Increased GDP per capita doesn’t deliver the increased happiness or welfare if promises
Research and publish the best content.
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
Already have an account: Login
Science News
450.7K views |
+34 today
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
From
phys
Western economies displayed the same kind of manic behaviour as psychologically disturbed individuals in the run up to the 2008 credit crisis -- and it could happen again, according to a new study. 
Scoop.it!
Budgetary constraints force United States to downgrade plans for flagship experiment.
Scoop.it!
A study in Spain shows that insecurity at work is directly and negatively linked to satisfaction in work and life, as well as affecting performance and commitment. Furthermore, the research reveals that the consequences of this insecurity are different according to the occupational group they work in.
Scoop.it!
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Kiel Institute of World Economy in Germany, have developed a market "seismograph" — a new methodology that measures the interconnections between stock markets across the globe. It has the potential to serve as an early warning system and provide measures to manage and mitigate the spread of financial crisis.
Scoop.it!
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change, experts say.
Scoop.it!
A study at the University of Alcalá, Spain has compared the employment crisis of 1991-1994 with the current crisis from 2007 to 2010, as well as the labour reforms that took place in 1994 and 2010 respectively.
Scoop.it!
![Hamster power to help solve energy crisis? [videos] | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/iiwtXYVUz8jqkD2F2tf-XDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Children's pet hamsters can help solve the world's energy crisis
Scoop.it!
Their new study shows that banks themselves were under attack by other players on Wall Street. The study authors at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) retraced events to show that at a critical point in the financial crisis, the stock of Citigroup was attacked by traders by selling borrowed stock (short-selling) which may have caused others to sell in panic. The subsequent price drop enabled the attackers to buy the stock back at a much lower price.
Scoop.it!
The 2,118 bronze coins, found by archaeologists excavating a site at Maundown, near Wiveliscombe, before Wessex Water built a new water treatment plant, may be evidence of financial crisis in Romano-British Somerset.
Scoop.it!
A majority of Americans rate their current financial situation as poor or fair, and nearly half of Americans say they have encountered financial problems in the past year, according to the Pew Research Center.
Scoop.it!
This short theoretical paper elucidates a plausible theory about the Global Financial Crisis and the role of senior financial corporate directors in that crisis. The paper presents a theory of the Global Financial Crisis which argues that psychopaths working in corporations and in financial corporations, in particular, have had a major part in causing the crisis. This paper is thus a very short theoretical paper but is one that may be very important to the future of capitalism because it discusses significant ways in which Corporate Psychopaths may have acted recently, to the detriment of many. Further research into this theory is called for.
Scoop.it!
From
io9
From London to the Middle East riots have shaken political stability. Are the answers to be found in human nature?
|
Scoop.it!
Financial loss can lead to irrational behavior. Now, research by Weizmann Institute scientists reveals that the effects of loss go even deeper: Loss can compromise our early perception and interfere with our grasp of the true situation. The findings, which recently appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, may also have implications for our understanding of the neurological mechanisms underlying post-traumatic stress disorder.
Cindy Tam's comment,
June 13, 2012 2:54 PM
Funny, you see this behavior sometimes while playing poker. http://www.ehow.com/about_4673664_does-full-tilt-mean-poker.html
Scoop.it!
Drew McWilliams, a clinician and the Chief Operating Officer at Morrison Child and Family Services in Portland, Ore., suggests that amid the underwater mortgages, chronic unemployment and other fallout of the recent recession, a less obvious but equally worrying phenomenon has emerged: the troubled minds of children. Via Thabo Mophiring, Rexi44
Scoop.it!
From
phys
Victor Yakovenko is an expert in statistical physics and studies how the flow of money and the distribution of incomes in American society resemble the flow of energy between molecules in a gas. Articles about MATHEMATICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=mathematics
Scoop.it!
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook.
Scoop.it!
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop failures in the heat-stressed tropics. This has led some to explore drastic ideas for combating global warming, including the idea of trying to counteract it by reflecting sunlight away from Earth. However, it has been suggested that reflecting sunlight away from Earth might itself threaten the food supply of billions of people.
's comment September 4, 2012 1:19 PM
SUNSHADE ENGINEERING IS CRIMINAL - THIS IS A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT BY IDIOTS AND CRIMINALS WHO THINK THEY CAN DUMP TONS OF POISONS INTO OUR AIR WITH LITTLE REGARD TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS. SUNSHADE ENGINEERING IS CRIMINAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis
Scoop.it!
Rather than moralizing away inequality by creating a more equitable social hierarchy, where more citizens are sufficiently compensated to keep quiet about the exploitation of natural and human resources around the globe, Zizek says we should take the renewal of global protests—from the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street to Spain and Greece—as a sign that capitalism, as a social phenomena, is spinning out of control. The new big earners are managers and CEOs of knowledge-based industries.
Scoop.it!
Financial woes spur controversial reforms of the country's research system.
Scoop.it!
The nation's high unemployment rate is straining many marriages, a new survey finds. At the same time, many unhappy couples say they feel trapped, unable to afford a breakup.
Scoop.it!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research from the University of Bath counters the claim that large bonuses in the banking industry are at the root of the global financial crisis.
Scoop.it!
The story of what might be the first international debt crisis bears haunting similarities with today's; but a somber difference remains.
Scoop.it!
Did you think of energy? Climate change? Food security? Human health? Increasing conflict? What comes to mind for me is related to all five: The water crisis. And unfortunately, we’re not ready. Jay Famiglietti at the University of California, Irving directs the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, which focuses on water. After 15 years of using NASA satellites to track water availability around the world, he’s convinced that we are – to use his own words – “on many levels, completely and totally hosed.”
Scoop.it!
The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday that only a stronger political commitment to child health could prevent a dangerous rise in mortality rates at a time of global economic turmoil.
|
