Do tattoos mean good genes?:
a boston.com Tattoos and unusual piercings carry the stereotype of nonconformity. Just ask yourself: How often do you see them on business managers or government officials? However, a new study from anthropologists in Poland suggests that, for men, tattoos and piercings are actually signals of biological quality. The researchers compared the body symmetry - specifically, measurements of the right and left hands - of people with tattoos and piercings to a similar group of people without tattoos and piercings. Symmetry…
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Economics PhD Candidate Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes:
man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus , a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, " Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK ," used math to estimate the…
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What an artist finds inside a Mexican prison:
went, and I met and talked to many of the prisoners. After creating an initial rapport, I cut them a deal: I would use a certain amount of my time to do things in their representation at a specific day and hour. At the same time they would do whatever I asked them to do as an artist. So none of us would be wasting time, we would be exchanging it. In other words, I would do whatever they…
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Robert Sapolsky on “The uniqueness of humans” (Video):
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Online poker study: The more hands you win, the more money you lose
new Cornell study of online poker seems counterintuitive: The more hands players win, the less money they're likely to collect – especially when it comes to novice players. The likely reason, said Cornell sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler, whose study analyzed 27 million online poker hands, is that the multiple wins are likely for small stakes, and the more you play, the more likely you will eventually be walloped by occasional – but significant – losses. This finding, Siler…
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What’s best for the roster of sports teams – new blood or stability?
ability. via miller-mccune.com The study, "Stability and Performance in Football Teams," looks at archived data from nine consecutive seasons in the top professional soccer leagues of England and Italy. After assigning each team a "stability index" reflecting its player-retention rate over the nine years, Van Vugt found a strong correlation between all measures of competitive success — league rank, points earned, goals scored and goals allowed — and the stability of the team's roster. The so-called stability-performance effect was strong…
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Weddings by the Numbers (Infograph):
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7 of the most powerful persuasion techniques by expert Robert Cialdini (Video):
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