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PUBLIC MARKS from Newspartnergroup with tag science

10 November 2007

Kindergarten and robots: Nyack has matched the two with good results

Nyack schools introduced robotics to middle-school students last year as an after-school class, then moved it into the classroom this year as a special component of the technology course.

07 November 2007

Artificial illumination can mess with more than your mental health.

Artificial illumination is fooling the body's biological clock into releasing key wakefulness hormones at the wrong times, contributing to seasonal fatigue and depression. And daylight-saving time, extended by Congress this year for an extra four weeks, risks dragging even more Americans into a winter funk.