In March 1998 police squad cars roared into Rolvenden. Kent, with sirens wailing and blue lights flashing after a gun was seen being fired from a cottage window. More than 30 armed officers surrounded the cottag
Small animals eat almost constantly just to stay a live. The smaller the animal the greater their surface-area-to-volume ratio. Small animals lose a lot more heat through their skin than big animals do. That is why there are very few small animals in arctic regions. Big animals, like pol...
: Any Roman gladiator movie worth its salt always includes the obligatory Colosseum combat scene where the fate of a beaten warrior is given by the thumbs-down signal – or the thumbs-up if he wants him to live. But is this really the origin of this signal ?
Although they actually live longest in cool temperatures, because they are less active, flies breed most prolifically when temperatures are warm, food is abundant, and humidity is moderate. Winter tends to deprive them of all of these favorable conditions, so that they not only die off themselve...
That said, they have discovered a few correlations. For example, adults who sleep 6 to 8 hours a night tend to live longer! Excessive sleep, however, can lead to medical problems including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Similarly, chronic sleep deprivation has been linked to aspects of ...
“The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return it to the fatherland” Ben-Yehuda first taught his young family to speak Hebrew, then the neighbors, and finally all of the Jews living in Israel by developing a method of teaching Hebrew to all new immigrants arriving...
(even if you protect them from those risks). At one extreme, in the harsh Australian bush we find the male agile antechinus, who dies of stress at the end of a single breeding season. At the other extreme, the naked mole rat can live for three decades in its peaceful underground ...
New Yorkers might live in the city that never sleeps, but the data show that they lag behind San Franciscans in their peak reaction times to Facebook posts. Londoners tend to engage with Facebook later in the day, as work is winding down ...
strengthens our immune responses. Sustained levels of nutrition, even in hard times, also helps protect against illness. And perhaps most important of all, increasingly these groups of villages did not live in isolation. Instead, they became part of networks that eventually would come to cover muc...
‘the year without a summer’, as cold and rain gripped the land, leading to disastrous harvests. In Paris the rainfall was three times normal. Today a vast and tranquil lake occupies Tambora’s crater, and the volcano seems to sleep. But those unwary enough to live too close should ...