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TwitterFrom Time Magazine:It’s disturbing to picture your kindergartner in a casino, but maybe you ought to try. American kids are born into a culture that loves its gambling, and the passion is only growing, as financial hardships sweeten the ever alluring prospect of a lucky break.
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Spotting Future Gamblers In Kindergarten
March 3rd, 2009 
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Tags: Adolescent Medicine, American Kids, Amp, Archives Of Pediatrics, Compulsive Gambling, Financial Hardships, Gamblers, Kindergarten, Kindergartner, Lucky Break, Medicine, Passion, Risk, Time Magazine 
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March 1st, 2009 admin Melted water runs over the Greenlandic Icecap. Uriel Sinai / GettyFrom Time Magazine:When I tell other journalists that I cover the environment, I usually get the same reaction: you’re really lucky. (I’m assuming they don’t just mean because I still have a job.) After years on the back pages and the back burner, the environment has emerged as one of the major issues facing the globe today, with the attendant media attention to match.
Posted in Science News Tags: Back Pages, Business Society, Climate Change Touches, Environment Story, Getty, Globe, Greenlandic, Job, Journalists, Media Attention, Religion, Science, Scope, Sheer Complexity, Time Magazine, Uriel, Washington Business Comments OffIs Genius Born or Can It Be Learned?
February 22nd, 2009 admin Albert Einstein. Photo from CorbisFrom Time Magazine:Is it possible to cultivate genius? Could we somehow structure our educational and social life to produce more Einsteins and Mozarts — or, more urgently these days, another Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes?How to produce genius is a very old question, one that has occupied philosophers since antiquity.
Posted in Science News Tags: Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein Photo, Antiquity, Corbis, Cousin, Darwin, Francis Galton, Genius, Immanuel Kant, John Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, Malcolm Gladwell, Philosophers, Sociologist, Time Magazine Comments OffAre We Bringing Our Germs to Mars?
February 7th, 2009 admin From Time Magazine:Star Trek fans know it as the Prime Directive: that there should be no interference with the internal affairs of other civilizations. (Given the frequency with which captains Kirk, Picard, et. al., violate it, however, the Prime Directive seems more like a Prime Suggestion.) Since human beings have yet to explore very far beyond Earth, pondering an interplanetary noninterference policy of our own may seem a little premature — at least until we’ve mastered warp drives and phasers.But in fact, such a directive already exists in some form — the international Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which governs the legal framework for activities in space.
Posted in Science News Tags: Exploring The Solar System, Germs, Harmful Contamination, Hitch A Ride, Internal Affairs, Legal Framework, Mars Lander, Mars Phoenix Lander, Nasa Mars, Nuclear Weapons, Outer Space Treaty, Phasers, Picard, Prime Directive, Red Planet, Star Trek, Star Trek Fans, Time Magazine, Unmanned Spacecraft, Warp Drives Comments OffThe Biology Of Dating: Why Him, Why Her?
January 31st, 2009 admin From Time Magazine:Ah, the eternal question: why is HE with HER? Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher thinks she has found the answer after studying the academic literature on personality and after poring over 40,000 responses to a questionnaire on an online dating site. A Rutgers professor and paid advisor for Chemistry.com, Fisher not only believes in romantic chemistry, but is zeroing in on specific chemicals.
Posted in Science News Tags: Academic Literature, Biological Anthropologist, Biology, Chemicals, Dating Site, Eternal Question, Helen Fisher, Mate Selection, One Thing, Online Dating, Parts Of Personality, Personality Type, Questionnaire, Riddle, Romantic Chemistry, Rutgers Professor, Scientists, Temperament, Time Magazine, Understanding Your Personality Comments OffTop 10 Scientific Discoveries For 2008
December 24th, 2008 admin From Time Magazine:1. Large Hadron ColliderJean-Pierre Clatot / AFP / GettyGood news! The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border — didn’t destroy the world! The bad news: The contraption didn’t really work either. In September, the 17-mile collider was switched on for the first time, putting to rest the febrile webchatter that the machine would create an artificial black hole capable of swallowing the planet or at least a sizeable piece of Europe — a bad day no matter what.
Posted in Science News Tags: Accelerator, Afp, Bad Day, Bad News, Big Bang, Black Hole, Contraption, French Border, Getty, Helium Leak, Jean Pierre, Large Hadron Collider, Lhc, Massive Particle, Particle Accelerator, Particles, Peek, Physicists, Scientific Discoveries, Time Magazine Comments OffRemembering Apollo 8, Man’s First Trip To The Moon
December 24th, 2008 admin Apollo 8 astronauts (l. to r.) William Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman train in the command module one month before their mission. Francis Miller / Time Life Pictures / GettyFrom Time Magazine: Commander Frank Borman was very clear about the fact that no one aboard his spacecraft would be getting drunk on the way back from the moon.
Posted in Science News Tags: Apollo 8 Astronauts, Apollo Astronauts, Bill Anders, Brandy, Earth, Fireball, First Trip To The Moon, Francis Miller, Frank Borman, Getty, Jim Lovell, Miles Per Hour, Miller Time, Miniatures, Nasa, Spacecraft, Time Life, Time Magazine, Train, Trip To The Moon Comments OffDoes Obama Want to Ground NASA’s Next Moon Mission?
December 12th, 2008 admin Barack Obama and NASA administrator Michael Griffin,Charles Dharapak / AP; NASA; Matt Stroshane / GettyFrom Time Magazine:Getting into a shouting match with the HR rep is not exactly the best way to land a job. But according to the Orlando Sentinel, that’s just what happened last week between NASA administrator Mike Griffin and Lori Garver, a member of Barack Obama’s transition team who will help decide if Griffin keeps his post once the President-elect takes office. If the contretemps did occur, it could help doom not only the NASA chief’s chances, but the space agency’s ambitious plans to get Americans back to the moon.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Ambitious Plans, Barack Obama, Charles Dharapak, Contretemps, Hr Rep, Lori Garver, Michael Griffin, Mike Griffin, Moon Mission, Nasa, Nasa Administrator, Nasa Chief, Nasa Moon, Orlando Sentinel, President Elect, Shouting Match, Space Agency, Time Magazine, Transition Team, What Happened Last Week Comments Off