Sightings
Gender and Body Image: Women 50 and Over Revealed What They Think and Feel
36% of the women reported spending at least half their time in the last five years dieting, 41% checked their body daily and 40% weighed themselves a couple of times a week or more. 62% claimed that their weight or shape negatively impacted their life, 79% said that it affected their self-perception and 64% said that they thought about it daily. more »
Codebreaker: Celebrating lan Turing’s Life and Legacy On the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
Turing designed the ‘bombes’ to attempt to deal with the proliferation of enemy messages and therefore pinpoint the location of German U-Boat submarines. Eventually, over 200 were built, each weighing a ton and operating constantly at Bletchley Park and other secret sites in the UK. The exhibition also includes a working aid used to break Enigma, which has never been displayed outside of GCHQ. more »
Surviving Cancer: US Numbers Are Estimated at Nearly 18 Million by 2022
Abstract
Although there has been considerable progress in reducing cancer incidence in the United States, the number of cancer survivors continues to increase due to the aging and growth of the population and improvements in survival rates. As a re… more »
The New ‘Dallas’: Sex, Scandal and U.S. Energy Policy!
Did the fracking debate dredge up ‘Dallas’ – the redux – or was this soap opera’s resurgence just another convenient mirror in which to reflect how central the nation’s debate over energy has now become in our culture? more »