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:
… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”…A team led by neuroscientists
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:
… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation
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:
… Read the rest “Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.”But
The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:
… Read the rest “Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.”Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell
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.”
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:
… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”Research conducted by [Columbia Business
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:
… Read the rest “One bank account makes saving easier.”[University
New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:
… Read the rest “Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.”Virtual currencies are to be
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:
… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report
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.” (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””
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.”
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:
… Read the rest “The 147 corporations that run everything.”the study, by a trio of complex
A new U.N. report (over at Scientific American) shows we’re actually wasting 300 million Hummer H2s’ weight of food every year:
… Read the rest “Cleaning the world’s plate.”What is more interesting is how the food is wasted
The New Republic looks at the science of choice… and the mental costs of not being able to afford much:
… Read the rest “One scary reason why the poor stay poor.”In the 1990s, social psychologists developed a theory of “depletable” self-control.
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