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Katie Stevenson

Immunoglobulin E (IgE) Defined | AAAAI - 0 views

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science IgE defined

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  • Katie Stevenson on 04 Mar 13
     
    What IgE is.
Natalie Mitten

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 0 views

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      Natalie Mitten on 06 Nov 12
       
      Says "articles" but doesn't note any articles. hmm. Credible statement?
  • The Thief of Time,” edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White (Oxford; $65)
  • anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era
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  • Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002
  • Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time
  • Harvard economist David Laibson has shown
  • that American workers have forgone huge amounts of money in matching 401(k) contributions because they never got around to signing up for a retirement plan.
  • Seventy per cent of patients suffering from glaucoma risk blindness because they don’t use their eyedrops regularly
  • delaying tough decisions
  • Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.
  • sixty-five per cent of students surveyed before they started working on a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating: they knew both that they wouldn’t do the work on time and that the delay would make them unhappy.
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