10 Things You Didn’t Know About Sexual Biology (Sex Edition):
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Remittances now head North as Mexicans help relatives in the US – NYTimes.com
ring the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr. Salcedo finds himself doing what he never imagined he would have to do: wiring pesos north. Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling…
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The connection between sports and domestic violence:
ntrolling for location and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to an 8 percent increase in police reports of at-home male-on-female intimate partner violence. Here is the source paper and that is from David Card and Gordon Dahl. In contrast, if you go see…
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The amount of cool stuff in the world continuous to increase:
is is so cool: because we only look at things we want to look at, only talk about things worth talking about, the amount of fabulous in the world continues to rise exponentially. Even though we're at the tail end of the great recession, think about all the cool stuff in your life. Not just stuff you can buy, but experiences, works of art, innovations of all kinds... the bar has been raised for what you need to do to…
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Who has trouble sleeping?
o can't sleep? In one presentation, Grandner reviewed responses from 159,856 people who participated in a government survey -- one of the largest to gather data on sleep difficulties. Overall, one in five people reported problems with sleep on seven of the 14 nights before the survey. Grandner found little difference among racial and ethnic groups, except for people of Asian ethnicity, who had far fewer problems. But people in lower socioeconomic levels, especially women, reported more problems. So did…
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Did Grandmom have premarital sex?
om msnbc.msn.com: More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past. “This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.” The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time,…
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What does the amount spent on an engagement ring say about the bride and the couple:
a psychologytoday.com Cronk and Dunham found that both men's and women's incomes were positively correlated to the amount spent on an engagement ring. These two findings are indicative of marriage customs found in other cultures such as bridewealth and dowries. Furthermore, the authors uncovered a negative correlation between the amount spent on a ring and the bride's age. In other words, the younger the bride, the larger the expenditure. Cronk and Dunham argue that their findings suggest that the amount…
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Clay Shirky – A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority:
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