Santa, meet Charles Darwin
Holiday gift-giving may be something of an evolutionary adaptation, according a UC-Santa Barbara anthropologist.
Dorms are optional
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that those ever-enterprising Wikipedians are contemplating their next venture: Wikiversity, an open-source unversity.
Do men not get God?
Here’s more evidence that when it comes to providing quality medical care, understanding the patient’s religious beliefs is helpful. What’s curious is that this Indiana Medical School study says religious training improved the performance of women physicians but not men.
India.com
Number of Internet users in India (2004): 25 million. Number of Internet users in India (2005): 38.5 million. Number of Internet users in India (2007, projected): 100 million. (Source)
B.A. in PSP
Today’s NY Times has an excellent story on colleges and universities offering majors in video games. Says one Carnegie Mellon professor, “When we first got the program started, we worried about if these hardcore geeks would be able to communicate with the artists. But now we find it common to see applications from people who
November Trend Desk
For this month’s installment of “The Trend Desk” on Yahoo! Finance, I took a different approach: several short entries instead of one long essay. Let me know what you think.
Finger lickin’ bad
Cornell University research has found that “moviegoers given big buckets eat 34 percent more stale popcorn than those given the popcorn in medium containers.” The main personal takeaway: Put bad stuff in small bowls and good stuff in big bowls.