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Friday, January 6, 2012

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

School pupils learn about practical philosophy

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Children could learn valuable lessons in responsible citizenship, such as making moral judgments and informed choices, through taking part in philosophical dialogue, according to new research.

Why humans choose running over walking

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:16 AM PST

Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around two meters per second – about 4.5 miles per hour. Biomedical engineers have discovered why: At two meters per second, running makes better use of an important calf muscle than walking, and therefore is a much more efficient use of the muscle's – and the body's – energy.

Couch potato or elite athlete? A happy medium keeps colds at bay

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:21 AM PST

Battling colds and doing (or pledging to do) more exercise are familiar activities for most of us in January. But different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory infection, say experts.

Men and women have major personality differences: New report suggests previous measurements have underestimated variation between the sexes

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:48 PM PST

Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study. The existence of such differences, and their extent, has been a subject of much debate, but the authors of the new report describe a new method for measuring and analyzing personality differences that they argue is more accurate than previous methods.
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