A new study is assessing whether Yoga could help improve prison environment, based on the idea that it could prove beneficial for the inmates' health and safety.The research is carried out by former probation officer Rose Parkes, as part of her PhD at the University of Leicester Department of Criminology, and sh... |
2 December 2010
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Graphics expert Nvidia has just announced that it struck a deal with physics processing company Ageia, in order to integrate the physics processing engine in Nvidia's future generations of graphics cards. Two weeks ago, I have informed you that a deal was in progress, although both Nvidia and Ageia dismissed the... |
5 February 2008
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Nvidia has scrapped out its budget to acquire the German company Mental Images. The latter company has been founded in 1986 and is one of the most important providers of visualization software for the entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture, and other industries that require sophi... |
20 December 2007
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Some people cannot say how much it is two plus two, but chimps can! After having recently humiliated college students in tests of short term memory made by a Japanese team, chimps keep coming with surprises. A new research made at Duke University and published on the on-line journal PLoS Biology found that chimps had... |
18 December 2007
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You look into the mirror and there are so many issues that you would like to change ... The desire of looking good is a normal and positive behavior, but in some cases, the determination to get it goes to extremes, resulting in a mental disease called Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The preoccupation for presenting any phy... |
22 November 2007
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This is one of the most shameful mental addictions induced in children. A new research shows that anything bearing the McDonald's mark tastes better for children, a vivid example of the way advertising can fool the taste buds even in young children.Comparing food from McDonald's to that in plain wrappers, M... |
8 August 2007
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Some may feel offended if called alcoholics. And for good reason, as a new research made at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a first classification of the alcoholic people in US, resulting five distinct subtypes of the condition. "Our findings should help dispel the popular n... |
2 July 2007
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Khat use is older than coffee. This plant has been employed as a stimulant for centuries in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen). Its fresh leaves and tops are chewed or, less frequently, dried and consumed as tea, to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation, the way coca leaves are used in South A... |
6 June 2007
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Japanese people are famous for their long office hours and this marks their physical and mental health, and this comes with a heavy toll, as each year registers a new record of people dying from overwork. "Some 355 workers fell severely ill or died from overwork in the year to March, the highest figure on record and ... |
17 May 2007
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Sex is more than a hormonal discharge and momentary pleasure. Increasingly more researches point the health benefit brought by sex. And it's not about mental and emotional health, whose balance is obviously tuned by sex. The lack of sex is known to induce from anxiety to paranoia and depression...A 10 year rese... |
2 May 2007
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