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Lifescouts How to Stop the Bullies - Emily Bazelon The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online—precipitating threats, fights, and a scourge of harrassment that parents and schools feel powerless to stop. The inside story of how experts at Facebook, computer scientists at MIT, and even members of the hacker collective Anonymous are hunting for solutions to an increasingly tricky problem. Geoff McFetridge In the annals of middle-school mischief, the Facebook page Let’s Start Drama deserves an entry. In contrast with some other social networks, like Twitter, Facebook requires its users to sign up with their real names. Students didn’t just message rumors to Drama Queen; they also commented in droves on her posts, from their own real Facebook accounts, or from other fake ones. Drama Queen was particularly ingenious at pitting kids against each other in contests of her own creation. Carbonella figured that all of these pages had to be breaking Facebook’s rules, and he was right.
This is Rape Culture In the wake of the Steubenville rape case and the appalling reaction to the guilty verdict, both on the part of the media, who sympathized with the perpetrators, and several of the victim’s school mates who have harassed and threatened her, this seems like a good time to stop for a moment and talk about what rape culture is. The endless tweets, blog comments, and divided public reaction to Steubenville is reflective of a serious problem with how rape, and both men and women’s role in it, are perceived in this country right now. The term “rape culture” refers to a culture in which attitudes about rape are tolerant enough to be an enabling factor in anything ranging from sexual harassment to actual rape. When a girl complains about being catcalled on the street because it made her uncomfortable, and you tell her to just take a compliment, you’re perpetuating rape culture. Until the 1970s, rape wasn’t really talked about, let alone publicly. Where can we spot rape culture today?
Veggies May Outpower Genes When It Comes to Heart Disease - - TIME Healthland We know that eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for the heart, but can a healthy diet really overcome the effect of genes that boost your risk for heart problems? Yes, it can, according to researchers in Canada who studied data on more than 27,000 people to figure out which contributes more to the risk of heart disease: environment or genes. The researchers focused on a group of people with specific genetic variants that are known to increase the risk of heart disease. “We found that among those with the high-risk genotype, if they consumed a diet high in vegetables and fruits, their risk for heart attack did not increase despite their having the high-risk gene profile,” says Dr. The research team divided the enrollees in the first study into three diet groups based on their answers on 19 food-related questions. MORE: To Help Erectile Dysfunction, Treat the Heart The scientists further separated the participants within the various dietary groups by their genetic profiles.
New Girl Scout Badges Offer Different Choices To Smart Cookies : Monkey See hide caption The "Digital Movie Maker" badge. Girl Scouts of America Today on All Things Considered, Alisha Niehaus of the Girl Scouts of the USA talks to host Guy Raz about a big update: For the first time in a quarter-century, they've completely overhauled the system of badges that Scouts can earn. There are badges that haven't changed much — in a press release, the organization calls the Cook, Athlete and Naturalist badges "as relevant today as they were in 1912." But Digital Movie Maker? Some of the changes aren't entirely about changing the subject matter; they're about adjusting the approach. The "Customer Loyalty" badge in the Cookie sequence. There's also a badge within the Innovation series called Product Designer, which Niehaus calls "the intersection of design and business." The "Science Of Happiness" badge. Perhaps the most intriguing-sounding new badge is one called The Science Of Happiness.
Richard Renaldi Photo Series Strangers Touching Walking the streets of New York City, photographer Richard Renaldi felt fascinated by large groups of strangers and how they seemed to relate and interact with one another. In his ongoing series, Touching Strangers, Renaldi explores this relationship by pairing unacquainted individuals for a portrait with one stipulation: the subjects must physically interact in some manner. “I think it reveals a lot about body language,” says Renaldi. “There is clear hesitation in some of the images, and other times, you are surprised at how comfortable they are.” Often posing his subjects in a way one might for family or couple photos, Renaldi attempts to capture an “implied narrative,” bringing a new complexity to portrait-making and visual storytelling. Richard Renaldi From, Bus Travelers Inspired by an image from an earlier project, Bus Travelers, Renaldi found something magnetic about the subtle interaction between subjects in the photograph.
Physics Nobel: Why Einstein Was Wrong About Being Wrong The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure. In 1990, for example, three scientists got the nod "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons." Got that? The next year, the prize went to a scientist "for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter." But sometimes, you just can't help saying, "Wow!" and maybe: "What took the Nobel folks so long?" Riess and his collaborator Brian Schmidt, of the Australian National University, had no intention of discovering dark anything when they launched the High-z Supernova Search in the mid-1990s. To get the answer, the scientists looked to supernovas — exploding stars so bright they can be seen all the way across the universe. What they found, to their astonishment, was that the universe wasn't slowing down at all.
