Since we humans have no tails to wag, our best friends have to look elsewhere for signs we feel happy and friendly. A new study indicates dogs can learn to distinguish a smile, even on the faces of some strangers.
This ability to learn to recognize smiling faces may have been important to the success of dogs living with humans, the researchers noted in their study.
For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass and wool, or a balloon and a cotton T-shirt (depending on whether the demo is in a high school class or a kids’ party).
Different substances have a tendency to pick up either positive or negative charges, we’re often told, and the process doesn’t transfer a lot of charge, but it’s enough to cause a balloon to stick to the ceiling, or to give someone a shock on a cold, dry day.
Nearly everyone has had some tech friend gush to them about how great Google is, not just as a search engine, but as a company. But a New York City woman is alleging that the company excluded her and six other potential applicants because of their weight.
The woman, who is remaining nameless, claims that she was at the Google offices for a test that was the second step in the hiring process — she’d already completed a phone interview, so all that was left was an exam that “contained LSAT-style logic questions, and… two of the three were about fitness — running, personal training.”
It’s might be hard to believe looking at safety equipment lists, or even crash-test results, but you’re statistically a few hundred times more likely to die if you’re behind the wheel of a Nissan 350Z or Chevrolet Aveo than if you’re in a Toyota Sienna or Audi A6.
MoPo wishes all of our readers a great and safe 4th of July.
Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national day of the United States.
Mass-produced tomatoes have become redder, more tender and slightly more flavorful than the crunchy orange “cello-wrapped” specimens of a couple of decades ago, but the lives of the workers who grow and pick them haven’t improved much since Edward R. Murrow’s revealing and deservedly famous Harvest of Shame report of 1960, which contained the infamous quote, “We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.”
But bit by bit things have improved some, a story that’s told in detail and with insight and compassion by Barry Estabrook in his new book, “Tomatoland.” We can actually help them improve further.
