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Gadgets: Gift ideas for your holiday shopping

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Black Friday has come and gone and if you're like me, you barely made a dent in your holiday shopping list.


Stanford's Dostoevsky biographer concludes acclaimed series

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Everything was silent in St. Petersburg's Semenovsky Square. On the cold December day in 1849, the snow fell softly on the soldiers, on the crowd and on the ragged prisoners who unexpectedly found themselves blinking at the ...


Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...


FTC: Children still marketed violent content

Technology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.


Good stress response enhances recovery from surgery, study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The right kind of stress response in the operating room could lead to quicker recovery for patients after knee surgery, according to a new study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. The results could ...


Are the effects of pornography negligible?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 5

A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...


Brown fat cells make 'spare tires' shrink

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bonn have found a new signalling pathway which stimulates the production and function of so-called brown fat cells. They propose using these cells that serve as a "natural ...


Don't ignore your emotions at work, professor says

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- “There’s no crying in baseball!” So said Jimmy Dugan, the manager portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of Their Own.” Not so fast, says Vince Waldron, an Arizona State University professor of communication ...



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