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The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off
On New Year's Eve, back in 2012, Savannah Eason retreated into her bedroom and picked up a pair of scissors. "I was holding them up to my palm as if to cut myself," she says. "Clearly what was happening was I needed someone to do something." Her dad managed to wrestle the scissors from her hands, but that night it had become clear she needed help. "It was really scary," she recalls. "I was sobbing the whole time." Savannah was in high school at the time. She says the pressure she felt to succeed — to aim high — had left her anxious and depressed.
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Microgrant Opportunity: Increasing Scientific Awareness Among US Election Candidates
Research!America has released a request for project proposals from student- and postdoc-led science policy groups for their Bipartisan Candidate Engagement Initiative.
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NIH Funding for High-Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks
The National Institute on Aging has released two new funding announcements encouraging submission of proposals to develop research networks dedicated to behavioral research connected to aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias.
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Bias Is Blind: Partisan Prejudice Across the Political Spectrum
A scientific analysis upends the notion that people on the political right are more biased about their ideological views than are people on the left.
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QI : sommes-nous vraiment en train de devenir moins intelligents? (Are we really becoming less intelligent?)
Vous êtes moins intelligents que vos parents et vos enfants le seront encore moins que vous. C’est en substance l’idée répandue par une minorité de scientifiques depuis quelques années. Selon eux, le QI des populations occidentales ne cesserait de diminuer ces dernières décennies dans les pays développés. Et une nouvelle étude publiée le 11 juin dans la revue américaine PNAS (Compte rendus de l’académie américaine des sciences) abonde une nouvelle fois dans ce sens, bien que les résultats ne soient pas généralisables. Selon les auteurs de cette étude, deux économistes scandinaves, le QI des hommes norvégiens nés entre 1962 et 1991 baisse d’année en année.
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Is our culture decent enough to keep tipping?
I have a rude habit that I can’t shake whenever I’m at a restaurant with someone who is picking up the check or splitting the bill with me. I always, always sneak back to the table and check to see what they tipped. Yes, it is totally a moral litmus test on several levels. The size of a gratuity is insight into character or life experience. Or math skills. And it’s the big issue on the D.C. ballot Tuesday, one that some say threatens the American culture of tipping and, ultimately, our restaurant industry. The practice of tipping goes back to 18th-century English pub culture, when a coin would be given “To Insure Promptness” — T.I.P.
