For a lot of dog owners, thunderstorms are a resource of angst, a stroll to the dog park can be a fraught encounter, and New Year’s celebrations are specifically tense. In accordance to a new examine of 1000’s of pet pet dogs, anxiousness and anxiety-relevant habits complications are common. Sure […]
Arctic Exploitation May Harm Animals Large and Small
As sea ice in the Arctic Ocean dwindles with each individual successive calendar year of increasing world wide temperatures, it has grow to be less difficult and extra typical for businesses to venture into the region for fishing, transport, and oil and fuel exploration. Even though the boats, rigs and […]
Health Care System Underused in Addressing Social Isolation, Loneliness Among Seniors, Says New Report
Feb. 27, 2020 Health and fitness Care System Underused in Addressing Social Isolation, Loneliness Among the Seniors, Suggests New Report WASHINGTON — Seniors who are suffering from social isolation or loneliness could facial area a larger risk of mortality, coronary heart disease, and depression, claims a new report from the […]
New Fronts in the War on Misinformation
New Fronts in the War on Misinformation National Academies host three events to explore ways to expand the reach of accurate science and health information online By Sara Frueh | March 2, 2020 The countless false claims that have spread alongside the novel coronavirus — inaccurate advice about how to […]
That Classic Image Everyone Uses to Illustrate Evolution Is Actually Wrong
Evolution explains how all living beings, including us, came to be. It would be easy to assume evolution works by continuously adding features to organisms, constantly increasing their complexity. Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Some dinosaurs evolved wings and began to fly. Others evolved wombs […]
Unborn Baby Sharks Will Swim Between Uteruses to Devour Their Brethren
As macabre as it seems, it’s not exactly a secret that in some species of shark the unborn dine on their siblings while still developing in the womb. But it turns out we don’t know the half of it. A novel kind of ultrasound device has provided biologists with a […]
The arrival of the laptop in the classroom and parental mediation
Postcard dating from 1910 featuring the utopian vision of schools in the year 2000. Credit: Villemard, 1910 – Chromolithography Paris, BNF, Postcards A study by Carme Bach, a lecturer with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF, and Cristina Aliagas, a lecturer with the Faculty of Education at […]
An Inclusive Vision of Math
I spent last weekend the way I spend a lot of weekends: singing Protestant hymns at the top of my lungs with friends from around the country. Sacred Harp singing is an a cappella hymn tradition that has a long history in New England and the rural south and is […]
Straight Up Conversation: Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness – Rick Hess Straight Up
Aaron Feuer is co-founder and CEO of Panorama Education, a Boston-based education and technology company whose college- and career-readiness tools, school climate surveys, and social-emotional learning assessments are currently used each year to support the success of more than 10 million students in 11,500 schools. Joining a passion for education […]
Harvey Fineberg Named Chair of Standing Committee Requested by White House in Response to Coronavirus
March 6, 2020 Harvey Fineberg Named Chair of Standing Committee Requested by White House in Response to Coronavirus WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today that Harvey Fineberg, former president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) and current president of […]
Join the Space Debris Training Course 2020
Agency 05/03/2020 783 views 13 likes Space debris is a hazard to our satellites and spacecraft as well as a contributor to near-Earth space pollution. To help raise awareness of this issue, ESA’s Education Office is organising the third edition of ESA Academy’s Space Debris Training Course. The Space Debris […]