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Year of Dragon kicks off Monday in Zodiac calendar, officials are bracing for baby boom not only in China and Taiwan but in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Macau
Read More »Inviduals Are Removed Of Blame When In Groups
Groupthink is a phenomenon in which the members of a group override their individuality in favor of unanimity. Scholars have ascribed bad decision making to groupthink, for example, in U.S. policy during the Vietnam War
Read More »Owning The Onramp: What Netflix Gave Up When It Ditched The DVD
In January, when Netflix was riding high, I wrote that it was going to break my heart . While it offers an amazing service, its competitive advantage disappeared by its switching to online video streaming.
Read More »Protest, Music, And #OWS Opportunism
When does a performer's “endorsement” of Occupy Wall Street cross over into exploitation? Music and protest have long gone hand in blistered hand
Read More »Can People Have Multiple Personalities?
In the Showtime series United States of Tara , actress Toni Collette plays Tara Gregson, a Kansas mother who has dissociative identity disorder (DID), known formerly as multiple personality disorder.
Read More »Infecting Mosquitoes With Bacteria To Keep Them From Infecting Us With Dengue Fever
Dengue fever affects 50 million people, with no cure in sight. But maybe prevention could work instead: Scientists have found a way to get mosquitoes sick with a bacteria that prevents them from carrying the disease.
Read More »All Aboard: China’s Next Export Is A Trans-Asian High-Speed Railway
China has a grand plan to extend its high-speed rail infrastructure to its neighbors. First stop: Laos. For all of its grand ambitions, China has had some problems implementing high-speed rail--severe safety issues, construction fraud, and lack of ridership are just some of the issue the country has had to deal with recently.
Read More »China Gears Up To Export Nuclear Technology
Still panicked after the Fukushima disaster? China's not: They're sending nuclear technology to everyone--even Pakistan.
Read More »Man survives 2 wars, cancer to run in Boston
Runners World: After 81 years, Clarence Hartley is finally running the Boston Marathon . What took him so long? First there were two wars — Korea and Vietnam — where he served in the United States Air Force.
Read More »Man survives 2 wars, cancer to run in Boston
Runners World: After 81 years, Clarence Hartley is finally running the Boston Marathon . What took him so long? First there were two wars — Korea and Vietnam — where he served in the United States Air Force
Read More »Dramatic rescue of a century-old turtle in Vietnam could help save species from extinction
A giant softshell turtle known as Cu Rua that has been living in Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, for more than a century is one of the last four members of its critically endangered species, Rafetus swinhoei . The freshwater animal weighs about 200 kilograms and is worshiped as a deity that protects the city, but neither its size nor its stature has prevented it from being injured recently by fishermen and an aggressive invasive species.
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