The way most students study makes no sense. That’s the conclusion of Washington University in St. Louis psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel — who’ve spent a combined 80 years studying learning and memory, and recently encapsulated their findings with novelist Peter Brown in the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. […]
The death toll at Gaza reached more than 150 while Israeli Air Strike continues to hit the densely populated area. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains adamant and vows start a ground offensive in Gaza while brushing aside world pressure to stop air strikes on civilian population. Again failing to play its due […]
At least 77 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities in warfare showing no signs of ending soon. Eight Palestinian family members, including five children, were killed […]
Scientists claim to have found an ‘on-off’ switch in our brain that can bring people in and out of consciousness. Dr Mohamad Koubeissi and his team from George Washington University studied an epileptic patient and found that electrical impulses of a specific region sent her to ‘sleep’ on repeated occasions. […]
The dramatic and rapid advance by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have caught many by surprise but it was a long time in the making. The dramatic and rapid advance by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have caught many by surprise but […]
Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country’s blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. A Reuters reporter saw a convoy of about 20 military transport vehicles and buses filled with […]
Sunnis and Kurds walked out of the first session of Iraq’s new parliament on Tuesday after Shi’ites failed to name a prime minister to replace Nuri al-Maliki, dimming any prospect of an early national unity government to save Iraq from collapse. The United States, United Nations, Iran and Iraq’s own Shi’ite clergy […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf KPK government has sacked Minister for Industries, Shaukat Yousafzai and adviser to Chief Minister, Yaseen Khalil from their posts. Apparently, their unsatisfactory performance is being said to be the reason behind their removal. Shaukat Yousafzai said in a statement that he accepted his party’s decision to remove him […]
In his first statement released to the public, Hamid Mir reiterates his earlier stance that he fears ISI of being involved in the failed assassination attempt that left him fatally wounded. The statement was released by his brother Amir Mir, who earlier had openly blamed ISI and its DG General […]
India remains the biggest buyer of arms in the world, importing nearly three times as many weapons as its nearest competitors China and Pakistan over the last five years, a Swedish think tank said. The total volume of arms sales was up 14 percent in 2009-13 compared to the previous […]
