News tagged with wisdom
Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...
A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a ...
Challenging conventional wisdom: Advances in development reverse fertility declines
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility ...
Working well under pressure
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Many people work better under a tight deadline, but a new study published in the International Journal of Innovation and Learning, suggest that it is a mistake to assume that a team can work effectively under constant time p ...
Is there a seat of wisdom in the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom - once the sole province of religion and philosophy. The study by Dilip V. Jeste, ...
Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
Do experiences or material goods make us happier?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Should I spend money on a vacation or a new computer? Will an experience or an object make me happier? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depends on different factors, including how materialistic you ...
Voluntary vaccination programs shown effective for some diseases
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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"Conventional wisdom - and conventional theory - tells us that when infection can potentially be spread to almost everyone in a community, such as for measles, a disease outbreak can never be contained using voluntary vaccination," ...
Optical firewall aims to clear internet security bottlenecks
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are developing the world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to save the ...
