Research led by the University of Warwick’s Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy has found that not only did the events of 9/11 produce an immediate shift in favour of the Republican party among new young US voters but that shift persisted into later years. The research shows that party strategists should focus on winning over voters when they are young.
For some analysts, the killing of Osama bin Laden could be used as a pretext by Pakistan and China to start a new war against the U.S., which they accuse of having violated Pakistan's sovereignty. China would apparently like to gain global economical, political and military prevalence over the U.S.; whereas Pakistan would like to ally with China to free itself from its economic dependence on the U.S., and find backing for its rise as a regional power vis-à-vis India, its historical enemy.
"Any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China," Beijing recently warned the US.
In an amazing display of lights and sounds, the Open Spark Project and the Tesla Orchestra, formed from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, have taken Tesla coils to a whole new level. Their new Tesla Orchestra uses Tesla coils to covert music into an amazing display of lightning and sound.
Older people cannot lie as convincingly as younger people, are worse at detecting when others are lying, and the latter is linked to age-related decline in emotion recognition, new University of Otago research suggests.
Cheating is a "bad thing," but it isn't necessarily black and white. Pretty much anybody is capable of cheating, and the motivation to do so is built into our society. Here's a look at why people cheat, and why such a bad thing isn't necessarily an indicator of a bad person.
When you think archeology, you think shovels, brushes, brooms and other time-honored tools used to uncover archeological treasures. Now a new way to peer beneath the Earth's surface may have made an exciting find: more pyramids, buried deep under an ancient Egyptian city.
The latest sex-abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian Cardinal who has been working with Pope Benedict XVI on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests.
Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May 13, on pedophilia and drug charges. Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys. "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues," he allegedly said. Genoa Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, who is the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, had been working with Benedict to establish a tough new worldwide policy, released this week, on how bishops should handle accusations of priestly sex abuse.
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.