Speech Materals 591 10 foods you should never, ever eat
In a world of constant admonitions to eat this and not that, it’s hard to know what we're supposed to be putting into ou...
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Speech Materals 590 Where you live affects your personality, study says
When people move across state lines, they usually think about what their new place will be like, their new neighbors, th...
Speech Materals 589 Your Phone Can Now Instantly Translate Japanese Text
Learning a new language is hard. And if there's a new alphabet involved—like there is with Japanese for English-speaking...
Speech Materals 588 ROBOTIC FOOD DELIVERY IS ROLLING INTO THE UNITED STATES IN FEBRUARY
Starship Technologies, co-founded by Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis of Skype fame, raised $17.2 million in January to build...
Speech Materals 587 How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 ...
Speech Materals 586 Does Cough Syrup Really Work? Eating Chocolate And 3 Other Natural Remedies To Stop Coughing
There is very little evidence cough syrup is effective at treating coughs. In one review, 15 out of 19 studies analyzed ...
Speech Materals 585 Dementia rates ‘higher near busy roads
As many as 11% of dementia cases in people living within 50m of a major road could be down to traffic, the study suggest...
Speech Materals 584 Why These 5 Ancient Eats Are New Superfoods
When it comes to health food, everything old is new again. And experts say that can be a good thing: "What is long famil...
Speech Materals 583 What is brain fog?
You can't find your keys. You forgot the new neighbor's name. You don't remember why you went upstairs or what you were ...
Speech Materals 582 What skills should everyone have by age 18?
Growing up has never been easy. Even though the past seems like a simpler time in retrospect, our world is complex and i...
Speech Materals 581 5 Images That Will Instantly Make You Feel Calm
In an ideal world, you’d escape to a yoga class or slip into a warm bath to melt away your stress. But when that’s just ...
Speech Materals 580 Seasonal Affective Disorder: Happiness Is Actually Linked To Sunshine, Study Finds
Does sunshine actually make you happy? A recent study from Brigham Young University has revealed that the amount of time...
Speech Materals 579 Mountains or beaches? What your choice says about you
Given the option of spending time on a beach or in the mountains, which would you choose? Researchers have determined th...
Speech Materals 578 3 Reasons Why Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer
November is lung cancer awareness month, a time to learn about one of the most common and deadly forms of cancer. Althou...
Speech Materals 577 University opens without any teachers
A university without any teachers has opened in California this month. It's called 42 The US college, a branch of an ins...
Speech Materals 576 Treating Pain Without Drugs
A new federal report revealed that the majority of U.S. adults (more than 54 percent) had some type of musculoskeletal p...
Speech Materals 575 One of the Most Powerful Ways to Boost Your Brainpower Starts With This Simple Weekend Chore
Cleaning out your closet can actually make you smarter by eliminating decision fatigue. We’re forced to make hundreds of...
Speech Materals 574 6 ways energy drinks can hurt your body
The concept seems relatively innocuous. Get a burst of energy by drinking something out of a colorful can that looks an ...
Speech Materals 573 Japanese Food Can Help You Live Longer: What Are The Health-Boosting Ingredients?
Experts believe that Japanese food can help you have a healthy life, and according to the London-based nutritionist Cass...
Speech Materals 572 6 Strange Effects Of Stress Including Vivid Dreams, Hair Loss, Gallows Humor
An insatiable appetite, profuse sweating, a racing heart and high blood pressure — these are just a few of the well-know...
Speech Materals 571 4 Worst Things To Order When You Go Out For Sushi
Going out for sushi seems like a pretty good choice when your other options are burgers or pizza. But is it really a cle...
Speech Materals 570 Alternative medicine is now a $30 billion industry. But does it work?
Alternative medicine is big business in the U.S. A 2016 report found that Americans spent more than $30 billion on alter...
Speech Materals 569 Prescribing holidays ‘could help fight infections’
Scientists are investigating whether prescribing holidays, music or a change of scene might boost our immune system and ...
Speech Materals 568 Doraemon under attack as a bad influence on children in India, Pakistan
Beloved Japanese manga character Doraemon might seem to be an unlikely source of serious controversy. But in India and P...
Speech Materals 567 Move to this small Canadian town, get a job and 2 acres
Cape Breton is an island on the northeastern tip of Nova Scotia. The island has only around 135,000 residents, and the n...
