The Offspring was formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1984. It’s very cool that a group of high school friends woudl find such success, having released ten studio albums to date. The Offspring achieved significant commercial success in the 1990s, with albums like Smash (1994) and Americana (1998) achieving multi-platinum status. Over the years, the band has seen several lineup changes, with Dexter Holland and Noodles being the longest-serving members. Their music has frequently appeared on the Billboard charts, and they have received numerous awards, including the Billboard Music Award for Modern Rock Track of the Year for “Come Out The post Complete List Of Offspring Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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This week, the “near-collapse” of Earth’s magnetic field 590 million years ago may have helped complex life form, rock art depicting cows suggests the Sahara was a very different place 4,000 years ago, and could psychedelic toad venom be the next big thing in antidepressants? Finally, we consider the dinosauroid and explore how dinosaurs may have evolved if Chicxulub had never hit Earth.Subscribe to the IFLScience newsletter for all the biggest science news delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday and Saturday. Sperm Whale “Phonetic Alphabet” Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human LanguageCetaceans have long been famous for their communication abilities, from the impressive clicks and whistles of dolphins to the magical sound of humpback whale song. Sperm whales have been known to communicate too, and new research has made a big leap forward in understanding the structure of their vocalizations. Read the full story hereWhy Has AstraZeneca Taken Its COVID-19 Vaccine Off The Market? Here's What To KnowNearly 3.5 years after it received its first approval for use, the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is set to be withdrawn worldwide. It’s a headline that’ll certainly be an attention-grabber – the vaccine has gained a bit of a reputation in its time, after all – but what’s the reason behind it being discontinued? It's not as scandalous as some might suggest. Read the full story hereEarth's Magnetic Field's "Near-Collapse" 590 Million Years Ago May Have Helped Complex LifeThe Earth's magnetic field has changed direction many times over millions of years, sometimes accompanied by temporary weakening. A much longer period in which the field diminished took place between 591 and 565 million years ago. Shortly after, the first fossils of complex animals appear in the geologic record. A new study suggests it might be that weakening that made this possible, despite the apparent contradiction with the field's role in making life possible. Read the full story hereNewly Discovered Rock Art Shows The Sahara Was A Radically Different Place 4,000 Years AgoWritten on the walls of sites in the Atbai Desert in Eastern Sudan, prehistoric rock art tells the story of a very distant past. While the region today is achingly arid, the artwork implies it was once a lush, green land filled with water, pastures, and animal life. Read the full story hereCould This Toad’s Psychedelic Venom Be The Next Big Thing In Antidepressants?Behold the Colorado River toad. Also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, these bulbous fellas pack a psychedelic punch just below the surface. Their venom, which they can secrete through glands on their skin, contains a hallucinogenic compound, which the scientists behind a new study say could be a potent antidepressant. Read the full story hereTWIS is published weekly on our Linkedin page, join us there for even more content.Feature of the week: If Dinosaurs Weren't Extinct, Would The Dinosauroid Walk Among Us?The dinosauroid is a hypothetical animal that’s been suggested as a possible next step for a group of carnivorous dinosaurs. Imagine a world in which Chicxulub hadn’t put an end to The Age Of Dinosaurs: would mammals have risen? Would humans exist? Or would the dinosauroids rule the day? Read the full story here More content:CURIOUS Live, our free virtual event, is back for May 2024. Register now and join us as we explore nuclear war, the connection between mental and physical health, insect detectives, and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Grab your free ticket now!Have you seen our e-magazine, CURIOUS? Issue 22 May 2024 is out now. Check it out for exclusive interviews, book excerpts, long reads, and more.PLUS, the entire season 3 of IFLScience's The Big Questions Podcast is available now.

