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Children's brain mass counts for better math skills
Forget your third grader’s IQ, or working memory, or even previous mathematical abilities. When it comes to improving in math, it’s the brain’s hard wiring that counts. Researchers found that the volume of the hippocampus, a region...
Tags: Science and Technology, Mathematics, Medical Research
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iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...
Tags: Electronics, Teachers, Science and Technology, School Examinations, Apple iPad
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Hopkins names new provost
The Johns Hopkins University has named Robert C. Lieberman, an interim dean at Columbia University and an expert on American politics, to its No. 2 academic spot: provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. He will take the post July 1,...
Tags: Education, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Columbia University
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Video: See a cell reach out and touch its neighbor
Using specialized imaging techniques and customized microscopes to watch single embryonic chick cells in real time, scientists at Stanford University and UC San Francisco found that the developing cells reach out to one another to communicate -- extending...
Tags: Science and Technology, Biology
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At the Podium
The following lectures are scheduled this week in the community. All events are free and open to the public: 4 p.m. Monday. "Crisis in Southern Europe," panel discussion featuring Dimitri Sotiropoulos, political science professor, University of Athens;...Tags: Higgs Boson Search, Social Sciences, Science, Education, University of Maryland, College Park
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Sage Hill
Samir Durrani GPA: 4.6 School Activities/Clubs: co-founder of the Organic Educational Center, Honor Committee, Sage Advocates of Multicultural Education, Environmental Club president, rowing team, golf team, Mock Trial captain, jazz band string bassist,...Tags: Science, Environmental Issues, Harvard University, Awards and Prizes, National Government
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Newport Harbor
Rachel Anne Barney GPA: 4.4384 School Activities/Clubs: IB drama production of "Dear Brutus," Field Studies Club, IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Theatre HL, IB French SL, IB Environmental Science SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB diploma candidate, AP US...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Environmental Issues, Awards and Prizes, Philosophy, Government
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Apodaca: Telecommuting not so black and white
File this one under "Are you kidding me?" Internet firm Yahoo recently banned its workers from telecommuting, and suddenly we have a nationwide debate blazing over an issue that had previously appeared settled solidly in the corner of increasing...Tags: Electronics, Science and Technology, Newspaper and Magazine, Real Estate Buyers, Media Industry
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Mother, son team up for study skills book
Justin Muchnick likes to challenge himself to get good grades. At age 14 and away at Phillips Academy Andover school in Massachusetts he needs to live up to the challenge. Muchnick, a straight-A student, is a scholar-athlete. He went through the...
Tags: Book, Wrestling, Authors
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Valerie Jarrett, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, McCormick Place
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Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says
Researchers have linked air pollution and birth defects among pregnant women in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine. The study looked at women between 1997 and 2006, including 806 whose pregnancies were...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Birth Defects, Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Robotic jellyfish named Cyro could one day work for the Navy [video]
Meet Cyro, the latest robotic jellyfish to emerge from the engineering labs at Virginia Tech. Cyro measures 5 feet, 7 inches across and weighs in at 170 pounds. Its design was based on the real-life species Cyanea capillata, one of the largest jellyfish...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Providence College, Science and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Technology
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