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Obese people regain weight after dieting due to hormones
Obese people may regain weight after dieting due to hormonal changes, a University of Melbourne and Austin Health study has shown. The study was published in the New England Journal...
Gender differences: Viewing TV coverage of terrorism has more negative effect on women, study finds
Exposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness. This has been shown in a new...
Joking, pretending with toddlers gives them head start in life skills
Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills. Most parents are naturals at playing the fool with their...
Curiosity is critical to academic performance
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's good for the student. Personality traits like curiosity seem to be as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in...
South Tel Aviv school is a model for language intervention
Bialik-Rogozin, a school in South Tel Aviv with an underprivileged student body hailing from 48 different countries, is the subject of the 2011 Oscar-winning documentary short Strangers No More. But...
Your Phone as Friend: Monitoring Mental Health from Your Pocket
Your smartphone knows where you go and how fast, while its microphone hears your voice. Soon, your phone may measure your stress ... and help you to deal with it.
The error-correcting brain: New insights into the neurobiology of adaptive behavior
(Medical Xpress) -- A key phenomenon studied by neuroscientists is the brains ability to recognize errors when they occur, link them to the associated behavior, and apply those errors in...
Guides on the undergraduate quest
Caleb Thompson ’14 came to Harvard with an open mind. He left his home in the United Kingdom for a liberal arts education that would give him the freedom to explore the...
The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by three Harvard faculty members, including Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and featuring essays by University faculty including Jonathan Losos, Steven Pinker, Werner Sollors, and others, this...
Forces beyond nations
In February, Jason Beckfield was named a full professor of sociology at Harvard, where he had labored in the junior faculty trenches for five years. “It was a relief you cannot imagine,”...
A Look Inside: Lowell House
Constructed in 1930, Lowell House was named for the Lowell family, closely identified with Harvard since John Lowell graduated in 1721. Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-33) instituted the House system, tutorials, subject...
Disneyland Awards Grant to UCLA's TIES for Families Program
The Disneyland Resort Cast Community Fund has awarded a $5,000 grant to UCLA's TIES (Training, Intervention, Education and Services) for Families program for its services and achievement. The UCLA-based...
It's written all over their faces
(Medical Xpress) -- Women with feminine looking faces are more likely to want a brood of children, according to the latest research.
Government needs to listen up on hearing aids
(Medical Xpress) -- Evidence is mounting of an aggressive campaign by private providers to push hearing aids onto people who are not psychologically ready for them, according to an Australian...
Preschoolers understand threats in households with violence
(PhysOrg.com) -- Preschoolersers are aware and understand threats when they see their mother harmed by violent conflicts at home, a new University of Michigan study finds.
Tissue-bank shortage: Brain child
Tissue-bank shortage: Brain childNature 478, 442 26102011 doi: 10.1038/478442aAlison AbbottAsking parents to donate a child's brain to research is emotionally fraught. Some researchers say that it is time to put...
The Divided Brain [video] | @GrrlScientist | Punctuated Equilibrium
The Left Hemisphere versus the Right Hemisphere; everyone knows the brain is divided in two halves. But does that affect human behaviour, culture and society?Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and a writer. In...
Well Blog: Doctor and Patient: Mindfulness Lessons
Mindfulness, or being fully present and attentive to the moment, not only improves the way doctors engage with patients but also mitigates the stresses of clinical practice.
Brazil leads Latin American ranking of universities
A new ranking of regional universities shows that Brazil produces the largest number both of publications and of academics with doctoral degrees.
Paul D. Clement’s Latest High-Profile Cases
Paul D. Clement, who has appeared before the Supreme Court 49 times, for the government and against, is likely to add one more case — the challenge to the health...
OPINION: Feel manipulated? Anxious? Tune out the hype and learn to love your body
Women of all ages need skills to cope with unrealistic body images that are shown in mainstream media, Susan J Paxton writes.
Alien abductions may be vivid dreams: study
Researchers say they have conducted "the first experiment to ever prove that close encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrials are a product of the human mind." In a sleep study by...
Religious, spiritual support benefits men and women facing chronic illness, study finds
Individuals who practice religion and spirituality report better physical and mental health than those who do not. To better understand this relationship and how spirituality/religion can be used for coping...
Dudley gala
Harvard’s Dudley House, the center of student life at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), is also a home, complete with a mother, a father, a favorite aunt, a place...
A Boston school turnaround
Fourth-grader Rashad Brown Mitchell and third-grader Naia Walter are proud of their school. As its ambassadors, they get to show off the E. Greenwood Leadership Academy to visitors. And they aren’t shy about...
Occupy London empty tent claims based on 'rubbish science'
Scientist specialising in camouflage said photographers with thermal imaging equipment were not using right camera settingsClaims that one in 10 tents at Occupy London remain empty overnight are based on "rubbish science", a...
Online movies luring viewers away from primetime TV
Services allowing North Americans to watch movies and television shows over the Internet is luring droves of viewers away from primetime television, a report showed Wednesday.
Computer-delivered intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy
A team of researchers at Wayne State University's Parent Health Lab in the School of Medicine have received a three-year grant to develop a computer-delivered intervention for pregnant women at...