A lot of people (IFLScience included) rely on Wi-Fi every single day, for our jobs, accessing the news, accidentally spending three hours on TikTok – and we can now do so in more places than ever before. But while it might be heading towards ubiquity, how many of us actually know what the term stands for?There are definitely a few good guesses floating around. The way it’s written would indicate that it’s short for something and the most similar term to be found with that in mind is “hi-fi”, which stands for “high fidelity”. Wi-Fi must stand for “wireless fidelity” then, right?Wrong (although it’s very reasonable logic). In fact, Wi-Fi actually doesn’t mean anything at all, according to Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance.“Wi-Fi doesn't stand for anything. It is not an acronym. There is no meaning,” said Belanger.So what does it mean?It turns out that the term Wi-Fi was magicked up by marketing firm Interbrand, who were tasked with coming up with a name that would be memorable to everyone. After all, the technical term for it was IEEE 802.11 – all well and good if you know what technical standards are, but not exactly the catchiest name in the world.Interbrand brought the Wi-Fi Alliance a list of 10 different names, but in the end, Wi-Fi was the winner. What it stood for wasn’t meant to have a direct meaning; it was more about what it would conjure up in consumers’ heads.“We proposed the name Wi-Fi, as customers told us that its similarities to the already widely understood concept, hi-fi, short for “high fidelity” helped them grasp the concept,” said Interbrand. “The name reflects that, even without cables, Wi-Fi delivers a high-quality, lossless connection wherever you go.”Why has the “wireless fidelity” myth persisted?So Wi-Fi and hi-fi sound similar and elicit similar thoughts about the products they represent, but according to Belanger, there’s more to why some people are so adamant that Wi-Fi means wireless fidelity.“The only reason that you hear anything about "Wireless Fidelity" is some of my colleagues in the group were afraid. They didn't understand branding or marketing. They could not imagine using the name "Wi-Fi" without having some sort of literal explanation,” Belanger explained. “So we compromised and agreed to include the tag line "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" along with the name.”“It was a clumsy attempt to come up with two words that matched Wi and Fi. That's it.”That tag line was later dropped by the Wi-Fi Alliance after Wi-Fi began to grow in success, but clearly it’s got some long-lasting sticking power when it comes to popular thought.

People with high levels of psychopathic personality traits may move their heads less when they’re talking than those with lower degrees of psychopathy, new research has revealed. According to the study authors, this subtle pattern of nonverbal communication had previously been identified in male psychopaths, and their findings suggest that the same tendencies also apply to women.Psychopathy is characterized by a constellation of affective deficits such as callousness and a lack of remorse, as well as dysfunctional behaviors like pathological lying and manipulation. Excessive impulsivity and irresponsibility are also frequently demonstrated by individuals who fit the label, although it can sometimes be difficult to spot a psychopath due to their ability to hide these antisocial characteristics.However, prior work has identified a number of surprising tell-tale signs in the body language of psychopaths. For example, men with high levels of psychopathy tend to use more hand gestures than those with lower scores, while short bursts of blinking have also been linked to the condition.Reduced head movement during interviews has been identified as yet another potential give-away for psychopathic men, although very little research has been conducted on women. To fill this void, the study authors filmed clinical interviews with 213 incarcerated women, during which they administered a psychopathy questionnaire in order to assess the degree to which each participant meets the criteria for this diagnosis.An automated detection algorithm was then used to monitor each woman’s head movement in every frame of video. Overall, the researchers found that women with higher psychopathy scores tended to keep their heads more still than those with lower scores.On average, participants spent 40 percent of the interview with their head within the “range of moderate movement” away from its average position. However, psychopathic women kept their head within a “range of minimal movement” away from its average position for the majority of the interview.Spending more time with one’s head within this minimal movement range was positively correlated with psychopathy scores, while time spent in the moderate range was negatively associated with the condition.Based on this observation, the study authors state that their results “help identify a unique pattern of head dynamics characteristic of women scoring high on psychopathy, specifically, exhibiting more stationary head positioning during clinical interview administration.”Noting that it can often be difficult to spot a psychopath using behavior alone, the researchers go on to explain that keeping an eye out for nonverbal cues may be “of particular importance when studying a constellation of behaviors that are inherently deceptive.”The study has been published in the journal Personality and Individual differences.

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