PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent:
'Twas some nights before Christmas at the Carnegie Deli, pastrami and pickles aimed right at the belly. The salamis were hung by the counter with care, hoping the revelers soon would be there.
OK, it's the holiday season, but why, you may wonder, the Carnegie Deli? Well, it was a stop on our Carnegie tour of New York. Landmarks named for the robber baron philanthropist which we visited with historian David Nasaw, author of a new book on Andrew Carnegie, about whom Nasaw remains ambivalent. Read More...
Listening to someone speak is a simple process. The sound waves leave their mouth, enter your ear and travel to your brain, where your neurons get busy making sense of those random sounds. It all seems pretty straightforward, right?
Well, not quite. As the video below shows, sometimes this very simple process can go weirdly wrong.
The video below demonstrates something called the McGurk effect, a famous perceptual illusion that psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald discovered in the 1970s while studying how children develop language. Read More...
The walls inside a microwave oven are actually made of metal. However, thin pieces of metal, like aluminum foil, are overwhelmed by these currents and heat up very quickly. So quickly in fact, that they can cause a fire.Click to see full answer. Regarding this, is it safe to put aluminum foil in the microwave?It can be safe to use small amounts of aluminum foil in a microwave oven. Microwaves cannot pass through metal but are absorbed by food. Read More...
