June 2008 - Posts - Lab Rats

June 2008 - Posts

Time to teach the teachers

Posted by Seema Singh at 
I’ve always wondered why most Indian teachers, particularly in colleges and universities, take their teaching so 'seriously' – they hardly get into fun things to engage their pupils. Well, some of it is cultural but a lot of it is due to lack of training in ‘how to teach’. At this training program at Infosys campus in Mysore ( http://www.livemint...

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Eat a big breakfast & still lose weight

Posted by Seema Singh at 
There’s no end to the ‘diet revolution’ which was first unleashed in the 1970s by Dr Atkin, who has since released newer versions of his best selling book that has gripped the western world in a low-carb (carbohydrate) frenzy. Now a new research, presented on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Endocrine Society shows that eating a big, high...

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Why should you sleep more?

Posted by Seema Singh at 
You don’t need scientific research to tell you that the more happily married you are, the lesser your risk of having multiple sleep complaints. It’s plain common sense. However, scientific validation is always welcome with traditional wisdom. All of last week, hundreds of ‘sleep’ researchers presented a smorgasbord of studies at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd...

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