News tagged with dance movements

Revealed: The right moves for men on the dance floor

Men who wish to attract women on the disco floor would be better advised to learn a few moves that answer the female mating drive rather than bother with the moonwalk.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 5

Dance Memory: Studying how the mind remembers physical movement

Human memory - taking in information, storing it and retrieving it accurately - is key to a variety of crucial decisions made in medicine or law and physical movements like dance.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sexual objectification of female artists in music videos exists regardless of race, study finds

Popular music videos have been criticized as having misogynistic messages and images. While more female music artists have gained visibility and created successful "brands" in recent years, critics argue that many of these ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 35

Players get more pleasure from motion-based video games, researchers find

The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video game systems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of "being there" and are more enjoyable, according to findings ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology and creativity go "full spectrum" at TED

Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Bird brains follow the beat: Capacity to move in time with music may be connected with ability to learn speech

Even though typical dance-floor activity might suggest otherwise, humans generally demonstrate a remarkable capacity to synchronize their body movements in response to auditory stimuli. But is this ability ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Mechanism behind capacitor's high-speed energy storage discovered

Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly. Their findings could lead to much more powerful ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Engineering research brings seven adult-sized humanoid robots together for first time in US

Seven adult-sized humanoid robots took the stage during Drexel University's celebration of National Engineers Week, in a first-of-its-kind assembly of robotic technology. A showcase event on Feb. 20 introduced all seven of ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

From buskins to brothel-creepers: our love affair with shoes

Tomorrow Cambridge historian Dr Ulinka Rublack will give a public talk that will set footwear at the centre of her argument that in neglecting to explore the history of things we miss a golden opportunity ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Learning-based tourism an opportunity for industry expansion

New research suggests that major growth in the travel, leisure and tourism industry in the coming century may be possible as more people begin to define recreation as a learning and educational opportunity ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Learning from lizards

The speedy lizard was streaking across the tabletop when suddenly one foot hit a slippery spot.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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