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Is the 'right of publicity' out of control?

(PhysOrg.com) -- American courts are significantly expanding the legal rights and privileges celebrities can command over others using their names or likenesses. And a University at Buffalo Law School professor is questioning ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British local authority takes Twitter to court in US

An English local authority said on Sunday it had taken US micro-blogging site Twitter to court in California and forced it to release the details of a British user.

Technology / Internet

created May 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Study: Restoring lost privileges an overlooked key to discipline

Managers who dole out discipline by taking away privileges - without considering the implications of restoring them - are missing a key in their bid to improve performance and behavior, a new University of Illinois study ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Neurotic Ulsterman gives rich slice of eighteenth century life

(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation into the life of an obscure but energetic eighteenth century Ulsterman has provided a vivid insight into early Hanoverian Britain.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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




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Distracted doctoring - is it really a concern?

Q: Facebook? Twitter? Gmail? A: None of the above.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene therapy for inherited blindness succeeds in patients' other eye

Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers further improved vision in three adult patients previously treated in one eye. After receiving the same treatment in their ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

College cuts odds for marriage among disadvantaged

(PhysOrg.com) -- For those with few social advantages, college is a prime pathway to financial stability, but it also unexpectedly lowers their odds of ever marrying, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologist Kelly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Delay for space station's 1st private cargo run (Update)

The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later: research

Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study.

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Planck instrument loses its cool

(PhysOrg.com) -- After an impressive two and a half years of operation, Planck's High Frequency Instrument has finally exhausted its onboard coolant gases and reached the end of its very successful mission. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Chinese pandas leave for France

Two Chinese pandas left their breeding centre in southwestern China Sunday destined for a 10-year stay in France, in a loan sealed after years of top-level negotiations.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Astronomers map the universe's dark matter at unprecedented scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed. The results, presented by Dr Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Associate ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

The cost of disabilities could reach 77.2 percent of household income

A team of researchers have for the first time estimated the cost and impact of disabilities on the finances of disabled people. According to data, 90% of the population with a serious disability in Spain is ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improving family consent in organ donation could save lives

Research published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia suggests that organ donation rates in the UK could be increased if the current issues affecting declined consent are improved. At present, only 30% of the UK ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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