Monthly Archive "April2012"
Study suggests Intelligence is more accurate predictor of future career success than Socioeconomic Background
ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) — Conventional wisdom tells us that in the business world, “you are who you know” — your social background and professional networks outweigh talent when it…
Revisiting Child Abuse Reporting Laws
March/April 2012 Issue Revisiting Child Abuse Reporting Laws By Debra Schilling Wolfe, MEd Social Work Today Vol. 12 No. 2 P. 14 The Penn State child sexual abuse allegations incited…
Global Warming Skepticism Climbs During Tough Economic Times
ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2012) — In recent years, the American public has grown increasingly skeptical of the existence of human-made climate change. Although pundits and scholars have suggested several reasons…
Texting Affects Ability to Interpret Words
ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2012) — Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people’s linguistic ability to interpret and…
Recent generations focus more on fame and money than giving back
The times are changing, and not necessarily for the better when it comes to giving back to society, according to 40 years of research on 9 million young adults. Since…
Innovation Nations
Behind the extraordinary emergence of the BRIC countries as economic powers is a national industrial policy. In each case, the state has been a potent, and at times, creative force.…
New Prehuman Species
Now it seems that Lucy shared eastern Africa with another prehuman species, one that may have spent more time in trees than on the ground. A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot found…
