The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is naming Angela Brady as interim director of the Seattle Department of Transportation. Brady, who for over a decade has been a key player in the development and ...

If you’re just finding out about the Kivin method, you’re not alone. For an oral sex hack that’s apparently ground-breaking, it’s still somewhat underground. But while this technique may be lesser ...

Managing your inbox is a never-ending task, which is why we should seek to simplify it as much as possible. When emails pile up, you start overthinking what you need to do—I know I do, anyway. But if ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

Getting good sleep is critical. A 2018 study found that people who sleep for five to six hours are 19 percent less productive than people who regularly sleep for seven to eight hours per night. People ...

Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an ...

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Herpesvirus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Herpesviridae that causes latent and lytic infections in a wide range of animals and humans. There are 8 herpesvirus types currently ...