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How much money do college presidents make?
e presidents of the nation’s major private research universities were paid a median compensation of $627,750 in the 2007-8 fiscal year — a 5.5 percent increase from the previous year — according to The Chronicle of Higher Education annual executive compensation survey. The highest paid private university executive was Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., with a pay package totaling $1,598,247 in fiscal 2008. Ms. Jackson, a physicist and former chairwoman of the federal Nuclear…
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Sexual Biology:
male Edition: http://www.dontfeedtheanimals.net/2009/10/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-sexu... Male Edition: http://www.dontfeedtheanimals.net/2009/10/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-sexu... Couples Edition: http://www.dontfeedtheanimals.net/2009/10/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-sexu... Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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Can Atheists overwhelm God with prayer? The Divine Denial of Service Attack:
you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October. This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus,…
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No such thing as a break in a curveball? (Animation):
award-winning demo, neuroscientists at USC and American University suggest curveballs do not break The answer to the question of whose curveball breaks harder -- that of the Yankees' A.J. Burnett or the Phillies' Cole Hamels -- may be neither. Zhong-Lin Lu, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at USC, along with USC alumni Emily Knight and Robert Ennis and Arthur Shapiro, associate professor of psychology at American University, developed a simple visual demo that suggests a curveball's break is, at…
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Swine Flu Mortality #’s compared to other deaths (Image):
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Great animation of How A Virus Invades Your Body (Video) from NPR:
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U-M research shows chronically ill may be happier if they give up hope:
lding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illness or diseases, according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers. "Hope is an important part of happiness," said Peter A. Ubel, M.D., director of the U-M Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine and one of the authors of the happily hopeless study, "but there's a dark side of hope. Sometimes, if hope makes people put off getting on with…
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You don’t want what you think you want:
McDonald's executive, participating in the always-fascinating IamA series on Reddit, writes: Our customers want mediocre food cheap. Every time we release a higher priced but higher quality product, the people who said they would pay for it... never do. You say you want more fruits, salads, organic, all natural, etc. well then start buying that stuff and stop buying double cheeseburgers. Our best selling stuff is always whatever we can make taste good, at rock bottom prices. We've actually…
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