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Your Pet, Your Money, Your Call
The New York Times: Of course you can be an ethical pet owner even if you cannot or will not spend huge amounts of cash on exotic medical treatments for your dog or cat. To say otherwise would restrict the pleasures of animal companionship (and the often exaggerated health benefits of pets) to the rich. And in fact, when it comes to veterinary medicine, more is not always better. One of my colleagues recently spent nearly $8,000 on cancer treatments for her dog. Has she done anything wrong? No – it is her money, after all.
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Materialism makes people depressed
Times of India: People who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not, say researchers. They also indicated that materialism is not just a personal problem. It's also environmental. Read the whole story: Times of India
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Think Big To Get Golf Hole in One
Express UK: Amateur players could improve their putting by simply visualising the hole as bigger, claims a new study. Researchers used an optical illusion, placing different sized circles around each hole to change participants’ perception. Read the whole story: Express UK
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La depresión de las mujeres hace que los miembros de la pareja se aíslen
NeoMundo: La tristeza no es buena compañera para el éxito de una relación amorosa. La depresión de las mujeres hace que los miembros de una pareja se aíslen uno del otro, concluyó una nueva investigación. Los autores de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem y la Universidad Bar-Ilan (Israel) explicaron que una persona deprimida se vuelca hacia adentro o se torna hostil, y tiende a dar poco a su pareja. Reuma Gadassi, uno de los investigadores, subrayó que la depresión también impide que un hombre o mujer detecte los pensamientos o sentimientos del otro, una situación que empeora el aislamiento. Read the whole story: NeoMundo
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Is Student Cheating Driven by Big Income Gaps?
The Chronicle of Higher Education: There’s a whole lot of cheating going on. More than 60 percent of college undergraduates, and more than 40 percent of graduate students, admit to cheating in some way on their written work, according to a national survey by Clemson University’s International Center for Academic Integrity. Now one graduate student has come up with a reason for all this: income inequality. Lukas Neville, a doctoral student at Queen’s University in Ontario, reports in the latest issue of Psychological Science that there’s more evidence of academic dishonesty in U.S. states with bigger gaps between the rich and the poor.
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How hearing loops can help
The Washington Post: New technology has dramatically improved the quality of hearing aids in the past decade, but some say an old technology could have the most profound impact in the decade to come on millions of people with hearing loss. Just as WiFi connects people to the Web in wired places, hearing loops — simple wires that circle a room or part of a room — can connect many hearing aids and cochlear implants directly to sound systems. Bypassing ambient noise, this wireless connection lets users clearly hear actors on stage, the person in the subway information booth, their ministers or rabbis, announcements at an airport, even their own television sets.
