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Philosophy of Science RSS FeedsSpeaking Without Regret - Most of us have found ourselves having to answer when what we've said in confidence goes public. Here's a simple way to stop the problem in its tracks.Tags: communication, ethics, responsibility, social skills, technology ...Feed Source: feeds.counsellingresource.com When W-O-R-K is a Four-Letter Word - Many people enjoy a healthy and sometimes rewarding or even fulfilling relationship with work. For some others, though -- especially for some problem personality types -- work is more than literally a four-letter word, especially when it benefits someone else.Tags: character disturbance, responsibility, work-life
... All Quiet on the Western Front: Learning from ?Bonanza? - In our hustle and bustle lifestyle, we often forget about the necessity of quiet and serenity. Without them, we can lose our imagination, our focus and our relationship skills.Tags: ADHD, relationships, relaxation, society
... What Works in Analytic Psychotherapy? - Analytic psychotherapy has changed and developed since the time of Freud, with increasing emphasis on the therapeutic relationship. A recent survey of my former patients -- seen over a period spanning five decades -- highlights 9 particular ingredients that help place the relationship at the heart of successful therapy.Tags: book, empathy, in practice, ... Gracefully Wrong - In the search for what makes change possible, I've found that being comfortable with mistakes is key to correcting them.Tags: responsibility, society, tools
... The Universe: An Infinity of Questions - Questions about creation and the nature of the universe have always fascinated people -- they amaze and inspire us, as we continue to discover more about our origins.Tags: meaning, reviews
... Reflections on the Mothering Experience - Mother's Day has turned into a commercial bonanza lauding the work of mothers. Instead of focusing on the chores mothers do, we need to emphasize the mothering experience and how it can bring about fundamental change.Tags: meaning, parenting and children, society, women
... The ?Clock Time? Trap - What happens when we use time as a proxy for experience? We're very likely to fool others -- and ourselves.Tags: decision making, meaning, school and studies, work-life
... Changing Attitudes Toward Work - Perhaps we should re-examine our relationship toward work, since this aspect of our lives relates closely to mental and emotional health, and not just to our standard of living.Tags: history, meaning, society, work-life
... ?Glee?-ful Conversations With Our Children About Diversity - The television show Glee does something radical in how they depict the diversity of their characters. As such, parents can use this show as a way to connect and communicate with their kids about difficult subjects.Tags: communication, parenting and children, society
... This Week in Science - Cage, Book, and Prism | Water-Assisted Proton Diffusion | Mechanisms in Methanol Catalysis | Radioactive Resonance | Keep Your Distance | Bring In the Inspectors | Ultimate Blockade | Accounting for Lac | The Hibernating Ribosome | An Aspirin a Day? | Suicidal B cells | Deep Breathing | Color and Movement | Distinguishing Epigenetic Marks... Editors' Choice - Ecology: Different Dialects | Psychology: Evaluating Rituals | Cell Biology: Who Hid the Cyclin D2? | Development: Stressful for the Long Haul | Microbiology: Attack of the Killer Algae | Physics: Watching Excitons Condense | Ocean Science: Where Carbonate Comes From | Chemistry: Tuning the Mix | Immunology: Detecting Danger... Findings - Gamma Ray Bending Opens New Door for Optics... [Editorial] Preventing Mass Violence - Author: David Hamburg... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, a Senate bill would preserve the U.S. helium supply for research, researchers have issued the first-ever international principles governing peer review of grant proposals, the European Parliament rebuked three regulatory agencies, Norway opened the world's largest carbon capture and storage test facility, and a new Twitter feed run by the Shanghai U.S. consulate is charting the city's air quality.... [News of the Week] Random Sample - An analysis of the DNA sequence from three species of Heliconius butterflies and several subspecies reveals that those with the same color patterns have the same versions of key genes, holdovers from extensive hybridization within the genus. A recent master's degree thesis at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany is generating waves?though not the "time waves" the student was looking for. And this week's numbers quantify deaths... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmaker is Arunava Majumdar, who will leave his post as head of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy on 9 June.... [News & Analysis] Biomedicine: A Texas Wrangle Over Cancer Research Funds - Last week, Alfred Gilman announced he is stepping down as the chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas this fall because he believes CPRIT's leaders are bypassing scientific review.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News & Analysis] Neuropathology: Blast Injuries Linked to Neurodegeneration in Veterans - A study reported this week in Science Translational Medicine of autopsies of four veterans of recent conflicts has found features of the same neurodegenerative disease reported previously in athletes.Author: Greg Miller... [News & Analysis] Aids Research: FDA Panel Recommends Anti-HIV Drug for Prevention - On 10 May, the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration debated whether an anti-HIV drug should receive approval as a preventive for uninfected people.Author: Jon Cohen... [News & Analysis] Newsmaker Interview: Stephen Pruitt: Coalition Begins Push for U.S. Schools to Adopt Voluntary Science Standards - Stephen Pruitt is trying to coax states to adopt a set of standards for teaching science in their elementary and secondary schools. He offers a tutorial on the new standards in an interview with Science.