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Current violent juvenile treatment methods costly, ineffective, MU researcher finds

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — In a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue — and he has the numbers to prove it.
Charles Borduin, a professor of p…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Mercyhurst pioneers game-based learning in teaching strategic intelligence

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Kris Wheaton pushes a key on his computer and the reminder transmits to dozens of intelligence studies students: Game Lab Tonight!
Himself a long-time gamer, Wheaton is a pioneer in game-based learning as it applies to the teaching of intelligenc…

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Boxing — bad for the brain

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Up to 20% of professional boxers develop neuropsychiatric sequelae. But which acute complications and which late sequelae can boxers expect throughout the course of their career? These are the questions studied by Hans Förstl from the Technical U…

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New observations of exploding stars reveal pauses, flickers and flares not reliably seen before

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Astronomers have traced the waxing and waning light of exploding stars more closely than ever before and seen patterns that aren’t yet accounted for in our current understanding of how these eruptions occur.
Using data from a sensitive instrument …

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Physics & Mathematics, Space

Gender gap in physics exams reduced by simple writing exercises, says CU-Boulder study

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Women are underrepresented and on average perform more poorly than men in introductory physics. But a recent study finds that this gap arises predominantly from differential preparation prior to college and psychological factors, rather than dif…

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For HIV-positive patients, delayed treatment a costly decision

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HIV infected patients whose treatment is delayed not only become sicker than those treated earlier, but also require tens of thousands of dollars more in care over the first several years of their treatment.
“We know that it’s important clinical…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

Hard work improves the taste of food, Johns Hopkins study shows

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It’s commonly accepted that we appreciate something more if we have to work hard to get it, and a Johns Hopkins University study bears that out, at least when it comes to food.
The study seems to suggest that hard work can even enhance our appreci…

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Teaching communication and information literacy skills

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MADISON, WI, August 30th, 2010 — Undergrads often take communication courses unrelated to their major or discipline. The Iowa State University Department of Horticulture teamed up with the Library and English Departments to develop a course sectio…

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Fixing Wiki: Wikipedia revision project teaches teamwork, communication, chemistry

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, electroactive polymers—such subjects are typical fare in graduate-level chemistry courses. But how many classes challenge students to explain the concepts to the whole world?
That’s es…

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Docs-to-be study art to hone medical skills

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A new course at the Stanford School of Medicine teaches first-year doctors-to-be how to hone their observational skills by carefully studying works of art. The brain child of a current Stanford Hospital resident, the course not only is part of the curriculum, but it has scientific backing that proves its value, the school says.

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