Health, Sports & Psychology
A for effort
What motivates children more in a problem-solving task: praising their intelligence or their effort?...Transcript.
Nature & Environment
What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
...artificial noise and repeated during quiet control periods - building upon our previous research. Although we expected that the prairie dogs would take longer to respond when distracted by noise, we were surprised by our findings. Unlike the fish and the crabs, in the presence of noise, prairie dogs reacted earlier to the approaching predator and took evasive action more...
Society, Politics & Law
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
...intelligence careerists turned whistleblowers like Thomas Drake, is the absolute commitment they had to their craft, preserving, protecting and defending the US Constitution. Binney spent over 30 years with the NSA. Drake had a long career in military intelligence, the CIA, private contractor intelligence and finally the NSA. Now there are discussions to be had about the...
Society, Politics & Law
Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
...intelligence collaboration. Strange since, if the Snowden revelations are to be believed, it’s hard to see how the two countries' surveillance efforts could be any closer entwined. Note to David Cameron In light of all the politicking/electioneering, I do have a question or two for Mr Cameron and perhaps a suggestion or two for the mainstream media hacks who actually...
Languages
Emotion management for translators
...intelligence for translators is an introductory 2-hour short course aimed at translators at various stages of their careers who are interested in developing their emotional intelligence skills and are working freelance, in-house, or in the voluntary sector. It may also be of interest to interpreters or other linguists. Emotion management for translators is a substantial...
History & The Arts
Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
...intelligence of the black community. So normalised was the belief that black people were stupid and incapable of looking after themselves and would continue to need, in the words of slave-owner Edward Long, 'white guidance to civilise them', that it was even part of the anti-slavery discourse. A poem supporting the abolition of slavery used the term ‘nigger’ and has a...
Languages
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
...intelligence, also increase as a consequence of multilingual translating experiences and exposure to different language and cultural environments. You might be interested to know that language learners with higher levels of ambiguity tolerance and emotional intelligence are particularly well-suited to the job of a translator, as they are more likely to enjoy being...
Science, Maths & Technology
Darwin and Evolution
...of artificial breeding of pigeons shed light on evolutionary processes. Dogs and breeding Dogs used to be bred for their ability to help humans. Now selective breeding accentuates physical features at the expense of ability to survive in the wild. Sparrows and breeding How differences in 'badge' sizes between males relates to success at finding food and rearing young....