For today’s Good Question, Alvin asks: Tornadoes are classified as EF 1, 2, 3, and ect. What does EF and the number mean? The EF stands for Enhanced Fujita. That’s because the original Fujita Scale ...

The Jewish community is very divided on Israel and Occupied Palestine. Many Jewish people are against the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank because of our belief in human rights and international ...

In 2023, an annual awareness campaign on dry eye disease was launched in Italy in collaboration with 400 ophthalmology ...

Ohio was once simply O.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Jerry Tsai and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

The Q in LGBTQ+ stands for queer or questioning. Here's what that means and why the community has reclaimed it since its ...

“The G was always first, but he transposed the next two letters, resulting in an acronym with a rather different usage in Glasgow…” There was a time when former Scottish footy star Duncan ...

Since debuting for the 1990 model year, Lexus cars have traditionally featured two-letter model names such as ES, LS, SC, RX, GX, and LX. However, following its introduction in October 2009 ...

Acronyms are pronounced like words (e.g., NATO, FEMA, NASA), and initialisms are the composite of their individual letters (e.g., FBI ... to "a maximum of two a page." Obviously, plain language ...

The widely used FAST acronym remains the best tool for helping ... “something might be lost” by adding the two extra letters to FAST, said Adeoye. The study’s findings suggest that FAST ...

yet remained significantly increased compared to baseline with no difference between the two acronym groups. Participants' ability to recall what symptoms the common letters F, A and S represent ...

These days, the talks are predominantly about several two-letter acronyms—namely AI, UI, and UX—that aim to make the content transformation process easier and faster and to create intuitive ...