Way before 2017’s Wonder Woman started its rise to becoming a cultural touchstone, there was already the Wonder Woman pose. Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist and associate professor at Harvard Business School, did a really popular TED talk in 2012 on “high power posing.”

One of the earliest studies, sponsored by the Police Foundation in 1974, found that women encountered many of the same kinds of situations (involving angry, drunk or violent individuals) and were as capable as men. The study’s most important finding, though, was that “women act less aggressively and they believe in less aggression.” The researchers predicted “the presence of women may stimulate increased attention to the ways of avoiding violence and cooling violent situations without resorting to the use of force.”

Direct, especially physical, aggression was more common in males and femalesat all ages sampled, was consistent across cultures, and occurred from early childhoodon, showing a peak between 20 and 30 years.

Female cops accounted for just 3.4 percent of officers involved in the “83 most serious lawsuits” against the LAPD from 1986 to 1990. While the stats suggested that female cops aren’t reluctant to use force, the commission reasoned, they’re not nearly as likely to use excessive force.

The purpose of this article is to call for a reassessment of this presumption: to suggest a rethinking of American historiography, and one that considers the ways in which, in its historical epoch in the 1920s and 1930s, fascism had a very real presence in the USA, comparable to that on continental Europe.

The 400 ppm level is regarded as a milestone by climate scientists, as the last time concentrations of the heat-trapping gas reached such a point was millions of years ago, when temperatures and sea levels were far higher. The field project, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and known as ORCAS, found that there is still air present in the Southern Hemisphere that has less than 400 ppm of CO2—but just barely. In the north, the atmosphere had first crossed that threshold in 2013

First-born children tend to be more intelligent than their siblings, perhaps because they get extra parental attention in early life compared to siblings, a new study finds.

Let the family dinner table fights begin: First-born kids really are smarter than their younger siblings, a new study found.

My findings show that high parental expectations decrease the likelihood of teenage preg-nancy and motherhood, and that this effect is about half of the effect of being born to ateenage mother.

“Parents who saw college in their child’s future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets,” he said.

Parent’s supportive interactions, expectations for their child to earn a college degree (57%–96%), and child’s preschool attendance (64%–89%) increased across quintiles.

Harassing your daughter about finishing up her homework may not thrill her at the time, but she'll thank you later in life. According to a study conducted by the University of Essex in England, she will probably be more successful than the kids of less pushy moms.

Girls With Nagging Moms Grow Up to Be More Successful

Scrolling through Facebook, I found some people had shared a link titled “Study Finds Girls with Nagging Moms Grow Up to Be More Successful”. Reading this, I thought it made perfect sense, but wondered what sort of study was done to prove this.

Teenage girls more likely to succeed if they have pushy mothers

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear," she wrote in a chapter called "I'm Princess Leia's Mother." She went on to note her worries over Fisher's history with substance abuse. "Carrie is my child and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. … I don't know if I could survive that."

Until now, it was believed that only worms, bacteria, and fungi could digest vegetable cellulose and use it as a source of carbon for their growth and survival. Plants, in contrast, engage in the photosynthesis of carbon dioxide, water, and light. In a series of experiments, Professor Dr. Olaf Kruse and his team cultivated the microscopically small green alga species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in a low carbon dioxide environment and observed that when faced with such a shortage, these single-cell plants can draw energy from neighbouring vegetable cellulose instead.

A biological research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery showing that plants can draw an alternative source of energy from other plants. This finding could also have a major impact on the future of bioenergy eventually providing the evidence to show that people draw energy from others in much the same way.

A biological research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery showing that plants can draw an alternative source of energy from other plants. This finding could also have a major impact on the future of bioenergy eventually providing the evidence to show that people draw energy from others in much the same way.

Minneapolis-based UCare proposed an average rate increase of 66 percent for one of its products.

A new study linking profanity to honesty shows people who curse are more authentic

Summers, along with his mentor Robert Rubin, were responsible for deregulating the US banking system via the removal of the Glass-Steagall Act, making him more responsible than any other person for the economic crisis of 2008, as well as the economic crisis we are soon to face.

In the Southern Hemisphere, sea-ice levels just smashed through the previous record highs across Antarctica, where there is now more ice than at any point since records began.

a large majority of the American people do not believe the official story their government has told them

Perry was Texas’ longest-serving governor

California’s electricity crisis amid the Enron scandal had spooked several states about following a similar path.

price spikes in 2005 following hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Perry took over the governorship in late 2000, following Bush’s White House win,

A Texan himself, Wood

Brian Waidmann, a former top aide to George W. Bush administration Interior secretaries Dirk Kempthorne and Gale Norton

Ray Sullivan, another former top Perry aide

David Garman, an energy undersecretary in the George W. Bush DOE

former state and federal regulator Pat Wood said

his ride to the White House shocked the political establishment of both parties

Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee

wrote this month.

