High school's acne-splotched, gossip-buzzed cafeterias can get ugly. The scene takes an extra emotional toll on those at the bottom of the food chain. What's worse, the pain of teen popularity contests actually expands girls' waistlines.
A new Harvard University study of 4,500 girls suggests that the lower girls think of themselves on the social scale, the greater their risk for gaining weight.
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Update: Science Talk, the original podcast of Scientific American, features interviews with the winners highlighted in this post.
In 2005, ex-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers kindly brought to light his hypothesis that genes explain for the lack of women in top science jobs. Men in those high ranking positions may want to hold on tight to those high-ranking positions.
Girls stole the show today, winning the most coveted high school science prizes at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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