Human Behaviour
An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no…
Ask a Guugu Yimithirr speaker to shift along the bench and you will not hear anything about your left or your right.
Human Behaviour
A Japanese soldier named Hiroo Onoda continued fighting the Second World War in the…
For close to twenty-nine years after Japan's surrender, a lieutenant named Hiroo Onoda went on fighting the Second World War in the hills of a small island in the Philippines.
Human Behaviour
Highland Sardinia recorded an unusually even male-to-female centenarian ratio, but…
Demographers documented an unusual centenarian sex ratio in highland Sardinia. Pastoral work, isolation, diet, purpose and record quality remain competing or contested explanations.
Psychology
The reason your mind wanders has nothing to do with discipline or willpower, and a…
This article discusses normative mind-wandering as studied in general population samples.
Science & Engineering
Olive oil, soybeans, yogurt, lentils, and kimchi were named the five healthiest…
Fermented cabbage and a bottle of olive oil do not obviously share a shelf. In 2006, the American magazine Health put them on one anyway, naming five foods it called among the world's five healthiest: olive oil, soy, lentils, yogurt, and Korean kimchi.
Science & Engineering
The United Arab Emirates was once a small federation of fishermen, pearl divers…
In the late 1950s, when the American oil reporter Wanda Jablonski travelled to Abu Dhabi, the town had no hotel, no paved roads and no electricity, and dinner at the one expatriate household was tinned meat or, as a treat, dugong stew.
Human Behaviour
Norway, a country of 5.5 million people that discovered oil off its coast in 1969…
A country of 5.5 million people owns, through a single state fund, close to one and a half per cent of every listed company on the planet.
Human Factors
In 2021, Japan appointed a Minister for Loneliness
In February 2021, the Japanese government decided that loneliness was a matter of state.
Science & Engineering
Tattoo ink doesn’t just stay in the skin
A group of researchers at the Università della Svizzera italiana gave mice small foot tattoos in black, red or green, then watched under the microscope where the ink went.
Human Behaviour
Japan has more than 33,000 businesses over 100 years old and roughly 3,000 over 200…
A hot spring at the foot of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture has been feeding the same bathhouse since the year 705. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, the…
Science & Engineering
Experienced birdwatchers were found to have denser, more structurally complex brain…
When an expert birdwatcher encounters a species they have never identified before, what they are doing with their brain is not simply trying harder than a beginner would.
Psychology
Between the mid-teens and the mid-twenties, the human brain records an unusually…
Ask most adults over forty to list the memories that come back to them unprompted, and a strange pattern shows up.
Psychology
The 'Mozart effect' began as a fifteen-minute bump on one spatial-reasoning test…
The 1993 study was real. It measured a small, temporary gain on a single spatial task in adults. Almost everything the phrase came to mean was added afterward.
Earth & Life
Being highly sensitive to your environment is not a weakness but an evolutionary…
Roughly one in five people, on the current best population estimates, notices the buzzing of a fluorescent light in an office that most other people cannot hear.
Earth & Life
The Eastern Jin army was outnumbered by more than five to one at the Fei River in…
The invasion had been building for a decade. Fu Jian, ruler of the Former Qin dynasty and a member of the Di ethnic group from the northwestern grasslands, had spent the 370s systematically conquering every other state in northern China.
Psychology
The Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who survived four Nazi concentration camps…
In September 1942, approximately nine months after his marriage to the young Viennese nurse Tilly Grosser, and approximately four years after Nazi Germany's…