Somewhere between the elevator and the first cup of lobby coffee, every traveler joins a temporary society: the hotel breakfast buffet, where strangers in various stages of consciousness negotiate shared…
How many days a country stops working says a lot about it — its religious makeup, its history, its attitude toward rest, and how many different traditions it formally recognizes.…
Life expectancy — the average number of years a person born today can expect to live — is one of the most revealing statistics about a country, reflecting its healthcare,…
Every Saturday morning in summer, a temporary town springs up in a parking lot or town square — rows of tents, tables of just-picked produce, a few thousand shoppers, and…
Every July 22, World Brain Day invites the planet to appreciate the organ doing the appreciating — a globe of tissue that generates every thought, memory, and daydream you've ever…
Every July 22 since 2014, the World Federation of Neurology has marked World Brain Day — a global awareness date celebrating the most complicated object known to exist, which happens…