One in three of us meets most of our friends through work, two-thirds of us have dated someone at work, and a quarter of us meet our life partners there. Work is also becoming a more important indicator of identity.
After a long silence, linguists and psychologists are now looking to hyperpolyglots for answers. Do these people possess extraordinary brains, or are they ordinary folk who do the extraordinary through motivation and effort?
Throughout the 19th century, commoners in England were becoming educated through normal schools, church schools, and mutual instruction classes, and by the 1830s, approximately 75% of the working class had learned to read.
A raging fire burned across 1,250 acres in a part of California, triggering mandatory evacuations and temporarily shutting the highway in both directions, but not before a terrified family was caught driving through it!
A raging fire burned across 1,250 acres in a part of California, triggering mandatory evacuations and temporarily shutting the highway in both directions, but not before a terrified family was caught driving through it!
Most emergency or shock-treatment centres contain a CT scanner in order to assess trauma victims. CT scans can pinpoint internal bleeding both in the brain and throughout the body.
Inside the donut-shaped machine, a number of X rays are taken, each producing a small slice of the image that doctors need. When passing through dense tissue such as bone, the beams are weak and appear white in the CT images.
When a planet, orbiting around a star (other than our sun), passes in front of its parent star, then we can see a spectrum of starlight passing through its atmosphere. This gives us information on the possibility of life.
When a planet, orbiting around a star (other than our sun), passes in front of its parent star, then we can see a spectrum of starlight passing through its atmosphere. This gives us information on the possibility of life.
The Russian famine of 1921 began in early spring and lasted through 1922. It killed an estimated 6 million, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions.
We see Spider-Man punching Sandman through the chest with the help of special effects and Humbly, born without his right hand, who took Maguire's place when they filmed the scene.