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Sharing Family History to Make Holidays More Meaningful
During the holidays, Wake Forest University Professor of Counseling Samuel Gladding and his family will walk through the "halls of remembrance" at their home. Hanging on the walls are...
It's Alive! Russia's Phobos-Grunt Probe Phones Home
A tracking station in Australia succeeded in contacting the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe.
Understanding the psychological science behind the debt negotiations
(Medical Xpress) -- This week, the deficit reduction supercommittee failed to reach a consensus in creating a plan to reduce the national deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. Psychological science...
Chew gum, lose weight
Most people understand that serious weight loss requires changing attitudes toward what they eat and how often they exercise. But, what if the process could be aided by simply chewing...
Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation
Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain...
Wildlife Access Critical to Children's Health
For the first time, researchers have uncovered a powerful connection between loss of access to wildlife and micronutrient deficiencies in children, according to a recently published study by the University...
Ignorance is bliss when it comes to challenging social issues
The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research.
For Some, Psychiatric Troubles May Begin With the Thyroid
Researchers are exploring a somewhat controversial link between minor, or subclinical, thyroid problems and some patients’ psychiatric difficulties.
Criminal probe into online mortgage scams widens
(AP) -- A criminal investigation into mortgage swindlers who lured their victims with deceptive online ads is widening.
How swearing got less taboo | Mark Lawson
From Strictly Come Dancing to football, there is a class of cursers who literally don't know they are swearingIf you are one of the 600 people who recently complained about the use...
Album: Who 'Penned' the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Textiles found in caves in Israel reveal a Jewish sect may have authored the religious texts.
National institute for men's health proposed
A British Columbia doctor is trying to gather support for the idea of a national institute for men's health and will be advocating for one at a meeting this week...
Use of technology-rich learning environment reveals improved retention rates
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a technology-rich learning environment in several undergraduate engineering-technology courses has improved learning and decreased withdrawals from, or failing grades...
Mapping the body: ribs
Most people have 12 pairs of ribs, which form the thoracic cage. The structure is rigid enough to protect the organs inside it but can expand when you inhaleLearning anatomy can be...
How we see family resemblance in faces
Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related. How do...
Connie Wong to talk leadership
Connie Wong, founder and managing director of CWS Associates, will present on Dec. 15 “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams,” on leading diverse teams and how to build a culture of...
New evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma 126,000 years ago
The study of a cranium of an East Asian human from the late Middle Pleistocene age from Maba, China, brings to the fore evidence that interhuman aggression and human induced...
Does hypertension affect brain capacity?
Can the course of dementias and mild cognitive impairment be influenced by diseases and risk factors? Larger numbers of people are affected by mild cognitive impairments and dementia, which means...
Financial incentives to reduce risky health behaviors?
Researchers looked at why financial incentives for patients could be a good thing to change risky health behaviors. They suggest that incentives are likely to be particularly effective at altering...
Why one in four women is on psych meds | Victoria Bekiempis
Can so many US women really be mentally ill? Perhaps some are wrongly pathologised, but there is a rational explanationAre women crazy?The world's mostly male "great thinkers" have tended to say so, characterising...
Anita Hill looks back, and ahead
She was at Harvard to discuss the themes in her new book, but audience members couldn’t resist the chance to engage with the author about her time at the center of a...
Hydrodynamics of writing with ink
For millennia, writing has been the preferred way to convey information and knowledge from one generation to another. We first developed the ability to write on clay tablets with a...
Zombie reaction returns from the dead
School children have discovered an oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction that springs back to life after five hours
Evolutionary practices in schools can benefit at-risk students
Helping at-risk high schoolers succeed in the classroom has always been difficult. Binghamton University Professor David Sloan Wilson thinks that he has a solution: design a school program that draws...
Dietary Supplements Instill Illusion of Invincibility
The bad news? There's no proof that vitamins are a magic bullet.
Neuronal filters for broadband information transmission in the brain
(Medical Xpress) -- As in broadband information technology, the nervous system transmits different messages simultaneously from one brain region to others. But how are messages retrieved at the other end...
The Puzzling Weighted Average
For you today here is a test of whether you shoud trust your intuition when confronted with an apparently simple problem. Incidentally, this article is the answer to the "Guess...
At a loss for words
Research into aphasia - the inability to speak or write well-formulated sentences and words - is strong at the UA. Researchers have received $2 million toward the study of the...