A 19th-century portrait of a quietly seething bride-to-be recently emerged as a handy TikTok meme to air a wide variety of grievances. But it’s possible the painting’s Parisian subject wa...
On a recent Tuesday morning, people in Acapulco got their first indications that an approaching tropical storm might become something more serious. By that night, the most powerful hurric...
El mes pasado, algunos de los autores de un artículo científico pidieron discretamente su retractación, pero casi nadie pareció darse cuenta.
The Industrial Revolution was good for beer. New tools put a more reliable product into more mugs.
上个月，部分作者谨慎地要求撤回一篇已发表在美国《科学》杂志上的论文。撤稿发生得悄无声息，几乎没有人关注到这件事。
Last month, some of the authors of a scientific paper discreetly asked to have it retracted. Hardly anyone seemed to notice.
En 2017, debido en parte a las condiciones propiciadas por el calentamiento del clima, los incendios forestales que asolaron Portugal representaron más de la mitad de toda la superficie q...
几年前，一项针对数千名大学一年级学生的实验发现，设定目标通常有助于他们取得更好的成绩。这并不令人意外。但在某些情况下，过于好高骛远的学生往往反而会没有进步，而且比没有设定目标的同龄人表现得更差。
Hace unos años, un experimento realizado con miles de estudiantes universitarios de primer año en los Países Bajos descubrió que, en general, fijarse objetivos les ayudaba a sacar mejores...
A few years ago, an experiment conducted on thousands of first-year university students found that setting goals generally helped them get better grades. No surprise. But in some cases, t...
The Netherlands has been an innovation engine for centuries, giving us the world’s first multinational corporation, telescope, and cassette tape. Now, it’s an essential link in a backbone...
Some notable things have happened recently in Pataskala, Ohio. The local Rotary Club selected a 9-year-old as “Junior Grand Marshal” of an annual parade. The mayor got a raise for the fir...
We still inhabit a world largely conjured up by a small group of European men who wore wigs, seldom bathed and spent a lot of time indoors.
I’m writing this piece about the “Global South,” which is something people in relatively comfortable places well north of the equator tend to do. I’ve certainly used the term before, but ...
When West Germany needed to rebuild after World War II, it knew where to find a ready supply of financing.
