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Where Learning STEMs From
The need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) professionals has become critical in the United States. A recent Washington Post article stated there is a shortage of qualified U.S. workers needed to fill openings
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Can playing World of Warcraft make you smarter?
Los Angeles Times: World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular multiplayer role-playing game, can definitely help you kill time, but can it also make your brain work better if you are of relatively advanced age?
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Why Online Dating Doesn’t Work
Scientific American: Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soul mate. Most sites rely on what’s called an “exclusive process”—they use an algorithm to find romantic matches based variables, from interests
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The search engine for love
The Sydney Morning Herald: It’s easy to play Cupid when both parties are motivated to find love, writes Nicky Phillips. In the winter of 1959, two Stanford University students used the institution’s room-size IBM 650
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Something for the weekend
Financial Times: Most people are familiar with the siren call of the virtual world and the desire to check emails one more time, have a quick glance at Facebook or send a pithy tweet. But
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Q & A With Eli Finkel – The Science Behind Online Dating (Part 2)
Eli Finkel, a social psychologist at Northwestern University, is one of five authors on a new study in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. The study, ‘Online Dating: A Critical Analysis from the Perspective of