Gresham College

Type: Organization

Name: Gresham College

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Visual test linked to high IQ

Optical illusions have a storied history in neuroscience, pointing out insights into how the brain works. A visual tests now finds impaired abilities to see large motions in high-IQ folks.A simple visual task that measures the brain's unconscious ability ... [Published USA Today - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Steven Rose, Neuroscience, Gresham College, University of Rochester, Visual Effects

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

World Health Organization

Multiple Authors: A Call to Release WHO Report

To the World Health Organization and the Iraqi Ministry of Health:"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancers" in Iraq.This is quoted directly from a senior official at ... [Published ZNet - May 18 2013]

Entities: United States, Canada, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Global Health Ltd

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Stephen Hawking

University professor joins the ranks of Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking

A DURHAM University professor has been elected to a prestigious fellowship whose membership boasts names such as Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.Particle physicist Prof Nigel Glover has joined the Royal Society after being nominated ... [Published Sunderland Echo - May 15 2013]

Entities: Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Particle Physics Phenomenology, Gresham College

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Transport for London

Douglas McWilliams: London must find a new way to free our roads

The new economy is placing a huge strain on London’s transport.$ Transport for London has done a pretty good job in coping with this but its successes have been bought at a cost. Under Ken Livingstone’s high-spending regime, Tube fares rose to become ... [Published London Evening Standard - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Road SPACE, London, Transport for London, Ken Livingstone, Transportation

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Are Lexus owners a bit ‘Partridge’? Motoring stereotypes examined

What does your car say about you? Whether we like to admit it or not, our choice of four wheels says a lot about who we are and, perhaps more interestingly, who we think we are.For example, if we can afford to, we might buy a Porsche Boxster over a Maxda ... [Published Sunday Times Driving - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Glenn Wilson, Partridge, Gresham College, Testosterone

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Sleep Nurse Audio Sleep Aid 1.0

World's Premiere Sleep Aid now has an app!Get the best sleep sounds from Australia's premiere sleep aid, Sleep NurseGet a Good Nights' SleepAre you having trouble getting your baby to sleep?Work Shifts and can't drown out the 'daytime' noise?Suffer from ... [Published Addict3d.org - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Gresham College, Obstetrics And Gynaecology, Applied Mathematics, Tinnitus

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Bloomsbury Theatre

Week In Geek: 15-21 April 2013

London events for people with curious minds.Secret Insects of Bloomsbury, details belowMonday 15 AprilPROOFS: Computational mathematics anyone? Professor Tony Mann, at a Gresham lecture at Barnard’s Inn Hall, explores computer proofs versus human proofs ... [Published Londonist - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Solar Cell, Bloomsbury Theatre, MS Stubnitz, Gresham College

First reported Feb 20 2013 - Updated Feb 20 2013 - 1 reports

Press regulation: will Labour follow its Lords ambush in the Commons?

_ The vote in the House of Lords that appended an arbitration system to the defamation bill has upset the bill's founder, Lord (Anthony) Lester. he attacked his noble friends for having tacked on the amendment.He has considerable support from alarmed ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 20 2013]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), George Brock, Gresham College, Defamation

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 05 2013 - 1 reports

The City's Great Financial Scandals: Panel Discussion

GreshamCollege : The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly unending. (skip to 27:50 mark . . . “ I watch Keiser Report …”) Dickens himself covers scandals we would recognise today in Little Dorrit and Nicholas Nickleby. Beyond ... [Published St George West - Feb 05 2013]

Entities: Gresham College, South Sea Company, Society of Lloyd's, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, Gibraltar

Quotes

...Y ), who headed the team reporting the motion test results in the journal Current Biology. "It's a little like opening up your e-mail every day and zooming in on the important message and focusing on that task to succeed."

Visual test linked to high IQ [Published USA Today - 10 hours ago]

"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancers" in Iraq

Multiple Authors: A Call to Release WHO Report [Published ZNet - May 18 2013]