Photo: depositphotos.com A group of scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia and Keio University in Japan have marked the borderline after which the human brain can no longer cope with the workload. Employees over 40 years old show the best work results when they are employed no more than 3 days a week, ...
There is nothing more enjoyable for grandmothers than spending time with their grandchildren. Scientists have found that it is also useful for them. A study by the North American Menopause Society shows that grandmothers who nursed their grandchildren at least 1 day a week ...
A sober way of life not only brings health benefits, but also saves hundreds of billions of dollars to the government and taxpayers. This is the conclusion the researchers came to in a report by the American Center for Disease Control. Researchers have calculated that alcohol abuse (for women, this is four drinks for ...
Almost every fifth Russian would like to go abroad for permanent residence, a Levada Center survey showed. In recent months, the share of those wishing to emigrate has been growing. In May last year their share was 16%, and in March 2015 - 12%. Now about...
The well-known publication Washingtonpost.com has published data showing what Americans eat. It turned out that US residents eat more grains, fruits and nuts. Americans are more likely to avoid white potatoes and sugary drinks. According to the study, wealthy families change their diets faster than poor families. In the report…
American linguists Mira Bergelson, Andrey Kibrik and Wayne Lehman discovered and described a relict dialect of Russian in the village of Ninilchik (Ninilchaik) in Alaska. Lehman himself hails from this village, located on the eastern shore of Cook Bay, and does not know Russian, but he paid attention ...
The Swiss company Henley & Partners, specializing in assistance in obtaining citizenship and visas, has released a rating of the attractiveness of citizenship (Quality of Nationality Index). When compiling the rating, the company's experts took into account all factors affecting the attractiveness of citizenship of each country. As internal (the scale of the economy, human development, ...
The Russians called the United States, Ukraine and Turkey the main enemies of the country, and the main friends were Belarus, Kazakhstan and China. 72% of respondents are hostile to the United States. Moreover, in May the attitude towards America worsened after stabilizing at the end of 2015. According to Deputy Director of the Levada Center Alexey...
Shocking results of a new study conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medicine showed that thousands of people are dying in the United States due to medical errors. “If we view medical error as a disease, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States,” says Dr....
The well-known Russian analytical center Levada Center, commissioned by the Russian Jewish Congress, conducted the first large-scale sociological study in 20 years on the current state of anti-Semitism in Russia. The results showed that with the general growth of xenophobia in Russia, the attitude towards Jews is changing for the better. For example, in 1990, "honest and decent people" ...