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Video: Dog Has Own Twitter Account
Meet Bond - James Bond. When he's not sniffing out the neighborhood - he's sitting on the porch tweeting about his day. Michelle Paynter reports.
Number of PhDs trained in Brazil on the rise
A study reveals that Brazil is achieving a significant increase in PhD candidates trained and employed in the country, but much remains to be done.
Language as a window into sociability
People with Williams syndrome -- known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers -- process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders -- characterized by social withdrawal...
M.A.D. 2.0
M.A.D. 2.0 The greatest fear of mankind after World War 2 was the real possibility of a World War 3. It was a rational fear of a very real threat: the global...
And They Keep Running
On Friday evening I was in Tesero, where a crowd of 150 interested laypersons attended my talk on particle physics, organized by the very active Gruppo Astrofili Fiemme. There, among...
Essay: Business Journalism’s Image Problem
We aren’t all dashing muckrakers like Stieg Larsson’s Mikael Blomkvist. But untangling the financial crisis isn’t just about catching bad guys.
10 Things Every Man Should Know about a Woman's Brain
Women's intuition is real and they really are turned off at the flip of a switch. Here's what else guys should know about a gal's noggin.
Soaring Teen Unemployment Could Have Lifetime Effects
Thanks to dismal employment prospects and modern stress, teenagers today have reason to angst.
Relative Risks And Why Anecdotes Can Be Lousy For Making Decisions
Fear blinds us, immobilizes us, and makes fools of us. Scary stories abound on the internet, through emails, and in conversations, and dangers lurk in the dusty corners waiting to...
Book Review - Book of Days - Personal Essays - By Emily Fox Gordon
The author of two memoirs, including “Mockingbird Years,” questions the honesty of the enterprise.
Cultural Studies: The Littlest Redshirts: Postponing Kindergarten
Should parents postpone a child’s entrance into kindergarten by one year to give him more time to mature?
Nuns donate their brains to Alzheimer's research
By taking yearly tests and giving their brains to science after they die, members of religious orders help doctors understand more about the disease.Catholic nuns are known for their acts...
Some Fear Armstrong Inquiry Will Taint Charity
As a federal investigation into doping takes shape, some fear the effect on the reputation of Lance Armstrong and his charity-related activities.
The Twitter Diet
When The New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter wanted to lose weight, he asked for help and support from a surprising place: Twitter.
The Language Barrier Attacked (2 – Eigen)
When I was in my late teens, my father (a chemical engineer) took an interest in quantum mechanics. Two words from his conversation at that time stuck in my mind,...
Are exams getting easier? Nobody knows | Ben Goldacre
For all the controversy about the ability of our children, there is a paucity of research on the subjectPass rates are at 98%. A quarter of grades awarded were A or higher....
Stopping crime before it starts
Sophisticated analysis of data can sometimes tell police where criminals are headed. It's academic now, but the LAPD plans to get involved.The future of crime fighting begins with a story...
Later school start times and Zzzs to A's
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that growing bodies benefit from more sleep. When districts push back the start of the school day, good things happen.As summer winds down, another...
Twitter helps P.E.I. parents save toddler
Twitter helped a P.E.I. couple confirm that the berries their young daughter had eaten were poisonous.
Poll: TVs, land line phones less popular
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Many Americans are abandoning televisions and land line telephones, once fixtures in every household, considering them unnecessary, a U.S. poll indicates. ...
NASA: Pick shuttle wake-up tunes or write your own
(AP) -- Now's your chance to help pick astronauts' wake-up music.
Facebook grabs Hot Potato mobile check-in startup
Facebook has grabbed Hot Potato, a young Internet firm that lets people use smartphones to let friends know what they are up to at any given moment.
Minister seeks sermon ideas on YouTube
An Ontario minister is using YouTube to ask people who don't go to church for sermon topics.
Drug addicts get hooked via prescriptions, keep using 'to feel like a better person,' research shows
If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted. Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told...
Africans text message to check if drugs are real
By MARIA CHENG 2010-08-20T18:35:24Z LONDON (AP) -- For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they've bought are real, there...
Female sexual offenders: Unrecognized and underreported
Sexual offenses committed by women, while often unrecognised and underreported, have become the subject of a new book by a University of Montreal professor. Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and...
'Classroom Of The Future' Gets A Summit - In A Dictatorship
Education experts are going to have input into a 'classroom of the future' at a forthcoming summit in Bahrain. read more
UCD scientists no 1 hot paper in Nature Medicine
A paper led by UCD scientists is currently the No 1 Hot Paper in Nature Medicine, according to Thompson Reuters. The paper has been cited almost 3 times more than...