Next time you hiccup, hopefully you’ll keep the hiccup cycle and the behavior of your vagus and phrenic nerves in mind to get rid of them—whether you use the HiccAway, or not. 🥤Worth Trying? This Straw Could Cure Your Nagging Hiccups ...
While the benefits of taking a gap year are clear to see, some students worry they can’t afford it. Another student, Tom, told the BBC that to him, a gap year was an ‘alien concept’. He said “it would have been far too expensive and it's not something that I would have been...
I know this is an “angry man yells at cloud” kind of thing, but the idea that “kids today” find the notion that washing machines can last over a decade and that fixing them is something you can do yourself with tools, time and knowledge completely alien is crazy to me. Jan 6, ...
“we are not alone” echoed around mexico’s congress as tv personality and journalist jaime maussan presented what he claimed were “nonhuman beings.” illustration: rodrigo meade save save it was like an alien unboxing—but they were just nazca mummies from peru. toward the end of a public...
Why? Many felt that the word reminded them of slavery. And students at the University of California-Santa Cruz protested last year after burritos(墨西哥卷饼)were served at a science fiction club meeting. The reason? Some felt serving the food connected the term “illegal alien” with Hispanic(...
. . a restriction be placed on the number of braceros allowed to enter the United States, we can look forward to a large increase in the number of illegal alien entrants into the United States.” It is no coincidence that the lull in migrants illegally crossing the U.S-Mex...
What is an invasive or alien species, and why do they pose such a serious problem for ecologists? Select one and describe its influence. Discuss how an organism (or population) in an ecosystem might be affected by the following...
Humanity founded its first cities only a few thousand years ago; alien intelligences that last for orders of magnitude more time still aren’t even worth mentioning on the great cosmic calendar of our universe. The cosmos is big. Far larger, far grander, and far older than we can possibly...
Joining the dots Why, for example, do areas known as UFO “hotspots” also often boast increased Bigfoot activity? Why do many people who claim they have been victims of alien abduction also report strange incidents that would be more at home with those who investigate ghostly activity and ha...
By contrast, ethics, as I shall use the term, is concerned with forwarding what philosophers in the field call “the good life.” Attempting to define this phrase is as futile, Johnson reminds us in theLife of Pope,as defining poetry: we define little more than our own limitations as def...