The Monday after Thanksgiving in the US, known as Cyber Monday, is traditionally the best day for shopping electronically. But it turns out that Black Friday is a better day for shopping for electronics.
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More than one-third of Indian students looking to study abroad consider the US to have the best education system. But because of the high cost of American universities, the falling rupee, and difficulty obtaining a visa, the same proportion of students consider studying in the UK and Australia as in the US, according to a new study.
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Quartz meteorologist Eric Holthaus answered reader questions about the storm that’s forecast to hit the east coast of the United States on the day before Thanksgiving. You can watch the half-hour chat in the video above or read our summary of the conversation below. Eric’s latest forecast is here.
One reason men make more money than women is because they work so much overtime.
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The Western world thinks Americans work too hard, and they may be right.
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Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who amassed much of his $33.8 billion fortune from the practice of gambling, has launched a battle against internet betting. He claims that online betting is a danger to society since the internet makes gambling accessible to children and low-income adults.
After cutting its breastfeeding awareness program in 2011, the UK now has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world. The government is hoping to lure new mothers to breastfeed their babies for a full six months with offers of £200 ($319) in shopping vouchers. The declining rates are even worse in low-income areas, where there’s a stigma against breastfeeding.
Last year, a meme called “What My Mom Thinks I Do” took hold of the internet, highlighting the disconnect between jobs held by baby boomers and those of their kids. According to the meme, parents invariably think their children are doing one of three things: saving the world, drinking beer on a threadbare couch, or becoming Mark Zuckerberg.
Every year, the Global Language Monitor’s list of top words offers a snapshot of the English-speaking world. In 2009, when the current US president was sworn into office for the first time, “Obama” was near-top of the list. In 2011, “occupy” topped the chart, thanks to the international protest movement against the 1%.
Offering workers higher salaries doesn’t increase their productivity, according to new research from Harvard University. It causes employees to assume their previous salary expectations were wrong, and that the higher offer is the market rate. Thus, a higher wage doesn’t correlate with harder work.
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If you use everyday spices such as pepper, parsley and paprika, you could be sprinkling more on your food than you bargained for.
Four Chinese students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Chinese enrollment has grown 356% in the last decade, have set out to educate their American peers about themselves. They’ve taken to YouTube to explain the social misunderstandings that block many foreign students—particularly those from Asia—from integrating with the slang-speaking, booze-guzzling Americans.
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Bitcoin, the virtual currency created in 2009, is having a busy day. But not in the US, thanks to the country’s murky and cumbersome regulations.
LG is set to release its latest smartphone, the G Flex, in Korea next month. It will be the first phone to feature a vertically curved screen designed to fit the contours of a face and, more remarkably, a self-healing coating on the back cover.
Since Apple unveiled the first iPad almost four years ago, a slew of tech companies including Nokia and Microsoft have been jostling for a chunk of the tablet market. Parents are prime targets for the tablets and smartphones sweeping the consumer landscape (35% of Americans now own a tablet, while 56% use a smartphone); they cling to the devices as easy, portable forms of entertainment for their kids. In fact, in the US, many children are learning to run apps before they can even walk, according to a new study from Common Sense Media.
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