June 5, 2013
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Researchers report that a single, 20-minute session of Hatha yoga significantly improved participants’ speed and accuracy on tests of working memory and inhibitory control, two measures of brain function associated with the ability to maintain focus an… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 20, 2013
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Little is known about the effect of physical education on child weight, but a new study finds that increasing the amount of time that elementary schoolchildren spent in gym class reduces the probability of obesity. Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 11, 2013
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Physicists have examined how Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) might be used to provide communication among the nodes of a distributed quantum computer. The researchers determined the amount of time needed for quantum information to propagate across thei… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 21, 2013
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Like archeologists carefully digging for fossils, scientists with the Planck mission are sifting through cosmic clutter to find the most ancient light in the universe. The Planck space telescope has created the most precise sky map ever made of the old… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 5, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I am of the opinion, which is by no means universally held, that the Interstate Highway System, whose construction was begun in the 1950s, was good for America, or… Continue reading
May 23, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC There were a lot of stories in the press last week about a voluminous study by the Metropolitan Policy Center at Brookings (which does great work and a lot of it) on the be… Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 16, 2010
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Soles4Souls, the Nashville-based charity that distributes a pair of shoes every seven seconds to people in need, has put a call out for donations as the organization is literally “running out of shoes.” Since 2005, the nonprofit has distributed more than 11 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes in more than 125 countries, [...] Continue reading
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