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Religion and Happiness - The Relationship Between Happiness and Religion
The literature on health in general and religion is vast. An Oxford University Press book summarizing the research on the subject comes in at almost 900 pages. The finding of a relationship between happiness and religiosity is so established that many research papers take it as a given point.
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Read more at Deseret News
Climate Action - Themes, Significance and How to Celebrate Climate Action
IMD Mumbai chief introduces fourth doppler weather radar at Mhaismal, Sambhaji Nagar in Maharashtra. The radar aids in weather forecasting, crucial for monitoring and predicting weather events accurately. UNDP comes with weather forecasts through youngsters from the future to mobilize climate action Global TV viewers were surprised by children presenting a 2050 weather forecast.
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Read more at The Times of India
Science Hill Wins the Last Time They Faced West
Science Hill won the last time they faced West by a score of 3-1. That's two games straight that Science Hill has won by exactly two goals. West has already played their next contest, a 2-0 defeat vs. Notre Dame on the 22nd.
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The 9th Annual STEAM Fair
Students from across Erie County gathered in Buffalo on Saturday for the ninth annual STEAM Fair. The event, hosted by the Willie Hutch Jones Educational and Sports Program, provided an opportunity for more than 100 individual and group presentations from students in grades 3-12. A wide range of science experiments was on display for a panel of judges.
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Read more at WGRZ.com
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
The Walton Family took turns trying on the special “big ears” experiment. They learned that some animals, like dogs, with funnel style ears can hear distant sounds. Their ears point in one direction and collect sound just like a lens collects light. This was the second year the duo provided science fun at the monument.
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AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award
Mia Jalics took her first computer science course. UCMST, Stevenson High School and the Gene L. Klida Utica Academy for International Studies were honored for increasing the number of females in Advanced Placement (AP) computer science.
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Read more at FOX 2 Detroit
Intermittent Fasting
I tend to wait until lunchtime for a big meal, then eat little for the rest of the day. I stopped eating breakfast simply because I’m not hungry in the morning. Intermittent fasting means having all your meals within a set window each day and fasting — consuming nothing except water or black tea or coffee. There are different methods. Alternate-day fasting, as the name suggests.
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Read more at The Times
Male Mammals Are Larger Than Females
In 45% of species, males weigh more than females, 39% of species show no proven size dimorphism. In 16% of cases, the balance of the data is in favor of female size. Kaia Tombak and her colleagues undertook this study.
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Read more at Le Monde
Teens Smell Unpleasant
Notes of sweat, urine, cheese and goat were present in samples collected from post-pubescent teens compared to essences of lilac and raspberry from babies. 3 Researchers found that teens emitted two compounds that the younger ones did not because they’d entered puberty. In the teen spirit of science, the team sewed cotton patches into the armpits for 18 tots up to 3 years old and 18 teens, ages 14 to 18 years.
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Read more at New York Post
Earth’s Magnetic Field
Earth’s magnetic field deflects about 1.5 million tons of material ejected from the Sun at high speed. It would not be able to avoid the direct impact of those solar particles, which would sweep everything that protects us away from them. Earth is surrounded by a relatively intense magnetic field that originates, for the most part, within the planet. This is what is known as stellar wind; or solar wind, in the case of our star.
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Read more at EL PAÍS USA