Small talk is part of everyday life, but it’s the substantial, meaningful conversations that may make you happy. That’s one possibility suggested in a new study examining how conversation connects to happiness.
Researchers, led by Matthias Mehl at the University of Arizona, looked at the different types of conversation that happy and unhappy people participate in. [...]
The American Cancer Society recommends that men weigh the risks of treatment before agreeing to prostate screening.
Most men 50 and older should seriously consider the potential risks of treatment before deciding whether to be screened for prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society said Wednesday in revised guidelines.”What we are trying [...]
MEDINA, Ohio — A local woman, frustrated by the rising costs of health care, wrote a letter to the president. Much to her surprise, President Obama didn’t just read her letter. He also read it out loud at a health care reform meeting at the White House.
Thursday, President Obama was [...]
The term “foodborne illness” is relatively new. It was coined over the past few decades. Yet humans have been infected by cryptic-sounding pathogens like Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Cyclospora cayetanensis for millennia.”The first description that we have of symptoms associated E. coli 0157 infection goes all [...]
Dr. William Schreiber, a primary care physician, said cuts in Medicare payments to doctors will force them to consider boycotting Medicare patients.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — When you think of low-paying jobs, doctor doesn’t usually come to mind.
But with a 21% cut in Medicare payments slated to take effect later this month, physicians who say they [...]
Pandora founder Tim Westergren said he hopes Pandora will remain profitable in 2010 after posting its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2009.
In an online world saturated by struggling streaming music services, Internet radio site Pandora appears to be making all the right moves.
Last year, the 10-year old company recorded its first profitable quarter, [...]
A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship.
In countries where governments continue to ramp up Web filtering systems, more people are searching for tools that will allow them to access inaccessible information — and they are willing to pay for them.
Such tools include virtual private networks (VPN), proxy [...]
Ahead of today’s apology from Tiger Woods, some people speculated that the event would break the Web’s record for most people watching a live video stream at the same time.
Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 set that record, with 7.7 million simultaneous video streams across the Internet as a whole, according to Akamai Technologies Inc.
Tiger’s “I’m [...]
Pennsylvania parents are suing their son’s school, alleging it watched him through his laptop’s webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being observed.
Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley are suing the Lower Merion School District, its board of directors and the superintendent. The parents allege the district unlawfully used its ability [...]
You’ve probably had moments watching science fiction films when you thought, “Naw, that couldn’t happen.” And it’s true – sci-fi movies often contain elements that don’t conform to the laws of physics.
But modern science can say a lot about the plausibility of such things as stopping an asteroid from destroying the planet, and these are [...]