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Study Shows Age Doesn’t Necessarily Affect Decision-Making

By Guest PostJuly 12, 20102 commentsCulture, Sciencedecision-making, gut instincts, intuitive decisions, north carolina state university, tara queen, thomas hess

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

By Guest PostJuly 9, 20102 commentsCulture, Technologyalex banks, brazil, Comscore, digital world, Entertainment, instant messengers, latin america, online population, Social networking

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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‘Thin May Not be in for African-American Women’

By Guest PostJuly 3, 2010Culture, Healthafrican-american women, american psychological association graduate student awa, bmi, body mass index, body shape, college of education, curvy body, department of educational, mu, rashanta bledman, school and counseling psychology, university of missouri, women

COLUMBIA, Mo. —Many women today are dissatisfied with their weight, body shape and size, and often strive to be unrealistically thin.

A University of Missouri graduate student has found that black women actually differ from white women in their perceptions of the ideal body shape and size.

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Do creative work activities create stress?

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2010Culture, Scienceapril kemick, creative work, marisa young, scott schieman, sociology, university of toronto, uoft, work and family

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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Why be Spiritual?

By Guest PostJune 21, 2010Culture, Healthgod, Health, religion, spirituality, worship, yoga

Before we delve into why one should be spiritual, we should understand what is meant by being spiritual.

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Over 200 Russians Become Drug Addicts Every Day

By PravdaJune 9, 20101 commentCulture, Healthafghanistan, anti-drug committee, heroin consumption, opiate, opium, russia, united nations office on drugs and crime, unodc

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), last year Russia was number one country in terms of heroin consumption.

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Revealing China’s ancient past

By Guest PostJune 7, 20101 commentCulture, Scienceamerican association for the advancement of science, arts & sciences, China, environmental change, han dynasty, henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archa, mississippi river, mulberry leaves, pleistocene era, plow shares, rural life in china, sanyangzhuang, silk cultivation, silk road, society for american archeology, st. louis, t.r. kidder, washington university, western china, yellow river

An archeologist at Washington University in St. Louis is helping to reveal for the first time a snapshot of rural life in China during the Han Dynasty.

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Ten Things All Women Hate about Men

By PravdaMay 30, 2010Culturecompanionate, dirty dishes, grandma’s birthday, pravda, selfishness, soccer, things women hate about men, waste of energy

Have you ever thought something like “Men are terrible creatures…They wage wars, start conflicts and then blame us for everything saying that all they do they do it for women. They demand impossible from women expecting them to do dishes, cook, work, and look like women on magazine covers.” 😉

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