The world on April 22 observed Earth Day, an annual event meant to inspire awareness and appreciation for our planet's environment. But this yearly reminder has come under fire from some environmentalists, who say the excessive promotion of a one-day...
Fans of classic movies will remember the famous dueling banjos scene in Deliverance, the story of four city friends who take an ill-fated boating trip down a backwoods Georgia river. As the friends set out, one of the friends challenges a local boy w...
Last time we discussed how human beings are the only primate that walks on two feet. One theory for how this might have happened says that, when our species was just getting its start, reaching up for fruit was a good thing to be able to do. Those wh...
Among all the primates, we humans are the only ones that stand on two legs. You may have seen other animals stand on two legs briefly, such as a cat or a dog. But they always return to their original posture. Even apes, who have arms and hands much l...
The Forbidden Kingdom is a martial arts family film that features the first-time pairing of the world's most popular martial arts stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, their names linked on screen by the letter J like two words on a Scrabble board. The film...
Global warming is a real problem, but would you believe that we are actually living in an ice age right now? Yael and Don discuss it. Y: Brrr! Thanks for lunch Don, but it's a little cold to be walking back to the office. D: Well, it is winter. Y: Ac...
Walden Media's latest, Nim's Island, has a terrific premise from the book by Wendy Orr. Abigail Breslin stars as Nim, a smart, independent 11-year-old who lives with her microbiologist dad, Jack (Gerard Butler) on an uncharted South Pacific island. A...
Kidneys are extremely useful organs. Located below the ribs toward the middle of the back, kidneys make urine by filtering excess water and waste from the blood. Scientists have not yet determined why or how it happens, but on occasion crystals separ...
Paying people a compliment appears to activate the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash, Japanese researchers said on April 23. They said the study offers scientific support for the long-held assumption that people get a psychological...
Don: Oh, Yael, I just read the most beautiful poem. No wonder our ancestors developed writing--they probably wanted to treasure poetry for posterity. Yael: Actually Don, writing was developed to keep track of more mundane things, like money. For exam...
