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Wednesday, 02 July 2008
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Did you know that USA ranks number 16 in world happiness? In fact, the United States ranks ahead of more than 80 countries, but below 15 others in happiness levels.
The World Values Survey (WVS) is the work of a global network of social scientists who perform periodic surveys addressing a number of issues. The latest surveys, taken in the United States and in several developing countries, showed increased happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of 52 countries for which substantial time series data was available.
European and World Values Surveys: Four-Wave Integrated Data File, 1981-2004, v.20060423, 2006. The European Values Study Foundation and World Values Survey Association. Aggregate File Producers: ASEP/JDS, Madrid, Spain/Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands. Aggregate File Distributors: ASEP/JDS and ZA, Cologne, Germany. [ Download Country Ranking PDF ]
Denmark tops the list of surveyed nations, along with Puerto Rico and Colombia. A dozen other countries, including Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada and Sweden also rank above the United States, which maintains about the sam
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Randall Munroe
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. Society (the women and men around us) has always been more comfortable if its members fall within certain known, established patterns: this is how we dress, this is what we say, this is what we believe, this is how we look.
These are the standards by which a society defines itself and separates from the non-members (the other societies that may live around it the proverbial they and them your mother warned you about).
Throughout human history, every society has had intrinsic cultural standards for beauty, especially beauty as it applies to women. Certain images are held up as examples of womanly perfection. Ancient Egypt, which placed a strong emphasis on images (statues, reliefs, wall paintings), provides hundreds, if not thousands of examples of their societal expectation for female beauty. [N1] Cultural emphasis on women's appearance is an ancient and ongoing story, perhaps one that is coded in our genes.
What is beauty? Like pornography, we know beauty when we see it but how shall we define it?
Attempts to reduce beauty down to binary data and mathematical models is nothing new. Two millennium ago, Pythagora
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TS-Si News Service
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Bloomington, IN, USA. An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking connect and communicate. They have identified a single network core, or hub, that integrates both brain hemispheres.
The map shows a core of brain regions with highly interconnected structures (the brain "connectome"). The groundbreaking work also describes a novel application of a non-invasive technique that can be used by other scientists to continue mapping the trillions of neural connections in the brain at even greater resolution, which is becoming a new field of science ("connectomics").
Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex. Patric Hagmann, Leila Cammoun, Xavier Gigandet, Reto Meuli, Christopher J. Honey, Van J. Wedeen, Olaf Sporns. PLoS Biology 6(7) e159 doi: 10.1371 / journal.pbio.0060159 [ Download PDF ]
A map of the human cerebral cortex identifies a single network core that could be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain. Image courtesy of Indiana Univer
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Springfield, VA, USA. Society (the women and men around us) has always been more comfortable if its members fall within certain known, established patterns: this is how we dress, this is what we say, this is... |
Washington, DC, USA. Science shows that the human brain and central nervous system form before the remaining portions of our overall body plan. This is a central insight and the province of developmental biology, particularly embryology, which deals with the development of organs and other anatomical structures... |
Edmunton, Alberta, Canada. Does emotional wisdom come with age? Researchers identified brain patterns that help healthy people over the age of 60 regulate and control emotion better than younger counterparts. Two brain regions increased activity when... |
Washington, DC, USA. Criticism of the Washington state Democratic Party for an attack ad that linked an Italian-American politician to fictional organized crime. The Pennsylvania Senate ponders expansion of bathroom access to people with bowel disorders. North Carolina's motor vehicle department embarrassed by a sample license plate on its... |
Washington, DC, USA. As fuel and energy costs continue to soar to record highs, a growing number of states are offering more of their public employees compressed workweeks to hold down states energy spending and give long-distance commuters some relief from paying high gas prices.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman... |
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Pauline Vu
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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TS-Si News Service
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Monday, 30 June 2008
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Daniel Petty
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Monday, 30 June 2008
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Randall Munroe
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Monday, 30 June 2008
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TS-Si News Service
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
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So They Say
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
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