Media and Entertainment
I've blog-bragged about my books before, but this is special. In 2005, I published a young readers' biography of a terrific astronomer, Beyond Jupiter: The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel.
She is featured in a Newsweek article for November 26.
As most of my regular readers know, I like to visit schools because it gives me a chance to speak directly to my readers.
I've just set up a visit in the Cleveland OH area in May and would like to set up one more.
Like other fathers and sons, Douglas Gentile and his father have spent many hours arguing about video games. What makes them different is that Douglas, an Iowa State University assistant professor of psychology, is one of the country's top researchers on the effects of media on children. His father, J. Ronald Gentile, is a leading researcher on effective teaching and a distinguished teaching professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York. Through their discussions, they realized that video games use the same techniques that really great teachers use.
Publishers Weekly has just published its list of best books for 2007, including the following science or science-related titles.
The latest Science Shelf Newsletter is now available. A version without images and with some links not active is reproduced here.
More than 10 million members of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr snap pictures of their surroundings and then post those photos on the Internet. One group at the University of Washington is doing the reverse--downloading thousands of photos from Flickr and using them to recreate the original scenes.
Researchers have determined that television viewing is not only linked to childhood obesity, but also to hypertension in children, according to a study published in the December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it will partner with ResearchChannel to develop programs with science themes for national and international distribution via cable television, the Internet and other media.
Nurses and physicians are using the latest technology to help young burn victims endure the extreme pain of dressing changes and wound care. Instead of traditional distraction devices, such as books and music, one burn center is now using virtual reality games to distract patients while nurses attend to the patients’ burn wounds.
The government of Brazil recently ordered the arrest of the well-known linguist and anthropologist, Dan Everett.
File sharing is taking its worst toll on smaller albums, “devastating” lower ranked titles on the Billboard Top 100, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Daily television viewing for two or more hours in early childhood can lead to behavioral problems and poor social skills, according to a study of children 2.5 to 5.5 years of age conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Several recent research studies published in the United States have determined that young adolescents who see smoking scenes in movies are more likely to smoke. To combat smoking among youth, public health groups have called for Restricted (R) ratings for movies that depict smoking. A new study from New Zealand, however, calls that strategy into question.
Electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts to find the kind of music they want to listen to – without knowing the names of artists or songs.
University of Nottingham scientists are helping to capture the essence of excitement with a live experiment that measures the 'thrill factor' of riding a rollercoaster.
