In just the past couple of decades there has been a change in the sequence of events that are generally understood to lead up to adulthood. These events included getting employed, meeting and marrying someone, and having children. Nowadays these milestones are no longer requirements for growing up, and even…
All my friends are confused. We keep changing our majors. We do not know what to do with those majors. We are looking for jobs, not so much for saving or for growth, but because we need the money, and we need it now. We oversleep and we never sleep.
More than other seasons in which we go on vacation or complain about ice, fall tends to bring out the scholar in most people.
Theodore Meir Bikel remembered
Mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others. The implications for world health are enormous.
The humble cockatoo. Smarter than you think. (CC: David Cook Wildlife Photography) Plant neurobiologists argue the ways in which plants demonstrate behaviors that look very much like intelligence, memory, learning, and decision-making. Rather than relying on a brain and neurons, plants use a decentralized network, but both plants and…
No one will starve to death if honeybees disappea. But our food choices will be severely limited.
With 2010's Plain Writing Act, the U.S. government launched an official war against the "gobbledygook" and bureaucratize it helped create.
The difference between the authentic and the fabricated is not always so clear.
Scientists have been studying the calls of a whale dubbed “the loneliest whale in the world” for more than 20 years. Its calls are unusually high pitched—52 hertz, versus the typical 15-20 hertz range of blue whales. No one has ever seen the 52-hertz whale, but scientists believe he…