Orthopedic students are under immense pressure to perform well in their studies, residencies and fellowship programs. High test scores and almost inhuman strength is required to work through intense years of preparation for a career in the medical field. After completing all these prerequisites, students may wonder what comes next. How can budding practitioners jumpstart […]
Leading Latino digital media company mitú, in partnership with premier multicultural marketing and communications agency The MRKT, released the first of a series of studies titled The mitú InTell Series. The studies aim to gain and socialize insights on the current state of the U.S. Hispanic community while digging deeper into their motivations and behaviors […]
Millennials And Gen Z Choose ‘Polywork’ For More Exciting Lives, Half Of 21 To 40 Year-Olds Say They Do Five Different Types Of Work, ‘Excitement’ More Important Than Money For Today’s Professionals New research out today reveals that nearly half of young professionals (47 percent) consider themselves people who ‘polywork’ doing an average of five […]
COVID-19 Wastewater Testing Proves Effective in New Study, Research Offers Needed Guidance for Early Detection in Nursing Homes, Dorms Wastewater testing is an effective way to identify new cases of COVID-19 in nursing homes and other congregate living settings, and it may be particularly useful for preventing outbreaks in college dormitories, a new University of […]
THE ALL-IMPORTANT SUBJECT OF MAINTAINING EYE CONTACT DURING VIRTUAL CONVERSATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Did you know that we have oxytocin receptors in our eyes? When we make eye contact with someone (researchers say about 30 seconds of maintained connection should do it), the receptors tell the brain to produce the hormone, which travels through the body, hits the […]
Tutors Are Not Just for Kids: They Help People Get Through College, Too! Tutoring community, The Oxford Method, offers up tips to help people get through college Many people tend to think of tutoring as being something for kids. Yet there are millions of college students who struggle and need help, too. In fact, according […]
The issue of whether spanking does or does not contribute to later aggression remains controversial despite public policy statements by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other groups opposing spanking. Studies have remained inconsistent regarding whether spanking does or does not contribute to later aggression. The Journal of Pediatrics published a research article by Jeff R. Temple, […]
Students Who Listened to Beethoven During Lecture — and Heard the Same Music in Dreamland — Did Better on Test Next Day But scores on the material nine months later dropped to ‘floor level,’ Baylor University study finds College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven and Chopin during a computer-interactive lecture on microeconomics […]
U.S. Cities with the Worst Speeding Problem + Fatality Rates Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that despite the risks, approximately 70 percent of American drivers report speeding at least some of the time. Each year, speeding kills about 10,000 people and is responsible for nearly 30 percent of all motor […]
