Girls just as good at math as boys.
There are many explanations for the gender gap in math skills but they just don’t hold up, suggests new research on math skills and gender in 86 countries.
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Mothers who work are healthier, happier: study
Working mothers are healthier and happier.
Mothers who work are healthier than those who are not employed, at least when their children are very young, a new study finds.
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Barefoot running – new exercise trend
Barefoot running
Barefoot running is all the rage This workout trend is gaining ground across the exercise spectrum.
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Do toddlers need computers to learn?
Toymakers are hoping to stuff babies’ stockings with kid-size computers.
It used to be that all a kid wanted for Christmas was to sit on Santa’s lap. Now, they may get a laptop.
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How your boss may be ruining your marriage: study
The fallout from all that nastiness from your boss can insidiously chip away at your marriage.
Your boss’s abusive behavior may be doing more than just making you miserable. They may also be ruining your marriage, a new study shows.
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Official Color of 2012
It’s official. It’s in.
Pantone, official arbiter of the visible spectrum, has declared its selection for next year’s color—a statement of both insane arbitrariness, and great weight in the world of things. So what’ll it be? You’re lookin’ at it!
The above hue is Tangerine Tango (also referred to as “red”), which, as The Color of 2012, must grace one object in your possession, lest you feel like a peasant. It’s… kind of boring? Maybe it’s seeing it on a piece of fabric instead of a shiny computer or vibrant iPhone case, but it’s not really doing much for me here. But Pantone disagrees, duh…
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Gear cube design
This cube made of gears is a great example of some of the really brilliant stuff coming out of the 3D printing scene; it’s a phenomenon on Thingiverse, where the method for turning any solid shape into a geared wonderment has been generalized into a formula that can be applied to your 3D model-file.
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Top 10 million dollar mistakes
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Mistakes are often looked down on as a bad move or the next step to failure, but mistakes can be good. Mistakes are part of the recipe for success. Ryan Blair started six Multi Million Dollar companies all before the age of 30. He is a world renowned serial entrepreneur admits to his fair share of million dollar mistakes, as well as some billion dollar successes. Ryan Blair sums up pretty nicely in his current bestseller Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain what his Top 10 Million Dollar Mistakes have been on the way to the top.
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Vocal fry creeping into the speech of young women in the U.S.
College-age women end sentences in the lowest vocal register, a creaky vibration called vocal fry.
Vocal fry, a low creaky, vibration has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration—once considered a speech disorder—has become a language fad.
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Are floating incubators a precursor to floating countries?
Futurist Thomas Frey: Between 1990 and 2005, immigrants created 25% of all the publicly traded companies in the U.S. These included some of our best-known businesses such as Intel, Sun, eBay, Yahoo, and Google. This same group of foreign nationals went on to become the inventors behind 25% of all patents filed in U.S. in 2006.
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New discovery on how sugars are moved throughout a plant
An image of the localization of the identified protein in the molecular pump in the vascalature of a plant leaf.
Food prices are soaring at the same time as Earth’s population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer into the system by which sugars are moved throughout a plant — from the leaves to the harvested portions and elsewhere — could be crucial for addressing this problem…
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100 years of electric car history
Electric cars have been around longer than most people think.
While a lot of environmentalists don’t like cars, I doubt it’s very realistic to expect all of the to disappear any time soon. Vast quantities of cars can be taken out of circulation because most commuting can be done with mass transit, and walking and bikes offer a healthy and green way to move around for lots of trips. But for some things (especially in rural areas), nothing beats the individual car. If only we could make it a lot cleaner… Which is what going back to the electric roots of the car would allow us to do (even moreso once we’ve cleaned up the electric grid)…
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