Measuring influence in Twitter: The million follower fallacy
2010 study for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence on how social media users wield influence.
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Effects of cell phone use on brain glucose metabolism
2011 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the effects of cell phone exposure on brain activity.
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Hispanics trail other groups in Web usage, confidence
2011 poll by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health on Internet usage among Latinos.
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Attacks against media and human rights websites
2010 study by Harvard’s Berkman Center on the frequency and type of Internet attacks on targeted groups.
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Thyroid cancers in Ukraine related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident
2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives investigating the continued level of thyroid cancer risk among Chernobyl victims two decades later.
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Energy innovation and competition among U.S., China, India, Brazil
2010 study by the Council on Foreign Relations on issues of technology research and development among major countries.
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Genetically modified corn and effects on nearby crops
2010 study in the journal Science examining the impact of genetically modified corn on neighboring un-modified crops.
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Associations of television content type and obesity in children
2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health on the effects of certain kinds of television content on child weight problems.
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Screen-based entertainment time, all-cause mortality and heart attacks
2011 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on the relationship between leisure activities, cardiovascular disease events and all-cause mortality.
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Do babies learn from baby media?
2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.
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