Today, because of the greater efficiency of communicating online, a typical business meeting is attended by double the people that it has been in 1995.

Born in Portsmouth, England, Charles Dickens, often regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, worked in a blacking factory at the age of 12, became a journalist as a young adult, and in 1842 published a travelogue about the United States after he had visited that country for the first time.

Evidence suggests that the people who crossed the Bering Strait from Asia into North America over a land bridge were hunter-gatherers, nomads living in an egalitarian society where they obtained their sustenance almost entirely from wild plants and animals.

Sir William Mills, the inventor of both the Mills bomb, the hand grenade most widely used by British Imperial forces during the First World War, and also of the Metallic Golfing Instrument Head, possibly the first aluminum golf club, was known as an innovative world-renowned inventor.

Also known as the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine, a species most observers agree to be driven to extinction by predation by humans, was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

To popularize the asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction, paleontologists have to provide somewhat stronger evidence than now linking the disappearance of fossil records and the layer of sediment in the Earth's crust caused by an asteroid impact.

Whereas in genetic mutation by insertion extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, in mutation by substitution one base in the sequence is replaced with another.

The term "sustainable" is widely applied to any practice that minimizes environmental impact, but in the case of building material it is a substance that is recycled or contains lower volumes of volatile organic compounds.

Fossilized remains of a horn thought to be of a triceratops found in sedimentary rock in 2011 has been dated to be 65.5 million years old and thus is evidence that dinosaurs existed shortly before the asteroid impact that is believed to have made them extinct.

The best way to instill good habits in a dog is to condition it with short verbal commands and edible rewards before they solidify bad habits when aging takes effect.

The festival of Songkran always brings widespread levity and a rush of visitors to Thailand in that the throwing of water on others in the street is encouraged.

The bricks that were used in the construction of the West Virginian Georgian mansion of Wappocomo were manufactured in England and used as ballast to stabilize ships loading tobacco in the James River, journeying in bullock carts over the Blue Ridge Mountains and Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.

The surge in first-quarter luxury retail sales indicate that post-holiday consumer confidence is higher than analysts previously estimated.

A new law proposed by privacy advocates would increase the amount of tint that carmakers have been allowed to build into the windows of their vehicles.

An experimental psychology study asserts that babies who are still too young to talk and estimated at as young as 9 to 10 months old are able to recognize signs of friendship or animosity between adults.

Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are subterfuge for discrimination, the academic peers of the professor under review are better equipped to evaluate the contributions and performance of their colleague in the review of potential termination due to neglect of duty.

Wetlands contribute to the stability of the environment in multiple ways, preventing flooding by holding water, filtering and purifying surface water, and, surprisingly, release vegetative matter which helps feed fish in the rivers.

Released in 1970, the creators of MASH were two Academy Award nominees, Robert Altman, who would go on to direct The Player, and director Ingo Preminger.

Mixture A of spices is 60 percent parsley and 40 percent oregano by weight. Mixture B of spices is 25 percent parsley and 75 percent thyme. If a mixture of A and B contains 35 percent parsley, approximately what percent of the weight of the mixture is A?

If $a=-0.5$, then each of the following must be true EXCEPT.