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- Walking can lower risk of heart-related conditions as much as running
- Body representation differs in children and adults
- Online learning: It's different
- Graduate glut spells underused skills and dissatisfaction for many
- National teen driving report in U.S. finds safety gains for teen passengers
- Could playing 'boys' games help girls in science and math?
| Walking can lower risk of heart-related conditions as much as running Posted: 04 Apr 2013 02:02 PM PDT Walking can lower the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes as much as running. The more people walked or ran each week, the more their health benefits increased.  |
| Body representation differs in children and adults Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:24 AM PDT Children's sense of having and owning a body differs from that of adults, indicating that our sense of physical self develops over time, according to a new study.  |
| Online learning: It's different Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:22 AM PDT Researchers have found that, by interspersing online lectures with short tests, student mind wandering decreased by 50 percent, note-taking tripled and overall retention of the material improved.  |
| Graduate glut spells underused skills and dissatisfaction for many Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:22 AM PDT Graduates are taking up jobs that don't fully use their skills and as a result are causing high turnover for employers, claims new research. The findings raise questions about today's high throughput in university education.  |
| National teen driving report in U.S. finds safety gains for teen passengers Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:21 AM PDT A new report measured a 47 percent decline in teen driver-related fatalities since 2008. Still, as recent high-profile crashes illustrate, crashes remains the leading cause of death for US teens. Risky behaviors- like smartphone use while driving, driving after drinking, and low seat belt use- remain serious problems, and experts see specific opportunities to "apply the gas" to these common factors in crashes involving teen drivers.  |
| Could playing 'boys' games help girls in science and math? Posted: 04 Apr 2013 06:26 AM PDT A new review finds that men still have better spatial ability than women and this may be explained by gender-role identification.  |
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