Articles by Knight Pierce Hirst
Where Do Heroes Come From? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Lola Gonzalez, when faced with making job cuts to save her company, fired herself. The owner of Accurate Background Check in Ocala, Florida said she couldn't bring herself to fire any of her employees so she walked away from her six-figure job. Believing she had...
Are Men And Women Really So Different? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Twenty-five percent of men experience hair loss as early as age 21. According to the American Hair Loss Association, 66% of men will experience appreciable hair loss by 35 and by 50 almost 85% will have significant hair thinning. Male pattern baldness – the most...
Are Relationships Becoming Less "Relative"? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Previous studies have shown that marriage reduces stress. According to a study published in the journal Stress, committed relationships do too. Five hundred and one masters of business administration students (348 men and 153 women) took a 90-minute, computerized test that they were told was...
Does It Take All Kinds To Make A World? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Denver residents don't want to track space aliens. They voted against an initiative on the city's 2010 ballot that would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. The initiative also would have allowed Denverites to post their observations and report alien sightings on the city's...
What's Best About The U.S.? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is the most affordable city in the U.S. Forbes ranked cities with populations over 100,000 on 5 measures: groceries, health care, transportation, cost of housing and unemployment. Being both a state capitol and a university city, Oklahoma City has good jobs and...
What's A Bad Day For Bad Guys? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Police in Madison, Wisconsin had little difficulty identifying the perpetrator of a crime. While a vacationing family from New Jersey posed for a picture in front of the State Capitol building, Glen Lambright stole the bag they'd momentarily left by a doorway behind them. Unfortunately,...
Can't We Always Live Healthier? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Changing sleep-wake habits could make it easier to stop smoking. In a study published in the journal Addiction, researchers followed approximately 23,000 pairs of twins up to 30 years and found night people were 3 times likelier to smoke and 27% less likely to quit...
Can Parents Fall Off The Learning Curve? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Watching violence – on television, in movies, in videos and video games – desensitizes teens to violence. A study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience had 22 boys ages 14-17 watch violent scenes from 60 videos while having their emotions measured by...
Where Are We In The World? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
The federal government is requiring communities nationwide to change street name signs from all capital letters to capital and lower case letters to make signs easier to read. This is to be done as signs need replacement. However, reflective traffic signs need to meet minimum...
What Keeps Older From Getting Old? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Older people have an increased risk of diabetes because the body's ability to make insulin decreases with age. Race, family history, obesity and inactivity also increase risk. In 2010 10% of Americans have diabetes, but 25% of them don't know. If the present trend continues,...
What Can Our Bodies Tell Us? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Our bodies tell us our reaction to technology starts in the womb. The more exposure a fetus has to pre-natal testosterone, the more anxiety-sensitive that person will be. Also, that person's ring finger will be shorter than their index finger. Researchers at Bath University did...
Is It Time To Put More Life In Lifestyle? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
One thing we can do to put more life in lifestyle is watch others exercise. Researchers at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab divided 125 volunteers into 2 groups. Before a buffet lunch one group watched TV ads for running shoes and fitness centers. The...
What Puts Us In U.S.? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Sixty-eight percent of U.S. citizens knew the First Amendment to the United States Constitution says "the government shall neither establish a religion nor interfere with the practice of religion". However, according to the 2010 U.S. Religious Survey, there was confusion regarding the term "separation...
What's It Mean To Be American? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Americans don't exercise enough. Researchers analyzed data collected from 2003 to 2008 for approximately 80,000 adults who had participated in the American Time Use Survey – a national, telephone-based survey asking people what they'd done during the previous 24 hours. Among sedentary activities 95.6% ate...
Is Happiness More Than A Fat Chance? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Happiness comes from the priorities we set – not from genetics or upbringing – not from major life events. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed data from 60,000 Germans over a 25-year period. According to the findings, the...
What Can We Do To Help The Environment? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Americans could stop being wasteful. Over 206 million computer products and 140 million phones are discarded a year. Seventy percent of heavy metals in landfills come from outdated electronics and contain toxins such as lead and mercury. In 2010 twenty-three states have electronic recycling laws,...
What Do Statistics Say About The USA? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Washington, D.C. is the smartest city in the U.S. According to 2010 Census Bureau data, Washington – with all its government-related jobs – had the highest percentage of residents age 25 and older with college degrees or higher - 47.3%. Cosmopolitan San Francisco ranked second...
What Would Make Aging More "Memorable"? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Mental stimulation postpones dementia – reading, crossword puzzles, museums, board games – but it speeds up dementia when dementia occurs. More than 1,150 people age 65 and older without dementia were scored on a cognitive activity scale – the more frequent their stimulating activities, the...
Shouldn't There Be A She In He-roes? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Kathy Broussard started out as part of a volunteer group of pilots flying critically ill patients from all over Texas to Houston for medical treatment. In 1999 she found out some of the patients couldn't afford the $50 to $100 cab fare from the airport...
Are Our Relationships Sinking? -
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Knight Pierce Hirst
Sixty-six percent of American families sometimes or always sleep with children in their bed and 16% sleep with pets. That's according to a 2005 survey. According to a 2005 survey by the National Sleep Foundation, almost 25% of couples sleep in separate beds or bedrooms....
