Category Archives: Culture

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change: The Cows Did It!!

*Paul McCartney and Daughters Publish Booklet for Vegetarian Newspaper – -Newspaper speaks of the campaign promoted by the former Beatle in order to avoid eating meat on Mondays.* 

Paul McCartney and daughters, Mary and Stella, are helping to publish a special supplement of a healthy and very tasty vegetarian diet of foods published by the British Sunday newspaper “The Observer.”

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How Do You Feel About Science?

You’re standing at the edge of watery abyss. What comes to your mind first? The beauty? The amount of electricity? How unimportant you are? How much money you could make with a visitor center? 

How you answer says a lot about how you think, and as pollsters are beginning to wonder, how you might feel about science.

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Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

ANN ARBOR, Mich.Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.  

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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Study Shows Age Doesn’t Necessarily Affect Decision-Making

Many people believe that getting older means losing a mental edge, leading to poor decision-making.  

But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that when it comes to making intuitive decisions – using your “gut instincts” – older adults fare as well as their juniors.

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Internet Users Age 6-14 in Brazil Spend 60 Percent of their Online Time on Entertainment and Communication Sites

Sao Paulo, Brazil – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (June 30) a study of online behavior among 6-14 year-old consumers in Brazil, a recent addition to comScore’s demographic segmentation capabilities in the market. 

The study found that Internet users 6-14 years of age accounted for 12 percent of the total online population in Brazil in May 2010, spending the majority of their time on Entertainment, Instant Messengers and Social Networking sites.

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Do creative work activities create stress?

*A new study identifies the challenges for the boundaries between work and family*

The demands associated with creative work activities pose key challenges for workers, according to new research out of the University of Toronto that describes the stress associated with some aspects of work and its impact on the boundaries between work and family life.

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