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Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Sleepy students perform worse

I hope someone sends Korea (and a few other countries, for that matter) the memo.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:09 am Post subject:

Dude ... yah ... Laughing

I was just gonna start a thread for this kinda "NO BRAINER" crap. I can't believe University graduates get paid to study this sorta nonsense. All too absurd.

Talk about stating the obvious eh? Rolling Eyes

Makes me wonder where they get their funding from.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

The National Institute of Health: obviously money well spent. Anyone with a little common-sense could have told them the same thing.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Even the obvious needs to be 'scientifically' proven at least once, or we would all still think Jehovah stopped the sun in the sky so the Israelites could defeat the whoever. Clearly He/She/It stopped the Earth spinning and everyone skidded 72 miles west. Obviously, some folks dropped into the salt water and that was the origin of the Atlantis myth. Unless of course the continent of Mu was real and the spacemen really did teach the pre-Incas to draw straight lines in the desert. (Obviously, no pre-19th Century human ever noticed that a string pulled on both ends made a straight line. That is WAY too sophisticated for them.)

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

To us that was certainly an obvious result. Not for Korea or Japan though.

Smarter kids live longer.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

Sleeping? Who needs it? It's a hobby of mine I admit but far better to study, study, study, all night and every night to improve your IQ. And high IQ = longer life, therefore sleeping is bad for you!

igotthisguitar · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:33 am Post subject:

Scientists actually get paid to reach these profound conclusions, eh? Rolling Eyes

Want to live longer? Think positive thoughts
Mon Feb 27, 4:28 PM ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Optimism is good for the heart, a study said on Monday.

The most optimistic among a group of 545 Dutch men age 64 to 84 had a roughly 50 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death over 15 years of follow-up, according to the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Previous research has suggested being optimistic boosts overall physical health and lowers the risk of death from all causes. A positive attitude also has been shown to help patients who suffer from heart disease caused by narrowed arteries.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060227/us_nm/optimism_dc;_ylt=AvwT56Xq9iJxwCXcS3og.r0DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

igotthisguitar · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

Gee, who woulda thought this to be the case ... Rolling Eyes

From Yahoo "News"

Many teenage girls feel pressured into sex: study
By Amy Norton
Tue Jun 6, 11:40 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage girls commonly have sex not because they want to,
but because they feel pressured into it ...

igotthisguitar · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:03 am Post subject:

Here's another one ... wow ... who would ever have thought it, eh?

Fossil fuels said to damage ocean life
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
Wed Jul 5, 9:52 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Corals and other marine creatures are threatened by chemical changes in the ocean caused by the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, a panel of scientists warned Wednesday.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

At my technical high school there are some sleepy students in every class. But I think that excessive use of and attachment to "handuh pones" (along with MP3 players and video games...) may be just as detrimental to academic performance.

Final exams, going on now, are supposed to be a big deal, and there's reportedly a lot of pressure on students to succeed. When I asked a Korean teacher if students spent much time studying for them she replied "No, hardly any of them study at all. " ... "Don't they want to do well", I asked - "Yes, some of them really want to do well, but they don't study..."

I noticed many cell phones on her desk that she'd confiscated from her students - apparently they rely on sending text messages to each other even during final exams ...

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:55 am Post subject:

Poll Shows Arabs Dislike Bush Shocked

Really?
By Carol Giacomo
Thu Feb 8, 10:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States
but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement.