News tagged with concepts
Boys will be boys: kids think gender-related behavior is inborn
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small children tend to believe boys are born to like football and girls are born to like dolls—much in the same way that cats are born different from dogs, research shows.
Young children think gender-related behavior is inborn
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Young children think about gender in the same way they think about species of animals. They believe, for example, that a boy's preference for football is innate, as is a girl's preference for dolls, just as cats' behavior ...
Philips presents OLED-based interactive lighting concepts
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Royal Philips Electronics today premiered the world’s first OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) -based interactive lighting concepts, created for both consumer as well as professional use, during the Euroluce ...
It pays to compare: Comparison helps children grasp math concepts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Comparing different ways of solving math problems is a great way to help middle schoolers learn new math concepts, researchers from Vanderbilt and Harvard universities have found.
Science setback for Texas schools
Mar 31, 2009 |
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After three all-day meetings and a blizzard of amendments and counter-amendments, the Texas Board of Education cast its final vote Friday on state science standards. The results weren't pretty.
Using Superheroes to Teach Physics: College Courses in Sci-Fi
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more perplexing questions facing science these days is this one: How do we get more young people interested in science? Leading the way are a number of college courses -- that can ...
