A new study shows that the business leaders behind our nations’ most unsettling corporate scandals have most likely cheated on tests and term papers in college as well.
Researcher Paul Piff says, "Our studies suggest that more positive attitudes toward greed and the pursuit of self-interest among upper-class individuals, in part, drive their tendencies toward increased unethical behavior."
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Researchers have studied the links between media violence and violent behavior for years without coming to a definite conclusion about this.
Correlating crime data and film release schedules between 1995 and 2004, researchers found that on weekends when violent films were in theaters, the number of assaults in the US increased by about 1,000. In the February 17th edition of the Los Angeles Times, Rebecca Keegan quotes the researchers as saying, "The results emphasize that media exposure affects behavior not only via content, but also because it changes the time spent in alternative activities."
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An aerospace and physics researcher has a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint. The idea may sound crazy, but he’s working with NASA on the project.
Dave Hyland thinks that one possible way to avert an asteroid collision with Earth is by using a process called “tribocharging powder dispensing” to spread a thin layer of paint on an approaching asteroid, such as the one named DA14 that came within 17,000 miles on February 15.
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If there was water on the moon, we could colonize it (and take an elevator there). Well, there just may be: Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions.
The lunar highlands are thought to represent the original crust, crystallized from a magma ocean on a mostly molten early moon. Over the last five years, spacecraft observations and new lab measurements of Apollo lunar samples have overturned the long-held belief that the moon is bone-dry. The new findings indicate that the early moon was wet and that water there was not substantially lost during the moon’s formation.
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