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Speech Patterns Expose Psychopaths
Psychopaths may be cunning and manipulative, but how they speak can be revealing.
White children far more likely to receive CT scans than Hispanic, African-American children
White children are far more likely to receive cranial computed tomography (CT) scans in an emergency department following minor head trauma than are African-American or Hispanic children, a study by...
Cookstove revolutionaries failing to measure their impact
There are research gaps in assessing whether clean cookstoves have the desired health effects, say researchers.
How to punish corporate wrongdoers to deter bad behavior
If courts were able to award appropriate punitive damages that punish wrongdoers at a level tied to a company's financial worth, then businesses big and small would be at risk...
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Differing structures underlie differing brain rhythms in healthy and ill, virtual modeling reveals
Virtual brains modeling epilepsy and schizophrenia display less complexity among functional connections, and other differences compared to healthy brain models, researchers report. The researchers worked backward from brain rhythms --...
Dethinking The Unpossible
Dethinking The UnpossibleA closed mind is totally incapable of being shown real world facts. Lead a person with a closed mind step by step through a very logical process; show...
Steve Jobs' Death And The Meaning Of Life
by Michael W. TaftOn October 5th, Steve Jobs died. At first I was surprised at how choked up I got at his death—it’s not like I ever met him—until I...
Will asking a question get your science paper cited more? | Ben Goldacre
Lots of stuff other than content can influence why scientific papers are cited by academicsIn an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis...
Wi-Fi in Vancouver schools concerns parents
Parents of elementary students in Vancouver say they want their voices heard when it comes to installing wireless internet service at their children's schools.
Universities around the world prepare to welcome an influx of Brazilian students
Brazil plans to boost scientific knowhow by sending 75,000 students abroad to study
Email link to boys' popularity
Surveyed boys who used email at home were brighter and more popular than boys who did not according to a recent study by an educational psychologist from Curtin University.
Study supports students not repeating a school year
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by the University of Sydney's Professor Andrew Martin, published in this month's issue of the British Educational Research Journal, makes new findings of better outcomes for...
Advertising goes to the dogs
Nestle Purinas latest commercial for its Beneful dog food, aimed directly at canines by using high-frequency noises inaudible to humans, should serve to increase the bond owners feel with their...
Trust and Confidence in the Mass Media (Infographic)
GoFigure examines Americans' trust in the mass media, which declined sharply in the past decade.
Brilliant 10: The Robot Trainer
Crowdsourcing will help robots learn complex tasks the same way children do As an Atari-addicted kid, all Chad Jenkins wanted was to someday become a videogame designer. But once he got to...
Brain scans reveal drugs' effects on attention
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have developed a way to evaluate new treatments for some forms of attention deficit disorder.
Trade Group's About-Face On BPA
American Chemistry Council asks FDA to ban bisphenol A in baby bottles and sippy cups.
China mulls microblog limits before party meeting
(AP) -- China's Communist Party is preparing for its biggest policy meeting of the year by ratcheting up pressure on social media sites that have fast become forums for...
BlackBerry blackout is new threat to brand
The longest BlackBerry outage in many years left customers outraged this week, threatening to cost the granddaddy of all smartphones more business when it's already struggling to keep up in...
Hashtag debate unfolds in Saskatchewan
An election campaign is underway and some political junkies have been involved in an intense debate — about hashtags.
Women, men and the bedroom
(Medical Xpress) -- In the racy television hit show, Sex and the City, Carrie, one of the main characters tells her best girlfriends that "Men who are too good looking...
Religion's truce with science can't hold | Julian Baggini
Any religious belief seeking to explain the 'how's of the universe is competing with science – and in this sphere science will always winOne of the most tedious recurring questions in the...
Zakaria named Commencement speaker
Fareed Zakaria, a Harvard alumnus whose insights into the power shifts setting the stage for a new global era have made him a celebrated thought leader on international affairs, will be the principal...
'Never married' men still more likely to die from cancer
It is known that the unmarried are in general more likely to die than their married counterparts and there is some indication that the divide is in fact getting worse....
Ministers 'fail on green pledges'
Nature groups say ministers are failing to keep their wildlife pledges, claiming just two out of 16 made by the government have been honoured.
Gropers Are Different Than Rapists, Experts Say
A series of sex attacks in Brooklyn may be the work of more than one person.
Ruling Offers Hope to Eating Disorder Sufferers
People with eating disorders like anorexia are fighting insurers to pay for stays in residential treatment centers, an issue that is being considered by an appeals court in California.