http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/media-blog.html Media blog from blogspan.org, the place for blogs. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT en-us http://www.blogspan.org/images/blogs/power-media-blog.jpg http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/media-blog.html 100 75 http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2011/shopping-online-privacy-data-protection.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2011/shopping-online-privacy-data-protection.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT In the wake of yet another e-commerce data breach in which the names and email addresses of millions of online shoppers and credit card users have been accessed illegally, scientists in the US suggest that privacy discussions, and ultimately legislation must urgently focus on the expanding roles of third-parties handling pervasive online customer profiles........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/overscheduled-children-and-adolescents.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/overscheduled-children-and-adolescents.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT opular books and media reports have perpetuated the belief that children and adolescents are overscheduled in their extracurricular activities, and that this can disrupt how families function and undermine young people's opportunities for success. Eventhough there is little empirical research to support this idea, some studies suggest a threshold effect in which the benefits of involvement stabilize or drop slightly after a certain point. But we know little about who becomes involved in extracurricular activities to this extent, what happens at such high levels of involvement, and whether patterns differ for different groups of children and adolescents........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/fda-hitting-milestones-in-tobacco-law.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/fda-hitting-milestones-in-tobacco-law.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT Since the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has met the ambitious implementation deadlines set forth in the law, the agency said Wednesday at a congressional briefing hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/are-the-wealthiest-countries-the-smartest.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/are-the-wealthiest-countries-the-smartest.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT It's not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country's economy flourishes: how smart its people are. For a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, scientists analyzed test scores from 90 countries and observed that the intelligence of the people, especially the smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/whats-up-with-brad-and-angelinas-twins.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/whats-up-with-brad-and-angelinas-twins.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:38 GMT Well, according to the latest issue of Star magazine, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie"s twins Knox and Vivienne have Down Syndrome, which is quite a ballsy claim on their part. I wouldn"t be surprised at all if Brangelina"s lawyers file some kind of lawsuit over this story! The cover suggests a nanny is blowing the lid off the truth about the twins, which seems like total bullshit to me. Don"t celeb nannies sign a non-disclosure agreement?! I know we haven"t seen much of the them but that doesn"t necessarily mean they have mental or physical disabilities! This is definitely one of the more ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/faculty-on-facebook-will-not-ask.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/faculty-on-facebook-will-not-ask.html Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:45:56 GMT In a recent survey of pharmacy professors, 100 percent of the respondents who had Facebook profiles said they would not send friend requests to their current students. Just fewer than half of the responding faculty members had a Facebook profile, and of those, most said they also ignored friend requests from students - particularly current students........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/tractors-rolling-over.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/tractors-rolling-over.html Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:45:56 GMT The people in Spain at greatest risk of suffering farming accidents are those aged over 65, followed by people under 16 and people from outside the agricultural sector. These are the results of a study by the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), which shows that most of these deaths are due to people being crushed by tractors........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/gay-carrington.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/gay-carrington.html Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:45:56 GMT Gay Carrington, the most glamorous out-of-work mannequin actress on YouTube, now has her own "micro audio blog," where she offers little observations and stories. No big commitment, just the way we like it!

]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/dutch-winter.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/dutch-winter.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:06:07 GMT Winter in the Netherlands. Kasper Bak put on his ice skates and filmed this. The music is Ice Dance by Paul Reeves.



(thanks Cora) ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/the-solar-system-in-a-shirt.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/the-solar-system-in-a-shirt.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:54:36 GMT Hi, Grasshoppers - Long time no see!
Since we last spoke, I turned 21 (a few weeks ago), bought a really cute pair of ankle boots (my old ones tragically started disintegrating on the inside - yuck!), had a horrible case of the stomach flu, and finished up a semester of school. I hope you"ve all been well!
I"ve been super busy, but I thought I"d pop by and say hello. I also thought I"d show you the shirt I just ordered on Amazon. $13.65 (youth XL = cheaper than adult small any day) and positively galactic! Rawr! It"s also by the company who does the three wolf shirts, which I find ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/dead-poets-society.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/dead-poets-society.html Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:36:56 GMT by Steve ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/carey-mulligan-was-told-to-get-botox-at-25.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/carey-mulligan-was-told-to-get-botox-at-25.html Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:16:16 GMT Carey Mulligan has revealed that a Los Angeles dermatologist had told her to get Botox at the age of 25."I said, I have some lines here under my eye and they"re annoying, what can you do? He looked at my face and said, We"ll just drop some Botox in here and here"," the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

"I said, "What the ----? I"m only 25, are you joking? So I can"t move my face? Isn"t that, well, the antithesis of what I"m trying to do as an actress? Only in LA would someone try and give you Botox when you"re 25 years old," she said.

