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Workplace wellness plan saves money over the long-term, new study shows
A Midwest utility company learned firsthand that it pays to keep healthy employees fit, reaping a net savings of $4.8 million in employee health and lost work time costs over...
Online Searches for Cameron Diaz Puts Your Computer at Risk
Searching for Cameron Diaz online carries a one-in-ten chance of landing on a website with malicious software.
NASA Recruits Singer Mary J. Blige to Inspire Young Women
The R&B singer hopes to encourage women to pursue careers in science.
Maslow Updated: Reworking of the famous psychological pyramid of needs puts parenting at the top
Caring for your children, feeding them, nurturing them, educating them and making sure they get off on the right foot in life -- all of the things that make parenting...
Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to attention problems
Children who were exposed to organophosphate pesticides while still in their mother's womb were more likely to develop attention disorders years later, according to a new study by researchers at...
Jewish schools are not a faith school 'menace' | Karen Glaser
My local Jewish primary is multicultural and academically excellent and shows Dawkins is wrong about faith schoolsWhen my dad heard Richard Dawkins was interviewing me for last night's Channel 4 documentary Faith School...
Crocodile Harry 'to pick poll win' in Australian election
A crocodile in Australia is to give a snap prediction for this weekend's election, mimicking Paul the Octopus' World Cup football feats.
Researchers challenge myth of the well-adjusted Asian-American
Two University at Buffalo researchers are challenging the 'myth of the well-adjusted Asian American,' detailing how members of one of the country's fastest-growing ethnic groups face crucial disadvantages preventing them...
For teens, early sex and media exposure not linked
The prevalence of sex in the mainstream media has led many researchers to study its effect on impressionable adolescents. Several published, peer-reviewed studies have indicated that there is a link...
Dawkins is wrong: religion doesn't blinker children | Erfana Bora
Kids are bright. We owe it to them to teach all the alternatives of man's origins and let them work it out for themselvesRichard Dawkins's latest media foray highlights the alleged indoctrination of...
6-year-olds with squint less likely to be invited to birthday parties
Strabismus and discrimination in children: Are children with strabismus invited to fewer birthday parties?...
Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year 2010
A first glimpse of entries to the BBC Wildlife magazine's classic photo competition• In pictures: last year's winners• In pictures: last year's runners-upBBC Wildlife magazine has put out its first sneak peak at...
American Students Struggle for U.S. Grad School Slots Against Foreign-Born Applicants
U.S. students had a much harder time getting into American graduate schools this past...
National Briefing | Health Care: Insurers Feeling Pain of Dog Bites
Dog bites cost American home insurers 6.4 percent more in 2009 than in the previous year, with the average claim exceeding $24,000 for the third straight year, an industry group...
Study Shows that Women's Compassion for Others Benefits the Self
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dalai Lama holds that compassion -- concern for the well-being of others -- leads to happiness. Now a new study has found that compassion may also have...
Freedom to Report From War Zone Not Always Closely Controlled
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most journalists embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq say the government has not controlled their reporting, even while violence escalated mid-way through the war, according to...
Integrity In History Of Science
It may surprise those who know of my Ulster Protestant background that I am something of a fan of Flannery O’Connor. As yet, I have not delved into her novels,...
Women's Suffrage Anniversary: Which Countries Led the Way?
Today marks the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States.
The rich have more money but the poor are rich in heart: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic...
Ex-Alta. official charged with fraud in Manitoba
Former Alberta bureaucrat Lloyd Carr now faces charges in Manitoba in relation to his employment with a regional health authority in Flin Flon.
People with 'fused' identities are willing to die for their social group
People who are 'fused' with a group - a bond even stronger than group identification - will take extreme actions to protect other group members, but not outsiders, conclude researchers...
Early life influences risk for psychiatric disorders
For more than a century, clinical investigators have focused on early life as a source of adult psychopathology. Although the hypothesised mechanisms have evolved, a central notion remains: early life...
Overweight American children and adolescents becoming fatter
Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to a new study that found adiposity shifts across sociodemographic groups over time and found US children...
President's Choice cookies recalled
Loblaws has issued a recall on some of its President's Choice cookies because they may contain small, round pieces of metal.
Pedantic Semantic: Or, I Do Not Think This Word Means What You Think It Does
Semantic: "of, pertaining to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion." Pedantic: "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching." read more
Brains of Introverts Reveal Why They Prefer Being Alone
A new study may help explain why extroverts are more motivated to seek the company of others than are introverts.
Ask an Elder Law Attorney: Claiming a Parent as a Dependent
Craig Reaves, an attorney, answers a reader's question about who qualifies as a dependent for tax purposes.
The Twit-election: It's the conversation, stupid
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to Saturday's federal election in Australia, Twitter users are clear: politicians who spend time in conversation get most out of the platform, and the Greens...