11 Things That The US Should Seriously Adopt From Other Countries, According To A World Traveler I love the US, but after living abroad in four different countries and traveling to more than 50, I have to say there are certain areas where this great country is lacking. 2. Vending machines in Switzerland, China, and […]
Non-Americans Share US Things That Are Bizarre In Other Countries Whenever I travel abroad, I’m fascinated by common customs and cultural norms that feel so different compared to how things are done in the US. But I don’t usually think about all of the things I consider “normal” at home that non-Americans must find totally […]
Credit: Алесь Усцінаў from Pexels From photographs of decimated buildings to military and civilian casualty counts to narratives of suffering, news media bring information about foreign conflicts to American audiences. But does this coverage actually affect public opinion about whether and how the United States should be involved in a conflict? Does it influence what […]
Should the United States follow the surgeon general’s call on Friday for cancer warning labels on alcohol, it would join a tiny contingent of nations that advise drinkers of the risk. The World Health Organization concluded in 1988 that alcohol is carcinogenic to humans, and it has for years said that the harms of alcohol […]
Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Jade Benjamin-Chung & Anna Nguyen Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Jade Benjamin-Chung, Andrew Mertens, John M. Colford Jr, Alan E. Hubbard, Mark J. van der Laan, Jeremy Coyle, Oleg Sofrygin, Wilson Cai, Anna Nguyen, Nolan N. Pokpongkiat, Stephanie Djajadi, Anmol Seth, Wendy Jilek, Esther Jung, Esther O. Chung, Sonali Rosete, Nima Hejazi, Ivana Malenica & Haodong Li Chan […]
Materials science is a field that is seeing strong growth in the Nature Index. From 2019 to 2023, there was a 25% increase in the number of articles in the database related to the subject and last year these papers represented 27.2% of all research in its journals. In terms of the countries publishing this […]
Bashar al-Assad is gone, and Russia and Iran have stepped back. But Israel, Turkey and the United States are carrying out airstrikes.
43. You can get mini gloves that just cover your fingers in South Korea — they often come with pizza or chips. u/Vlaed / Via reddit.com, [deleted] / Via reddit.com
The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally encircles the middle of Earth, stretching approximately 24,900 miles (40,000 kilometers) long. It’s located halfway between the North and South poles, dividing the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with a latitude of 0 degrees. Humans have known Earth is round for thousands of years — starting with the […]
At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close. Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in Baku, Azerbaijan, the conclusion of the Conference of the Parties was greeted by applause. It gave way, immediately, to discontent. The conference, whose primary focus […]
