News tagged with war stories

Differences in how male, female police officers manage stress may accentuate stress on the job

When male police officers need to de-stress, they might trade war stories -- but likely not with their female colleagues.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Political leaders play key role in how worried Americans are by climate change: study

More than extreme weather events and the work of scientists, it is national political leaders who influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change, new research finds.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 72

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study: Vast majority of EU citizens are marginalized by dominance of English language

The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Review: Fresh stories propel 'The Old Republic'

(AP) -- How do you make that familiar galaxy far, far away fresh again? Take it back to an even longer time ago. Way back. Well before Vader, Luke, Leia, Yoda and especially Jar Jar. More than 3,000 years ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers examine influence of Super Bowl ads

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year, Volkswagen's Super Bowl ad featuring a kid dressed as Darth Vader went viral online, helping the company earn an estimated $100 million in free publicity. This year, the automaker ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The opposite of evil: Google named best place to work in America

Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in America.

Technology / Business

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Murdoch to pay Jude Law, 36 others for hacking

(AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's media empire apologized and agreed to cash payouts Thursday to 37 people - including a movie star, a soccer player, a top British politician and the son of a serial killer - who were ...

Technology / Business

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

The quantifier: Building software that interprets medical images

Polina Golland’s parents tell the story that, sometime in the early 1980s, when Polina was in junior high, she announced that she wanted to go to MIT. That’s an unusual plan for any 13- or 14-year-old to hatch independently, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

We may be less happy, but our language isn't

"If it bleeds, it leads," goes the cynical saying with television and newspaper editors. In other words, most news is bad news and the worst news gets the big story on the front page.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Sherlock: The case of Moriarty's maths

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows the sleuth’s arch-enemy has a new weapon: mathematics supplied by a team from Oxford University. ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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