Atlet muda belajar lebih banyak kecakapan hidup dan pengembangan karakter ketika coach mereka lebih menekankan iklim kepedulian daripada berfokus pada kompetisi, demikian hasil riset Institute for the Study of Youth Sports dari Universitas Michigan (ScienceDaily, 2012). Atlet yang bermain dalam suasana yang berfokus pada peningkatan diri lebih menciptakan rasa kerja tim dan mengembangkan inisiatif, keterampilan…
Email Language Tips Off Work Hierarchy
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2012) Members of the modern workforce might be surprised to learn that if they use the word “weekend” in a workplace email, chances are they’re sending the message up the org chart. The same is true for the words “voicemail,” “driving,” “okay” — and even a choice four-letter word that rhymes with “hit.”…
Cellphone Use Linked to Selfish Behavior
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2012) Though cellphones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Marketing professors Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Rosellina Ferraro, with graduate student, Ajay T. Abraham, conducted a series of experiments on test…
Your View of Personal Goals Can Affect Your Relationships
ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2010) How you think about your goals — whether it’s to improve yourself or to do better than others — can affect whether you reach those goals. Different kinds of goals can also have distinct effects on your relationships with people around you, according to the authors of a paper published in Current…
Skeletons from the 18th Century Reveal Typhus Epidemic from Spain
ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2010) By studying the dental pulp of skeletons buried in Douai (northern France), researchers from CNRS and the Universitat de la Mediterranee have identified the pathogenic agents responsible for trench fever and typhus. Published in the journal PLoS One, this work reveals for the first time the presence of typhus in Europe…
Cyber Monday: Beware the malware
CNET News, November 24th, 2010 It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving and you’re sitting at your work computer suffering from food coma. Too bloated to get any real work done, you decide to do something that doesn’t occupy too much of the brain–online Christmas shopping. There’s more at stake here than the cost of shipping and…
Venture Beat’ Top 10 holiday gift ideas: affordable and fun gadgets that work
Venture Beat, November 25, 2010 | Dean Takahashi and Devindra Hardawar The holiday selling season is about to kick off and, slow economy or not, tech gadgets are going to be high on the wish list for a lot of us. At VentureBeat, we like gifts that work, that are fun, and that are affordable….
Giant Panda Genome Reveals New Insights Into the Bear’s Bamboo Diet
ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2010) A Chinese-led team including international researchers with a scientist from Cardiff University, has shed new light on some of the giant panda’s unusual biological traits, including its famously restricted diet. The team has successfully sequenced the panda genome for the first time and now, the genetic insights gleaned from the work…
Polar Bears Unlikely to Survive in Warmer World, Biologists Say
ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2010) Will polar bears survive in a warmer world? UCLA life scientists present new evidence that their numbers are likely to dwindle. As polar bears lose habitat due to global warming, these biologists say, they will be forced southward in search of alternative sources of food, where they will increasingly come into…