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Cleanliness Makes People Less Severe In Moral Judgments
New research in
Psychological Science has
found that the physical
notion of cleanliness
significantly reduces the
severity of moral judgments,
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Why Are So Many Infectious Diseases Jumping From Animals To Humans?
The first trench-to-bench
field guide for tracking
wild primate infectious
diseases provides integrated
information that could help
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Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution
Human degradation of the
environment has the
potential to stall an
ongoing process of planetary
evolution, and even rewind
the evolutionary clock to
... > full story
Ban On Fast Food TV Advertising Would Reverse Childhood Obesity Trends, Study Shows
A ban on fast-food
advertisements in the United
States could reduce the
number of overweight
children by as much as 18
... > full story
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Place Of Birth Contributes To Asthma Disparity
December 2, 2008 — Public health researchers report the possible role of nativity (place of birth) on asthma prevalence in a black population in the United States. The findings emerged unexpectedly from a ... > full story -
Test-tube Babies Profitable Business For The State, Swedish Study Shows
December 1, 2008 — Increased financial support for IVF fertilization would be downright profitable for the state according to Swedish research. Test-tube babies are an investment for the future, not an ... > full story -
Children With Sickle Cell Disease Receiving Inadequate Care, Study Finds
December 1, 2008 — A new study finds that youth populations with sickle cell disease are receiving inadequate health care, and thus may fail to benefit from scientific advances. The study finds that the patients, ... > full story -
1/3 Of Farm Workers' Children Lack Health Insurance
December 1, 2008 — Children of farm workers are three times as likely as all other children and almost twice as likely as other poor children to be uninsured, according to a new ... > full story -
Science Professors Know Science, But Who Is Teaching Them How To Teach?
November 30, 2008 — U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors -- teaching ... > full story -
Asthma Over-Diagnosed In One Third Of Canadian Adults, Study Suggests
November 29, 2008 — Asthma may be overdiagnosed in countries like Canada, suggests a longitudinal study of 540 obese and non-obese adults that found approximately one third of Canadians with physician-diagnosed asthma ... > full story -
Expressing Emotions In E-mail So As Not To Be Misinterpreted
November 28, 2008 — How do people use emoticons, subject lines, and signatures to define how they want to be interpreted in email? The authors find that "a shift to email interaction requires a new set of interactional ... > full story -
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Road Emissions Dominate Global Transport Emissions
November 28, 2008 — The world’s car park is growing. It has become so big that the impact of emissions from today’s road traffic on the global temperature in 2100 will be six times greater than that from ... > full story -
Final World Trade Center 7 Investigation Report On September 11, 2001 Collapse Released
November 28, 2008 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center 7 in New York City. The study is strengthened by ... > full story -
Secret To Workplace Happiness? Remember What You Love About The Job, Study Urges
November 28, 2008 — Urging employees to rethink their jobs was enough to drop absenteeism by 60 percent and turnover by 75 percent, a new study ... > full story
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