News tagged with deliberate practice

Practice doesn't make perfect, but it comes fairly close

We are not all blessed with the brains, beauty, luck, and capital that we associate with highly successful business people or entrepreneurs. Although most new business ventures fail, a few prosper and grow rapidly. A new ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2




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Stunning image of smallest possible five-ringed structure

Scientists have created and imaged the smallest possible five-ringed structure – about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair – and you'll probably recognise its shape.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Data in the fast lane

A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled a Microsoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through, or “sorting,” a huge amount of data in one minute.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the final years of Franco's regime television acknowledged the republican's bravery

A study by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) into the development of speech about the Civil War on Television Española (Spain's national state owned public television broadcaster) states that ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new shortcut for stem cell programming

Scientists at the Life and Brain Research Center at the University of Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in directly generating brain stem cells from the connective tissue cells of mice.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smithsonian NEMESIS tracks marine invaders online

Mitten crabs, zebra mussels and rock vomit: These and hundreds of other non-native species have invaded coastal regions throughout the United States, often causing dramatic changes to coastal ecosystems and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strengthening the bond between policy and science

One only has to be reminded of the BSE crisis and the MMR vaccine scare to recognise the importance of having policy informed by the best available science. Now, a collaboration of over fifty academics and policy makers from ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teaching science to the religious? Focus on how theories develop

Vicious, winner-take-all competition in nature is an essential pillar of evolutionary theory, but it frequently describes the mindset people have about how, or whether, to teach the subject. Religious students sometimes come ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 619

Expert panel deliberates hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development

The use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development took center stage Friday as a panel of U.S. and Canadian experts discussed the contentious practice in a three-hour symposium hosted by the American Association for ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Crippleware: How do consumers react when companies disable product features?

Consumers dislike it when manufacturers remove or degrade features in existing models—even though it's a common practice, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

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created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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