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The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite camera is a powerful reminder of the rise and fall of a ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Women entering the workforce expect less than men, study finds

Women have lower career expectations than men, anticipating smaller paycheques and longer waits for promotions, according to a new study involving a University of Guelph researcher.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blogger 'tweets' attack on Osama bin Laden

An IT consultant in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad was an Internet celebrity on Monday after unwittingly providing a real-time account of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden.

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Learning to tolerate our microbial self

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human gut is filled with 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria—ten times more microbial cells than our own cells—representing close to one thousand different species. "And yet, if ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows independent voters believe they are not being heard

Independent voters are vitally important to the 2010 election in Ohio and are very unhappy with the political system, according to focus group research stemming from the latest Akron Buckeye Poll by The University of Akron's ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

URI professor warns: TV viewing likely to make you fear sickness

Watching television and its heavy dose of medical content in news and drama can lead to more concern about personal health and reduce a person's satisfaction with life according to a new study out of the University of Rhode ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain response to information about the future suggests that ignorance isn't bliss

New research demonstrates that single neurons in the reward center of the brain process not only primitive rewards but also more abstract, cognitive rewards related to the quest for information about the future. The study, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV

While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said today. Almost 60,000 Americans were ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blissfully ignorant: Skip those pesky details

Wouldn't you like some more information about that cream puff? Not if you just ate it. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examined what's known as the "Blissful Ignorance Effect," the way consumers' goals shift ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Commentary: Of cyberporn and democracy

The U.S. is guilty of imperial hubris, say Bush administration detractors at home and abroad. Which means a blend of high-and-mightiness and high-hattedness. And the practitioners of this school of geopolitics are firmly ...

Technology /

created Dec 15, 2005 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (18) | comments 0


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