The star of "An Education" has won plaudits ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/what-your-reaction-to-someones.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/what-your-reaction-to-someones.html Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:08:48 GMT It goes without saying that conservatives and liberals don't see the world in the same way. Now, research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that is exactly, and quite literally, the case. In a newly released study, UNL scientists measured both liberals' and conservatives' reaction to "gaze cues" a person's tendency to shift attention in a direction consistent with another person's eye movements, even if it's irrelevant to their current task and found big differences between the two groups........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/marc-by-marc-jacobs-zip-pull-earrings.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/marc-by-marc-jacobs-zip-pull-earrings.html Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:08:48 GMT I"ve gotta admit I"m impressed with Marc by Marc Jacobs" ability to find a way to put their brand name on even the tiniest earrings! These Zip-Pull Brass Stud Earrings ($58) come in a few color options and from what I can tell thus far, they"ve been pretty popular. I"ve seen two people in the last week alone sporting them (one women opted for them in gold and one girl who appeared to be about 12 was wearing a fluorescent pink pair). The price makes them a decent enough holiday option - especially for tweens - but the truth is they look pretty cheap (not as much in the above image, but ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/disneys-defectors-and-the-pixar-phonic-sound-system.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/disneys-defectors-and-the-pixar-phonic-sound-system.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:07:35 GMT by Vadim ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/exposure-to-more-diverse-objects.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/exposure-to-more-diverse-objects.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:13:55 GMT Two toddlers are learning the word "cup." One sees three nearly identical cups; the other sees a tea cup, a sippy cup and a Styrofoam cup. Chances are, the second child will have a better sense of what a cup is and -- as per a new University of Iowa study -- may even have an advantage as he learns new words........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/women-less-likely-to-take-financial-risks.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/women-less-likely-to-take-financial-risks.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:13:55 GMT Last year Nicholas Kristof declared in his New York Times column what banks need to fix their problems: Not just a bailout, but also "women, women, and women." Women are generally believed to be less willing to take risks than men, so he speculated that the banks could balance out risky men by employing more women. Stereotypes like this about women actually influence how women make financial decisions, making them more wary of risk, as per a newly released study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/tightwads-and-spendthrifts.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/tightwads-and-spendthrifts.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:13:55 GMT Every year about this time, on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally begins the holiday shopping season, early-morning consumers stand in long lines eager to purchase some sought after prize. From the outside, it looks as if these holiday shoppers can't wait to plunk down their cash, but University of Michigan Marketing Professor Scott Rick says consumers often behave differently than they would ideally like to behave........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/multiple-fathers-prevalent-in-amazonian-cultures.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/multiple-fathers-prevalent-in-amazonian-cultures.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:13:55 GMT In modern culture, it is not considered socially acceptable for married people to have extramarital sexual partners. However, in some Amazonian cultures, extramarital sexual affairs were common, and people believed that when a woman became pregnant, each of her sexual partners would be considered part-biological father. Now, a new University of Missouri study reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has observed that up to 70 percent of Amazonian cultures may have believed in the principle of multiple paternity........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/rural-library-outreach-a-new-initiative.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/rural-library-outreach-a-new-initiative.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:13:55 GMT Rural and small town libraries are one of the newest forces being tapped to improve the science literacy of Americans through lifelong, "free-choice learning" opportunities in which people learn scientific, engineering and technical information somewhere other than school. A new initiative, supported by a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will help rural librarians tap into scientific expertise in their local communities, organize local events, provide video and other supporting materials, and essentially create adult "science clubs" across the nation........ ]]>