News tagged with gifted youths

New study reveals: Gifted children shape their personalities according to social stigma

Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up. They usually choose to study applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1




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Young people of the sixties’ leisure choices much like those today

A study carried out by a University of Glasgow research team in the 1960s into young people’s leisure activities reveals that they are much like those today. Most of them watched television.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chronic pain? Doctor knows how to fight it

There are several "gifts" we start receiving after age 50. Unfortunately, one of them could be chronic pain.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For kids, it's more than just a game

A cohesive team environment, assessing one's own performance rather than comparing with others, and involvement in enjoyably challenging practices are the main conditions needed for children to have a positive developmental ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adults concerned about tobacco ads influence on youth

Do you see what your child sees? Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) scientists have analyzed the impact of tobacco advertising in stores. Researchers found that adults and young people believe that tobacco promotions influence ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS tests come to South Africa's schools

A tiny prick made a drop of blood on Nkosi Minenhle's finger, as the 15-year-old underwent an HIV test in a mobile clinic set up on her high school grounds.

Medicine & Health / Health

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

The rising population of healthy elderly

In the basement of Harvard Law School’s Hemenway Gymnasium, a battle of the ages is being waged.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Soviet space dogs blast-off to animated immortality

In space, no one can hear you bark. Two mongrels named Belka and Strelka made history in 1960 when they went into orbit in a Soviet space ship and then returned to Earth -- the first animals ever to survive the trip.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Parents encouraged to avoid purchasing lottery tickets as gifts for minors

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the flurry of activity before the holidays, some well-meaning family members consider buying lottery tickets and scratch cards as affordable, colourful, and potentially promising gift options for the children ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Culture, not biology, underpins math gender gap

For more than a century, the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest levels, has persisted in even the loftiest circles.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Buck Institute making progress on aging process

Downhill from the I.M. Pei-designed, Ponce de Leon-inspired and worm-saturated Buck Institute for Age Research lies the rustically tony downtown of this Marin County, Calif., city.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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