Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Inbreeding threatens India’s wild tigers
CARDIFF U. (UK) — A collapse in the variety of mating partners is putting tigers in India at risk of extinction, a new study suggests. Continue…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:16 - 4 Comments
Society & Culture - Feb 18, 2013 12:19 - 2 Comments
Can culture protect genetics from misuse?
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — In the past, good science has been used for unethical purposes, like eugenics. The concept of culture can protect genetics from a similar fate, an anthropologist argues. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 7, 2012 16:33 - 0 Comments
Even in rural spots, US diversity on the rise
PENN STATE (US) — Since 1980, over nine-tenths of all cities, suburbs, and small towns have become more diverse, and the trend includes rural communities. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 31, 2012 14:46 - 4 Comments
To be happy at work, be true to yourself
RICE (US) — Hiding your true social identity at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, a new study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 28, 2011 16:02 - 1 Comment
No cookie cutter answers to sex, faith
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Sexuality and religion aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive in the lives of young adults, according to new research that finds sexual ethics can be formed by religious beliefs and vice versa. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 13, 2010 15:24 - 1 Comment
UK to see sizable upswing in diversity
U. LEEDS (UK)—The ethnic makeup of the UK will change dramatically over the next 40 years, with the country becoming far more ethnically diverse and geographically integrated, according to new projections. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 6, 2009 12:37 - 10 Comments
Humans host melting pot of ‘personal’ bacteria
U. COLORADO (US)—People carry “personalized” communities of bacteria around that vary widely from our foreheads and feet to our noses and navels, says chemistry professor Rob Knight. He’s part of a research team that has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 10, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
In African rocks, traces of evolutionary blast
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—New research has opened the door on what some consider to be the greatest event in the history of animal life: a massive evolutionary jumpstart during the Cambrian Explosion half a billion years ago. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 4, 2009 10:25 - 0 Comments
Video games: lots of dudes, little diversity
USC (US)—In the world of virtual reality, Hispanics are virtually invisible, according to the first comprehensive survey of video game characters. The new findings show males, whites, and adults are overrepresented in many top games. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 24, 2009 14:43 - 0 Comments
Noisy nests not for the birds
U. COLORADO (US)—Birds favor quiet over clamor, according to a new study that presents the strongest evidence to date that noise pollution negatively affects bird populations. The findings may have implications for the fate of ecological communities situated near urban bustle. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 14, 2009 9:30 - 0 Comments
Ancient ferns bum a ride off giant trees
DUKE (US)—During the Cretaceous period, ferns survived and flourished by getting a piggyback ride of sorts from giant trees that quickly rose to dominate plant communities. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 19, 2009 10:29 - 1 Comment
Houston reflects America’s changing face
RICE (US)—To see what America’s urban centers will look like in 20 years, travel to Houston. The city’s shifting demographics and evolving economy represent a national trend, according to work by Stephen Klineberg, Rice University sociologist and director of the annual Houston Area Survey. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 12, 2009 16:31 - 0 Comments
Best policy may be bankruptcy—not bailout
PENN STATE (US)—The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be “too big to fail,” according to new research from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. (more…)
