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Three New Independent Directors Appointed to Yahoo! Board

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2012Technologycorporate governance committee, yahoo board restructuring, yahoo directors, yahoo governance changes, yahoo independent directors, yahoo management team

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! Inc., the premier digital media company, today announced that its Board appointed three new independent directors, effective April 5, 2012 : John D. Hayes, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of American Express Company; Peter Liguori, former Chief Operating Officer of Discovery Communications, Inc. and former Chairman and President of Entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Network; and Thomas J. McInerney, the outgoing Chief Financial Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp. (more…)

Geologists Discover New Class of Landform on Mars

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2012Sciencebedrock, geological history, mars, martian history, martian surface, periodic bedrock ridges, spacing between ridges, wind erosion

An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by University of Washington geologists. (more…)

Most Americans Save Only About Half of Their Inheritances, Study Finds

By Guest PostMarch 25, 20121 commentEconomyaverage americans, inheritance, inherited money, inherited wealth, median inheritance, spending inheritance

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new national study suggests that adults who receive an inheritance save only about half of what they receive, while spending, donating or losing the rest. (more…)

Human Intelligence

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2012Politicsclandestine service, former cia officer, futuristic gadgets, global agenda, sneaky guys, underwear bomber

Former CIA officer talks about espionage in the digital age

America’s favorite spy movies often employ futuristic gadgets and high-tech devices to wow viewers, but according to a former officer in the CIA, technology may have some burdening effects on espionage. (more…)

YouTube Campaign Videos More Positive Than Television Ads

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2012TechnologyAds, jared wadley, John McCain, negative ads, Obama, partisan, political science, rob salmond, television, university of michigan, videos, YouTube, youtube videos

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—YouTube campaign videos are more positive than ads aired on television, a new University of Michigan study shows.

YouTube videos are more positive because they are narrowly targeted to the highly informed, high motivated, usually supportive people who view a candidate’s online video, said Rob Salmond, the study’s author and assistant professor of political science. (more…)

Picture Worth a Thousand Numbers: New Data Visualization Tool Helps Find the “Unknown Unknowns”

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2012Sciencedata analysis, data filters, data visualization tool, ordinary table formats, test matrix tool

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation data, then visualize the results onscreen. The new data analysis and visualization tool offers improved ease of use compared to similar tools, the researchers say, and could be readily adapted for use with existing data sets in a variety of disciplines. (more…)

U of T Research Demonstrates How Children Learn About Prejudice

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2012Generalanjum nayyar, children, elementary school, external instruction, kang and inzlicht, kids, michael inzlicht, negative experience, prejudice, red group, sonia kang, toronto, university of toronto

How do children come to realize that they themselves might be targets of prejudice? It may depend on their age. New research conducted at the University of Toronto shows that a six-year-old may be influenced most by direct instruction about prejudice, but once that child gets closer to 10, she begins to rely more on her own experiences.

“Young children are information hungry – they are eagerly searching for general rules to help in mapping out their social worlds,” write researchers Sonia Kang, an assistant professor in the Department of Management at U of T Mississauga and the Rotman School of Management, and Professor Michael Inzlicht of the Department of Psychology in this month’s Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (more…)

New Understanding of Earth’s Mantle Beneath The Pacific Ocean

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2012Scienceearth crust, gutenberg discontinuity, plate boundary, plate tectonics, seismic discontinuity

Washington, D.C. — Scientists have long speculated about why there is a large change in the strength of rocks that lie at the boundary between two layers immediately under Earth’s crust: the lithosphere and underlying asthenosphere. Understanding this boundary is central to our knowledge of plate tectonics and thus the formation and evolution of our planet as we know it today. A new technique for observing this transition, particularly in the portion of Earth’s mantle that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean basin, has led Carnegie and NASA Goddard scientist Nick Schmerr to new insight on the origins of the lithosphere and asthenosphere. His work is published March 23 in Science. (more…)

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