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Happiness in a Social Network, 2000

Happiness is infectious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 5

If you're happy and you know it, thank your friends—and their friends. And while you're at it, their friends' friends. But if you're sad, hold the blame. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University ...





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Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 4 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


Military children face more emotional challenges as parental deployments grow longer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children in military families may suffer from more emotional and behavioral difficulties when compared to other American youths, with older children and girls struggling the most when a parent is deployed overseas, according ...


AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com (AP)

Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Technology / Business

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.


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Ecosia search engine fights climate change

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An Ecosia search engine launching Monday is counting on the world's fascination with the Internet to help save Brazilian rainforests and battle global warming.


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In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


Gifts for your favorite geek

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In the spirit of the season, I've picked out 10 geeky gifts that cost less than $100. Some are practical. Some are fun. All would be good additions to your gift list for friends and family -- or your own wish list. (Ranked ...


Checklist for going solar

Technology / Energy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

With the sun setting before 5 p.m., solar power may be the last thing on your mind these days. But declining panel prices ans a federal tax credit make now a good time to at least investigate whether solar power might make ...


Movies promote smoking among Mexican-American adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The more movie scenes of smoking they watch, the more likely Mexican-American youths are to experiment with smoking, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Dartmouth College report in the ...


Turning genetic trash to treasure

Turning genetic trash to treasure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered ...


Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Birds' alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some birds can pull a ventriloquist's trick, singing from the side of their mouths, according to a UC Davis study.



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