A third of workers now take lunch breaks in mornings or late afternoons.
The mainstay of the working day used to be the lunch hour. But The lunch hour is being gobbled up according to two new reports.
Continue reading… “Study: Millions of workers take lunch breaks at odd hours”
Eighty per cent of parents believe social networking sites have the ability to take over their children’s lives.
According to a new study, a staggering four out of five parents worry that their children will become addicted to Facebook.
Continue reading… “Four in five parents worry kids will become addicted to Facebook”
Belly Button Biodiversity Project
The human navel is apparently a ripe environment for bacteria. Scientists sampling DNA strains from the navels of volunteer donors have found 662 microbes that are apparently new to science.
Continue reading… “Human belly button home to 662 microbes new to science”
ER visits over the holiday surge due to underage drinking.
The Fourth of July weekend brings double the usual number of boys the the emergency room due to underage drinking according to a government report.
Continue reading… “Underage drinking doubles on the Fourth of July Weekend”
Thirteen percent of people take vacations knowing they may have to work if necessary.
About 45% of U.S. workers would scrap or scale back their summer vacation plans to save money if the economy remains volatile, according to a survey.
Continue reading… “Almost half of U.S. workers would scrap summer vacation to save money”
Aircraft increase the chances of snow or rain when they punch holes in clouds after taking off.
Airplanes can influence local weather when they take off and land. Aircraft increase the chances of snow and rain during take off and landing, according to a new study, published in the ‘Science’ journal. The finding is based on satellite images of clouds around airports.
Continue reading… “Airplanes can alter weather increasing chances of rain and snow: Study”
Futurist Thomas Frey: As the musical chairs game of unemployment money runs out, and an increasingly large number of people are left without a seat at the jobs table, desperation begins to set in.
Continue reading… “Micro-jobs and the emerging underground economy”
Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain claim unemployment benefit when they actually have some kind of work.
In the Via Barsanti in the town of PratoShi, Italy, Songbin’s existence came to light one morning only when stunned residents found his body outside an underground parking garage surrounded by drab apartment blocks.
Continue reading… “Europe’s ‘black economy’”
Penn State tops the list for public in-state colleges.
No college wants to top these rankings. Today the Education Department unveils a website on which it is publishing for the first time lists identifying the nation’s most expensive colleges.
Loud things can come in small packages.
While normally a species measuring in at only around 2 millimeters in length might be easily overlooked, one tiny freshwater-dwelling critter has found a way to turn peoples’ heads. Researchers studying ‘water boatman’ (Micronecta scholtzi), an aquatic insect native to Europe, say that the minuscule species takes the mantle as the world’s loudest animal relative to its body size. The hard-to-see insect is capable of producing a song that reaches a whopping 99.2 decibles — roughly the equivalent to the sound of a motorcycle. What may be more surprising, however, is just how water boatman make their ‘song’.
Continue reading… “World’s Loudest Animal is a tiny insect, says study”
About 700 job reductions at HSBC will mainly affect UK branch offices.
The wave of lay-offs hitting banks gathered pace on Thursday. Thousands more job losses are set to hit retail businesses and market divisions while lenders fight off a limp economic recovery, trading woes and tougher regulation.
Continue reading… “Wave of lay-offs hitting banks and thousands more job losses to come”
The divide between states gaining and losing their younger populations.
When the Beatles song “When I’m Sixty-Four” was released in 1967, many baby boomers adhered to the mantra, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Now the boomers are fully ensconced in advanced middle age, and the oldest of them are beginning to cross into full-fl edged senior-hood, as the first boomer turned age 65 last January. Some 80 million strong and more than one quarter of the U.S. population, baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) are a still a force to be reckoned with, even as they have all crossed the age-45 marker. Along with their elders, the large and growing older American population presents significant future challenges for federal government programs such as Social Security and Medicare. State and local social services and infrastructure needs will also change in communities across the nation as the population ages.
Continue reading… “2010 census trends: Uneven aging and ‘younging’ in the U.S.”
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