Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
- What should you talk about on your first date if you want a second? Not films, apparently. Find some answers at the B Good Science Blog.
- There is a period between "clinical death" and "brain death" called the "gap period," during which a person may not be breathing or have a pulse -- but still has (diminishing) neurological function. It is during this time that they might have what is called a "near death experience." Learn about it at The Genealogy of Religion blog.
- There's good research on how teenagers perform on their homework. Over at BPS Research Digest, find out how they feel about their homework.
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An anonymous donor cashes in a $30 donation to ask:
I thought this was an interesting idea. One of my colleagues does not collect homework. Instead, the students turn in a sheet that lists which homework problems they worked on and how much time they spent on homework.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
Over at Dot Physics, Rhett wonders about the role of homework in a world that includes cramster: