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• Sleepwalking more prevalent among U.S. adults than previously suspected, researcher says
• Why women chose bad boys: Ovulating women perceive sexy cads as good dads
• Color of robins' eggs determines parental care
• 'Thermal tasters' can experience taste from heating or cooling tongue without any food
• Real smart: Protective clothing with built-in A/C
• Wasted milk is a real drain on our resources, study shows
• Scientists generate electricity from viruses
• Tiny solar-panel-like cells help restore sight to the blind

Sleepwalking more prevalent among U.S. adults than previously suspected, researcher says Posted: 14 May 2012 01:16 PM PDT What goes bump in the night? In many U.S. households: people. About 3.6 percent of US adults -- or upward of 8.4 million -- are prone to sleepwalking, new research shows. The work also showed an association between nocturnal wanderings and certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. A large number of people reported sleepwalking in childhood or adolescence making the lifetime prevalence of sleepwalking 29.2 percent.

Why women chose bad boys: Ovulating women perceive sexy cads as good dads Posted: 14 May 2012 10:43 AM PDT Nice guys do finish last at least when it comes to procreation, according to a new study that answers the question of why women choose bad boys. New research has demonstrated that hormones associated with ovulation influence women's perceptions of men as potential fathers.

Color of robins' eggs determines parental care Posted: 14 May 2012 09:28 AM PDT A male robin will be more diligent in caring for its young if the eggs its mate lays are a brighter shade of blue.

'Thermal tasters' can experience taste from heating or cooling tongue without any food Posted: 14 May 2012 07:44 AM PDT Can the temperature of the food we eat affect the intensity of its taste? It depends on the taste, according to a new study. New research shows that changes in the temperature of foods and drinks have an effect on the intensity of sour, bitter and astringent (e.g. cranberry juice) tastes but not sweetness. In addition, research suggests that in 20-30 percent of the population, heating or cooling small areas of the tongue draws out a taste sensation without the presence of food or drink. These individuals are known as 'thermal' tasters. They seem to taste foods more intensely than others people do.

Real smart: Protective clothing with built-in A/C Posted: 14 May 2012 07:44 AM PDT In order to test a new 'smart' protective vest, an experimenter wearing one jogged several kilometers on a treadmill in a climate-controlled chamber. During the jog he lost 544 grams in weight through sweating –  but thanks to the vest's integrated cooling system this was still 191 grams less than if he had been wearing a conventional garment.

Wasted milk is a real drain on our resources, study shows Posted: 13 May 2012 11:46 AM PDT Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows.

Scientists generate electricity from viruses Posted: 13 May 2012 11:46 AM PDT Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The scientists tested their approach by creating a generator that produces enough current to operate a small liquid-crystal display. Their generator is the first to produce electricity by harnessing the piezoelectric properties of a biological material.

Tiny solar-panel-like cells help restore sight to the blind Posted: 13 May 2012 11:46 AM PDT Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types of degenerative eye diseases.

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The Cynical Girl: Childhood Mistakes Will Haunt You

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Childhood Mistakes Will Haunt You Posted: 14 May 2012 06:45 AM PDT I recently wrote an article for The Conference Board Review where I expressed my shock and concern that nearly one in three kids have been arrested at least once for a non-traffic offense by the age of 23. That's right: 30 percent of young people will have faced police handcuffs at some point. Now that I think about the article, the increase in the number of kids arrested doesn’t surprise me. Life is different in 2012 than it was in 1965. We are now fighting ‘the war against drugs’ and private, for-profit prisons fund large portions of our economy. It’s a sad state for the American economy when a global corporation earns a profit when your kids are arrested and convicted as adults for possessing small amounts of marijuana. But back in 1965, there wasn’t a push to try kids as adults in local, state and federal courts. There wasn’t equal justice for citizens who had to face a jury of their peers. We didn’t talk about hate crimes. And there wasn’t an awareness or dialogue around the links between race, class and conviction rates in America. Times have changed. Now we have a man running for President who ‘made mistakes’ as a kid. Right around the age of 17, Mitt Romney rounded up a posse of heterosexual boys who pinned a boy down and cut his hair. The victim was perceived by his classmates to be a homosexual — and even though the word gay was probably never used, witnesses to the event recall certain euphemisms being used to describe the boy. I think it’s interesting how we don’t hold people Romney’s age accountable for acts committed when they were younger — even though we do hold today’s children to a higher standard. And god knows Romney probably isn’t the first or last presidential candidate to taunt a boy for being gay. But I wonder — if this happened today, what would be different? Would you interview and hire a candidate who committed this act? We have real-life examples of other kids being held accountable for bullying kids who are not openly gay. Dharun Ravi is a former Rutgers student who was just convicted of intimidating his roommate. The roommate committed suicide after learning his gay encounter was seen on a webcam planted by Dharun. Knowing what you know about accountability and bullying, would you hire Dharun to work at your company? When this awful incident happened, both Rutgers boys were barely older than Mitt Romney was during the aforementioned haircut incident. And what about the very young and impressionable followers of Sam Mullet, an Amish extremist? There are many young men who are in jail and awaiting trial because they are accused of cutting off the beards and braids of non-compliant Amish men and women in their community. Some are asking to be let out on bail so they can work to support their families. Would you hire them? Childhood mistakes will haunt you unless you have money, power or good political connections to make those mistakes disappear. And even then they don’t always disappear. I don’t have many answers about anything in life but I think that bullying in any form at any age is detestable and gross. And while 29 states can still fire someone for being gay, I think the HR community has some responsibility to talk about how we can use background checks on some candidates and not others. What’s our hiring criteria for the President? It’s an interesting topic. What do you think? Related articles Mitt Romney and bullying: missed opportunity, missing humanity | Michael Cohen (guardian.co.uk) Can a bully be forgiven? (writeontheworld.wordpress.com…)

Monday Morning HR Humor: Top 101 New Wave Songs of the 1980s Posted: 14 May 2012 03:45 AM PDT Matt Stollak asked me if I thought this list still seemed right. I said — I don’t know because I’m only 25 years old. What do you think? Top 101 alternative/new wave songs of the 1980s

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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

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• Dip chip technology tests toxicity on the go
• Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt
• Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow
• You can't play nano-billiards on a bumpy table
• Real smart: Protective clothing with built-in A/C
• Scientists generate electricity from viruses

Dip chip technology tests toxicity on the go Posted: 14 May 2012 10:42 AM PDT Researchers have developed a portable "dip chip" that detects water toxicity quickly and accurately. Once perfected, the chip might be plugged into ordinary smartphones or PDA devices to provide a toxicity alert.

Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt Posted: 14 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern.

Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow Posted: 14 May 2012 07:50 AM PDT A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state's most precious resources.

You can't play nano-billiards on a bumpy table Posted: 14 May 2012 07:49 AM PDT There's nothing worse than a shonky pool table with an unseen groove or bump that sends your shot off course: a new study has found that the same goes at the nano-scale, where the "billiard balls" are tiny electrons moving across a "table" made of the semiconductor gallium arsenide. Physicists have shown that in this game of "semiconductor billiards," small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow.

Real smart: Protective clothing with built-in A/C Posted: 14 May 2012 07:44 AM PDT In order to test a new 'smart' protective vest, an experimenter wearing one jogged several kilometers on a treadmill in a climate-controlled chamber. During the jog he lost 544 grams in weight through sweating –  but thanks to the vest's integrated cooling system this was still 191 grams less than if he had been wearing a conventional garment.

Scientists generate electricity from viruses Posted: 13 May 2012 11:46 AM PDT Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The scientists tested their approach by creating a generator that produces enough current to operate a small liquid-crystal display. Their generator is the first to produce electricity by harnessing the piezoelectric properties of a biological material.

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