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News & Analysis] Public Health: China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance - The Chinese government is leading a crusade to warn its people against the perils of frivolous antibiotic consumption in hopes of warding off calamitous outbreaks of drug-resistant strains.Author: Mara Hvistendahl... [News Focus] Archaeology: Near Eastern Archaeology Works to Dig Out of a Crisis - In the wake of the Arab Spring, archaeologists in the Near East are locked in a struggle for the survival of their field.Author: Andrew Lawler... [News Focus] Infectious Diseases: Can New Chemistry Make a Malaria Drug Plentiful and Cheap? - German chemist Peter Seeberger says he has developed a cheaper way to produce a key malaria drug. Now, he's trying to convince the rest of the world.Author: Kai Kupferschmidt... [Letter] Forced Retirement Goes Out of Style - Author: Roy Williams... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Dangerous Logic - Author: Olavo B. Amaral... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Prioritize Publication - Author: Simon Nicholas Williams... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Beware Misinterpretation - Author: Gregory Francis... [Book Review] Sociology: Violence Tamed - Examining patterns of violence in Europe, Muchembled finds that brutality and homicide have declined from the 13th century to the present and considers explanations for that change.Author: Michael Hechter... [Book Review] Sociology: Schooling Violence? - Challenging claims that education promotes tolerance and peace, Lange argues that it instead often?especially in settings with ethnic divisions, limited resources, and ineffective political institutions?contributes to violence.Author: Claire L. Adida... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 11 May 2012.... [Policy Forum] Social Psychology: Parochialism as a Central Challenge in Counterinsurgency - Current U.S. practice in Afghanistan may reify social divisions, which undermines institutions critical to postwar stability.Authors: Nicholas Sambanis, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Moses Shayo... [Perspective] Cell Biology: An Alternative Route for Nuclear mRNP Export by Membrane Budding - Nuclear export of mRNA, previously thought to happen exclusively through nuclear pore complexes, may also occur via a membrane-budding mechanism.Authors: Ben Montpetit, Karsten Weis... [Perspective] Chemistry: Active Site of an Industrial Catalyst - Surface steps caused by stacking faults or twin boundaries in copper nanoparticles are key to the activity of the methanol synthesis catalyst.Author: Jeffrey P. Greeley... [Perspective] Chemistry: NMR Tools for Determining the Structure of Plutonium Materials - The ability to observe plutonium-239 magnetic resonance signals should aid in environmental studies and the development of waste-storage materials.Author: Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt... [Perspective] Physics: Room for Just One Photon - Ensembles of cold atoms excited up to Rydberg states can be used to manipulate and control interactions between single photons.Author: Philippe Grangier... [Perspective] Cell Biology: Ancient Sensor for Ancient Drug - A common drug has an unexpected effect on a metabolic enzyme that stimulates fat utilization.Authors: Reuben J. Shaw, Lewis C. Cantley... [Perspective] Chemistry: Pinning Down the Water Hexamer - An experimental study resolves a long-standing controversy about isomeric forms of the water hexamer.Authors: Richard J. Saykally, David J. Wales... [Perspective] Retrospective: Robert R. Sokal (1926?2012) - An ecologist and evolutionary biologist brought a quantitative approach to classification through statistics and morphometric analysis.Author: Douglas J. Futuyma... [Introduction to Special Issue] Introduction: Human Conflict: Winning the Peace - Authors: Guy Riddihough, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Culotta, Barbara Jasny, Leslie Roberts, Sacha Vignieri... [Special Issue Multimedia] Human Conflict: Additional Online Features - Videos, blog postings, discussions, and more.... [Special Issue News] Parsing Terrorism - Author: Eliot Marshall... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Tribal Roots in South Sudan - Author: Eliot Marshall... [Special Issue News] Roots of Racism - Author: Elizabeth Culotta... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Preening the Troops - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] The Battle Over Violence - Author: Andrew Lawler... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Tweeting the London Riots - Author: John Bohannon... [Special Issue News] Civilization's Double-Edged Sword - Author: Andrew Lawler... [Special Issue News] The Ultimate Sacrifice - Author: Ann Gibbons... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Fighting Rituals - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] Gender and Violence - Author: Mara Hvistendahl... [Special Issue News] In Battle: From War to Peace - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] Drone Wars - Author: Greg Miller... [Special Issue Review] Ancestral Hierarchy and Conflict - Author: Christopher Boehm... [Special Issue Review] The Group Self - Author: Naomi Ellemers... [Special Issue Perspective] Adapting to a Multicultural Future - Authors: Richard J. Crisp, Rose Meleady... [Special Issue Perspective] Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict - Authors: Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges... [Special Issue Review] Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts - Authors: Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray... [Special Issue Review] Modeling Armed Conflicts - Author: Moshe Kress... [Special Issue Perspective] Climate Change and Violent Conflict - Authors: Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Jasmin Kominek, P. Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling... [Special Issue Perspective] Are We Winning the War Against Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? - Author: Richard J. McNally... [Special Issue Perspective] The Antiquity of Empathy - Author: Frans B. M. de Waal... [Special Issue Perspective] Warriors, Levelers, and the Role of Conflict in Human Social Evolution - Author: Samuel Bowles... [Special Issue/Review] Life Without War - Author: Douglas P. Fry... [Brevia] Evolutionary Diversity of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter - Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial calcium transporter shows that it was a feature of early eukaryotes.Authors: Alexander G. Bick, Sarah E. Calvo, Vamsi K. Mootha... [Report] Strongly Interacting Rydberg Excitations of a Cold Atomic Gas - Illumination of an ensemble of cold rubidium atoms ultimately leads to high-level excitation of just a single atom.Authors: Y. O. Dudin, A. Kuzmich... [Report] Water-Mediated Proton Hopping on an Iron Oxide Surface - The presence of adsorbed water enhances proton diffusion, likely through a hydronium ion transition state.Authors: Lindsay R. Merte, Guowen Peng, Ralf Bechstein, Felix Rieboldt, Carrie A. Farberow, Lars C. Grabow, Wilhelmine Kudernatsch, Stefan Wendt, Erik Lægsgaard, Manos Mavrikakis, Flemming Besenbacher... [Report] The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts - Catalysis is favored by stepped copper nanoparticles decorated with zinc oxide, which promotes stronger intermediate binding.Authors: Malte Behrens, Felix Studt, Igor Kasatkin, Stefanie Kühl, Michael Hävecker, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Stefan Zander, Frank Girgsdies, Patrick Kurr, Benjamin-Louis Kniep, Michael Tovar, Richard W. Fischer, Jens K. Nørskov, Robert Schlögl... [Report] Structures of Cage, Prism, and Book Isomers of Water Hexamer from Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy - Observing three distinct water clusters in the same experiment resolves long-standing questions about their relative stabilities.Authors: Cristóbal Pérez, Matt T. Muckle, Daniel P. Zaleski, Nathan A. Seifert, Berhane Temelso, George C. Shields, Zbigniew Kisiel, Brooks H. Pate... [Report] Observation of 239Pu Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - The long-sought magnetic resonance signal of the plutonium nucleus has been detected in a sample of solid plutonium dioxide.Authors: H. Yasuoka, G. Koutroulakis, H. Chudo, S. Richmond, D. K. Veirs, A. I. Smith, E. D. Bauer, J. D. Thompson, G. D. Jarvinen, D. L. Clark... [Report] Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity - Tree seedlings have a harder time establishing themselves in forests containing many adults of the same species.Authors: Daniel J. Johnson, Wesley T. Beaulieu, James D. Bever, Keith Clay... [Report] Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss - It may be feasible to achieve employee safety while keeping businesses viable.Authors: David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel, Matthew S. Johnson... [Report] Cost-Benefit Tradeoffs in Engineered lac Operons - A close look at a paradigmatic system accounts for the costs due to protein activity versus expression and folding.Authors: Matt Eames, Tanja Kortemme... [Report] How Hibernation Factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA Turn Off Protein Synthesis - Three crystal structures show why bacteria stop making proteins when they enter the stationary phase.Authors: Yury S. Polikanov, Gregor M. Blaha, Thomas A. Steitz... [Report] The Ancient Drug Salicylate Directly Activates AMP-Activated Protein Kinase - A possible molecular mechanism of action for a metabolite of aspirin is described.Authors: Simon A. Hawley, Morgan D. Fullerton, Fiona A. Ross, Jonathan D. Schertzer, Cyrille Chevtzoff, Katherine J. Walker, Mark W. Peggie, Darya Zibrova, Kevin A. Green, Kirsty J. Mustard, Bruce E. Kemp, Kei Sakamoto, Gregory R. Steinberg, D. Grahame Hardie... [Report] Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay - Microbes in Pacific sediments grow very, very slowly.Authors: Hans Røy, Jens Kallmeyer, Rishi Ram Adhikari, Robert Pockalny, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Steven D?Hondt... [Report] Multiple Spectral Inputs Improve Motion Discrimination in the Drosophila Visual System - Fly photoreceptors that detect colors also contribute information to the processing of motion.Authors: Trevor J. Wardill, Olivier List, Xiaofeng Li, Sidhartha Dongre, Marie McCulloch, Chun-Yuan Ting, Cahir J. O?Kane, Shiming Tang, Chi-Hon Lee, Roger C. Hardie, Mikko Juusola... [Report] AID-Driven Deletion Causes Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus Suicide Recombination in B Cells - Recombination-induced deletion of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene in activated B cells may influence B cell homeostasis.Authors: Sophie Péron, Brice Laffleur, Nicolas Denis-Lagache, Jeanne Cook-Moreau, Aurélien Tinguely, Laurent Delpy, Yves Denizot, Eric Pinaud, Michel Cogné... [Report] Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution - A sequencing method can discriminate epigenetically modified cytosine nucleotides within embryonic stem cell DNA.Authors: Michael J. Booth, Miguel R. Branco, Gabriella Ficz, David Oxley, Felix Krueger, Wolf Reik, Shankar Balasubramanian... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... 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