1. To Japanese creators Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that uses delayed auditory feedback to shut up participants in a discussion. This kind of system has been used in speech therapy to reduce stuttering among those with that particular speech disturbance.

2. We learned that animals may make choices based on aesthetics.

3. 限制措施开始见到成效。中国商务部周四表示，1月份中国企业对外非金融类直接投资金额同比下降了36%，至530亿元人民币（合78亿美元）。去年12月的同比降幅为39%。

4. 在周某投毒之后，他的一名唐姓同学发现了饮水机的水呈乳白色，还有一股刺鼻的气味。

5. 权且称之为“白”的危机。

6. “Our goal is to produce as many units as we can and, at the same time, make sure that we do it in a way that maintains and enhances the health of neighborhoods,” said Carl Weisbrod, the director of the Department of City Planning.

应用

1. Yes Man is a heartwarming blockbuster that explores what would happen if you answered "yes" to every question in your life. Jim Carrey's character takes on this challenge and ends up learning Korean, taking flying lessons, and getting promoted. He goes from being a pessimistic divorced man to an exciting trendsetter and finds a new girlfriend in the process. It might sound like fiction, but this movie is loosely based on a memoir of the same name by freelance radio producer Danny Wallace.

2. 5. "Dexter" (3.1 million)

3. 根据考试结束后网上发布的考题和部分考生的反馈，今年的考题难度适中，长征火箭、我国外交事务、"玉兔"月球车和大学生创业等政治和社会热点问题都有出现。

4. 本地社交媒体广告，即那些恰好出现在你的Twitter和Facebook信息流之中的广告，在2013年爆炸式增长。2014年，无论你爱也好，恨也罢，这类广告的规模只会变得越来越大。，尽管听起来有点让人毛骨悚然，但特定位置定位技术预计将在来年出现显著改进。Twitter刚刚推出了一项面向特定邮政编码区域发送有偿消息的功能。比如，当你走进一个社区，当地酒吧、干洗店和麦当劳(McDonald's)发布的“推广消息”就会突然闪现在你的Twitter信息流之中。自2011年来，Facebook一直在采用这种“地理围栏”技术。它能够让商家招揽临近的客户，这些客户实际上可能也想获得提供特别优惠和特价商品的广告信息。好处是，你可以获得更多相关的广告和推销信息。缺点同样是，更多的广告。

5. 1、拖延

6. The 62 universities account for 12.4% of the list. The only country with a larger number of universities listed is the US, which accounts for 27.8%.

旧版特色

1. 马特·劳拉

2. 让爱情多姿多彩:荷兰培育出彩虹玫瑰(图)

3. Take the intriguing reintroduction of “unfeigned regards” — last big in the 18th century and now found on emails from Indian help centres. But the winning sign-off, at the bottom of a message sent one Friday, was: “weekend well”. I nearly awarded it second prize for the best noun pretending to be a verb, though at the last minute this award was snatched by a consultant overheard saying: “Can we cold towel that?”