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The net migration 'bounce'

New analysis by Oxford University’s Migration Observatory shows that any short term cut to net-migration brought about by reductions in immigration will be partially reversed in the long term because ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Social responsibility of businesses questioned

When the Icelandic banking system was privatised in 2003, it inaugurated a period of furious expansion of both loans and risky investments. The bubble burst in 2008. At that time, the nominal assets of the three largest banks ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People who cannot escape a system are likely to defend the status quo

The freedom of emigration at will is internationally recognized as a human right. But, in practice, emigration is often restricted, whether by policy or by poverty. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journa ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle

So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?

Biology / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Male dolphins build complex teams for social success

(PhysOrg.com) -- Male dolphins not only form a series of complex alliances based on their close relatives and friends but these alliances also form a shifting mosaic of overlapping geographic ranges within ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NJ programmer freed as NY court orders acquittal

(AP) -- A smiling former Goldman Sachs computer programmer was freed from prison Friday after a surprise ruling from a federal appeals court reversed his conviction on charges he stole computer code.

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fossilized pollen unlocks secrets of 2,500-year-old royal garden

Researchers have long been fascinated by the secrets of Ramat Rahel, located on a hilltop above modern-day Jerusalem. The site of the only known palace dating back to the kingdom of Biblical Judah, digs have ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Shipwrecked: Women and children first?

Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the world’s attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The quantifier: Building software that interprets medical images

Polina Golland’s parents tell the story that, sometime in the early 1980s, when Polina was in junior high, she announced that she wanted to go to MIT. That’s an unusual plan for any 13- or 14-year-old to hatch independently, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New model more accurately describes migratory animals' extinction risk

Predicting the risk of extinction is a complicated task, especially for species that migrate between breeding and wintering sites. Researchers at the University of Georgia and Tulane University have developed a mathematical ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An excavation is no camping trip

The Greeks were not always in such dire financial straits as today. But is it necessary to look as far back as these Bonn archeologists did in order to see a huge, flourishing Greek commercial area? They have ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research examines a growing immigrant population's self employment in the US

For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mother tongue comes from your prehistoric father

(PhysOrg.com) -- Language change among our prehistoric ancestors came about via the arrival of immigrant men - rather than women - into new settlements, according to new research.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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