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Name: Frank
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Jose
Gender: Male
Interests: biking, guitar, math, piano, philosophy, physics, poker, psychology, sociology, software.
(BTW, my contact info is all spelled backwards)
Expertise: Software
Occupation: Engineer
Industry: Computers (Software)
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AIM:  heushf
MSN: moc.liamtoh@heush.knarf
ICQ:  9874645
Yahoo:  heushcf
Jabber: moc.liamg@heush.knarf
Member Since:
2/9/2005
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| Tuesday
Nothing going on.
- By the numbers: Who's Cooking This Thanksgiving? [pewresearch]. Interesting almost as many men are cooking as women.
- Research: True Love [National Geographic]. From the article: Helen Fisher has suggested that relationships frequently break up after four years because that's about how long it takes to raise a child through infancy. Passion, that wild, prismatic insane feeling, turns out to be practical after all. We not only need to copulate; we also need enough passion to start breeding, and then feelings of attachment take over as the partners bond to raise a helpless human infant. Once a baby is no longer nursing, the child can be left with sister, aunts, friends. Each parent is now free to meet another mate and have more children. I also like the blurb on love marriage vs arranged marriage. Interesting. (Thanks, MaMc)
- Research: Beauty really IS skin deep ... scientists find radiance is most important factor, not symmetry [dailymail]. Interesting. But not unexpected, since attractiveness always comes back to perception of good health (and therefore fertility).
- Thoughts: Cast/Characters in Twilight [wikipedia]. In the movie, Bella Swan is 17 years old and Edward Cullen is 108 years old though he appears to be 17 years old. First of all, she's under the age of consent in many parts of the US so it might constitute statutory rape. Second, she's dating a guy who's over 6 times her age. I'm guessing that nobody cares if it's a good story.
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| - News: New jihad code threatens al Qaeda [cnn]. Finally. Let's see if this honorable code actually takes. I'll be surprised if it actually makes any difference.
- Research: The Jobless Rate for People Like You [NYTimes]. If you want the job, it's great to be the white female age 25 to 44 with a college degree and it sucks to be the black male, age 15 to 24 without a high school diploma.
- Research: The Harried Life of the Working Mother [pew research]. I find the poll Too many children are being raised in day care these days to be interesting (~ 72% agree in 2003). Seems a lot of people think women ought to want to raise their own kids. But realistically, this won't happen due to economics. I wonder how this sentiment will affect policy and opinion on the worth of marriage.
- Research: What Divides America? [pew research]. Apparently the biggest divide in America is the immigrant vs native born.
- Research: The States of Marriage and Divorce [pew research]. The last section, Correlations in Marriage Patterns, is interesting.
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| Tuesday
Long time no blog.
- Research: Men should marry young, smart women, say scientists [telegraph]. You can download the original research paper here [ssrn]. The research is specific to Switzerland so it may or may not apply to the western world. But I imagine that if they did a similar study here, it would find similar results for similar reasons.
- Research: Steep rise in Down's pregnancies [bbc]. From the article: The sharp rise reflects the growing number of older women becoming pregnant, when there is a higher risk. An increase in the number of subsequent abortions and more antenatal diagnoses means slightly fewer children are being born with Down's syndrome. Interesting problems in this modern day and age.
- Research: Children 'make married parents happier' [telegraph]. From the article: Having children makes married people happier - but not those who become parents out of wedlock, according to an academic study. I go to a lot of random parties. It seems like people are either talking to people of the opposite gender in search of romance, or in the case of guys, talking to other guys to find people to golf/tennis/workout with or some other activity. My older friends say that people disappear off the earth when they get married; can't ever get them to hang out like good old days. So, I think eternal bachelor types will get increasingly frustrated as they find that they're doing the same things year after year. They want to do something of real significance (e.g.: raise well-adjusted kids who love and fear the Lord). And couples who don't have kids will eventually want to when they realize something is missing (well, the girl will). And single girls have the biological clock. And of course, life is hell if you're in a shotgun wedding or have a kid accidentally. The article does make sense.
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| Wednesday
Nothing going on.
- News: Music teacher jailed for lesbian affair with pupil [Telegraph]. Historically, sexual interaction between a male teacher and female student has a response like A painful death cannot come too soon! and interaction between female teacher and male student gets NICE! So, what happens in the case of female teacher with a female student?
- Research: Genetics Linked to Early Sexual Activity in Kids [health.com]. I wonder if this is some evolutionary biological mechanism to increase fecundity. I managed to find a prepublication of that document here [srcd.org], if you want to read a fairly late draft of the research. Interesting. | | |
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- Research: Girls are primed to fear spiders [newscientist]. Interesting.
- Article: Texting for Toddlers? [NYTimes] and Tips on Choosing Age-Appropriate Texting Devices [NYTimes]. Interesting problems in this modern day and age.
- Research: What makes them hot? Body or Face? [scitechbits]. Short answer for guys and girls is body for short term and face for long term. Read for the full story.
- Research: Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women [Telegraph]. Maybe true when you're younger and stupider but not when you're older and wiser. And definitively not when you're married else management will yell at you and you'll have worse problems.
- Research: Long-term wine consumption is related to cardiovascular mortality and life expectancy independently of moderate alcohol intake [JECH]. Is this scientific justification to drink more?
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