Something to Boast about
Are your information data safe and reliable?
In an ideal world such data, however informative and exploratory they are,
Many scientists are still quite unwilling to have their data revealed though attitudes are changing. This attitude,
But sometimes it can cover a darker secret. The statistics presented in a paper may have been controlled to achieve a desired result. The author may, in other words, have cheated. If he releases the data, that cheating will be obvious.
Now Sean Wilner and his colleagues
CORVIDS is likely to be
But its speed makes it a useful first step. If the data sets
Anyway, the trustworthiness of scientific papers will take a step up with CORVIDS.
Lost at sea
Two men from the Solomon Islands have been rescued after spending 29 days lost at sea.
The men
“I look forward to going back home
Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni took off from Mono Island on Sept. 3 in a motorboat to travel 200 km to Noro on New Georgia Island. However, soon after they set out, their boat was hit by heavy winds and rain, which made unclear the coastline they were following
“When the bad weather came, it was bad, but it was
When the rain had finally passed, Nanjikana and Qoloni had already drifted far out to sea. They spent the next 29 days
A fisherman found and rescued the two men on Oct. 2 off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, about 400 km from
Nanjikana and Qoloni
Carrying Firewood to Put Out a Fire
In 273 BC, the Qin army launched a more serious attack upon the State of Wei, which was too weak to defend itself. The king of the State of Wei gathered his officials, and asked them with a
After years of difficulties
At the critical moment
However, Su Dai, a counselor, didn’t agree. He hurried up to the king and said, “Once there was a man
The UK government recently has made a plan to reduce waste that shifts the responsibility for disposal (处置) from the state to the companies that make it.
The legislation (法律条文) requires waste producers to pay into the system
The demand for legislation like the tough attitude the UK
What is absolutely certain is that local governments will save a lot of money as the responsibility shifts to the polluters. That could be
In many countries, kitchen and gardening waste makes up of the biggest part of waste. This type of waste,
Rising To the Challenge
Cyclists must dig deep to complete what’s been called the toughest climb in the world. They race up to Wuling Peak to the finish line in the King of the Mountain (KOM) Challenge. Every October some of the world’s best cyclists battle
Ever since I started cycling seven years ago, completing the KOM climb
Last summer I finally decided to take on Wuling with some friends. Our 89-kilometer route started at the base of the mountain and was a little shorter than the official KOM race. But it’s the final 10 kilometers
We began early in the morning as a group of 17 riders. But only three of us would make it to the top. A support car was necessary, especially on a ride like this,
The first part of the ride went through Taroko Valley, a magnificent park. I’ve hiked there,
Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. The gigantic report on the subject
The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of damage is through TB(结核).
Perhaps
A few years ago, nobody could have imagined buying a whole dictionary on CD-Rom—but we do now, and it’s a booming business. It looks
Well, is this really the end of the book and the newspaper? I doubt it, and it seems that even Stephen King agrees.
First of all, it takes much
Publishers will be happy to satisfy the needs of readers
Just a craze … or crazy?
When an estimated one in sixty participants will die, why would anyone want to base jump?
The world record for base jumping
For those who may not know, base jumping is an increasingly popular extreme sport which involves jumping off high building, bridges or cliffs with a parachute. It is unbelievably dangerous. Although a sky diver
I find
John, an ESL tutor of a community college, moved to New York City with all the members of his family. John is a remarkable teacher, so
At the party,
Just before I was about
Looking puzzled, Monica asked, “Why do you have such a feeling?”
“Haven’t you heard him say that he
Charles Dickens
It has been 150 years since Charles Dickens died, 184 years since his first work was released to the public and 156 years since his last completed book came out. In all of this time, these novels have never been out of print. Dickens may have left us, but his work remains timeless,
Most people have read, watched or at least heard of Dickens’ stories, but what makes him and his work so popular? Since he began novel writing in his 20s, Dickens constantly produced quality classics. Year after year his awaiting fans were not left
In the Victorian era he lived in, much of the work Dickens produced
Any Dickens fans will know the diverse and outrageous (耸人听闻的) characters coming to life between the pages.
Over a century and a half later, Dickens’ themes can be relevant to today’s world problems. His words and imagery have been transformed further into the media of modern film, television and even musical adaptations.