Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics. In the community, most MRSA infections are skin infections. In medical facilities, MRSA causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections.
Founded in 1972, the Society for Community Organization (SoCO) in Hong Kong recently released this series of startling photographs that show the cramped living conditions of residents by shooting entire ‘apartments’ from above. While the use...
Sonia King was just 10-years-old when her father, a Dallas jewelry wholesaler, photographed the sun-splashed, cheerful scene in Dealey Plaza mere minutes before President John Kennedy was assassinated. After sitting in storage for more than 45 years, her father’s pictures now appear in TIME, seeing the light of day for the first time in five decades. King recently shared the story behind the previously unpublished photos that mark the end of Camelot which you can read on TIME.com.
Can we accurately describe light as exclusively a wave or just a particle? Are the two mutually exclusive? In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality...
Before the former Soviet Union brok into parts, it was home to many interensting examples of architecture. Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig spent 12 years traveling across the former Soviet Union in search for unusual looking bus stops....
While everyone is familiar with Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and New Year, there are numerous less than famous holidays celebrated every single day in some part of the world. As you may expect, most of the time the celebration is relatively straight forward. People eat, they drink, and they dance. Sometimes however, things get a little hairy. Whether it involves feeding starving monkeys or drenching yourself and smashed tomatoes, these are the 25 strangest holidays that people actually celebrate.