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Religion may have evolved because of its ability to help people exercise self-control

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 10

Self-control is critical for success in life, and a new study by University of Miami professor of Psychology Michael McCullough finds that religious people have more self-control than do their less religious counterparts. ...





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Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence

Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...


Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

(AP) -- A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.


Internet believers: Pastors open online churches (AP)

Internet believers: Pastors open online churches

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 11

(AP) -- Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.


Growth in secular attitudes leaves Americans room for belief in God

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 139

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nature of the American religious experience is changing as a rising number of people report having no formal religious affiliation, even though the number of Americans who say they pray is increasing, ...


Mecca-bound pilgrims prompt swine flu precautions

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of the millions who travel to Saudi Arabia next month for the annual hajj will be greeted with face masks, hand sanitizer and fever checks as health officials strive to stem the spread of swine flu during the ...


Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually (AP)

Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 39

(AP) -- Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major ...


US asthma researchers more open than UK scientists to the inclusion of ethnic minorities

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings reveal a large gap between US and UK researchers in terms of policy, attitudes, practices and experiences in relation to including ethnic minorities in asthma research. The study, published this week in the open ...


What's in store for the centenarians of the next millennium?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Today's babies will be tomorrow's centenarians. A new report says that reaching the age of 100 may become ordinary for most American babies born since 2000. How will living for a century affect our kids? And what quality ...


Wasteland and wilderness

Wasteland and wilderness

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.


Science wins fight over evolution in schools, says Case Western Reserve University author

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 7

If you want to understand how evolution has challenged the constitutionality of the separation of church and state, Mano Singham from Case Western Reserve University provides a concise and chronological history in his new ...



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