Computers are great tools, but they can also be mystifying. Sometimes a program will just stop working correctly for no apparent reason. It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine. But sometimes the solution is not...
Investors in Taiwan looking for the next big thing are setting their sights on Hualien, snapping up hotels in the eastern county in the hopes of striking gold after the highly anticipated arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. Hualien is famed for its...
Have you even wondered why you can hear FM radio signals in a tunnel longer than AM? Take a ride with Don and Ya?l to find out why. D: What a great day for a drive! How do you like my new Ferarri? Y: Very fancy. D: Best of all, the radio works, so we...
People who think about language talk about how the sounds of words bear no relation to objects in the world. Indeed, this has been a leading assumption in much of modern literary criticism, philosophy, and even linguistics. Not necessarily so, says B...
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught－recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help. Police rescued the African gray parrot last month from a neighbor's roof in the city of Naga...
Is it feed a fever, starve a cold? or vice versa. Yael and Don try to clear that up on this Moment of Science. Y: Don, have you heard the saying, feed a fever, starve a cold? D: Sure. But, it's starve a fever, feed a cold. Why? Are you sick? Y: No. S...
Thinking of Juno as just a teenage comedy would be a truly patronizing misstep. The movie centers on the emotional uncertainties of a 16-year-old girl, transforming an outwardly mundane storyline into something extraordinarily affecting and laugh-out...
Don: Say something, Yael. Say whatever you want, but talk directly into my right ear. Y: You're a nut. D: Okay. Now say the same thing in my left ear. Y: Sure thing. You're still a nut. Now what on earth is this about? D: Hold up. Now sing something...
Dear Annie: My daughter allows her 8-year-old son to stay up late at night, watch adult TV and eat lots of sweets. She strongly resents any suggestion that this is not a good thing. The 15-year-old son spends a vast amount of time text messaging, lis...
Nobody likes being lonely. As it turns out, loneliness can be unhealthy as well. The study was done by psychologist John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago. He had thirty three male college students and twenty one female students spend five nights...
