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For A Summer Outdoors: NatureFind Helps Get You There (New Online Tool)

Families staying closer to home this summer for economic reasons, can turn to the National Wildlife Federation's expanded on-line tool, NatureFind (www.nwf.org/naturefind/) to help them escape to the great outdoors. NatureFind maps outdoor activities and events ranging from nature trails, campsites, aviaries and zoos to wildlife preserves and local, state and national parks. It can help you plan a...

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Parents' Endorsement of Vigorous Team Sports Increases Children's Physical Activity

Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says.

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Download "Valkyrie" full movie online

Valkyrie 2008 , USA , Germany Genres: Biography | Drama | History | Thriller Actors: Tom Cruise Col. Claus von Stauffenberg Manfred-Anton Algrang Albert Speer David Bamber Adolf Hitler Matthias Freihof Heinrich Himmler Andy Gatjen Angry SS Officer Christian Oliver Sgt. Adams Christopher Karl Hemeyer Major Bunker Carice van Houten Nina Von Stauffenberg Eddie Izzard Erich Fellgiebel Justus Kammerer Heimeran

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Brutal untruths

Today's Bad Science covers a particularly offensive bit of poor science reporting where preliminary results were misreported as suggesting that "women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped". The study has not yet been published and more worryingly showed none of the things claimed in the article published in The Telegraph , which raises the question...

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Richard Wrangham on Cooking and Human Origins – plus Ray Mears’ Fruit Gums

Cooking and Human Origins, Big Kangaroos, Little Dinosaurs | PRI’s The World: Science Summer, has by fits and starts finally arrived, and for the park-dwelling communities of some Londoners, this means as I observed during a recent visit, that the green open spaces are now dotted here and there with the smouldering contents – or remains- [...]

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Sam Fleischacker Wins Prestigious Award

Brian Leiter announces in Leiter Reports : a philosophy blog HERE carries this great news: “ Fleischacker Wins 2009 Gittler Award from APA Samuel Fleischacker (Illinois/Chicago) has won the 2009 Gittler Award from the APA for work in philosophy of the social sciences for his 2005 book On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton University Press) .” Comment Sam...

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Will the Scots ever be happy?

This week BBC Panorama aired a pogramme on 10 years of Scottish devolution – called will the Scots ever be happy? It includes discussion from key players on the emergence of the Scottish Parliament and what they believe still needs to be done. You can view the programme online via the BBC iplayer More background on [...]

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New Uk social science information this week

Media and communications research Informing innovation tracking student interest in emerging Library technologies at Ohio University. – Association of College and Research libraries report shows how students use web 2,0 technologies and how libraries can adopt and apapt the new technology. How teens use media – market research by Neilsen. Are they abandoning their TVs for the [...]

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Eight way distortion

Petra's written up her barnstorming talk she gave last night at the Troublemaker's Fringe where she discussed 'eight problems with science/health journalism and what we can do about it' from her perspective as a social psychologist specialising in sex and relationships. It's a fantastic guide to how health stories get badly spun and why sexual health material is most likely to be misrepresented as...

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Salisbury University's Perdue School One of 8 With NIBS Accreditation

Salisbury University's Franklin P. Perdue School of Business recently became one of only eight institutions worldwide accredited by the Network of International Business Schools (NIBS).

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Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread

Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do individuals influence each other to adopt like behaviors?

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SU TETC Earns National Design Award

Salisbury University's Teacher Education and Technology Center (TETC) has been named one of the 10 best-designed new higher education buildings in the United States by College Planning & Management magazine. As part of the magazine's Education Design Showcase, the TETC received an honorable mention.

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Beating Bullies: Seeking New Solutions to Youth Violence

Sally Black, RN, Ph.D., associate professor of health services at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, was particularly happy to see the American Association of Pediatrics' newly released policy statement on preventing youth violence. She was even more elated that for the first time ever the statement specifically addresses the issue of bullying, which Black has long been researching and advocating...

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Study Links Migraine Headaches to Reduced Academic Performance

Adolescents suffering from migraine headaches are more likely to get lower grades and less likely to graduate from high school or attend college than their migrane-free peers. Those are the findings of a new study by Joseph Sabia, professor of public policy at American University's School of Public Affairs, and Daniel Rees, economics professor at University of Colorado Denver.

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New University of Maryland Library Dean a Digital Leader

The University of Maryland has named as its new dean of university libraries, Patricia A. Steele - a national leader in the Google Project and other efforts to digitize collections creating wider access to universities' information resources. Steele, described as a visionary and dynamic leader - currently directs the libraries at Indiana University Bloomington. She begins at Maryland on Sept. 1.

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Download "Valkyrie" full movie online

Valkyrie 2008 , USA , Germany Genres: Biography | Drama | History | Thriller Actors: Tom Cruise Col. Claus von Stauffenberg Manfred-Anton Algrang Albert Speer David Bamber Adolf Hitler Matthias Freihof Heinrich Himmler Andy Gatjen Angry SS Officer Christian Oliver Sgt. Adams Christopher Karl Hemeyer Major Bunker Carice van Houten Nina Von Stauffenberg Eddie Izzard Erich Fellgiebel Justus Kammerer Heimeran...

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The Plot: Near the end of WWII, Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) leads to group of fellow German army colonels in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler; the event would later be called the July 20 Plot of 1944.

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Biography of Dr. Helen Fisher

Born in 1945, Helen Fisher teaches at Rutgers, in the department of Anthropology. She is a specialist in romantic relationships and the reasons people are attracted to one another. Before assuming her position at Rutgers, she worked in New York as a researcher for the American Museum of Natural History. She was at the museum from 1984 to 1994. Dr. Fisher received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado