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Why Add When You Can Subtract?

Why Add When You Can Subtract?

Elizabeth Dietz , Contributor February 8, 2022

Picture a bridge fabricated from Legos. One side has three support pieces, the opposite two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add a bit in order that there are three supports on...

What do you Hear?

What do you Hear?

Elizabeth Dietz , Contributor February 8, 2022

Screams of joy appear to be easier for our brains to understand than screams of fear, a replacement study suggests. The results add a surprising new layer to scientists’ long-held notion that our brains...

Hackers Hacking

Elizabeth Dietz , Contributor December 17, 2021

A major security flaw has been discovered in a piece of software called Log4j, which is employed by scores of web servers. The bug leaves them liable to attack, and teams around the world are scrambling...

World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day

Mrs. Schafer November 19, 2021

20 years ago, Jack Sim, a successful businessman based in Singapore, decided he would do something about the neglect of sanitation. In 2001, he founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO). Two decades...

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