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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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Technological Advances and the Dangers of Nuclear Energy

By PravdaJuly 11, 20101 commentEnvironment, Science1986, air france af 477, airbus 330-200, april 20, april 26, bp, brazil, british petroleum, Chernobyl, deepwater horizon oil exploration, eastern europe, environmental disasters, gulf of mexico, hector scalambrini costa, hiroshima bomb, human activities, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactivity, Scandinavia, soviet union, thyroid cancer, uk, zero risk

The successive and increasingly frequent occurrences of environmental disasters caused by human activities deserves our utmost attention. Leading us to necessarily suspect that we should have credible and foolproof trials before accepting assertions regarding existing technologies.

The most striking example is the disaster caused by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil exploration platform by British Petroleum (BP) which happened last April 20, and which day after day has reached catastrophic proportions.

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Man-made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Environment, Scienceadam wolf, agriculture, agu, alaska, american geophysical union, Anthropocene, asia, beringia, betula, birch trees, california, carnegie institution, carnegie institution for science, chris doughty, chris field, climate, ecology, elephants, emissions, geological age, geophysical research letters, global warming, grassland, greenhouse gas, impact on climate, mammoths, NASA, North America, prehistoric farmers, russia, science in Stanford, Siberia, yukon territory

WASHINGTON — Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests.

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Reseachers Predict Larger-than-average Gulf ‘Dead Zone’; Impact of Oil Spill Unclear

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Environment, Scienceaquatic, Atchafalaya, bacteria, center for sponsored coastal ocean, dead zone, deepwater horizon, donald scavia, ecologist, geological survey, graham sustainability institute, gulf hypoxic zone, gulf of mexico, hypoxia, hypoxia zone, hypoxia-fueling algae, lake Ontario, louisiana state university, louisiana universities marine consortium, matt Larsen, Mississippi, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, nitrogen, noaa, organic matter, oxygen-starved, river, school of natural resources and environment, university of michigan, US, usgs

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is expected to be larger than average, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a $659 million fishery.

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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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NASA infrared imagery shows well-defined eye in Category 5 Celia

By Guest PostJune 25, 2010Scienceairs, atmospheric infrared sounder, baja California, category 5 storm, celia, eastern pacific, ed olsen, hurricane celia, infrared image, moderate imaging spectroradiometer, modis, nasa aqua satellite, nasa jpl, national hurricane center, tropical cyclones, tropopause, troposphere

Celia has exploded into a monster hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, and is now a Category 5 storm over open waters.

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image (that shows temperature) of Celia’s clouds and clearly shows an eye in the storm.

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Dinosaur-chewing mammals leave behind oldest known tooth marks

By Guest PostJune 24, 2010Scienceadrosaurid, alberta, aquatic reptile, canada, ceratopsid, champsosaurus, cleveland museum of natural history, deer, dinosaur, dinosaur-chewing mammals, Epoch, femur bone, journal paleontology, late cretaceous, mammalian tooth marks, marsupial, michael j. ryan, multituberculates, nicholas longrich, ornithischian, paleontologists, royal tyrrell museum of palaeontology, university of alberta laboratory for vertebrate palaeon, yale university

New Haven, Conn. — Paleontologists have discovered the oldest mammalian tooth marks yet on the bones of ancient animals, including several large dinosaurs. They report their findings in a paper published online June 16 in the journal Paleontology.

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