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- No one cares about your research! https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/no-one-cares-about-your-research.html 2 comments
- Research driven by curiosity alone, No one cares about https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-failure-has-made-mathematics-stronger-20240522 43 comments math
- Research based on data from more than 28,000 caregivers in three countries, shows that the longer individuals spend caring for loved ones, the more their well-being declined. Declines were consistent across different aspects of well-being -- life satisfaction, emotional experiences, depression https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Caregivers-.html 97 comments science
- Living longer may also mean spending more time dying. New research found most deaths do not correspond to what we often call a "good" death - when one still has control over their own body and mind, and requires little health or hospice care. https://www.mpg.de/20270779/0504-defo-high-care-needs-during-the-last-year-of-life-are-most-common-154642-x?c=2249 1385 comments science
- Ants care for their sick to avoid epidemics: Epidemics are incredibly rare in the ant world, and new research indicates that one secret behind ants’ effective disease control is a good clean-up. http://sciencenordic.com/ants-care-their-sick-avoid-epidemics 21 comments science
- "Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke" is a meticulously researched and well-constructed book demonstrating that World War II was one of the biggest, most carefully plotted lies in modern history" http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-kurlansky9mar09,0,6763134.story 24 comments reddit.com
- Kids have already 'normalized' gender roles by preschool, study finds. Researchers surveyed 106 Chinese and 109 American kids aged 3 to 10 and one of their caregivers to get a better handle on who performs more of the common household and child care duties. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2301781120 56 comments science
- Black Americans’ COVID vaccine hesitancy stems more from today’s inequities than historical ones: Research shows that vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of medical professionals among Black Americans relies on their current unsatisfactory health care experiences https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/969616 121 comments science
- Shorter patients in hospital intensive care units, or ICUs, are more likely to die during treatment than taller ones, a new study suggests, but the researchers are unsure why. The shortest patients (4 feet, 6 in) were 29% (men) and 24% (women) more likely to die than the tallest (6 feet, 6 in). https://www.upi.com/health_news/2018/12/26/shorter-people-fare-worse-in-icu-researchers-unsure-why/2241545856310/ 376 comments science
- Researchers observed mourning outside of humans and chimpanzees for the first time. They watched a male marmoset (small monkey) jump down to comfort and take care of his dying partner after one terrible accident. http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/04/do-monkeys-grieve-fallen-mates 15 comments science
- Muslim scholar publishes well researched book refuting violent jihad, no one cares. (But they did when a crazy imam published a rant advocating the same). http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/gettitle.cfm?sbnum=40780 3 comments reddit.com
- Research has linked perfectionism to depressive symptoms. Self-compassion, defined as experiencing feelings of caring and kindness toward oneself, and taking a nonjudgmental attitude toward one’s inadequacies and failures, moderates the link between perfectionism and depression, finds a new study. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192022 45 comments science
- Faced with an obstacle that reflects most of the waves, researchers present a counter-intuitive solution: just add a carefully calibrated second obstacle to the first one. The result is almost perfect transmission at the selected frequency. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04843-6 15 comments science
- Research has found that 64,686 children younger than five years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments for injuries related to personal care products from 2002 through 2016 - that is the equivalent of about one child every two hours. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/nch-sfp061119.php 5 comments science
- SlushPool encourages miners to vote. The choices are "Follow Core's rules," "I don't care, pool operator decides," and "Split proportionally between choices one and two." That's what I found doing a little research. https://slushpool.com/stats/?c=btc 4 comments btc
- 'A doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex pleaded guilty Monday to one count of federal health care fraud.' http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5gh2gqhudpsq2spkuleykur-dceswd9e1iga81 5 comments reddit.com
- Around one in 20 (6%) of patients are affected by preventable harm in medical care, of which around 12% causes permanent disability or death, finds new research (n = 337,025) published by The BMJ today. Medication errors were most common. https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4185 5 comments science
- In one of the first studies to examine the impact of social media on people’s perceptions of mental health care, researchers discovered that viewing just a few social media posts that mock mental health treatment can have a profound impact on some people's attitudes toward treatment https://www.union.edu/news/stories/202311/stigmatizing-content-social-media-affects-perceptions-mental-health-care-new-study-reveals 13 comments science
- As Trump and GOP Refuse Aid Package, Studies Show 8 Million Forced Into Poverty Since McConnell Let Relief Expire | "It's really important that we reinstate some of the lost benefits" that were extended as part of the CARES Act, one researcher said. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/15/trump-and-gop-refuse-aid-package-studies-show-8-million-forced-poverty-mcconnell-let 4 comments politics