Media and Entertainment
Preschool children 2 years and older should spend no more than two hours a day watching television and using the computer. That's according to recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Javier the Engineer takes you on a tour of the Center for Advanced Technology. Learn about the latest developments in carbon fiber toothpick technology and recent advancements in pizza stem-cell research.
Television news audiences are divided along party lines like never before, according to a new University of Georgia study that warns the trend may have damaging consequences for political discourse and democracy in America.
Computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse piercing thick fog.
I tagged this with every category since I review books in all realms of science.
Though I plan to maintain my Science Shelf archive of book reviews, I will now also publish the reviews on Science Blog.
The fight to make Pluto a planet again is picking up momentum. Maybe a little presidential politics will be able to resolve the dispute. In unrelated news, cancer still isn't cured.
For those of you have have been wondering about whether ScienceDebate2008, the latest news is that it has morphed into a different but still viable form.
It won't take place in PA, but it may take place on PBS.
Click for the latest message from the organizers
Since I'm a science book reviewer, I thought I'd pass along a news release I got about this year's Orion Book Award winner and other nominated titles.
Have you read a good science book? Post it on the thread!
I have a high-school friend who is living with a cancer that will ultimately, and perhaps soon, be terminal.
She has been keeping a blog in part because her voice has been compromised by the illness.
She is the daughter of a physicist, and she is a gifted writer.
Read on to discover her reflections on time.
I just received my review copy of this important book, and my recommendation is short and sweet.
The latest newsletter of the Science Shelf book review archive is now available online.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped one treatment within a large, ongoing North American clinical trial of diabetes and cardiovascular disease 18 months early due to safety concerns after review of available data, although the study will continue. In this trial of adults with type 2 diabetes at especially high risk for heart attack and stroke, the medical strategy to intensively lower blood glucose (sugar) below current recommendations increased the risk of death compared with a less-intensive standard treatment strategy. Study participants receiving intensive blood glucose lowering treatment will now receive the less-intensive standard treatment.
Allan Reiss, MD, and his colleagues have a pretty good idea why your husband or boyfriend can't put down the Halo 3. In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game play.