Speech Materals 566 Why Danish students are paid to go to college
Every Danish student receives about $900 (5,839 Danish krones) per month under a scheme known as SU (Statens Uddannelses...
Speech Materals 565 Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over ...
Speech Materals 564 5 Things You Should Avoid On An Empty Stomach
You can do a lot of things on an empty stomach. Sleep, for example, is best experienced on an empty stomach. Going to be...
Speech Materals 563 9 skills they don’t teach in school (but should)
In Michigan, legislators are mulling over a plan intended to increase the number of CPR-trained members in their communi...
Speech Materals 562 What’s the best work schedule for your age?
Scientists have long known that you have an internal biological clock that regulates various physical, mental and behavi...
Speech Materals 561 Why do kids go to school? Americans are divided on the answer, a new poll shows.
What is school for? A new poll released Monday night shows that Americans are divided on the issue. And in an era when p...
Speech Materals 560 Does ‘Young Blood’ Reverse Aging? 5 Things To Know About Peter Thiel’s Parabiosis
Thiel, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was the first outside investor in Facebook, has poured millions of dollars into...
Speech Materals 559 Health benefits of drinking hot cocoa
Drinkable chocolate has been used for years to treat ailments and maladies. When chocolate made its way to France in the...
Speech Materals 558 Satellite images used to predict poverty
There's little reliable data on local incomes in developing countries, which hampers efforts to tackle the problem. A te...
Speech Materals 557 Self-driving buses are roaming the streets of Helsinki
Two self-driving minibuses began plying the roads of Helsinki this week -- in real traffic. The small electric buses wer...
Speech Materals 556 16 simple ways to reduce plastic waste
Plastic is found in virtually everything these days. Your food and hygiene products are packaged in it. Your car, phone ...
Speech Materals 555 Parents who insist on vegan diet for children may risk jail in Italy
If parliamentarian Elvira Savino has her way, Italian parents who insist on a vegan diet for their children will risk up...
Speech Materals 554 Will this be the happiest place in the world?
Can the state engineer a happy country? The United Arab Emirates thinks so. Last week, the country’s government announce...
Speech Materals 553 Workplace Essentials For Better Health: 8 Things You Need
Chances are you spend most of your day at a desk job. While you avoid certain health hazards by not working in manual la...
Speech Materals 552 San Francisco Just Issued The Country’s Broadest Ban On Styrofoam
“This stuff is an environmental and public health pollutant, and we have to reduce its use.” San Francisco just took a m...
Speech Materals 551 The reasons why exhaustion and burnout are so common
More and more people are suffering ‘burnout’ – but is this the fault of modern life or is physical, mental and spiritual...
Speech Materals 550 Website Introducing “sento” Public Baths Gains Traction
A website providing information about "sento" public bathhouses mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area is proving popular...
Speech Materals 549 What Are The Best Ways To Prevent Cancer?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by David Agus, M.D., USC Professor of Medicine and Engineering. Here ...
Speech Materals 548 Americans Spend Half Of Their Food Budgets At Restaurants
Unless you have a Blue Apron subscription, the idea of having regular, home-cooked meals is probably more nostalgic than...
Speech Materals 547 Outdoor learning ‘boosts children’s development’
Childhoods were dramatically changing, with fewer opportunities to spend time outdoors, researchers observed. The loss o...
Speech Materals 546 Stress in the classroom could be contagious between teachers and students, scientists discover
The stress suffered by exhausted teachers could be contagious to their students and have a negative impact on their abil...
Speech Materals 545 RAMSEE IS A SECURITY GUARD ROBOT WITH INFRARED VISION
Gamma 2 Robotics’ RAMSEE borrows the name of pharaohs, which is fitting since it works the graveyard shift. The security...
Speech Materals 544 How I Ended My Toxic Relationship with Stress
I used to thrive on stress—I truly believed it gave me energy and excitement. But my company,EXHALE, is centered around ...
Speech Materals 543 Junior high school in Japan introduces trial afternoon nap time for students
Requested by the students themselves, the afternoon siesta is designed to improve concentration levels and protect the e...
Speech Materals 542 GERMANY MAY HAVE DRIVERLESS TRAINS BY 2023
Germans are speeding toward a future of driverless trains. At least, that's what Deutsche Bahn chairman Rudiger Grube ha...