Search results for wisdom project
Is there a seat of wisdom in the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom - once the sole province of religion and philosophy. The study by Dilip V. Jeste, ...
Working well under pressure
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
Optical firewall aims to clear internet security bottlenecks
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the ...
Voluntary vaccination programs shown effective for some diseases
Biology /
Feb 06, 2009 |
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"Conventional wisdom - and conventional theory - tells us that when infection can potentially be spread to almost everyone in a community, such as for measles, a disease outbreak can never be contained using voluntary vaccination," ...
Challenging conventional wisdom: Advances in development reverse fertility declines
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility ...
Do experiences or material goods make us happier?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Should I spend money on a vacation or a new computer? Will an experience or an object make me happier? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depends on different factors, including how materialistic you ...
U.S. airline data available on the Web
Oct 02, 2007 |
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Center for Air Transportation have created a comprehensive Web collection of airline data.
Networking computers to help combat disease
Jan 23, 2006 |
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Last year there were about 350-500 million infections and approximately 1.3 million deaths due to malaria, mainly in the tropics. Malaria is spread by female mosquitoes, which carry protozoan parasites called ...
UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 11, 2008 |
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It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom ...
Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the world's toughest problems, including global climate change and cancer. It may sound like science ...
No longer a gray area: Our hair bleaches itself as we grow older
Biology /
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Wash away your gray? Maybe. A team of European scientists have finally solved a mystery that has perplexed humans throughout the ages: why we turn gray. Despite the notion that gray hair is a sign of wisdom, these researchers ...
Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...
Scientists determine how body differentiates between a scorch and a scratch
May 19, 2009 |
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You can tell without looking whether you've been stuck by a pin or burnt by a match. But how? In research that overturns conventional wisdom, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the University ...
Buzz builds for Microsoft Origami debut
Mar 02, 2006 |
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The tech community continued speculating about Microsoft's mysterious Origami Project Thursday following announcement of a release date.
Amid rising childhood obesity, preschoolers found to be inactive
Feb 06, 2009 |
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The rate of childhood obesity has risen significantly in the United States, with many children becoming overweight at younger ages. At the same time, the number of preschoolers in center-based programs is also on the rise. ...
