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- Food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminants
- What does it mean to be cool? It may not be what you think
- A strong bond to an idea makes collaboration more challenging
- City kids more likely to have food allergies than rural ones: Population density is key factor, study finds
- Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children
| Food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminants Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:02 PM PDT Physicists and food science experts have recently published a rigorous analysis of the international food-trade network that shows the network's vulnerability to the fast spread of contaminants as well as the correlation between known food poisoning outbreaks and the centrality of countries on the network.  |
| What does it mean to be cool? It may not be what you think Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? Can performers James Dean and Miles Davis still be considered the models of cool? Psychologists have found the characteristics associated with coolness today are markedly different than those that generated the concept of cool.  |
| A strong bond to an idea makes collaboration more challenging Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:22 AM PDT Ideas are all around us — helping solve problems, develop new products, and make important decisions. Good ideas are rarely created in a vacuum, however. They often emerge when people refine their ideas in response to suggestions and comments received from colleagues. Having strong bonds to an idea can make that necessary collaboration challenging, finds new research. The study suggests that psychological ownership -— the extent to which people feel as though an object, or idea, is truly theirs —- may be at the root of this phenomenon.  |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT Children living in urban centers have a much higher prevalence of food allergies than those living in rural areas, according to a new study, which is the first to map children's food allergies by geographical location in the United States. In particular, kids in big cities are more than twice as likely to have peanut and shellfish allergies.  |
| Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children Posted: 07 Jun 2012 07:57 AM PDT Increasing the spacing between characters and words in a text improves the speed and quality of dyslexic children's reading, without prior training. They read 20% faster on average and make half as many errors.  |
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