Tag: Reveals

You’re not imagining it, we're all having too many meetings. The average knowledge worker spends 23 hours a week in meetings. Since shifting to remote and hybrid working, meetings have steadily increased in duration and frequency, with people attending 13 percent more mee...

Cracking open a pomegranate (“seeds of blood in cups of azure,” as Andre Gide describes them) is like lifting the lid off a treasure chest. Within the rind, a glistening memento mori is our prize, an edible symbol of blood, birth, and death. “Pomegranates […] ha...

ince 1984, Barcelona has been organized territoriality into 10 districts, in turn divided into neighborhoods, which make up a total of 73. Figure 2. Districts and neighborhoods of Barcelona. 1. What Are the Most Expensive and Affordable Neighborhoods for Renting in Barcelona by Year? Fi...

Your body can move when it has to. It just needs the right setting and motivation. As civilized, domesticated mammals, we’re lamentably conditioned to wallow in sedentary, mostly city lifestyles. It’s comfortable but unhealthy. With The Agricultural Revolution to thank for selling our...

In an exploration of individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and pension plans, the study exposes huge losses that could significantly delay the retirement plans of countless Americans. The study states that upon assuming office, the Biden administration embarked on an ambitious spending spree al...

Prior to October 2019, I thought anyone who needed a fairy tale father in the sky was weak minded. I thought the Bible was written by a secret society to try and keep people in fear and have power over them. The first time I went to Church (as an adult), it was with business on my mind. I was ...

A young disciple asks: “Master, how do I enter Zen?” The master points to a distant mountain stream. “Do you hear it?” The disciple strains to listen and says, “Yes.” The master replies, “Enter Zen from there.” Several minutes later, the disci...

Recently, a distressing video emerged online depicting a migrant family living in a parked tractor trailer in East New York, Brooklyn. The footage showed a small child standing in the back of the trailer while the narrator, who claimed to be related to the owner, expressed frustration at the lack of...

Finally, after decades of speculation and experimentation, researchers have identified, reconstructed and successfully made rope using an ancient technology. In 2015, excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley (Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany) recovered a total of 15 pieces of worked mammot...

If there’s one rule that’s practically universal in astronomy, it’s this: you can only observe the parts of the Universe that your instruments are sensitive to. As a result, when most of us think about the objects that are out there in the cosmos, we think about the components that...

Show don’t tell. It’s the first rule of good creative writing. If you want readers to believe that your grizzled detective is volatile, you don’t tell them “Detective Jack Loosecannon is volatile,” you show him punching the police commissioner. Exposure therapy opera...

The history of dark energy can be traced back to the early 20th century, when Albert Einstein introduced the cosmological constant term in his theory of general relativity, in order to balance the attractive force of gravity and account for a static universe. However, after Edwin...

All stars eventually exhaust their nuclear fuel, running out of fusible material. The Egg Nebula, as imaged here by Hubble, is a preplanetary nebula, as its outer layers have not yet been heated to sufficient temperatures by the central, contracting star. Many of the giant stars visible today...

Introduction For centuries, mankind has been fascinated by the mysteries of the universe. From the vastness of space to the tiniest particles that make up our world, we have sought to understand the fundamental nature of reality. One intriguing aspect that has emerged is the role of geometry in u...

Diminutives belong to the emotive dimension of language, which contrasts with its rational aspect — or what Mr. Spock would call the logical aspect of language So … because the Dad has a warm fuzzy feeling towards the Bernese mountain dog, he refers to h...