27 Mar 2008
Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don’t most children today walk or bike to school?
It’s not necessarily because they’re spoiled, lazy or over scheduled. According to a University of Michigan researcher, concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 [...]
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27 Mar 2008
Here’s a maxim from the “duh” department: People typically prefer to feel emotions that are pleasant, like excitement, and avoid those that are unpleasant, like anger.
But a new study appearing in the April issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, says this may not always be the case. [...]
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27 Mar 2008
Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples’ mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Published March 26 in the Public Library of Science One, the [...]
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26 Mar 2008
A “large and growing” disparity exists between the life expectancies of higher- and lower-income U.S. residents, according to a new federal study, the New York Times reports. For the study, Gopal Singh, a demographer from HHS, and Mohammad Siahpush, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, used census data for all [...]
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The birth of U.S. colleges can be traced to events spread between 1636 when the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill that would pave the way in 1639 for the chartering of Harvard College (later Harvard University). In the next one hundred and thirty years a number of colleges would be created, though none would [...]
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26 Mar 2008
Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention.
Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists [...]
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Published: Friday, 19 October 2007
Anytime after 30, hopefully as late as 40 or 45, some of that muscle we were so proud of begins to be replaced with fat. Where that fat is most likely to accumulate is around our middles. Even if we are the same weight we were 10 years earlier, gradually we [...]
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24 Mar 2008
A new study in the Journal of Personality reveals the extent to which children’s personality types can predict the timing of key transitional moments between childhood and adulthood.
The study set out to examine whether childhood personality would predict the timing of important transitional events moving into adulthood, including leaving the parents’ home, establishing [...]
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Mar 20, 2008
Snorers have always been the butt of jokes. In cartoons, their nasal roar lifts the roof off houses. In sitcoms, there’s the wife who rolls her eyes at her snoring bedmate. But in reality, it’s not all that funny. In fact, snoring can be a nightmare for snorers and their beleaguered partners, [...]
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24 Mar 2008
Health and Safety Commission (HSC) Chair, Judith Hackitt, spent the day with a group of 10 and 11 year-olds from Staple Hill Primary School, Page Road, Bristol, at the Lifeskills – Learning for Living training centre (which is based at The Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol). The HSC Chair was in Bristol to [...]
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