The improbable story of OK
It can be said with a check mark or a thumbs up. It’s written with two letters or four. What began as a joke nearly 200 years ago, OK has become the most recognized word in the world. Okay, let’s start with…
It can be said with a check mark or a thumbs up. It’s written with two letters or four. What began as a joke nearly 200 years ago, OK has become the most recognized word in the world. Okay, let’s start with…
The project cost nearly $500 million in federal funding. It spanned over 10 years and across three continents. More than 250 researchers contributed to the results. The results of what? The dazzling details of a brain atlas—a 3-D map of the brain and its 170 billion...
Shhh! Can you hear the sounds of silence? Unless you’re wearing noise-cancelling headphones or canoeing on Ecuador's Zabalo River where silence is protected, chances are you are living in noise pollution. When the city-life sounds such as traffic, construction and...