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Obama forges compromise birth control plan

US President Barack Obama Friday announced a compromise to defuse a row over access to birth control which prompted election-year Republican critics to claim he was waging a war on religion.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Putting lab life under the lens

Scott Stern doesn’t work in a laboratory or have a degree in the hard sciences. You’ll never find him using a genome sequencer or an MRI scanner. Yet he knows more about some aspects of science than ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Counties with thriving small businesses have healthier residents, researchers find

Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Judge allows SC Twitter lawsuit go move forward

(AP) -- A South Carolina company's lawsuit accusing a former employee of costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when he took Twitter followers can go forward, a federal judge has ruled.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Historian uncovers a real-life Dickensian tale of prostitution and suspected murder

Research by a legal historian at the University of Warwick has uncovered a real-life 19th century couple whose tragic tale could have been taken straight out of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parental education not always linked to child’s earnings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from our University claim a parents’ background doesn’t necessarily affect the long-term financial success of their children.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blind, visually impaired New Yorkers contribute to state economy

Employment statistics suggest bleak economic realities for New Yorkers who are blind. Nearly two in three are out of work, a level in line with national unemployment figures for individuals who are blind and other populations ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

SC company sues ex-worker over Twitter followers

(AP) -- An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.

Technology / Business

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Kenya HIV families torn between health or food

(AP) -- Rosalia Adhiambo won't take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can't afford to feed both her grandniece and herself.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems?

Why do we stick up for a system or institution we live in—a government, company, or marriage—even when anyone else can see it is failing miserably? Why do we resist change even when the system is corrupt or unjust? ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 20


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