Perry unseated as the state’s agriculture commissioner in 1990

former MIT physicist

outgoing Secretary Ernest Moniz

drew immediate derision from the former governor’s critics

former governor advocated during his 2012 presidential campaign

leading the Energy Department during President Barack Obama’s first term.

endured rocky relations with Congress

Nobel-winning physicist

former regulators there credit him with policies that streamlined energy permits and helped drive a big expansion of wind power

that oversees the security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal

federal agency he's just been tapped to lead

and infamously forgot the name of the Energy Department

got a "D" in a college class called "Meats"

Rick Perry did the cha cha on “Dancing with the Stars,”

Marc Palazzo, a former lobbyist for a Koch Industries subsidiary

But President-elect Donald Trump's team and Perry have not said definitively whether they want to ax the entire department

Perry stuck with the plan

Wood, who was soon jetting off to become FERC chairman in the summer of 2001

Texas was in the midst of overhauling its electricity system to create a deregulated market

Wood, who has known Perry for more than two decades

Donald Trump’s transition team heads have requested more names from two federal departments, this time those of employees working on programs to stem violent extremism.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu

When Gov. Rick Perry leaves office next month, he’ll wrap up a three-decade stretch in state elective office that concluded with his being the longest-serving governor in Texas history.

When you actually do the math, coal kills somewhere on the order of 4,000 times more people per unit of energy produced than nuclear power.

for each person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die from coal

Poll: 55% of Americans bothered by Russian election hacking

Poll: Only 29% of Americans Believe Russian Hacking Impacted 2016 Election

the CIA, a particularly secretive and politically driven organization, may be making that claim, the FBI is not convinced.

He said the violence resulted from "a macabre" plan promoted by U.S. President Barack Obama to extract massive quantities of 100-bolivar notes from the country and stockpile them abroad.

There Have Been Over 200 School Shooting Incidents Since The Sandy Hook Massacre

47% of Americans pay no taxes

In the last few decades, the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet has been melting at a slower rate than it did for 95% of the last 9,000 years according to scientists publishing in the journal Science.

The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Now At Nearly Its Highest Extent In The Last 7,500 Years

According to recent reports, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

Enter Khilaf Krafts, located in Dearborn, Michigan, my hometown. Since the Christian majority on the Supreme Court thought it was apropos to allow family business owners the right to enforce their religious views upon their employees, the Muslim-family-owned business, Khilaf Krafts, has followed their lead by forcing their female employees (even Christian ones) to wear hijabs (the traditional Muslim head piece) while working at their place of business.

A company named Khilaf Krafts, a Muslim-owned art and craft store in Michigan, is forcing their female employees to wear a Muslim hijab, therefore forcing their religion on their employees. This isn’t your typical piece of uniform, its a garment related directly to the religion of Islam.

According to recent reports, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock. Khilaf Krafts initiated the requirement shortly after the 5 to 4 decision in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, which gave family-owned business the right to religious expression and decision making.

Castile and Ms. Diamond Reynolds (Facebook video uploader) were pulled over by police because Castile matched a BOLO Alert for an armed robbery suspect from four days prior.

Philando Castile was stopped by St. Anthony Officer Jeronimo Yanez because Officer Yanez had suspected Castile of being involved in a convenience store robbery that had occurred several days earlier.

15-years after the attacks on September 11th, the European Scientific Journal, a publication of theEuropean Scientific Institute (ESI), published an article titled “15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses,”

But a new forensic investigation into the collapse of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11, published in Europhysics News – a highly respected European physics magazine – claims that “the evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that all three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition.”

According to recent reports, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

Some people are taking the Supreme Court’s decision in the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case very seriously, including this Muslim-owned craft store in Dearborn, Michigan. The arts-and-crafts store has taken the ruling to mean that they can demand their Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves to work. 

BREAKING! Hillary Calls For Recount!

As was previously observed from Trump’s meeting with Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto, when you have Trump threatening to challenge the status quo with others on the world stage- you know he means business. Perhaps that is why Abe described Trump as being a leader he can trust, because he has respect for a strong and competent leader like Trump who puts the interest of his country first –  and not the potential relationship with foreign interest (however much it may involve Japan).

Black Friday violence breaks out across America

In New Jersey and Nevada, determined shoppers turned the annual rush lethal.

Napa County (population 142,000)

"environmental responsibility," "sustainable stewardship" and "commitment to the greater Napa Valley ecosystem."

the Walt Ranch proposal: 209 more acres of vines replacing woodlands and chaparral

a county enjoying a $13.3 billion boom from agri-business

3.3 million tourists throng its 500 wineries annually

the Bay Area's 7.5 million urban residents

Stewart Perry is a former Marine. His son, Sgt. John Perry, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Most of Perry’s criticism was aimed at the left, though, which leads us to believe he still supports Trump who calls out radical Islamic terror and is highly critical of those sitting during the national anthem. Trump is supported by many other Gold Star families who met with him in August.

Stewart Perry was in the first class section, and when the captain made the announcement, others in the section began “booing and hissing.” “Some people were saying ‘This is just baloney,’ and ‘I paid for first-class for this?’ ”

“People all over the country have been flooding my office with calls, telling my staff of horror stories about being harassed and intimidated by poll workers,” Obama told reporters. “Many have even said that they were flat out denied entry into the voting booths to cast their ballots if they were wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt or other signs showing support for her as President. This was especially bad in areas of Florida and North Carolina where there are high numbers of Latino and African American voters. We must investigate these claims. The margin of victory is too close to call, and the outcome of this election is too important. There is just too many legal challenges in too many states to just call this a victory for Trump.”

concerns of thousands of voters across the country who said that they were prevented from casting a ballot on election day,

Following the results of Tuesday night’s election, President Obama has signed Executive Order 13805, which orders a full recount of all votes cast in the election and calls for a special election to be held on December 19th.