Meetings Make You Dumber
A new study finds that group interactions can actually lower your intelligence. Scientists in Virginia matched groups according to IQ, ranked memb...
A new study finds that group interactions can actually lower your intelligence. Scientists in Virginia matched groups according to IQ, ranked memb...
Posted 12.19.2011
A new study found that gossip makes up 80 percent of our conversations, and CBS claims gossip is a $3 billion a year business. But who’s doing all t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.12.2011
An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high-performing charter school chains to public...
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.11.2011
Over the weekend I read how one study told us that women prefer dating thin, hot, rich men to fat, ugly, poor ones. Wow. I really hope that wasn't a costly enterprise by whatever group of social scientists decided to investigate that one.
Forbes Women | Posted 11.07.2011
“Career oriented women feel more respected at home and say their spouses are more helpful” – so state the results of a national survey of more t...
Posted 10.03.2011
A recent study that claimed that people who used the Internet Explorer web browser had lower IQs has been exposed as a hoax. ...
TIME.com | BRAD TUTTLE | Posted 09.23.2011
Studies show that flexing one’s muscles may help fight off—or possibly cause—wasteful impulse purchases, and other weird money findings. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.14.2011
If you can identify one advantage American troops held over the British in the American Revolution, chances are you know more U.S. history than most e...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.10.2011
Turns out, spending whole Saturdays watching marathons of baby Bentley on MTV might do more than just distract you from work deadlines and errands. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.08.2011
NEW YORK -- Education policies pushing more tests haven't necessarily led to more learning, according to a new National Research Council report. "W...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.19.2011
The next time you find calling technical support to be a brutally frustrating experience, just be glad you're not on the other end of the line. A n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.07.2011
So, what do your beloved Congresscritters spend the bulk of their time in Washington, DC doing? Mostly they have cuddle parties with lobbyists, or, if you've got the exquisite sense of timing of Rep. Corrine Brown, you're taking a "boutique shopping trip" to the brutalist wonderland of Crystal City, Virginia. But outside of that, they basically spend their days and nights straight up "doin' the dozens" on one another, in press releases. This is according to new research from Harvard, an important university.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
In May, the long-awaited results of international, decade-long study showed no increased risk for the two most common forms of brain cancer -- glioma and meningioma -- among cellphone users.
Posted 05.25.2011
Devastating heat waves that result in fatalities and crop losses may increasingly become a common occurrence in the United States over the next three ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Devastating heat waves that result in fatalities and crop losses may increasingly become a common occurrence in the United States over the next three ...
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011
CHICAGO — The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women fed their babies ...
New York Times | RUTH PENNEBAKER | Posted 11.17.2011
Read it and gloat. Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a va...
Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011
To take the economy off life support, health care reform must be implemented. We can have a debate about solutions, but let's not waste time debating the problem.
Andrew Trees | Posted 11.17.2011
We most value those qualities about our partners that we value about ourselves, research shows. So, all you really need to figure out is what you like about yourself.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011
"It's a little bit like a free lunch without the calories," says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... exercise in a pill! Wait -- we've been promised this before...
Newser.com | Posted 03.24.2012