Post 9/11 travel: What airport security costs us Remember when you could arrive at the airport 30 minutes before your flight, get complimentary peanuts and a Coke and be greeted upon arrival by a loved one right at the gate?
Brain Blogger The NeuroSocial Network Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing discipline that examines the relationship between the brain and social behavior. The “social brain hypothesis” posits that, over evolutionary time, living in large, social groups favored the physical growth of brain regions important for social behavior. In non-human primates, some evidence indicates that the size of the amygdala is […]
The Christian Science Monitor IHOP shooting: Will police ever understand gunman’s motive? Authorities in Carson City, Nev., are still searching for the gunman’s motive in Tuesday’s shooting rampage at an IHOP restaurant. As they do, criminologists are suggesting that investigations could yet uncover why the shooter stepped from a minivan with a yellow “Support Our Troops” sticker on it and proceeded to kill five people, including three […]
Metro Hammered.org: Site promotes fun minus the hangover Got nothing to do and feeling too hungover to drink again – or just don’t feel like drinking at all?
Dismal summer for teen jobs may scar young Americans Teenagers hung out on street corners and on the steps of boarded-up buildings in impoverished downtown Newburgh one blisteringly hot August day this year.
San Francisco Chronicle GOP front-runner Rick Perry faces debate hot seat Eight Republican presidential contenders will hit the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library today, and most of the spotlight and pressure will be focused on the newest face in the race: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Freeze Public Wages IN the face of this economic crisis, the federal government has all but declared unilateral disarmament. The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has vowed to keep real interest rates near zero, but even at that level few are borrowing. Over at the White House and on Capitol Hill, the pursuit of deficit reduction has […]
Boston.com 3rd Grade Reading and Social Promotion Through 2007, Massachusetts showed the fastest progress of any state on the national assessment (NAEP) tests. What was most impressive is that black and Hispanic students showed even more progress on the national assessments than did their white peers.
The Martha's Vineyard Times Martha’s Vineyard Hospital offers nursing students change of scene Every summer Martha’s Vineyard Hospital takes on a new face - or actually many – with extra nursing staff hired to help handle an increase in medical care required by an influx of visitors and seasonal residents. Among those new faces are nursing students from a variety of colleges and universities, who work as certified […]
Boston.com Menino set to coax nonprofits into hiring To encourage job growth, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today will propose financial incentives for hospitals, universities, and other nonprofits to hire out-of-work Boston residents.
What does it mean to have more than one kind of infinity? Isnât infinity just infinity? Infinity is a subtle concept.
Raise minimum wage, make lives and economy better Forget Angry Birds. There’s a new iPhone application that provides hours of entertainment. Released last week, iSpeech Obama allows you to type in any phrase you want and the president’s voice will repeat it back to you.