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What happens to the young and educated without a job?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the University of Oxford is looking at how young educated people who are unemployed become politicized in different ways - either through violent struggle or as reformers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Getting to the heart of the appeal of video games
People spend 3 billion hours a week playing videogames but little is known scientifically about why they are actually fun in the first place.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Why do some countries' economies grow faster?
Where do you make your academic home if your PhD is in physics, you did a postdoc at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and you’re researching macroeconomic theories that defy the conventional wisdom in ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 07, 2011 |
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'Little purple pill' is under microscope
Dr. Marcus Thygeson once wrote his patients countless prescriptions for heartburn drugs such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium -- the "little purple pills" of TV ads.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Nobel laureate worries for literature in digital age
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature, likes books printed on paper and worries that something precious may be lost in an age of ebooks and digitization.
Oct 08, 2010 |
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A genetic view of ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common mental health problem that severely disrupts people’s lives. It is poorly understood and is often dismissed as bad behaviour or laziness. It ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Passion for premature babies leads to groundbreaking research
Terrie E. Inder, MD, PhD, learned the meaning of hard work at a young age. She and her siblings often helped out on their grandfather’s New Zealand farm, tossing freshly dug potatoes into sacks they carried ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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David Livingstone letter deciphered at last
(AP) -- The contents of a long-illegible letter written by famed 19th century explorer David Livingstone have finally been deciphered, a British university said Friday, nearly 140 years after he wrote of ...
Jul 02, 2010 |
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A Cyborg Space Race
Who should explore space: robots or humans? Our ability to travel beyond Earth is hampered by the harsh conditions of space, but rather than let robots have all the fun, could cyborg technology allow humans ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Coaches can shape young athletes' definition of success
Young athletes' achievement goals can change in a healthy way over the course of a season when their coaches create a mastery motivational climate rather than an ego orientation, University of Washington sport psychologists ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2009 |
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