Articles with Islombek

Imagine this perfect storm: your significant other forgets to shut the dishwasher, and later that night, you go to the dark kitchen for a drink of water. Your ankle strikes the lowered dishwasher door, and you stumble. Do you catch yourself or crash?

Creative thinking requires our brains to make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. Is this a skill that we are born with or one that we develop through practice? Let’s look at the research to uncover an answer.

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?