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...experiments show that baby girls, when faced with failure, tend to give up and cry relatively quickly, while baby boys get angry and persist, says Witelson at Ontario's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. "What we don't know is whether that pattern persists into adulthood," she says. But in her experience in academia, she says she knows of at least a couple of brilliant women who never realized their potential in science because they stopped trying when they didn't get grants or encountered some other obstacle. "It's much better," she says, "for people...
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that vigorous physical exercise during early adulthood is correlated with a decreased risk of Parkinson’s disease in men, according to a study released on Monday...
...study also noted that women who exercised in early adulthood experienced no statistically significant reduced risk of developing the disease...
...students’ side when it came to making change. Lowering the legal age of adulthood from 21 to 18 hampered colleges’ attempts to regulate students’ social lives, says Whyte. “Trying to enforce rules on the behavior of students who are adults—except for some 17-year-old freshmen—became untenable for colleges...
After nearly 30 years of providing informal help for Jewish youth in preparation for their passage into adulthood, a congregation within Harvard Hillel has expanded their tutoring programs in a new Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Institute founded this past fall...