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'Comfort food' a stress killer: Australian study

Medicine & Health / Health

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A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for "comfort food", Australian researchers said Tuesday.


Children unaffected by smoking ban consequences

Medicine & Health / Health

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The smoking ban in Wales has not displaced secondhand smoke from public places into the home. A study of 3500 children from 75 primary schools in Wales, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, found that t ...


Do kids benefit from homework?

Do kids benefit from homework?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Homework is as old as school itself. Yet the practice is controversial as people debate the benefits or consider the shortcomings and hassles. Research into the topic is often contradictory ...


Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline (AP)

Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.


Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, ...


Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for kidney transplant patients

Medicine & Health / Other

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People who have kidney transplants need longer-term support than most friends, relatives or even healthcare professionals realise, according to a study of 160 patients published in the December issue of the UK-based Journal of ...


How green is your house? Recycling favorite activity among Brits says new survey

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Seventy percent of households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey, called "Understanding ...


Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on ...


Analysts say AmEx is most interested in the so-called peer-to-peer services of Revolution

American Express takes aim at PayPal with Revolution

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With its deal to buy Revolution Money, American Express is taking aim at the growing market for online and alternative payments, in a challenge to recognized leader PayPal, analysts say.


Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming

Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ...



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