Irene, worked to develop the use of X-radioactivity, including the mobile units which came to be known as 'Little Curies’, used to treat wounded soldiers.
Marie found her interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral whose radioactivity, superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity.
Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
Ultimately, our goal must be to begin seeing work as an intrinsic part of our life, rather than an adjunct to it.
Work is becoming too important for it to be of dubious quality. Work is a community, the place where we meet friends and form relationships, a provider of our social as well as our work life.
Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
It is dawn in the Andes. A grimy carpet of red dust stretches over rolling featureless hills towards a horizon dominated by the icy cone of Chile's Licancabur volcano.
The dish will direct the radio waves down into the heart of the receiver, where signals from deep space can be amplified, recorded and analysed. To compensate for the rotation of the Earth, it will need to be fully steerable.
After the newly-born cosmos had exploded into existence and the heavens had filled with superheated particles, a thin gruel of matter somehow coalesced to produce heavy solid objects.
Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. They built huge and bizarre pyramids that still dominate the surrounding countryside.
Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. They built huge and bizarre pyramids that still dominate the surrounding countryside.
But what did it mean? The first breakthrough came when archaeologist Dr. Steve Bourget discovered a collection of bones at one of the most important Moche huacas.
There was only one problem. In the late 1990s archaeologist Dr. Tom Dillehay revisited some of the more obscure Moche sites and found that the dates didn't match with the climate catastrophe explanation.
The computed tomography scanner, or CT scanner, was originally designed to provide cross-sectional images of the brain. The word tomography comes from the Greek word tomos, meaning "section," and graphia, meaning "picture."
The patient lies still on a special table which slides into a round tunnel, called a gantry. The technician can then rotate the gantry or move it forward and backward in order to obtain the necessary view.
In many cases, a patient must be given a contrast material before undergoing a CT scan. During "dynamic CT scanning," iodine dye is either injected into the blood or added to a drink that the patient must ingest.
Buckle up. It's the law, at least in our state!
“Wow! I can't believe we’re going to the big game!”
Here's Channel 17's anchor Victoria with today's top news stories.
Every time I try to tell a joke to Matthew, he starts laughing before I can finish!
Towers of effulgent jack-o-lanterns line the picturesque streets of Keene, New Hampshire, with more pumpkins aglow than there are inhabitants of the small town.
When a print designer employs humour to carry the information, the result can be become a visual one-liner, a joke that speaks the message the ad intends, like this one. --Just when you thought it was dead!
A Japanese police department appointed a chihuahua to its disaster squad, where it will serve alongside retrievers and German shepherds.
It's easy to fall asleep waiting for the cycle to end.
Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber performed an extraordinarily graceful “Waltz on the Wall” suspended on the side of Oakland’s City Hall, twisting and turning effortlessly over the heads of their spectators far below.
Do the math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of CO2 and stay below 2°C of warming — any more risks catastrophe for life on earth. Burning the fossil fuel corps now have in their reserves would emit 2,795 – 5X the safe amount!
Roboticists are keen to tackle mundane tasks, as the chores we do every day often prove the most abstruse challenges for machines.
The Venetian Carnevale has always been a secular extravaganza. It's an excuse for people to act out their fantasies behind the anonymity of disguise!
The global population is now or soon will be 7 billion, and media around the world are scrambling to anoint the seven billionth, conflating an estimate with an exact count.
Business is booming at the Sonora Market in Mexico City, where people concerned with the economy and the country's drug violence seek charms for protection and good luck.
Mountain climber Aron Ralston is trapped in an isolated canyon. Over the next five days, he examines his life and ends up amputating his own arm to free himself from the fallen boulder.
For their passion, a team’s most ardent fans are often called its 12th man, their chants creating and sustaining momentum, helping build a rally for a goal, overwhelming an opponent or distracting a referee.
Can you farm 200 gold an hour and hit level 80 in under 2 weeks? If the answer is yes, you can apply for the job that about 12 million World of Warcraft players only dream about.
An aurora borealis sends ribbons of yellow-green light through the sky over northern Canada.
Where do you draw the line on smartphone use? There was a time when checking your smartphone at the dinner table was considered offensive. But social norms and behaviors change as we adapt to technologies.
As the Rim Fire menaces Yosemite, tree experts expect the big trees to survive. Full-grown sequoias are adapted to survive even the hottest wildfires. They have fibrous, fire-resistant bark that can grow up to two feet thick.
After typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines, citizens from around the world worked around the clock to analyze satellite imagery, generating maps to provide relief agencies with invaluable crowdsourced information.
Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
She staged a fake funeral, attempting to cover it up by cremating a mannequin and cow parts she placed in the casket.
Steven Spielberg's biographical drama portrays the 16th president of the United States as an ambivalent leader, not above twisting arms and exploiting the system to get the right thing done.
Total eclipses leave just a solar corona visible, though when the apparent size of the moon is smaller than the sun, a bright annulus will surround the moon instead.
But he turned into so much more than a hunting partner. He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice inside the fence.
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by?
It’s all I can do not to plunge my face into the water and gulp down as much as I can hold. But I have just enough sense left to abstain. With trembling hands, I get out my flask and fill it with water.
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
I dip two fingers in the jar and gently spread the balm over my calf. The effect is almost magical, erasing the pain on contact, leaving a pleasant cooling sensation behind.
Enclosing all of District 12 is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops. It’s supposed to be electrified twenty-four hours a day as a deterrent to the predators that live in the woods.
The song that comes to me is a simple lullaby, one we sing fretful, hungry babies to sleep with, It’s old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air.
She was so excited she started crying and laughing all at once. My mother was less sure, seeing the injury, but the pair of them went to work on it, grinding up herbs and coaxing brews down the animal’s throat.
What would Peeta think of the irreverent banter that passes between us as we break the law each day? Would it shock him? The things we say about Panem? Gale’s tirades against the Capitol?
A cold, clammy sweat breaks out on my skin and I can’t rid myself of the feeling that the boards above my head are about to collapse, to bury me alive under the rubble.
Jesse James and Kat Von D have been exposed canoodling since the summer, but recent reports have conflicting views on whether the pair are happily together or acrimoniously split.
A Japanese police department appointed a chihuahua to its disaster squad, where it will serve alongside retrievers and German shepherds.
Can you imagine firefighters waving wands? Scientists have shown that a relatively benign electric field can extinguish fires.
Well buddy, looks like it’s just you and me for now. You’ll have to be the party animal this weekend!
No, I don't blame you. I feel the same way. It's okay to be scared as long as we don't let that get us down.
Is it weird that it lifted my spirits to know he was angry and not scared? It makes me feel like we really can fight them.
Yeah, I think they are. My cousin saw tanks in the street yesterday. He wasn't scared, though. He was mad as hell.
Doesn't your family live near the fighting? Are they in danger of getting hit by the bombs?