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'Most Popular' Status Affects What People Eat, Study Finds
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that diners are at least 13 percent more likely to order a dish if they know it is among a restaurant’s most popular.
Microsoft's browser sees notable decline in usage
Jan 04, 2009 |
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Microsoft Corp.'s Internet browser lost a notable number of users during the last half of 2008, according to recently published data, a trend that underscores the growing competition in a market long dominated ...
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Recent 'momentum' influences choices of baby names, psychology professors find
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the overall popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people's preferences -- more popular names, such ...
Why Things Become Unpopular
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Why is everybody suddenly wearing those new sandals and listening to that new band? It's so trendy!" A recent study has investigated this sentiment in order to understand why some cultural ...
Twitter tool shows hot tweets when people meet
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first Twitter tool that ranks the popularity of individual messages plans to make the backchannel conversations at conferences and meetings more interesting.
First national study to examine rock climbing-related injuries
Jul 21, 2009 |
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In the past decade the popularity of rock climbing has dramatically increased. It has been estimated that rock climbing is now enjoyed by more than 9 million people in the U.S. each year. A new study by researchers at the ...
"What's happening?" Twitter wants to know
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"
Captive turtle found to have infectious disease
Oct 05, 2009 |
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An Australian veterinary student said Monday she has documented the country's first known case of a bred-in-captivity turtle acquiring a highly infectious disease which could potentially spread to humans.
Top media execs wonder how Twitter will make money
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Major media executives are impressed with Twitter's growing popularity as a communications tool. They just can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make money.
SD Zoo's online Panda Cam crashes due to overload
Aug 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The San Diego Zoo's pandas have become such cyber-stars that their Panda Cam got caught in a popularity crunch.
Google CEO joins Twitter
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a "poor man's email system," has joined the hot micro-blogging service.
Research shows advertisers new ways to hunt for TV bargains
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The scene is played out in living rooms across America daily: A favorite television show builds to its riveting conclusion, and a commercial for fast food, automobiles or laundry detergent fills the screen.
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