Results tagged “college” from 60 Second Science

Take a quick walk on the Quad, and you may catch a whiff of students putting on airs of self entitlement.

Give the kids a break. Just because these youngins broadcast their every breath on MySpace and Facebook, they aren't all ego.

Behavioral scientists have accused today's kids of having an arrogance that previous generations did not. But a new study suggests behavioral scientists have given "Generation Me" a misnomer of a nickname. This generation feels no more cocky than its forebears felt.

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Scientists sometimes endure the most extreme conditions — active volcanoes, polar ice caps, Ann Coulter's nether regions — to answer the toughest questions about existence. In that grand tradition, researchers from San Diego State sought to answer questions about college binge drinking not by surveying after the fact, but by descending into the bowels of the party scene themselves.

The excellently-named J.D. Clapp and his fellow scientists studied more than 1,300 people at parties, making "observations" and using equipment to measure students’ blood-alcohol concentrations (BrACs). Clapp and team's results were published in the January issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, and complements previous work by done by the prestigious team of Daniels, Beam, Jagermeister and Turkey.

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In a near-complete waste of Australian time and money, researchers at Griffith University surveyed students 18-29 about their motivations for using or not using marijuana. Users reported that they smoked up to "fit in with their friends, feel relaxed, forget their worries, and enjoy themselves." Non-users, meanwhile abstained because "work and study" remained powerful deterrents. Wow, Griffith U. — got any more brain-busters?

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The House Education and Labor Committee just passed the College Opportunity and Affordability Act (PDF), and now it's up for a House vote. Wow, sounds like a really great act. I mean, there's "Opportunity" AND "Affordability." Those are two things that are great in college. But many educators are worried that most of the opportunities to make college affordable are only going to be available if they crack down on peer-to-peer file sharing networks and come up with alternatives.

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A study conducted by Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that college students who mix "energy drinks" with alcohol are twice as likely to get hurt, require medical attention, ride with a drunk driver, take advantage or be taken advantage of someone sexually as compared to those who did not mix the liquid stimulates with alcohol.

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