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Conley's a sociologist, and at times he writes as if he's submitting a paper for review rather than penning a book for mass-market consumption. Still, Conley's concept of intravidualism - "an ethic of managing the myriad data streams, impulses, and even consciousnesses that we experience in our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Work More For Less | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

If you're part of the 20% trying to do the right thing by recycling your e-waste, there's something else to worry about. Old phones and computers can be dismantled to get at the useful metals inside, but doing so safely is time-consuming. Thus, many electronics recyclers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Waste Not | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

The new data will likely have the most impact on discussions between doctors and women who are planning a repeat elective cesarean. Although most obstetricians are disinclined to schedule c-sections prior to 39 weeks, they still feel pressured by their patients to do so. The new study ought to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks of Early C-Sections | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Pohl's map is the first to take into account the entirety of the Milky Way, including its elusive inner galaxy, which is "really complicated and weird," Pohl says, because of the gravitational pull of a large bar of matter located at the center; the map will be particularly useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Milky Way: Bigger, Faster, Better Understood | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

Dixon and his colleagues studied 41 adults with diabetes and 424 healthy adults between the ages of 53 and 90, and reported their findings in the journal Neuropsychology. After testing the participants on memory, recall, verbal fluency, executive functions involving critical thinking and the speed of their mental faculties, researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Diabetes Linked to Cognitive Decline | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

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