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Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.

8 May 2015 grant 0

Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth:

…A team led by neuroscientists

… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”

Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)

9 April 2015 grant 0

Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:

…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation

… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”

Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.

9 March 2015 grant 0

RenewEconomy follows the money in alternative energy, and focuses on a Deutsche Bank report that finds ever-cheaper batteries will make existing solar power tech way more workable:

But

… Read the rest “Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.”

Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.

9 July 2014 grant 0

The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:

Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell

… Read the rest “Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.”

Driverless cars: an economic problem.

21 May 2014 grant 0

Another one for the unintended consequences file? From Slashdot (not normally a research reporting resource, but bear with us) we hear a note of concern sounded about Google cars cutting… Read the rest “Driverless cars: an economic problem.”

Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.

5 June 2013 grant 0

Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand:

Research conducted by [Columbia Business

… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”

One bank account makes saving easier.

18 April 2013 grant 0

PhysOrg flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that holds “out of sight, out of mind” as a savings strategy. Instead, we save better by keeping our eggs in one basket:

[University

… Read the rest “One bank account makes saving easier.”

Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.

2 April 2013 grant 0

New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:

Virtual currencies are to be

… Read the rest “Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.”

If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.

10 August 2012 grant 0

Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:

[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report

… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”

MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)

24 May 2012 grant 0

MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion… Read the rest “MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)”

SONG: “Inside the Box”

14 April 2012 grant 0

SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature,… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside the Box””

About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.

9 April 2012 grant 1

Nature blogger Graham Morehead isn’t looking over any new research with this post, which makes it all the more remarkable. Since the early 1960s, we’ve known that offering… Read the rest “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”

The 147 corporations that run everything.

21 October 2011 grant b 0

New Scientist looks at where and how business happens – and reveals that out of 37 million global companies, it’s only a very few who call the shots:

the study, by a trio of complex

… Read the rest “The 147 corporations that run everything.”

Cleaning the world’s plate.

2 August 2011 grant b 0

A new U.N. report (over at Scientific American) shows we’re actually wasting 300 million Hummer H2s’ weight of food every year:

What is more interesting is how the food is wasted

… Read the rest “Cleaning the world’s plate.”

One scary reason why the poor stay poor.

9 June 2011 grant b 0

The New Republic looks at the science of choice… and the mental costs of not being able to afford much:

In the 1990s, social psychologists developed a theory of “depletable” self-control.

… Read the rest “One scary reason why the poor stay poor.”

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