According to The New York Times, today’s technologically adept college student still prefers traditional textbooks. “It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ‘academia’ for a thousand years,” said Faton Begolli, a sophomore at Hamilton College. The Chronicle of Higher Education stated that students tend to be more conservative when it comes to school [...]
A new oral polio vaccine that hits both wild strains of the disease still in circulation in polio-endemic areas could boost global eradication efforts, researchers suggested. Based on head-to-head trial results, the bivalent vaccine boosted the immune system at least as well as monovalent oral vaccines and better than the trivalent vaccine, Roland Sutter, MD, [...]
Ford reported healthy profit gains in the third quarter and announced that its was paying down debt at a faster clip than earlier planned. The U.S.-based auto company reported net earnings of $1.7 billion, or 43 cents per share for the third quarter ending September 10, compared with last year’s profits of 29 cents per [...]
Reclusive French-Swiss director film Jean-Luc Godard will skip a gala Hollywood dinner next month where he will be awarded an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Monday. Godard, 79, was invited to the November 13 ceremony to accept an honorary Oscar marking his 50 years as “one of the [...]
Imagine Learning, developer of the award-winning children’s language and literacy software Imagine Learning English, entered the arena of mobile learning last week with the release of its first mobile reading application, Bookster. The app, now available in the iTunes store, is compatible with iPads and iPhones, and is available as a free download. The company, [...]
The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales increased 10% in September, but subdued prices and ongoing scrutiny over the foreclosure practices of America’s largest mortgage lenders make it likely the housing market is still scraping along the bottom. September’s seasonally-adjusted reading showed 4.53 million existing home sales on an annual basis, up 10% [...]
Dow Jones industrial average added 7.03 points, 0.06 percent, to 11,153.60. The Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 0.29 percent, 3.45, to 1,183.71. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0.34 percent, 8.46, to 2,468.13. The slight gains in the U.S. markets occurred early Friday morning with the third-quarter reporting season showing decidedly mixed results so far. In [...]
Facebook has proposed a solution to a recent security flaw that allowed apps to transmit personal data that involves encrypting the relevant string of numbers, according to a post on its Developer Blog on Thursday. The new set of parameters would allow developers to apply encryption within the next few weeks, preventing data that identifies application [...]
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled a range of new products: a new operating system called Lion, an App Store for Mac OS X widgets, and FaceTime on the Mac. But perhaps the most hotly-followed announcement concerns an update to the MacBook Air laptop, which had remained relatively unchanged since its launch in 2008. So what are [...]
Eating lots of carrots and cruciferous vegetables — collard greens, cabbage, broccoli — could reduce breast cancer risk, particularly an aggressive form common among African American women, suggests a large new study. The researchers looking at data from the ongoing Black Women’s Health Study did not find a similar benefit from fruit intake. Previous studies [...]