News tagged with wisdom
Scientist proves Braess paradox 'disappears' under high traffic demands
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an urban area with a lot of traffic, adding a new road to distribute the traffic may seem like a sensible idea. But according to the Braess paradox, just the opposite occurs: a new route ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables
Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can lead to magnetism under surprising circumstances
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite the way scientists expected, according to a recent paper in Physical Review Letters by Rafal Oszwaldowski and Igor Zutic of the Univer ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Why silicon-based aliens would rather eat our cities than us: Thoughts on non-carbon astrobiology
Conventional wisdom has long had it that carbon-based life, so common here on earth, must surely be abundant elsewhere; both in our galaxy and the universe as a whole.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2011 |
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A smart use for wisdom teeth: Making stem cells
For most people, wisdom teeth are not much more than an annoyance that eventually needs to be removed. However, a new study appearing in the September 17 Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that wisdom teeth contain a valu ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Pulled teeth stored for stem cells
Naidelys Montoya didn't wait for her son's baby teeth to fall out. She took the boy to an oral surgeon to have two of the loose ones extracted.
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Sex, drugs and moral goals: Study of reproductive strategies and recreational drug use
Why is there so much disagreement about whether using recreational drugs is morally wrong? A University of Pennsylvania psychology study shows that the debate about drugs might really be about sex.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Information sharing interferes with 'wisdom of crowds': study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A statistical phenomenon, called the Wisdom of Crowds, happens when a group of individuals make guesses and the average of the guesses reveal accurate average answers. However, researchers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 17, 2011 |
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Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Understanding anti-immigrant sentiment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Immigration is a long-simmering issue in the politics of many countries, including the United States. A 2007 Pew poll found that three-quarters of all U.S. citizens want to further restrict ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2010 |
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In social dealings, being older is being wiser
(AP) -- It turns out grandma was right: Listen to your elders. New research indicates they are indeed wise - in knowing how to deal with conflicts and accepting life's uncertainties and change.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Education affects Americans' religiosity -- but not how you might think
It's pretty much a given that the more educated someone becomes, the more likely they are to question their religious beliefs, stop going to church and even abandon their faith entirely.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions
Ghost imaging (GI), and its even more oddly named cousin virtual ghost imaging (VGI), seem to contradict conventional wisdom by being able to image an object by simply counting photons in a "light bucket." This non-intuitive ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Don't (always) talk to your neighbor
Conventional wisdom among managers holds that employees helping each other can only be good for a company. Accordingly, firms spend money, time and effort to promote what’s known as "knowledge transfer." ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Working well under pressure
Many people work better under a tight deadline, but a new study published in the International Journal of Innovation and Learning, suggest that it is a mistake to assume that a team can work effectively under constant time p ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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