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How isolated people and animals die sooner

Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.

A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.

 

 

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Analysis, Economy, Education, Latest Trend, Money Talk

Are student loans wrecking the economy?

Student debt is a dangerous bubble that is piling unprecedented levels of debt on young people.

Houses and cars power recoveries. And young people aren’t buying either. That’s a New York Fed study conclusion and that can be easily read as blaming student debt for holding back the recovery by squashing home and auto sales.

 

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The future of becoming a job-ready engineer

Early adopters of the “learn to code” movement are using different education programs at different stages of their development.

People learning to code can actually do it efficiently part-time.  Adults with full-time jobs can learn to code part-time. This means people whose schedules are full and who can’t afford to quit and pay college tuition at a traditional University.

 

 

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Big Problems, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Air pollution is radically changing childhood in China

Four year old Wu Xiaotian has breathing problems that are linked to air pollution.

A boy in China has a chronic cough and stuffy nose that began last year at the age of 3.  When smog across northern China surged to record levels this winter his symptoms worsened. Now he needs his sinuses cleared every night with saltwater piped through a machine’s tubes.

 

 

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Recycling, Science & Technology News

Electronics recycling has risen sharply in the past 3 years

According to a recent online survey, electronics recycling has sharply risen in the past three years. General recycling is at all-time high levels, with 84 percent of U.S. residents recycling their trash – helped no doubt by the widespread availability ofcurbside recycling programs in many communities.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Study shows recession slowed urban job sprawl

Job sprawl stalls in metropolitan areas.

As policymakers and regional leaders work to grow jobs and connect residents to economic opportunity following the Great Recession, where jobs locate matters. The location of employment within a metro area intersects with a range of policy issues—from transportation to workforce development to regional innovation—that affect a region’s long-term health, prosperity, and social inclusion.

Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Wall Street investors buying up distressed area single family homes

Hedge funds, Wall Street investors and other institutions are crowding out individual home buyers.

Wall Street investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Trying to build better workers with big data

Workers can now be analyzed like any other data.

As it turns out, bosses really do matter and they may matter more than we even realize. For example, in telephone call centers where hourly workers handle a steady stream of calls under demanding conditions, the communication skills and personal warmth of an employee’s supervisor are often crucial in determining the employee’s tenure and performance. Recent research shows that the quality of the supervisor may be more important than the experience and individual attributes of the workers themselves.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

500 million unique visitors access Wikipedia and other sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation every month

Unique visitors across the network of sites increased to 517 million last month.

Wikipedia and other websites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikibooks,Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons  now get more than 500 million unique visitors every month.

 

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Why is ‘adult adoption’ so popular in Japan?

A majority of adoptees in Japan are men in their 20’s and 30’s.

The highest adoption rates in the world are in the United States and Japan.  But there is one big difference.  Most adoptees in the U.S. are children, in Japan kids only represent 2% of all adoptions.  Men in their 20s and 30s make up the remaining 98%, or almost 90,000 adoptees in 2008 (up from fewer than 80,000 in 2000). Why do the Japanese adopt so many adults?

 

 

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Analysis, Globalism, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, top 10

Top 10 global technology trends for the energy and utility markets in 2013

Global energy an utilities sectors faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity.

Gartner, Inc. has released a new report that identifies the top ten technology trends affecting the global energy and utility markets in 2013, as the industry faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity, changing policymaker attitudes and consumer expectations.

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