A 90-year-old has been awarded \woman of the year\ for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

According to the passage, human being are used to living in the day light.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light.

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

Being able to communicate ideas in a meaningful way is a valuable skill.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

Being fond of someone seems to have a number of factors, including seeing something we find attractive.

Being punctual, we can avoid anxiety.

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

Being unpunctual, we are not respectful of others ; we are interfering (扰乱) with another man's time.

Blackbirds and seagulls are also being more nocturnal.

Body language can give away a lot about your mood, so standing with your arms folded can send out a signal that you are being defensive.

But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education.

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules.

But there's a difference between being a victim and living with a \victim mentality\.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Conclusion· With a large brain, human beings beat other beings in terms of intelligence.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Daydreamers have a bad reputation for being unaware of what's happening around them.

Despite their many differences, all human beings share several defining characteristics.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says ryan calo at stanford university, California.

During those six months of hospitalizations, Becky, 12 at the time, adjusted to other adults being in the house when she returned from school.

Elsewhere in asia even more astonishing actions are being taken.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the long-lasting themes and plot devices in fiction.

He always answered, \Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish\, I remember being even more upset then because, \I'm not a fish!\ I didn't know how to think like a fish.

He hurried home, never once looking back to see if he was being followed.

He stood by the piano, eyes closed, listening for the first time to his own work being played by someone else.

He thought of it as being naughty.

His study shows that when robins are exposed to light at night in the lab, it leads to some genes being active at the wrong time of day.

How did the author feel about being stared at by the people in the hall?

However, here are some examples: being cut off in traffic, a deadline approaching, experiencing physical pain, and much more.

Human beings cannot go to the outer space.

Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and astonishing ways.

Human beings, I believe must try to succeed.

I tried being firm, but it didn't work.

I was walking across altrincham road one morning when a cyclist went round me and on being asked what he was doing he shouted at me.

If men insisted on being free from the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would cease to be free.

If you are planning to do exercise regularly, or you're doing it now, then listen up! working out in the morning provides additional benefits beyond being physically fit.

If you fear the heyday of the snowman has passed, don't worry: I've learned that some explosive snowman history is still being made today.

In addition to being more in touch with the food she's eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children.

In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created.

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

Large brains for their bodies and the ability to walk upright are two characteristics of human beings.

It tells you the main idea of the graph by stating what kind of information is being shown.

It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state.

It's our experience of the garden that matters―how being in those gardens made us feel.

Listening to music at home is one thing, going to hear it being performed live is quite another.

Looking at the beef being cooked on the stove, the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.

Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behavior runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders.

My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

My washing machine is being repaired this week, so I have to wash my clothes by hand.

Now similar concerns ares being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital age.

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about being late for school.

Owain James, the president of the National Union of Students NUS, argued that the increase is evidence of student hardship – young people are being forced into earning money before finishing their education.

People who work toward such excellence—whether they are driving a truck, or running a store--make the world better just by being the kind of people they are.

Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔绝 and inactive.

Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out vocs when being attacked.

Since 1992 the number of people dying has been bigger than that of those being born by a massive 50%.

Small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.

Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants.

Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about.

Thank you for being with us.

That is happening in the UK and singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.

The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being\captured\by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms.

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

The nursery team switches him every few days with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, the other is with mum-she never suspects.

The parade ends with the boogg being placed on a 40-foot pile of firewood.

The study, by researchers from seoul, south korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.

They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.

This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of US don't think of ourselves as diurnal beings.

To avoid being caught, the Winns had to get their tent up late.

Travel through 100 of the most unbelievable years in world history and learn why being a Roman emperor wasn't always as good as it sounds.

We both passionate about acting, which comes from us being so interested in people.

We must realise that keeping appointments or being punctual is a contract that is silently agreed and we are expected to respect this contract.

When I came to the us, I was only thinking about being a carpenter, but I could not read the newspaper.

With all the programs, teamwork is key as trainees learn the importance of leadership and being part of a bigger task.

Yet instead of being discouraged by my slow progress, I was excited.

Yet, now that I'm growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

By imitating the behavior of properly brought-up human beings.

By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.

Being taller is associated with longer life expectancy, he said, This is largely due to a lower risk of dying of cardiovascular (心血管的) disease among taller people.

Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

When you're emotionally vulnerable, you're even more in need of a caring human being, he says.

A letter written by Charles Darwin in 1875 has been returned to the Smithsonian Institution (档案馆) by the FBI after being stolen twice.

A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey on women and leadership, most Americans find women indistinguishable from men on key leadership traits such as intelligence and capacity for innovation, with many saying they're stronger than men in terms of b

According to the majority of Americans, women are every bit as capable of being good political leaders as men.

Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

Also, I've a good chance of winning a scholarship at Leeds, which will be pretty awesome, the benefits of being a music genius.

America's Internet is faster than ever before, but people still complain about their Internet being too slow.

And, for the time being, we settle.

As a result, some rats are being put to work to detect.

Being depressed can mean feeling lost in your own small, negative, dark world, Dowrick says.

Being overworked or over-committed at home and on the job will not get you where you want to be in life.

Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murder and exposing people to danger, according to police.

But on the subject of obesity, she pointed out that consumers' lifestyles have changed significantly, with many people being more sedentary (久坐不动的) not least because more time is spent in front of computers.

But with that policy now being abolished, this holiday incentive is no longer necessary, the government says.

Commenting on the find, snake expert Robert Henderson, from the milwaukee Museum of Natural history, said: Worldwide new species of frogs are being discovered and described quite regularly.

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mindset workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

Details about what led to the workers' being trapped in the elevator weren't immediately available.

Each critic in those examples is charging, in a different way, that someone in authority is intentionally being incurious.

He will now retrain to fly the bigger Boeing 737s as the old planes are being phased out of service.

I must say I agree with you about there being bad feelings in the works.

I must say that's one thing that's always struck me about being a pub owner.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and self-reliance.

If you're planning on being one of them soon, you might not be looking forward to the unpleasant feeling air travel often leaves you with.

I'm afraid not, the stand-ins are already in use on line 6, and the ones from line 6 are being serviced.

I'm always a fan of being open and honest.

Hesiod offers an idea — which you very often find in some of the world's great religions, in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and others — that in some sense, when you hurt another human being, you hurt yourself.

In a recent art assignment, a middle school student depicted an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam.

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal.

It could also get people out of cities in danger of being bombed.

Jude and his family had been invited by the researchers to see the fossil being preserved at the university.

Maintaining safe speeds and being electric, self-driving cars would drastically reduce pollution levels and dependency on non-renewable fuels.

Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring, and have better odds of being hired.

Moreover, some of the objects on the moon are still being used including a laser range reflector left by the Apollo 11 crew.

No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

Overconcern with being perfect can damage our confidence if we never achieve it.

Potato chips in Japan are being sold for 6 times their normal price.

Returning to a normal life can be difficult, but some small routines mail delivery being one of them may help residents remember that their communities are still their communities.

She doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job.

Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they 're being recorded while you all watch the big game together?

simpli Safe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with hand-held jamming equipment.

So I've watched a lot of children—talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.

Students risk health and well being,as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited boundaries.

That is why being self-aware, investing in broader networks of friends, and being open to new ideas will become even more crucial skills.

The airlander will need to have 200 hours' flying time before being allowed to fly by the aviation administration.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

The fire department of New York says the vacant 100-year-old building being pulled down partially collapsed.

The Healthy Choice product line was carefully tested with consumers before being introduced to the general public.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

The result is that the commitments that previously characterized the beginning of adulthood are now being delayed, and new patterns of behavior and a new stage of life are emerging for those in their twenties.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

The students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn't tell it apart from a real human being.

The wide majority of the rest were illegal, unforced entries that resulted from something like a window being left open.

Thinking small, being engaging, and having a sense of humor don't hurt.

When muscles perform an activity they aren't regularly expose to, the tiny fibers that are inside them are being torn apart.

When the system thinks it's being jammed, it'll notify you via push alert.

with many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.

\While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial,\ Morgan wrote to the presidents.

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn't otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.

And Brandston knows a thing or two about lighting, being the man who illuminated the Statue of liberty.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

Asian women prefer to avoid the sun, because being pale or white is considered beautiful, whereas a tanned complexion is considered much more beautiful and sexy in the West.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

Being a good team player is a central skill in our modern workplace.

Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.

But that's not to say there isn't any good new Jazz music being made out there anymore.

By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.

Customers can bring shoes of any brand into an Adidas store to be shredded and turned into alternative fuels for energy creation instead of being burned as trash.

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and \only three or four said they didn't like having it around\.

Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.

Feeling both positive and negative emotions is a natural part of being human.

Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: \If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead

He believes that team corporation results when members go beyond their individual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing.

Here, the brightly colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up.

Hobbyists and students are gaining access to technologies without being part of a long-standing amateur establishment.

How do you feel about being recognized everywhere you go?

However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.

However, placing too much emphasis on being a good team player can negatively affect your career growth.

However, there are certain advantages of public universities, such as the fees being free.

I thought one interesting thing in the video was the idea of passion being so important and that people who really love what they do.

If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.

If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere -with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

It also highlights incidents of fishing boats being involved in groundings, oil spills and accidents, which posed a serious threat to the Antarctic ecosystem.

It wasn't until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a priority at all.

