You've told your kids to put away their toys, put on their pajamas, and brush their teeth, but when you check on them later, they still haven't done all of these things. When you ask them why, they tell you they forgot. In fact, they use this excuse...
Yael: Good news, Don, I think I've finally mastered schmoozing with strangers. Don: You have? Y: It all has to do with what scientists call trait transference, the process through which observers deduce facts about other people based on the things th...
Mike: Hi, Amanda. What do you think of my new sneakers? I just bought them at Wufenpu a few days ago. Amanda: They look pretty snazzy, Mike. I especially like that color-what a striking shade of blue! How much did you end up paying for them? Mike: We...
Don: Yael, every day I grow closer to my goal of mind control. Yael: What do you mean, Don? D: Check out this study from Ohio State University that says nodding your head to signal approval and shaking your head to signal disapproval not only lets ot...
Expo 2008, themed on the world's dwindling water resources, opened in the Spanish city of Zaragoza on June 14, days after the riverside site narrowly escaped flooding. King Juan Carlos officially opened the 25-hectare (62-acre) exhibition on the nigh...
Don and Ya?l quickly run through what happens in your body when you're frightened. D: The anatomy of fear, on this Moment of Science. Y: One nice day you're walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a hug...
Don: Ya?l, I was reading this mystery novel last night, and in it this guy goes missing and then--lo and behold--a week later they find his body floating in a nearby lake. I don't get it--I have a hard enough time staying afloat for ten minutes, and...
In The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the four kids from the first movie, based on the series of novels by CS Lewis, are now fully licensed kings and queens of Narnia. They are still stuck in wartime London, trudging around a train station in...
Amanda: Guess what, Mike? My parents bought me a digital camera for my birthday! It's the newest model and has all the latest functions. I'm not too sure how to operate it though. Can you please help me, Mike? Mike: It's about time you got a new digi...
Ya?l: My cousin is always falling for these obnoxious, awful men who are just like her father. You'd think she'd learn not to make the same mistake her mother made. Don: Well, you know what they say. A woman will marry the man who reminds her of her...
Sameer Mishra provided more than just comic relief at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He ended up winning the title. The 13-year-old from West Lafayette, Indiana, who often had the audience laughing with his one-line commentaries, was all bus...
In this Moment of Science Don gives Ya?l a neat trick to play on her brain. You might want to try it, too. D: Here's a simple demonstration you can do with cool implications. Find a large object that is brightly colored--let's make it a green door. S...
New images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health. The one snag on the lander occurred when the protective sheath around t...
Some men brag that they can handle alcohol better than women. Can there be some truth to that? Don and Ya?l talk about that on this Moment of Science. D: If I were you, Yael, if I were a woman that is, I would reconsider that fourth drink you just or...
Computers are great tools, but they can also be mystifying. Sometimes a program will just stop working correctly for no apparent reason. It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine. But sometimes the solution is not...
