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This article is about the VIA and PersonalityStrengths Project and focuses on character strengths and well-functioning in youth and education.
The Impact of Social Media Use on Social Skills. Engaging in various forms of social media has become a routine daily activity for most ren and cents.
Carl Zimmer pointed me to a new paper, A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans. The title is so informative that pasting the abstract is almost unnecessary, but here is the
distorts one of the most intimate forms of human interaction. Those who do so for a number of reasons, but they basically involve the motives of anger, power, eroticized cruelty, and opportunistic mating.
danah mand. output: danah’s blog; danah’s Twitter feed ; papers, articles, talks, etc. Data & Society. a few key papers: “Situating Methods in …
Evidence & Analysis: The Takeaway This exercise will help you visualize how scholars use evidence. Knowing there are many roles that evidence can play in a paper can help you plan not just when to use a source from which evidence is drawn but how to use that source in your argument.
There’s a report in Science about a new short paper about Neandertal pigmentation genetics. The context is this. First, in 2007 an ingenuous paper was published which inferred that it may be that Neandertals had red hair, at least based on an N = 2 from two divergent locations. The new study looks
Using social media Web sites is among the most common activity of today’s ren and cents. Any Web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club