First-borns around the world, it turns out, have higher IQ’s.
According to a new study “those born earlier perform better in school” and, it’s because of the parents. Parents simply go easy on their later-born kids, according to data analyzed by economists V. Joseph Hotz and Juan Pantano, and as a result, first-born children tend to receive both the best parenting and the best grades.
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A good night’s sleep really does make a difference.
A good night’s sleep really does clear the mind. The brain’s molecular waste-disposal system was discovered last year and is most active when we are sleeping, a study in mice suggests.
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Google might want to partner its technology with auto manufacturers rather than making and selling the cars itself.
Almost all the world’s automotive manufacturers are scrambling to develop self-driving cars. But, it appears, the world would rather buy a self-driving car made by a tech company. Consumers are more likely to splurge on a self-driving car made by Mercedes-Benz than Nissan; they’re even likelier to buy one made by the likes of Google and Apple, according to a study released by audit and advisory firm KPMG on Oct. 10.
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Mobile access has become critical to global business today and the Accenture CIO Mobility Survey 2013 reinforces that. The survey was conducted online last winter and finds that 75 percent of 413 IT professionals rate mobility among their top five priorities. But it also makes clear that there’s lots of room for CIOs to expand enterprise mobile capabilities going forward.
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One third of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says.
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A researcher from IBM says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twittermessages.
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Some research shows that higher pay does not, on net, lead workers to do more.
The English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, was not a fan of work. In his 1932 essay, “In Praise of Idleness”, he reckoned that if society were better managed the average person would only need to work four hours a day. Such a small working day would “entitle a man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life.” The rest of the day could be devoted to the pursuit of science, painting and writing.
Continue reading… “Relationship between hours worked and productivity: Chart”
Will computers do our jobs better than we can in the future?
Almost half of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to being taken over by computers as artificial intelligence continues to improve, according to a recent study released by Oxford University.
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High energy capacity, cost effective batteries are urgently needed for a wide range of medical, transportation and power generation devices, including in greenhouse gas reduction applications such as overcoming the battery driven “range anxiety” of electric vehicles, and increased capacity energy storage for the electric grid. Now there is a new class of battery that uses a molten electrolyte, are quasi-reversible (rechargeable), and have amongst the highest intrinsic battery electric energy storage capacities.
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The results of a recent experiment have been published by FaceResearch.org. Experimental psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have combined the faces of women around the world to approximate the “average face” of each country. Multiple images of faces are aligned and composited together to form the final result using a modern version of the technique that Sir Francis Galton pioneered in the 1800′s.
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A new study from the Oxford Martin Program on the Impacts of Future Technology suggests that almost half of U.S. jobs could be susceptible to computerization over the next two decades.
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Communication is the key when it comes to cancer care.
A new report has been released recently by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on the state of cancer care in the United States. The IOM is a non-profit, non-governmental advisory group. To get on one of their advisory boards you have to be a national, if not international, expert in whatever field is being studied. According to the cancer advisory board, the state of cancer care in the United States is abysmal.
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