A team from the University of Virginia has been selected to participate in a NASA program to build and test instruments. NASA says the team from UVa is participating in the Undergraduate Student Instrument Program. Ten U.S. college and university teams were selected for the first year of the program. The teams will conduct, develop and fly a science payload on NASA suborbital platforms. The Charlottesville team will build and test a CubeSat cosmic ray dosimeter that will be launched on a scientific balloon.
TEDxCharlottesville plans a day of big ideas for Nov. 14 at the Paramount; tickets go on sale Friday
The event’s featured speakers include:* Yiqi Cao, a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia who researches food culture and its ties to family history and is an advocate for health care quality improvements. She studies biomedical engineering and business and helps lead Engineering Students Without Borders, a student-run organization.* Greg Fairchild, E. Thayer Bigelow Associate Professor of Business Administration at UVa’s Darden School of Business, who is interested in empowering underserved populations.
No longer must you pass the MCAT with flying colors in order to seek admission into medical school, or even aspire to be a doctor. At the Mini-Med School run by the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, high school students through senior citizens are welcome to let their curiosity run wild and watch the magical world of medicine come to life right before their eyes – all for free.
People are unhappy in their own company and some prefer painful experiences to their own thoughts, a new study claims. In one test, nearly half the subjects gave themselves mild electric shocks during 15 minutes of quiet time. The findings, which came from shutting people away with no distractions and then quizzing them, have attracted criticism from some other researchers. The contentious paper, in the journal Science, argues we are not very good at enjoyable, recreational thought.
A U.S. study published on Thursday showed that most volunteers who were asked to spend no more than 15 minutes alone in a room doing nothing but sitting and thinking found the task onerous.
Many people would rather inflict pain on themselves than spend 15 minutes in a room with nothing to do but think, according to a US study out Thursday.
Wouldn’t you love to escape this busy world and just spend some time alone with your thoughts? Maybe not, says a University of Virginia study of volunteers who actually tried it.
In a new study, people who were asked to spend a few minutes alone with their thoughts disliked it so much that they would zap themselves with electricity during their alone time.