It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.

Many advocates think that transparent data procedures with a date and time stamp will protect scientists from being scooped.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this \ecological overshoot of the human economy\, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,

One was created in the Ross Sea in 2016, another reserve is being proposed in a vast area of the Weddell Sea, and a third sanctuary is under consideration in the area west of the Antarctic Peninsula—a key krill fishing area.

Our society depends on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment say, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands.

Parents are being asked for thousands of pounds.

Part of the reason this ban is being discussed and implemented is because energy officials see that they will not reach their emissions goals by 2050 if they do not eliminate a large portion of vehicle emissions.

Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

Shoddy(粗糙的) reproductions of her work along with setbacks to women's roles in 18th-and 19th-century Europe resulted in her efforts being largely forgotten.

Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.

So I started practicing the various practical steps mentioned by the author in the book, and began to revolt against the very idea of being too busy.

So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyon

Some of our all too precious time is being stolen.

Some of the statistical generalizations may be positive and some groups have reputations for being smart, for being loyal, for being brave, for all sorts of things that are not at all negative.

Still, the University of Tennessee deserves credit for being transparent.

That helps explain why, as I'm first's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry

The battle is currently being waged on land, in greenhouses at the University of Barcelona.

The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.

The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.

The exact type of stimulation that an individual uses is not as important as being intellectually engaged.

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

The inconvenience of not being able to see the food you are buying is outweighed by the time saved and convenience of having the goods delivered.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, \said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

The scientists cite a definition of \workaholism\ as \being overly concerned about work, driven by an uncontrollable work motivation, and vesting so much time and effort in work that it impairs other important life areas.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare

The study by Greenpeace analysed the movements of krill fishing vessels in the region and found they were increasingly operating \in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds\ It also highlights incidents of fishing boats being

Then, one day, I came across a book, called In Praise of Slowness, and realized that being busy is not only detrimental, but also has the danger of turning life into an endless race.

They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

They are thin, tall, long-legged and virtually unlike any real human being.

This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.

This will maximize the benefits and minimize the downsides of being a team player.

Today I'd like to talk about the dangers of being too collaborative.

Try to imagine your life being illiterate.

Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective—should get priority in new hiring.

We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we are able to rationalise it, when we are stressed and fatigued or sec others being dishonest.

We can't switch off global warming just by being good in the future.

We have to start being good now.

While the candle is being lit, a principle is recited; then each person present takes a turn to speak about the importance that principle has to himself or herself.

You certainly shouldn't ditch teamwork, but how can you avoid the hazards of being an over-collaborator?

You dream about being a movie star.

But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

\There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,\ says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

An awareness that they were being experimented upon seemed to be enough to alter workers' behavior by itself.

And there are health conditions for which being overweight is actually protective .

As for me, weighing myself every day caused me to shift my focus from being generally healthy and physically active to focusing solely on the scale.

Asking them questions about what they like about the backyard of a potential home will make them feel like they're being included in the decision-making process, Bailey said.

Being a good parent is, of course, what every parent would like to be.

Being average just won't earn you what it used to.

Big chains have been collecting sales tax nationwide because they typically have physical stores in whatever state a purchase is being shipped to.

Biological factors behind eye contact are being investigated.

But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

Despite attempts by the Church to strong-arm this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made, and at a rate that the people-including the Church -could no longer ignore.

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

Human nature being what is, most people stick with default settings.

Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting.

In a recent study involving over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs on the participants' susceptibility to developing the common cold aft

Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve well-being.

Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the Hawthorne effect\, the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changed subjects'behavior.

It turned from God and the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and instead favoured a more humanistic approach to being.

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal work-life balance was number one, followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the great good.

Just as important as being honest about yourself is being receptive to others.

Last April, for example, the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for \inventions\ that are obvious.

likewise, among the elderly, being somewhat overweight is often an indicator of good health.

millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense

Scientists tell us this can back fire and actually have a negative impact on our well being.

Specific brain regions that respond during direct gaze are being explored by other researches, using advanced methods of brain scanning.

Studying this could help understand why human evolution picked pace in the last 30, 000 years, with social environment being a major contributory factor.

Such visions are based on the downsides of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment.

The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse.

The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with - work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

There is as much joy over a puffed-out first-timer being clapped over the line as there is about top talent shining.

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn longer, that there is an advantage in not being too terrifically bright.

This suggests that the rats perceived the social robot as a genuine social being.

This will help to grow your internal network, in addition to being a nice break in the work day.

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of \deep work\—the ability to focus without distraction.

Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to \run the company\ CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

When our brains switch between being focused and unfocused on a task, they tend to be more efficient.

with the gap between the church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that weakened the court's reputation for being independent and impartial.