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Tight Races In Major League Baseball's Eastern Divisions, Mathematician Predicts
April 2, 2009 — The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels should make the playoffs in the American League in 2009 with most other teams lagging well behind. The National League ... > full story -
Taking Cues: Sometimes Environmental Cues Can Activate Thrifty Behavior
March 31, 2009 — Consumers are constantly bombarded with subtle and even subconscious cues from their environment. A new study examines whether these cues activate goals that affect behavior in the long term or ... > full story -
TV Shows Convey Mixed Messages About Alcohol Consumption In Youth
March 25, 2009 — Efforts to dissuade youth consumption through negative alcohol consumption depictions can be thwarted by portrayals of positive consumption in prime-time television programming. A new study reveals ... > full story -
Video Games, Cell Phones And Academic Performance: Some Good News
March 24, 2009 — Using cell phones and playing video games may not be as harmful to children's academic performance as previously believed, according to new ... > full story -
London Murders: Statistics Theory Shows Numbers Are Predictable
March 17, 2009 — A leading statistician claims that the number of murders in London last year was not out of the ordinary and followed a predictable pattern. His report argues that shocking headline numbers are not ... > full story -
Technological Competence Not Sufficient For Success In The Digital Gaming Machine Industry
March 3, 2009 — The shift from electromechanical to digital technology generated a lot of opportunities for the gaming industry, but it simultaneously created a new set of prerequisites for success. Technological ... > full story -
Women Opt Out Of Math/science Careers Because Of Family Demands
March 3, 2009 — Women who are good at mathematics often do not choose careers in math-intensive fields, such as computer science, physics, technology, engineering, chemistry, and higher mathematics, because they ... > full story -
Video Game Everquest 2 Provides New Way To Study Human Behavior
February 27, 2009 — Computer scientists show that online, interactive gaming communities are now so massive that they mirror traditional ... > full story -
Public Schools Outperform Private Schools in Math Instruction
February 26, 2009 — In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ... > full story -
Is Our Obsession With Pandemic Bird Flu Justified?
February 24, 2009 — While it is almost a certainty that within the next few decades humanity will experience another influenza pandemic, it may not be caused by the avian influenza strain H5N1 that many scientists ... > full story
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