Articles with Islombek

Highway widening projects usually don’t solve congestion, but less expensive toll programs known as congestion pricing can. Here’s why

Imagine you’ve just slammed a door on your finger. More often than not, this sudden jolt of pain elicits a vocal response. Maybe you exclaim “ouch!” or let out a cry or loud groan. But do the sounds we make in such moments differ across cultures?

Some songs get stuck in our head more than others, and scientists have uncovered what makes them so irresistible.

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the conversation itself.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist – regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors.

Politicians have won elections with promises to combat inflation, only to lose power after failing to do so. Inflation was even declared Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States—by President Gerald Ford in 1974. What, then, is inflation, and why is it so important?

Before the 1950s, most people believed sleep was a passive activity during which the body and brain were dormant. “But it turns out that sleep is a period during which the brain is engaged in a number of activities necessary to life—which are closely linked to quality of life,” says Johns Hopkins sleep expert and neurologist Mark Wu, M.D.