They widen waistlines, lighten wallets and even spread anti-Japanese sentiments. To critics, their yearly appearance is associated with waste. But China’s centuries-long love affair with the mooncake is unstoppable. Eaten to celebrate the mid-autumn festival, when friends gather to admire the harvest moon, they have evolved to reach new heights of luxury. Round or square, [...]
While many people assume that behaviors like avoiding eye contact and fidgeting are signals that a person is being dishonest, scientists have found that no single gesture or expression consistently predicts trustworthiness. But researchers from three universities recently identified four distinct behaviors that, together, appear to warn our brains that a person can’t be trusted. [...]
For 15 years, Joseph has been helping people lose weight. Most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to his clinic’s program and dropping excess pounds. But then, almost without exception, the weight begins to creep back. In a matter of months or years, the entire effort has come undone, and the [...]
The mystery It is like a mystery show – strong colonies disappear overnight without leaving a trace, the bodies of the victims are never found. Only in this case, it’s not fiction: It’s what’s happening to a third of commercial beehives, over a million colonies every year. Healthy communities fly off never to return. The [...]
Inter-racial marriage rates are at an all-time high in the United States, with the percentage of couples marrying across the color line more than doubling over the last 30 years. But Asian-Americans are not following that trend, more and more choosing their soul mates from among their own community. From 2008 to 2010, the percentage [...]
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