Experts In The News
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is still compiling results from its recent five-day sale, but early indications are beginning to show how successful the promotion may have been.
The human brain has an incredible ability to adapt itself by breaking old habits and ideas to form new ones. Our brains are made up of billions of neurons, and we learn behaviors by creating pathways between them. When we have a habit — like smoking — we repeat the action so often that these neural pathways are strengthened, making them automatic behaviors that are difficult to break.
Housing in Las Vegas has become increasingly unaffordable over the past two decades, according to Prof. Nicholas Irwin, research director at the UNLV Lied Center for Real Estate.
Once a familiar sight in American lunchboxes, olive loaf, a processed deli meat studded with green olives and red pimentos, has nearly disappeared from shelves.
Most days are quiet in Armenia’s sleepy southern province of Syunik. The same cannot be said for the centuries. Caught up in battles involving Turks, Russians, Persians, Mongols and Azerbaijanis, it lies on one of the most contested parts of the geopolitical faultline in the Caucasus. For some, this marks where Europe ends and the East begins. The question now is whether a new deal secured by U.S. President Donald Trump can bring lasting peace after the most recent decades of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
People all around the world have heard of the Las Vegas Strip, but very few know how the four-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard got its name. Legend traces the moniker back to the city’s earliest days and gives a shady former cop the credit.
Daughter says a mysterious hospitalization and lack of information about her father’s whereabouts are problematic.
When Herriot Tabuteau launched his drug development company, Axsome Therapeutics, in 2012, he decided to do things differently by focusing on treatments for brain disorders that are particularly challenging to develop. Now, he’s sitting on a $6 billion empire, according to Forbes.
