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Saturday, May 10, 2014

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News


Frequently Reassigning Teachers Limits Their Improvement

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Experienced teachers make a difference in student performance, but their experience matters most if they have continued to teach the same grade, according to a new study. Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

Athletes respond better to female psychologists

Posted: 09 May 2014 04:42 AM PDT

When listening to the voices of a sport psychologist, both male and female athletes rate women psychologists more positively than male ones. "These findings challenge the historically prevalent view that male psychologists are more successful and show that gender equality has made progress in sport," said the researcher.

Love makes you strong: Romantic relationships help neurotic people stabilize their personality

Posted: 09 May 2014 04:41 AM PDT

It is springtime and they are everywhere: Newly enamored couples walking through the city hand in hand, floating on cloud nine. Yet a few weeks later the initial rush of romance will have dissolved and the world will not appear as rosy anymore. Nevertheless, love and romance have long lasting effects.

From age 30 onwards, inactivity has greatest impact on women's lifetime heart disease risk

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:25 PM PDT

From the age of 30 onwards, physical inactivity exerts a greater impact on a woman's lifetime risk of developing heart disease than the other well-known risk factors, suggests research. This includes overweight, the finding show, prompting the researchers to suggest that greater effort needs to be made to promote exercise.

Plant a slice of paradise in your backyard

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Although torrential rainfall has inundated the Southeast region this spring, there is something you can do in your own backyard to help prevent damage from flooding and runoff. Plant a rain garden. A rain garden is a landscaped area planted preferably with wildflowers and other native vegetation that soak up rainwater, from the roofs, driveways or other impervious surfaces.

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