admin | June 5, 2010
[ Filed under Gaming & Geek or in the Gadgets category ] Nintendo has been stepping it up recently with the announcements of two new hand-held consoles: first the DSi XL, and more recently the 3DS. But the Nintendo designers aren’t the only ones thinking that 3D hand-helds are the future: designer Mario Troise came [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
[ Filed under Transportation or in the Mass Transit category ] Since the 1940s, airships have mostly been relegated to novelty use such as advertising or giving cameramen a place to film sporting events from. But dirigibles are coming back into use, as evidenced by the fact that the U.S. Navy started flying them again [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
[ Filed under Technology or in the Industrial Design category ] The little plastic straws that come with juice boxes cause a lot of waste – both in the manufacturing process and after they’ve been used once. While the most beneficial answer would be stopping the manufacture of single-serving drink packs altogether, that’s not a [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
[ Filed under Gadgets or in the Audio & TV category ] Music lovers know that different types of music and different listening situations require an adaptable sound system. This Music Accordion Speakers concept would let you tailor the position and location of your speakers to optimize your listening experience, going from compact to customized [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
Last week, I interviewed Oscar-nominated cartoonist Dan Clowes. In his graphic novel Ghost World and other books, Clowes has redefined literature in our era. His ear for achingly authentic dialogue merges with artistic brilliance to create narratives of unprecedented emotional honesty. Clowes’ new graphic novel, Wilson, features as its title character the kind of guy [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
With all of our teens talking so freely about sex and seemingly with a sophisticated attitude about it all, it was shocking to read the results of a new study that found about 17 percent of more than 2,500 teens surveyed said they use the rhythm method for birth control. Wasn’t that method proven a [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
By Alex Gillespie Department of Psychology, University of Stirling Technology supporting the production of academic knowledge has come a long way and Europe’s Journal of Psychology is at the forefront of a new phase in the dissemination and discussion of knowledge. Before the advent of writing, knowledge was spread by word of mouth often through [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
Ariane Lazaridès University of Quebec in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Claude Bélanger University of Quebec in Montreal, McGill University and Douglas Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Stéphane Sabourin Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada Abstract In this longitudinal study, we examined the moderating role of personality in the relationship between communication behaviors (withdrawal, dominance, criticism, support, and [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
María Celeste Dávila Complutense University of Madrid Juan Francisco Díaz-Morales Complutense University of Madrid Marianna Pasquini University of Florence Marco Giannini University of Florence Abstract Recently, it has been demonstrated that attitudes toward an organization impact upon sustained volunteerism. We compared Spanish and Italian volunteers using the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) and then investigated how [...]
admin | June 5, 2010
Samuel O. Salami Department of Guidance and Counselling, Kampala International University Abstract This study investigated the relationship of retirement context and psychological factors with well-being using data on 284 retired married men and women (aged 52-75 years). Measures of retirement context, psychological factors and well-being were used to obtain data from the retirees. Findings show [...]
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