Researchers Advance Cloning Of Human Embryos Researchers in New York are reporting an advance in creating cloned human embryos. The embryos would not be used for reproduction, but rather for the creation of embryonic stem cells. Many scientists believe that human embryonic stem cells made this way could revolutionize medicine. The advantage of stem cells made this way is that they could be personalized to an individual. Think of it this way: Let's say you know you're going in for surgery in a few months to have your hip replaced. The advantage of donating your own blood is that there's no chance your immune system will reject that blood if it's put back into you. Cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer, as scientists prefer to call it, is a technique that allows you to make what is essentially a genetic copy of a living organism. Dieter Egli and his colleagues at the New York Stem Cell Foundation have taken an important step toward that goal. Then Egli modified the Dolly technique. hide caption Nature But there was a problem.
Monkey Brain Control: The Future of Robotic Prostheses? File this under “the future is now:” in a series of experiments at Duke University Medical Center, researchers fitted two monkeys with electrodes in their brains and trained them to move a virtual arm across a computer screen to grab virtual objects and “feel” their different textures — all using only their brains. It’s the first demonstration of what the researchers call a brain-machine-brain interface (BMBI). The potential is obviously enormous. “Someday in the near future, quadriplegic patients will take advantage of this technology not only to move their arms and hands and to walk again, but also to sense the texture of objects placed in their hands, or experience the nuances of the terrain on which they stroll with the help of a wearable robotic exoskeleton,” said the study’s lead researcher, Dr. VIDEO: Game Changer: Hugh Herr, Leader of the Bionic Age Enter the BMBI. MORE: Bionic Legs Allow Paraplegics to Get Up and Walk MORE: Coming Soon? Reported ScienceNow:
Born to Spend (or Save): It’s All in Your Genes Now I get it. We can’t help ourselves. When it comes to spending and saving, we are genetically wired to be what we are, and there isn’t a lot anyone can do about it, according to a study by Stephan Siegel at the University of Washington and Henrik Cronqvist at Claremont McKenna College. The two scholars looked at the money habits of 15,000 sets of Swedish twins and found the same patterns in even those who had lost contact with one another. Some of us naturally squeeze every penny; the rest of us can’t leave the mall with more than the lint in our pockets. That’s just the way we are. (LIST: 12 Things You Should Stop Buying Now) But genetics do not tell the whole story, the researchers concede. “Parenting effects on savings behavior are strong for those in their twenties but decay to zero by middle age,” the authors write. “There is overwhelming evidence across the board that the genes matter and that between one-third and 50% of our behavior is determined by our genes,” Siegel says.
Steve Jobs Designed Amazing Products, But Life Has Been Hard for Some of the Workers Who Made Them I missed the all-night, stop-the-presses TIME session last week that put together an amazing and entirely new issue to commemorate the death of Apple’s Steve Jobs. I don’t have much more to add, other than the fact that like so many other people, I found out the news on an Apple product and am writing this on another one. Outside TIME’s work, I suggest you check out Alexis Madrigal’s take at the Atlantic on why Jobs’s death has caused the kind of global grief you’d usually see from the passing of a religious figure: Steve Jobs believed in more for everyone: more money for him and his shareholders, more power through personal technology for the people. He was the white wizard in the black turtleneck holding the forces of decline at bay. I’m an Apple addict, too. Many Apple products are manufactured by Foxconn, a Taiwan-based electronics company that maintains most of its factories in China. And then there are the suicides. But only a little bit.
Homemade Goldfish Crackers There are amazing recipes all over the internets—impressive cakes and cookies, pies galore, delicious pasta dishes, fantastic dinner ideas, and so much more. But what has had me a little stumped were homemade crackers. Homemade crackers? Who in the world has time to make homemade crackers? Let me tell ya, they were pretty darn easy. Wanna see how? Before getting started, decide on what shapes you’ll be cutting out. I had so much fun I couldn’t stop, and made a Pac-Man and a football. You’ll need just a few simple ingredients: shredded cheese, butter, flour, salt and cold water. Begin combining everything, except the water, in a food processor until the dough looks like sand. Next, pulse in the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until combined. Remove the dough from the processor and form into a small, tidy package. Once chilled, roll out the dough. Now, the cutting fun begins! Place crackers on a lined cookie sheet and bake at 350°F for about 15 minutes. Aren’t they cute? Look! Description