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Amazon Prime Members Now Get Unlimited, Commercial-free, Instant Streaming of More Than 5,000 Movies and TV Shows at No Additional Cost

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2011Technologyamadeus, Amazon, amazon instant video, amazon prime members, caillou, cameron janes, chariots of fire, movies and tv shows, robbie schwietzer, super why, syriana, the social network, two day shipping

*Amazon Adds Instant Videos to Amazon Prime*

SEATTLE, Feb 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the launch of a new benefit for Amazon Prime members: unlimited, commercial-free, instant streaming of more than 5,000 movies and TV shows. This new benefit is being added at no additional cost — Prime membership will continue to be $79 per year. Amazon Prime’s all-you-can-eat free Two-Day Shipping has already attracted millions of members. Customers can learn more about an Amazon Prime one-month free trial and start watching instantly at www.amazon.com/primevideos.

“Millions of Amazon Prime members already enjoy the convenience of free Two-Day Shipping,” said Robbie Schwietzer, vice president of Amazon Prime. “Adding unlimited instant access to thousands of movies and TV shows at no additional cost is a great way to give members even more value for their $79 annual Amazon Prime membership.” (more…)

Users Worldwide Can Now Unite in Online Study Groups for Open Yale Courses

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2011Educationbehavioral finance, Beijing, diana kleiner, donald kagan, financial markets, fundamentals of physics, introduction to ancient greek history, open yale courses, openstudy, ramamurti shankar, robert shiller, roman architecture, sao paulo, social networking pilot project, spring, undergraduate courses, yale academic content, yale economist

Open Yale Courses, which will be releasing another set of undergraduate courses this spring, has added a new dimension to its offering by engaging in a social networking pilot project with the website OpenStudy.

OpenStudy is designed to connect users in a study group that allows them to collaborate in real time on open content regardless of their location. For example, if a person viewing Yale economist Robert Shiller’s lecture on behavioral finance in Beijing is unclear on an issue, he can post his question to the course’s study group and receive assistance from a fellow Open Yale Courses user in São Paulo. (more…)

To Increase Physical Activity, Focus on How, not Why

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2011Healthbehavior changing strategies, behavior strategies, chronic illnesses, cognitive approaches, exercise, Health, lifestyles, manageable goals, meta analysis, obesity, pedometers, physical activity, protection, self monitoring, university of missouri, vicki conn

*Behavior strategies, such as self-monitoring and goals, motivate best, MU study finds*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Most people know that exercise is important to maintain and improve health; however, sedentary lifestyles and obesity rates are at all-time highs and have become major national issues. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found that healthy adults who received interventions focused on behavior-changing strategies significantly increased their physical activity levels. Conversely, interventions based on cognitive approaches, which try to change knowledge and attitudes, did not improve physical activity. (more…)

Climate Change Affecting Food Safety

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2011Environmentclimate change, food safety, food supply, mycotoxin problem, warm ocean water

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Climate change is already having an effect on the safety of the world’s food supplies and unless action is taken it’s only going to get worse, a Michigan State University professor told a symposium at this year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (more…)

Hello Mother: Microsoft Makes ‘Native Languages’ More Accessible

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2011Technologycarla hurd, english to vietnamese, environments and communities, greater economic opportunity, high tech world, indigenous polynesian, international mother language day, inuktitut language, language interface packs, lauren woodman, lips, malaysia, maori language, microsoft local language program, microsoft windows, new zealand, te taka keegan, Technology, Vietnam, visual studio

*The Microsoft Local Language Program extends software to often underserved cultures, allowing people to experience technology in their native language. Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day*

REDMOND – Feb. 21, 2011 – While visiting a government office in Vietnam nearly a decade ago, a Microsoft employee noticed one of the employees had Post-It® notes all the way around her computer monitor.

The notes weren’t daily “to-dos” or grocery lists, but English-to-Vietnamese translations of common Microsoft Windows and Office commands such as “file,” “save” and “print.” At the time, there was no Microsoft software available in Vietnamese. (more…)

Stresses of Unemployed Spouse Can Hurt Job Performance of Other Spouse, Study Finds

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 20112 commentsCulture, Economyemployee's productivity, interpersonal relationships, journal of applied psychology, maw-der foo, national university of singapore, stresses of an unemployed spouse's job, unemployment situation, university of colorado boulder

Ignoring the stresses of an unemployed spouse’s job search does not bode well for the employed spouse’s job productivity or home life, says a University of Colorado Boulder professor.

Associate Professor Maw-Der Foo of CU-Boulder’s Leeds School of Business studies employee workplace issues, including those related to interpersonal relationships. (more…)

Global Warming May Reroute Evolution

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2011Environment, Nature, Scienceasclepias syriaca, asexual reproduction, carbon dioxide levels, cardenolides, chemical defenses, driving force of evolution, elevated carbon dioxide, environmental factors, genetic composition, global warming, heart poisons, interaction, mark hunter, milkweed, milkweed plants, monarch caterpillars, plant eating insects, plant evolution, plants and insects, rachel vannette, selection pressure

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming may affect interactions between plants and the insects that eat them, altering the course of plant evolution, research at the University of Michigan suggests.

The research focused on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Milkweed is one of many plants that produce toxic or bitter chemical compounds to protect themselves from being eaten by insects. These chemical defenses are the result of a long history of interactions between the plants and insects such as monarch caterpillars that feed on them. (more…)

Herschel Measures Dark Matter for Star-Forming Galaxies

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2011Sciencealexandre amblard, asantha cooray, astronomers, dark matter, distant galaxies, european space agency, exotic substance, Galaxy, herschel, herschel space observatory, jamie bock, longer wavelength infrared light, massive galaxies, Milky Way, Nature, star forming galaxies, stars, telescope, universe, william danchi

PASADENA, Calif. — The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed how much dark matter it takes to form a new galaxy bursting with stars. Herschel is a European Space Agency cornerstone mission supported with important NASA contributions.

The findings are a key step in understanding how dark matter, an invisible substance permeating our universe, contributed to the birth of massive galaxies in the early universe. (more…)

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