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Happily Married Couples Consider Themselves Healthier, Says MU Expert

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Healthcaucasian, christine proulx, chronic conditions, develop, happily married couples, happy marriages, health promotion programs, healthier, life course, linley snyder rivas, marital instability, mu expert, personal relationships, research, spouses, treatment plans, university of missouri, well being

Medical professionals should consider how marital quality affects patients’ health

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Research shows that married people have better mental and physical health than their unmarried peers and are less likely to develop chronic conditions than their widowed or divorced counterparts. A University of Missouri expert says that people who have happy marriages are more likely to rate their health as better as they age; aging adults whose physical health is declining could especially benefit from improving their marriages.

Christine Proulx, an assistant professor in the MU Department of Human Development and Family Studies, examined the long-term relationship between self-rated health and marital quality. She found that, in all stages of marriage, positive or negative relationships affect the individuals’ health. Spouses should be aware that how they treat each other and how happy they are in their marriages affect both partners’ health, and they should think more about their personal relationships when thinking holistically about their health, she said. (more…)

A Long Distance Call: Astronaut’s Kids See Dad’s Office from Ladd

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Scienceadult kids, anthony, astronomer robert horton, brown, brown university, fast moving objects, heidi, heidi ford, international space station, kevin ford, ladd observatory, rhode islanders, sky, space station commander, telescope, ufo, valentines day greetings, watch dad fly

Space Station Commander Kevin Ford exchanged Valentine’s Day greetings with his adult kids Heidi and Anthony — he speeding by about 220 miles above Providence and they watching him fly past from Brown’s Ladd Observatory.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Rhode Islanders with their eyes skyward around 6 p.m. last Thursday might have noticed a curiously bright speck speeding across the evening sky. No, it wasn’t a UFO or an asteroid. It was the International Space Station, and for Providence resident Heidi Ford, it was dad’s office.

Heidi’s father Kevin Ford is currently the commander of the ISS. And with the help of Brown’s Ladd Observatory and astronomer Robert Horton, Heidi and her brother Anthony, who was visiting from Houston, got to see last week’s flyby close up while they talked to their dad on the phone. (more…)

Searching for the Solar System’s Chemical Recipe

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Scienceasteroids, basic ingredients, beams of vuv, carbon monoxide, clouds, comets, dust, elements, gas molecules, gas phase photodynamics, genesis mission, hydrogen sulfide, interplanetary ice, isotope ratios, isotopic differences, john heidenreich, mark thiemens, mass spectrometry, mean ocean water, moons, musahid musa ahmed, nanometer wavelength range, NASA, nitrogen, one extra neutron, origin, oxygen 17, oxygen isotope puzzle, photochemistry, physical factors, planets, primitive solar nebula, raindrops, san diego, smow, solar system recipe, standard, subrata chakraborty, teresa jackson, ultraclean aluminum foil, university of california, vacuum ultraviolet light, vuv wavelengths, x axis, y axis

Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Dynamics Beamline points to why isotope ratios in interplanetary dust and meteorites differ from Earth’s

By studying the origins of different isotope ratios among the elements that make up today’s smorgasbord of planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and interplanetary ice and dust, Mark Thiemens and his colleagues hope to learn how our solar system evolved. Thiemens, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, has worked on this problem for over three decades.

In recent years his team has found the Chemical Dynamics Beamline of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to be an invaluable tool for examining how photochemistry determines the basic ingredients in the solar system recipe. (more…)

Changes in Cloud Distribution Explain Some Weather Patterns

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Environmentability to reflect, atmospheric sciences, black carbon, change in clouds, changes in cloud, climate change, cloud cover, cloud features, cloud properties, cumuliform clouds, distribution, global warming, heavy pollution, homogeneous, horizontal clouds, impact on temperature, jet stream, light, mid latitude, monsoons in india, northern india, rainfall, regional cloud changes, russia, ryan eastman, scientist, stephen warren, storm track, study clouds, thickness, tropics, university of washington, volume of data, weather patterns, weather stations

Regional cloud changes, such as those that result in less rain during monsoons in India and those that indicate a widening of the tropics, may be as important to watch as the overall amount of cloud cover, new University of Washington research indicates.

Authors of the paper, led by Ryan Eastman, a UW research scientist in atmospheric sciences, set out to examine observations collected from weather stations around the world as a way to study the distribution of clouds. The research was recently published in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate. (more…)

Wanted: A Life Outside the Workplace

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2013Generalalyssa westring, ann marie ryan, aptmetrics, consulting firm, elizabeth boyd, energy, health care, hobbies, human resources, jessica keeney, lives beyond office, memo to employers, michigan state university, new concept, non work interests, playing sports, ruchi sinha, time, united states, work family balance, work life

A memo to employers: Just because your workers live alone doesn’t mean they don’t have lives beyond the office.

New research at Michigan State University suggests the growing number of workers who are single and without children have trouble finding the time or energy to participate in non-work interests, just like those with spouses and kids.

Workers struggling with work-life balance reported less satisfaction with their lives and jobs and more signs of anxiety and depression. (more…)

Volcanic Aerosols, not Pollutants, Tamped down Recent Earth Warming, Says CU Study

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2013Environmentcoal burning, earth warming, stratospheric aerosols, volcanic aerosols, volcanic eruptions

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight — dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide. (more…)

Global Education

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2013Educationabuja, african studies, anthropology, basic ingredient, benin, california state university, cameroon, chelsea rozanski, ghana, global education, Kenya, mune duniya, native hausa language, necessary resources, niger, nigerian translator, nigerian village, phillips elisha, regional chadic language, rice, sacramento, school curriculum, serrena carlucci, spices, Tanzania, tomatoes, ukyau, university of delaware, village care international, volunteer, west african culinary

UD student helps provide children in Nigeria a schoolhouse of their own

In the Nigerian village of Ukya’u, the children have a teacher and sit on benches in a church room, but there are no desks, no separate classes and no school building to call their own.

Chelsea Rozanski, a University of Delaware sophomore who is majoring in anthropology with a minor in African Studies, is working to change that situation. (more…)

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