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Matt Picking Fewer than 2% of undergraduate students take advantage of the study abroad programs at their colleges. Studying internationally is proven to enhance global awareness, help develop leadership skills, foster personal growth, and advance students’ comprehension of foreign languages. Olivia Young graduated in 2013 without having studied abroad and regretted it so much that […]
Social Science One, an independent research commission, will give social scientists unprecedented access to Facebook’s data. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b454188f3149a0c60487cc0/master/pass/fb_research_proposals1-01.jpg
WHICH has provided a better return in recent decades: America’s stockmarket or education? The latter, according to a research review by George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos for the World Bank. The two economists looked at 1,120 studies, across 139 countries, and came up with an annual average “rate of return”—actually a pay premium, the increase […]
Atlanta’s traffic congestion infamy — the city regularly makes every annual top list due to its bottlenecks — is partially caused by car accidents at large, busy intersections. After a few accidents occur, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) may swoop in to assess the situation to make the intersection safer. But what if they […]
Enlarge (credit: UCSD) Cancer is, unfortunately, governed by the same evolutionary rules that drive life itself. Cells in tumors are essentially competing to see which can divide the fastest. This competition drives them to pick up new mutations that can help them divide faster, survive immune attack, resist drugs, and expand to new areas of […]
When people are threatened, evolutionary biology dictates extreme reactions: flee or fight? Donna Hicks, who studies conflict resolution at Harvard, says that this dynamic is at the core of much global tension—it’s just scaled up to the level of cities or countries. So she starts small, focusing on individual interactions. She puts an emphasis on […]
Charley Gallay / Stringer Over the nearly 70 years since Hugh Hefner, who died recently at the age of 91, laid out the first issue of Playboy on his kitchen table, the magazine and his personal lifestyle embodied the ultimate expression of heterosexual male privilege and sexual freedom. Because he was surrounded by young, beautiful […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has begun studying when to ban the production and sale of cars using traditional fuels, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing comments by the vice industry minister, who predicted “turbulent times” for automakers forced to adapt. Xin Guobin did not give details on when China, the world’s largest auto market, […]
Experts have sought to discover if Alzheimer’s could be solved by finding out more about hibernation. Scientists previously found hypothermia – a dangerously low body temperature – can protect the brain. During a different study researchers reduced the body temperature of mice to that of a small hibernating mammal; one half of the group had […]
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and diabetes are two of the main health concerns across the UK – with dementia recently considered the leading cause of death in the country. Scientists believe they could be close to finding a breakthrough treatment for both conditions. Daily Express :: Health Feed
