Tag: research
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Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label
About half of both sexes play the games, but men more readily adopt the identity, a Pew survey found.
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Religious Children Are Mean
Controversial new research is claiming what many already feared: religion makes you mean.
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#NASA Creates Open Database of Space Station Research
from al.com: NASA is opening its files on research conducted aboard the International Space Station. The space agency hopes the crowdsourcing will stimulate new research on the orbiting laboratory. The information database is called Physical Science Informatics and was created by specialists at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. All search results at…
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New Study Raising Alarms About ‘#Superbugs’
from ibtimes.com: Growing resistance to drugs in microbes and the rise of “superbugs” could cast medicine “back to the dark ages” and lead to the deaths of over 10 million people by 2050, according to a British government-commissioned review [PDF]. The review further added that Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is a global problem that cannot be solved…
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Replanting the Wasteland of the Transhuman Agenda
from ishtarsgate.com: I know it sounds like something out of a really bad L Ron Hubbard science fiction pulp novel, but if you put together all the scientific research coming out recently, what you’re left with is what’s known as the Transhuman Agenda. The Transhuman Agenda appears to be a global project of eugenicists to…
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Controversial US Scientist Creates Deadly New Flu Strain For ‘Pandemic Research’
from independent.co.uk: A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has genetically manipulated the 2009 strain of pandemic flu…
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Interview w/ Dr. Heather Mendick on ‘Celebrity Storylines’
These kids today… Can you believe they care more about Justin, Emma and Kim than Jesus, Judas and Zeus?! Dr. Heather Mendick of CelebYouth.org talks about her recent research project called, “The Role of Celebrity in Young People’s Classed and Gendered Aspirations.” Is it really all about authenticity – or is it just about ourselves?…
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Now Cheap Food Blamed for America’s Obesity Crisis
from nbcnews.com: Why are Americans so fat? A new study suggests we’ve been getting it all wrong. It’s not that we don’t exercise enough or spend too much time at the office, or that good, healthy food is too expensive, researchers reported Thursday. And it’s not about socioeconomic status, race or geography. Rather, the main…
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Forget Jesus and Judas, Our Modern Morality Play Stars Justin Bieber and Emma Watson
from independent.co.uk: The novelist Catherine Aird once wrote the brilliant line, “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll have to be a horrible warning.”… Thankfully, research announced this week by the University of Manchester and Brunel University, on the effect of celebrity “storylines” on young people, seems to agree. Where once young people…
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Simply Being Called ‘Fat’ Makes Young Girls More Likely to Become Obese
from sciencerecorder.com: The results of a study led by UCLA psychologist A. Janet Tomiyama and colleagues show that girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are “too fat” at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19. The data used in the study came from…




