Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

| By Barbara Wexler, MPH | Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder, a type of depression that usually occurs during specific seasons, most often beginning in late fall or winter as the days get shorter and there’s less daylight. It sometimes coincides with the time change from daylight saving time to standard time, … Read more

Head to the Movies with Gale In Context

| By Carol Brennan | This December promises to be an exciting one for moviegoers of all ages, and Gale In Context: Biography is a tremendous resource for discovering more about the stars and creative professionals behind some notable releases. The animated feature Moana 2 hit theaters in late November 2024, just in time for … Read more

Physics and Chemistry Underpinning AI-Related Nobel Prizes

| By Gale Staff | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for advances related to the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Geoffrey E. Hinton, a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, shared the physics award with Princeton professor John J. Hopfield for, as … Read more

New Titles for Gale OneFile, November 2024

| By Gale Staff | Gale Academic OneFile Gale General OneFile Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine Gale OneFile: High School Edition Gale OneFile: News Gale OneFile: Informe Académico

Understanding Epilepsy

| By Barbara Wexler, MPH | Epilepsy is a chronic (long-term) neurological disorder where people have repeated seizures because of unusual or abnormal electrical activity in the brain. These seizures can show up in many different ways, from nearly imperceptible moments of zoning out to intense shaking and severe convulsions. There are many different potential … Read more

Schrödinger’s Cat: A “Purr-fect” Thought Experiment

| By K. Lee Lerner| Made popular by a million memes, the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment (also called the Schrödinger’s cat paradox), devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961). In 1935, was designed to illustrate the often bizarre implications of quantum mechanics (specifically, superposition and the concept of quantum measurement). Analogous to a radioactive atom … Read more