by Craig Marker | Oct 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Senate approved a bill requiring that NIH-funded research be made freely available to the public within one year of appearing in a peer-reviewed journal. Having already been approved by the House, the two bills will be combined into one awaiting the...
by Craig Marker | Oct 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
A recent study in the October 23, 2007 issue of the journal Current Biology discussed how sleep deprivation affected emotions. Here is an excerpt from livescience.com that discusses the research: Walker and his colleagues had 26 healthy volunteers either get normal...
by Craig Marker | Oct 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
A new study in the December issue of Cancer reports that a self-report measure of well-being does not affect overall survival of patients with head and neck cancer. Quotes from the study authors are quite strongly worded. For example:“The belief that a patient’s...
by Craig Marker | Oct 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from livescience.com:the Dalai Lama seems to be the happiest monk of all.His lecture at Cornell University last week started with a big laugh and was all about happiness. What’s with these guys? Why are they so happy?The answer is, of course, that the...
by Craig Marker | Oct 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Wired.com on how to create the title of the next best selling book: 1. Create a title-as-theory.Your title needs to both summarize your Big Idea and introduce a new term. It sounds tough, but we’ve made it easy. Instructions: Choose a word from...
