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When there’s an audience, people’s performance improves

Often people think performing in front of others will make them mess up, but a new study found the opposite: being watched makes people do better. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge […]

Published on April 20, 2018

Your grandchildren may retire before we achieve gender equality in STEMM

New research has calculated that without further interventions, the gender gap for women working in STEMM is very likely to persist for generations, particularly in surgery, computer science, physics and maths. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, […]

Published on April 19, 2018

Study predicts 2018 flu vaccine will likely have 20 percent efficacy

A new study of 6,610 human flu sequences predicts that this fall’s flu vaccine will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant circulating strain of influenza A as the vaccine given in 2016 and 2017 due to viral mutations related to vaccine production in eggs. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on April 19, 2018