Articles et réflexions sur les sciences comportementales appliquées au management au leadership et à l'entreprise
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 put central and southern California underwater for up to six months, and it could happen again By B. Lynn Ingram | Saturday, January 19, 2013 Geologic...
Lire la suiteEvery cone snail species has easily 1,000 peptides of medical interest, which means cone snails offer millions of research possibilities--but how do you milk a snail? By Daisy Yuhas | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Conotoxins—the chains of amino acids found...
Lire la suiteNeuroscience hints at the power of imagining the future By Melanie Bauer | Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Happy New Year! It’s 2013 and you’ve vowed to cut sweets out of your diet. Despite your desire for a trimmer body, the sight of cupcakes in a café window...
Lire la suiteTwo studies refute an enzyme’s essential role in remembering and forgetting By Ed Yong and Nature magazine | Thursday, January 3, 2013 | For years, a particular protein has been cast as a lynchpin of long-term memory.Inhibiting this enzyme could erase...
Lire la suiteWhat body language indicates "trustworthy"? By Piercarlo Valdesolo | Tuesday, January 8, 2013 “In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his...
Lire la suiteA scientist enters a high-security psychiatric hospital to extract tips and advice from a crowd without a conscience By Kevin Dutton | Friday, January 4, 2013 | Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us...
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Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells By Marguerite Holloway | Sunday,...
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This protein plays a key role in the formation of the nervous system. It has also been employed as an "Ariadne's thread" to explore mechanisms of nerve-cell growth and differentiation By Rita Levi-Montalcini and Pietro Calissano Editor's Note: Neurobiologist...
Lire la suiteKey findings and events that may emerge in 2013 concern stem cell trials, gene patents, open-access research papers and an updated U.N. climate assessment By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine Stem-cell trials Landmark results from an early-stage...
Lire la suitePsychologists document the joys of sharing joy By Emma Seppala Positive experiences happen to us everyday yet we don't always take full advantage of them. Have you ever noticed that it could be a great day (you had 8 hours of sleep, it’s the weekend,...
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