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How Much Should You Tip Your Hairdresser?

Have a hair appointment soon? Make sure you know the proper tipping etiquette for hairdressers, such as if a tip is expected and how much to tip.

Dr. Lanita White Named CEO of Community Health Centers of Arkansas

She currently works at UAMS as dean for student affairs and associate professor at the College of Pharmacy.

Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE Incremental Refresh

Posted On: Oct 26, 2021
Amazon QuickSight announced the availability of Incremental Refresh, a feature in Amazon QuickSight that supports incrementally loading new data to SPICE data sets without needing to refresh the full set of data. SPICE is QuickSight's Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine
Previously, QuickSight customers could only have full refresh of SPICE data sets that can take hours to reload all the data…

Do You See a Duck or a Bunny? The Answer Is Quite Telling

And if you can flip between seeing both, that's great news.

Firefighters Are Warning People To Never, Ever Leave Bottled Water In Your Car

How to Travel With a Big Group and Not Go Crazy

From decadent bro-downs to wholesome trips with family, more people are traveling in groups. Here’s how to ensure the result is harmony—not warfare.

This Infectious Video of a Farmer Dancing In His Barn Is Going Mega-Viral

We're in awe of this man's moves—and his uplifting message.

Human Effects UX Researcher , Human Effects

Job summaryAlexa is Amazon’s voice-first AI present in over 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. As devices continue to integrate more deeply into our lives, Alexa Human Effects (HFX) seeks to raise the bar of what is considered a compelling customer experience. We are a paradigm-changing, generative practice that investigates intrinsic anatomical, biomechanical, neurological, perceptual, and cultural parameters, and codifies this intelligence into Alexa hardware, software, and wetware.As…

Researching how horses help humans

For the decades, horses have helped people recover from physical, mental and emotional challenges. Hippotherapy—the use of equine movement in physical,

Human-animal hybrid research raises hopes and concerns

Scientists say cross-species embryos could lead to breakthroughs that save countless lives, but new advances in the field raise major ethical questions.

Another human case of rat hepatitis reported, surprising researchers

Researchers find a second patient who contracted a strain of hepatitis carried by rats, in what appears to be the first known human cases in the world

Why are researchers growing human protein in hens' eggs?

Chicken eggs have uses outside of the kitchen, most notably in clinical research. Recently, scientists have been using them to produce human proteins.

Researchers explain why that picture of monkeys turning into humans is wrong

Evolution explains how all living beings, including us, came to be. It would be easy to assume evolution works by continuously adding features to organisms, constantly increasing their complexity. Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Some dinosaurs evolved wings and began to fly. Others evolved wombs and began to give birth to …

Researchers Think They Have Discovered Why Humans Hiccup

The study, which looked at brain activity among newborns, suggests the body function helps in early development to regulate breathing

Research reveals how humans develop echolocation skills

Ongoing research in Sweden reveals that when navigating by echolocation, as blind people do, our powers of hearing can be used in ways we never realized.

Research Explains Why Humans Find Kittens So Cute

Kittens are adorable, but researchers now have a good idea of just why humans find them so darned cute.

Heat On White House To Scrap Redo Of Human Research Rules

The Obama administration's controversial proposal to revise human research rules is flawed and should be scrapped, says a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Researchers say kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans

SYDNEY – Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans similar to how domesticated dogs do, by using their gaze to “point” and ask for help, researchers said in a study published on Wednesda…

Kangaroos Can Learn To Communicate With Humans, Researchers Say

The communication is similar to how domesticated dogs use their gaze to “point” and ask for help.