Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
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. Continue…
Monday, February 28, 2011 16:02 - 1 Comment
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 - 3 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 marine geologist Justin Ries in the Zebra River Valley, southern Namibia. The Nama Group carbonates, which contain sulfur isotopic signatures suggesting that low marine sulfate and low atmospheric oxygen conditions persisted up until the Cambrian Explosion, loom in the background. (Credit: Gordon Love)
Society & Culture - Aug 4, 2009 10:25 - 0 Comments
Video games: lots of dudes, little diversity
A screenshot from Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort, released this summer. (Courtesy: IGN Entertainment)
Earth & Environment - Jul 24, 2009 14:43 - 0 Comments
Noisy nests not for the birds
“Understanding how birds respond to noise, especially birds with critical links to ecosystems, are crucial in maintaining biodiversity in growing areas of landscapes disturbed by urban clamor,” says lead author Clinton Francis. (Western Tanager pictured above. Courtesy: Clinton Francis)
Earth & Environment - Jul 14, 2009 9:30 - 0 Comments
Ancient ferns bum a ride off giant trees
Hymenophyllum jamesonii, an epiphytic fern of neotropical rain forests, has berry-like clusters of sporangia where reproductive spores are produced. (Courtesy: Eric Schuettpelz)
Society & Culture - May 19, 2009 10:29 - 1 Comment
Houston reflects America’s changing face
A new study says the demographics of Houston (above) reflect U.S. trends in years to come. (Courtesy: Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau)
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…)
