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Hard Evidence: Has Life Got Worse for Young People?0
- Society
- September 25, 2013
Much of the negative health behaviour seems to have passed its peak.
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Sex 4 Days Per Week Will Raise Your Salary Up To 5%3
- Society
- September 25, 2013
Sex is an indicator of wealth and is therefore linked to higher salaries. Researchers have studied the correlation between the activity in bed and the salary of some workers. As it turns out, those who do not have such an intense sex life, have lower salaries (3 percent less) than those who do. Sex will
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Bacteria Could Shed Light on How Financial Markets Work 0
- Society
- August 8, 2013
Could bacterial modelling help us avoid another banking crash? What do bankers and bacteria have in common? Finite resources, quick decision-making and an appreciation of trade-offs, according to a study in Ecology Letters. So could bacterial modelling ever help us avoid another banking crash? Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Sydney, used mathematical models
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Just How Bad Are Rich People, Anyway?0
- Society
- August 5, 2013
Do people in higher socio-economic positions tend to act out of greed? Professor Paul Piff at UC Berkeley recently conducted a study attempting to see if there was some type of correlation between a person’s socio-economic status and the way they conduct themselves morally and ethically. Piff felt compelled to disprove the popular conservative stereotype
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The Top 7 Disruptive Technologies 0
- Design & Technology
- July 5, 2013
What will change tomorrow? There are new technologies that are cool, some that are scary, and others that are just duds. But a fourth type of technology is known as “disruptive” for its capacity to dislodge the status quo, send us thinking in new directions and change the world. The problem, though, with disruptive technologies
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To Feed the World, Eat More Types of Plants 0
- Earth & Environment
- July 5, 2013
We only eat 12 of 300,000 species If the planet’s population is going to go from 7 billion today to 8 billion by 2025, then we’re going to have to find more to eat. But while there are 300,000 species of flowering plants, we only use about a dozen for food. Cornell University biologist Susan
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