City news: Netflix profits fall, Heathrow plans grounded and Yu to challenge big boys
NETFLIX will report that its second quarter profits tumbled 59 per cent because of slowing growth and the rising cost of developing its own shows, analysts say. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
OECD Report Examines Differences Between Boys, Girls
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has examined gender differences in education, particularly discussing underperformance among boys, More...
Vocational Training Works Pays Off More for Boys Than for Girls
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) New research out of Cornell University suggests that whether high schools decide to focus on offering college preparation courses or vocational training could profoundly affect More...
Cleaner who paid 35p to abuse boys in ‘safe haven’ refugee camp jailed for 108 years
A TURKISH cleaner at a camp for Syrians refugees has been jailed for 108 years for paying pennies to sexually abuse young boys. Daily Express :: World Feed More...
Girls Outperform Boys on NAEP Tech, Engineering Sections
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) According to results from the NAEP exam, also called the Nation’s Report Card, American eighth-grade girls were found to outperform their male peers in technology and More...
Julia Steiny: Online Interactions Are Cultivating Anti-Social Boys
(Photo: Creative Commons) By Julia Steiny The boy shrugs off a question for maybe the 10th time that afternoon. He seems incapable of simple human interaction. Mom tries to talk for him as he wriggles and More...
Girls Still More Math-Anxious Than Boys, Study Says
(Photo: Red Orbit) According to a new study, more girls have negative feelings about math, and those emotions can result in “mathematics anxiety.” But researchers at the University of Missouri, the More...
Son of Greggs founder sexually abused “little boys”, court hears
THE son of the founder of the Greggs bakery chain likes to “sexually abuse little boys”, a court has heard. Daily Express :: News Feed More...
Domino’s is Testing a Pizza Delivery Robot – Pretty soon delivery boys like Philip J. Fry are going to be out of a job.
Is this the next frontier in pizza delivery? It’s certainly possible, and Domino’s is leading the charge. The company showed off its “commercial autonomous delivery vehicle” last week called More...
‘Economic Despair’ May Lead Boys to Drop Out of High School
(Photo: Sam D, Creative Commons) The question of why income inequality continues across generations is difficult to answer. But two economists may have found a link that could provide some information, writes More...