The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a ma...
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: store in the refrigerator.”In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed we...
Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences,...
It is everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.Language learning begins with liste...
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s big difference between being a writer” and writing. In most cases thes...
Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we fit” in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place pe...
Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people. Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different...
In the old day, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters (年轻人) who have never been close by during the birth of a ...
The relationship between the home and market economies had gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes (e. g. cloth-making, se...
"THIS is a really exciting time-a new era is starting," says Peter Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Endemol, the television company behind "Big Brother" and other popular ...