Parasocial interaction (PSI) is a term coined by Horton and Wohl in 1956 to refer to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television. Viewers or listeners…

More than half a million students take on an exam for which they have been preparing all their lives.

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New research finds that iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century.

Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays.  She dismissed him as a vulgar, illiterate deer poacher and ‘Lord Leicester’s stable boy.’ She preferred to believe Francis…

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions being used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about…

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This section lists females who gave birth to at least 20 children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century. Due to the fact that females bear the children and therefore cannot reproduce…

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Manager. Producer. Wife. Mother. Bodybuilder. How Garcia is shaking up Hollywood.

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regionaEvery day, over 10 million glasses of Guinness are being enjoyed around the world. And every year, more than 1.8 billion pints are being sold.

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Yesterday, we wrote about a paper on the relationship between having a high IQ and investing. It turns out that people with high IQs are better at diversifying, and have less-risky portfolios.

I grew up on a farm in Rush Township, PA. As a summer employee in 1965 in Battle Creek MI, I co invented Kellogg’s Apple Jacks. I earned my B.S. at MIT in 1967, and my Doctor of Science in 1971 in the MIT laboratory of Prof. Gerald Wogan. After a year at…

'I knew we had the Beatles but Elvis as well! You know, Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives'. | Elvis Presley

After a nine year hiatus, Michelin will publish a guide for all of California, including starred restaurants in LA