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| Sporting latest tech toy can make you seem more like a leader Posted: 17 Apr 2014 04:11 PM PDT If you want to be perceived as a leader, new research suggests investing in the latest technological gadgets is the way to go. "Familiarity with and usage of new high-tech products appears to be a common manifestation of innovative behavior," write the authors. "Those who are tech-savvy are also perceived as authoritative on other subjects and as leaders." |
| Infectious diseases: High disease load at conception reduces mortality of children during epidemics Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:20 PM PDT Children who have been conceived during a severe epidemic are more resistant against other pathogens later in life. For the first time, this has been proved by researchers for the 18th century epidemics of measles and smallpox in the Canadian province of Québec. Children who were conceived during the wave of measles in 1714 and 1715 died significantly less often from smallpox 15 years later than children who had been conceived before the measles epidemic. |
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