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FILTER RESULTS ►My Fantasy Britain by Bee Ridgway
Bee Ridgway grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Oberlin College (B.A.), then worked for a year as an editorial assistant at Elle magazine. She studied literature at Cornell University (M.A. and Ph.D.) and has worked at Bryn Mawr College...
Robots Evolve!
Nick Cheney, a current candidate for a PhD at Cornell University, has shown off some pretty cool research in robotics recently. He applied the idea of evolution to the bots. A single bot, which was fairly generic, was able to reproduce into several generations of more effective models. By using breeding to respond to a single selective pressure.
Gym Class Reduces Probability of Obesity, Study Finds for First Time
Little is known about the effect of physical education on child weight, but a new study from Cornell University finds that increasing the amount of time that elementary schoolchildren spent in gym class reduces the probability of obesity.
Rising Student Debt, Declining Personal Responsibility
According to Ronald Ehrenberg, economist and professor of labor and industrial relations at Cornell, tuition at selective private colleges and universities has grown at two to three percentage points over the rate of inflation for over a century. Show More Summary
Don't Shop for Food When You're Hungry
As summer rapidly approaches, many of us are worried about how we will look on the beach. That means a hurried search for weight loss tips. Researchers at Cornell University are on the case, with some advice in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on how to avoid giving in to a momentary temptation to indulge in calorie-laden food. Show More Summary
Do Not Shop When You Are Hungry
A new study conducted by researchers at Cornell University suggests that people who are hungry when they go shopping tend to buy higher-calorie food options than those who aren't. The study involved tracking people's food options in a simulated supermarket depending on how hungry they were feeling. Show More Summary
Short-Term Food Deprivation Appears Linked to High-Calorie Food Options
A research letter by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Aner Tal, Ph.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., suggests that hungry grocery shoppers tend to buy higher-calorie products.
Eyes-on with Cornell University's laser tag dunebots (video)
Cornell University may be the host of the Cornell Cup competition, but that doesn't mean it can't bring its own robots to join in on the fun. This year, students brought along a few bots, dubbed dunebots, outfitted with all-terrain wheels and equipped with laser tag turrets. Show More Summary
Eyes-on: University of Pennsylvania's TitanArm exoskeleton (video)
TitanArm already took home silver in a competition for senior projects at the University of Pennsylvania, and now the team behind it is visiting Orlando to compete in the Intel-sponsored Cornell Cup for embedded design. We stopped by...Show More Summary
Fleeing Facebook: Study examines why people quit -- and come back -- to the 'global aquarium'
ITHACA, N.Y. – With more than a billion active accounts worldwide, it can be easy to forget that some people don't use Facebook. A study by Cornell University researchers presented this week in Paris suggests that "non-use" of the social...Show More Summary
Mark Lynas describes anti GMO conspiracy to Cornell University
One of the primary reasons I am sharing the above video is that it has an analog in the multi-decade effort to restrict the growth of nuclear technology. Though not the topic of this talk, Mark pointed out the similarity between the anti GMO and antinuclear movements. At minute 15:30 he said: Indeed, in many [...]Show More Summary
Why Do Users Leave Facebook?
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We all have one or two friends who have used Facebook and left the site. Do those people share some fundamental trait?
Not according to a new study from Cornell University, which found various reasons for...Show More Summary
Pathogen Fighting 'Innate' Cells Could Revolutionize Immunizations
New Cornell University research shows that small populations of preprogrammed immune cells can fight specific pathogens that they have never encountered. The findings have the potential to revolutionize how and when people are immunized, and potentially transforming our approach to preventing infectious disease.
Classics Confidential | Gail Holst-Warhaft on Penelope’s Confession
The official description: In this interview, Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft of Cornell University joined CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni to discuss her love of Greece (both ancient and modern), and to share with us how this life-long love affair found a creative outlet in her poetry collection Penelope’s Confession (Cosmos Books, 2007).
Even America's Food Aid Program Has Been Hijacked By Special Interests
IT IS the sad fate of American overseas food aid to occupy a policy “sweet spot”, says Chris Barratt, an expert in the subject at Cornell University. Its budget, the largest of any country’s, is big enough to attract rapacious special interests, but still sufficiently small and complex that its scandalous inefficiencies rarely make headlines. Show More Summary
Cornell University Gets Big Donation to Help Fund NYC Tech Campus
The new institute will be part of Cornell Tech, a graduate school expected to attract top students and create new local companies.
Cornell Tech to Receive $133 Million from Qualcomm Founder Irwin Jacobs
Innovation Institute at new university campus to be named after IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient
Watch as these adorable robots evolve the ability to walk
By using Darwin’s principle of natural selection, researchers from Cornell University’s Creative Machines Lab found got these virtual robots to evolve into proficient (albeit goofy) walking machines. Read more...
Stem Cell Bio Ink 3D Prints Inside The Spine
Cornell University scientists pioneer spinal surgery with 3D printed replacements for degenerative spinal discs.
Helping whom, exactly?
IT IS the sad fate of American overseas food aid to occupy a policy “sweet spot”, says Chris Barratt, an expert in the subject at Cornell University. Its budget, the largest of any country’s, is big enough to attract rapacious special interests, but still sufficiently small and complex that its scandalous inefficiencies rarely make headlines. Show More Summary
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