Fun was first a verb meaning "to cheat or hoax." It came from fon, an old word for "fool." It still retains some of that sense in “make fun of,” but now also means "a merry good time." Fond also goes ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life with scientific names. But some of them have problematic histories and connotations. The botanical community is trying to tackle this issue. Since ...

Brian Dolan's decades of experience as a trader and strategist have exposed him to all manner of global macro-economic market data, news and events. His expertise spans the spectrum from technical ...

For many people, the word confrontation holds negative connotations. Often they will say that they hate confrontation or are afraid of it. They associate confrontation with anger, rejection, abuse, ...

In recent years, the U.S. has seen many name changes intended to remove offensive connotations. In Sept. 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior released new names for nearly 650 geographic features ...

Colours hold a kind of emotional symbolism when depicted in visual art. In a study published in the Journal of Vision, postdoctoral researcher Claudia Damiano at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in ...

Faculty of Management and Economics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany Especially for the younger generation, climate change is a threat, and therefore, environmental protection and ...