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Carl Wieman's Interactive Learning A Success Even In Larger Physics Classes
In 2009, Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman published a series of articles here at Science 2.0 with ways to improve science education (see Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science...
African Americans and the general public support banning menthol in cigarettes
A majority of Americans, including most African Americans, stand together in support of banning menthol in cigarettes just as other cigarette flavorings have now been banned by the FDA.
Risking one's neck for better grog: Mutinies reveal tipping points for collective unrest
Films depicting the 1787 mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty show sailors living cheek by jowl, being forced to dance, enduring storm-ridden Cape of Good Hope crossings to satisfy the ship...
Cellphone effects on body studied
BERNE, Switzerland, May 12 (UPI) -- Cellphone radiation can affect biological processes but there's no evidence linking everyday exposure to health problems, Swiss researchers say.
Ewes can mitigate adverse experiences in their lambs, Norwegian study finds
Lambs are likely to encounter a number of adverse events, starting from the fetal stage. In rodents and humans, it was shown that the mother can mitigate the effects of...
Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class
Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a new study.
Improving the Science of Teaching Science
A study explores improving classroom instruction, using research-backed methods for testing students’ understanding as well as how science is taught.
Who's your favourite TV psychotherapist?
Meet television's Hippocratic Oafs, the media shrinks who are messing with your mindsVienna, between the wars, and Sigmund Freud opines: "However much the analyst may become tempted to become a teacher, model and...
Kicking leukemia gives teen a better sense of self
Katelin Ivison awoke on her 14th birthday, Jan. 13, 2010, with a sore throat. She and her mother Adella had fun plans to go shopping and out to dinner to...
Too much heat, not enough light in the creationism war | Mark Vernon
The near hysterical way in which intelligent design is treated online only suits those who seek to politicise evolutionThe most dismaying feature of the rise of creationism and intelligent design (ID) in the...
Successful first test drive of 'sighted' wheelchair
Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it's environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has just been tested. One of the researchers, himself visually...
Expectant fathers should receive prenatal care, support, study finds
Researchers have found that stress related to pregnancy uniquely affects the health of expectant fathers, which in turn, influences the health of expectant mothers and their infants. Health services should...
iRobot planning an Android-based robot
(PhysOrg.com) -- iRobot is working on robots that have the brains of an Android tablet. The goal is an Android-based tablet that is able to see the world around it,...
Careful design is key to success of development prizes
Prizes for innovation must be used carefully to ensure that poor people in developing countries are the real winners, says Matthew Harsh.
Parenting in context
In her Fellows’ Presentation, Nancy E. Hill, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, attempted to do what she herself acknowledged is almost impossible. That is, step outside one’s own cultural...
Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest
As they set up households of their own, the grown children of hoarders find that they have a complex relationship with stuff.
Review ordered into N.B. e-health contracts
Health Minister Madeleine Dubé has ordered an independent review into the more than 300 contracts awarded in the creation of the e-health system after an internal audit discovered potential conflicts...
Where money meets politics
James M. Snyder Jr., Harvard’s newest professor of government and an economist by trade, is one of a handful of experts unraveling the enduring puzzle of American elections: how they unfold, and...
Athlete for life
The peregrine falcon can reach a speed of more than 200 miles per hour. The legendary cheetah can reach 70. We mere humans can hit 27 mph, and if anyone could accomplish...
The Aging Intellect
In this important book, Douglas H. Powell, a clinical instructor in psychology, discusses lifestyle habits and attitudes linked to cognitive aging, and provides evidence-based strategies to minimize mental decline.
Hail fellows, well met
Some of the most coveted spots on campus this spring aren’t in Harvard College. They’re as Harvard College Fellows. Since 2009, these teaching-focused postdoctoral positions have proven a boon to Harvard students, to...
Truth, beauty, goodness
In his own words, Howard Gardner is a pessimist who tries to live like an optimist. But the ever-prolific Gardner remains upbeat in his latest book, “Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed,” a contemporary...
Reinhold Brinkmann
Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music...
The battle of the butts
To Professor Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health, estimates that smoking may be banned in the United States by 2050 aren’t good enough. “I want to see the last...
Video: Facebook restoring Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indianapolis, Ind. had his Facebook account deleted. But his page is being put back up. Jeff Glor reports.
Listen out for jokes, anecdotes and secrets – they're science writing gold
Some of the best science stories materialise when you've asked all your pre-prepared questions and your voice recorder has been turned off, says Angela SainiI once wrote a story about a roomful...
Psychologists discover we've been underestimating the unconscious mind
(Medical Xpress) -- What does consciousness do? Theories vary, but most neurologists and cognitive psychologists agree that we need awareness for integration. That is, unconscious processing can take in one...
Well: Our Health and the Luck of the Draw
We like to think of medicine as a rational science, and that our attention to our lives and our bodies pays off in reasonably predictable ways. But our health and...