According to a new study, some cosmetics can cause adverse effects. Did you know makeup and hair dye can be bad for you?
We love to get out of town and cycle in the fresh air on the country roads.
Excessive noise may be as damaging to the heart as it is to the ears, leading to higher blood pressure. Many European countries have striven to abate noise pollution.
Look up! See the red cardinal above us?
Thousands of artists leverage Facebook and Twitter to raise money for creative projects. But crowdfunding isn't just for hipsters anymore; it's moving into all kinds of other spheres, like research and personal causes.
Do you hear the avalanche? All that snow, ice and rock crashing down the mountain is super loud.
Schools, even in parts of the UK that evince a certain degree of ambivalence towards the Royal Family, will show their enthusiasm for the wedding on collages and banners.
The concept of chance, that there could be events which are neither inevitable nor intentional, is difficult and abstract but it has gained strength as science has developed.
The health benefits of humor start as soon as you anticipate the pleasure of a good laugh. New research shows that laughter reduces stress hormones and boosts immunity, effects that kick in even as you look forward to it.
After the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy was overturned last week, the military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in America's history.
Enduring symbols of the Olympics are everywhere in London, but the Olympic flame, the most recognizable symbol, is invisible to all but those lucky or affluent enough to buy tickets to the Olympic Stadium.
I heard a loud buzzing and looked up to see thousands of bees flying to their swarm in the tree!
“Fear is your best friend or your worst adversary. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you, it can heat your house."
How can a paper scorpion actually save your life? The origami algorithms used to fold bugs are the same ones behind the invention of the air bags in your car.
If companies burn all the fossil fuel they have now, it would emit 2,795 gigatons of CO2 – 5X the safe amount. We'll have huge global warming and a catastrophe for life on earth.
I heard a loud buzzing and looked up to see thousands of bees flying to their swarm in the tree!
At the Maker Faire, an event that has built a following by showcasing the tinkering of inventors, children were front and center at every booth, touching, playing and asking exhibitors how their inventions work.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, the face of the peace initiative between Afghanistan and the Taliban, was killed in an assassination by the terrorism group.
Excessive noise may be as damaging to the heart as it is to the ears, leading to higher blood pressure. Many European countries have striven to abate noise pollution.
Do you think these turquoise sun glasses are a good complement for my blue hair? I think they go pretty well together!
How can a paper scorpion actually save your life? The origami algorithms used to fold bugs are the same ones behind the invention of the air bags in your car.
Linguists are saying that young women deserve credit for pioneering vocal trends, such as using the word "like" to add cadence or, like, emphasis to a sentence.
At one point, a member of Hogan’s shield entourage got into a heated altercation with a daring shutterbug who tried to snap pictures of the occasion.
New permutations of the "Meal, Ready to Eat," field rations known by every derogatory name possible, are tentatively being called edible, even gourmet.
Firefighters and church groups have become bedfellows with beer distributors in an effort to fight initiative 1100 in Washington state, which would deregulate the sale and distribution of alcohol.
Part 1 of the scenario using word/phrase1 in natural English.
Part 1 of the scenario using word/phrase1 in natural English.
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Part 2 of the scenario using word/phrase2 in natural English.
Part 3 of the scenario using word/phrase3 in natural English.
Part 3 of the scenario using word/phrase3 in natural English.
Part 2 of the scenario using word/phrase2 in natural English.
Part 1 of the scenario using word/phrase1 in natural English.
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Part 2 of the scenario using word/phrase2 in natural English.
Part 2 of the scenario using word/phrase2 in natural English.
Part 1 of the scenario using word/phrase1 in natural English.
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Let's begin by understanding that slang can be very different depending on where you live and how old you are! And to clarify, the word slang is uncountable. So "slangs" is incorrect! Test 1
Olives taste great with cheese, tomato, cucumber, and more. They are quite oily, the word "oil" comes from olives!
People almost exclusively eat black olives at breakfast, and very rarely green olives. They are quite oily, the word "oil" comes from olives!
I couldn't remember the words to the song, but no one seemed to pick up on it.
In his original message, N mentioned another member of his family, a seven-year-old girl, who could count to 100 in three languages and could pick out words spoken in other languages and say what they meant.
CJ's verbal memory was very good, he could remember lists of words for weeks, but he quickly forgot images and numbers, and had problems reading maps.
Assuming that each language has 20,000 words and that Mezzofanti could remember a word after encountering it once, he would have to learn one word a minute, twelve hours a day for five and a half years!
Successful authors, some of whom wrote over 50,000 words a month, were able to earn a decent living at a penny per word.
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."
Field continues, "In other words, telescopes are time machines. They have shown us what the universe was like ten billion years ago, how it evolved during its childhood."
3 words sound like /yor/; 3 words sound like /we(?)r/-- EXCEPT one word in one of the sets sounds a little different (it's the odd 1 out)1. Find the word that's different.2. Create new vocablets for the other five.
Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, words that could well apply to a new machine promoted by UNICEF that turns human sweat into drinking water.
Watch Jimmy Fallon and Bryan Cranston crack up while playing a game called "Word Sneak," in which they have to sneak incongruous words casually into a conversation.
Watch Jimmy Fallon and Bryan Cranston crack up while playing a game called "Word Sneak," in which they have to sneak incongruous words casually into a conversation.
It all started with Paparazzo, a not-so-pleasant photographer in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita. The Italian word paparazzo refers to the annoying buzz of a mosquito.
In less than a second, the time it takes to say "hello," we make a snap judgment about someone's personality. It takes just a word or two to decide whether to approach the person or to avoid them.
In less than a second, the time it takes to say "hello," we make a snap judgment about someone's personality. It takes just a word or two to decide whether to approach the person or to avoid them.