January 2010
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hookingupinhanguk:
So here, I will post my official Hooking Up in Hanguk’s How to Pick Up Western Girls If You Are a Korean Male®.
First and foremost—this is a crappy truth, but must be addressed. You have everything working against you. Most Western girls aren’t attracted to Asian guys. But if you know anything about The Game, you know that doesn’t matter. (I also suggest you read that if...
December 2009
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Fitness - Taking a Bite Out of Sports Stress -... →
How performance mouthguards let you take in more air, de-stress, and perform better when exercising.
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Millions Drink Tap Water That Is Legal, but Maybe... →
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Masculine women: a menace to Emirati society
almas88:
hijablove:
The United Arab Emirates government has launched a campaign to suppress ‘masculine behaviour’ in women.
Unfeminine behaviour in women is regarded by the UAE authorities as “delinquent behaviour”.
Under the slogan “excuse me I am a girl”, it has launched a series of workshops, lectures and TV programmes.
The aim, the UAE authorities say, is to help women avoid what is...
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How did the letters “xo” come to be used as a...
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fingularity:
ma-salaama:
ohyeahfacts:
The first mention in literature of XXX for kisses at the bottom of a letter was in 1901, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The X itself is very old.
The custom goes back to the early Christian era, when a cross mark or “X” was the same as a sworn oath. The cross referred to the cross of Calvary and the first letter of the Greek word...
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A Photo is Worth a Thousand Ways to Change Your... →
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almas88:
A recent study in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology tested whether showing people photos of completed actions–such as a broken pencil or an opened envelope–could influence them to believe they’d done something they had not, particularly if they were shown the photos multiple times….
wo factors in this study speak to the malleability of memory. The first is...
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Living Together - Beyond Kissing Cousins - ... →
A widely disseminated study published in The Journal of Genetic Counseling in 2002 said that the risk of serious genetic defects like spina bifida and cystic fibrosis in the children of first cousins indeed exists but that it is rather small, 1.7 to 2.8 percentage points higher than for children of unrelated parents, who face a 3 to 4 percent risk — or about the equivalent of that in children of...
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Birkenfeld, Ex-UBS Banker, Seeks Billions as... →
Just interesting. Guy rats out rich tax avoiders, goes to jail, and may make billions for being a tattling.
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A Conversation With Laurence Steinberg -... →
whole article is good. excerpt:
Teenagers are not crazy. They’re different.
When it comes to crime, they are less responsible for their behavior than adults. And typically, in the law, we don’t punish people as much who are less responsible. We know from our lab that adolescents are more impulsive, thrill-seeking, drawn to the rewards of a risky decision than adults. They tend to not focus...
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Technology Review: A Cancer-Fighting Implant →
cool cancer vaccine technique :)
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Branded a Cheat: On the Tiger Woods Scandal →
Woods has been presented as the embodiment of bourgeois virtues: dedication, hard work, single-mindedness. Indeed, when, in 2008, Woods won the U.S. Open while essentially playing on one leg, the Times’ David Brooks devoted a column to his extraordinary ability to block out distraction and focus on the matter at hand, dubbing him “the exemplar of mental discipline” for our time. For millions of...
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Psychotherapy May Prevent Obesity in At-Risk Teens... →
psychotherapy:
Washington, DC (AHN) – Teenage girls “at risk” of becoming obese could benefit from educational psychotherapy, according to a new report.
Researchers with the National Institutes of Health said in a statement that girls who participated in what they call interpersonal psychotherapy may be able to prevent their body mass index from increasing over the course of a year, compared to...
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Rejection massively reduces IQ (New Scientist) →
psychotherapy:
Rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. “But we’ve found that randomly assigning students...
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Cop
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol.
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: An... →
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Really? - The Claim - Exercise More During the... →
every hour of sedentary activity during the day resulted in an additional three minutes in the time it took to fall asleep at night. And the children who fell asleep faster ultimately slept longer, getting an extra hour of sleep for every 10-minute reduction in the time it took them to drift off. Studies on adults have reached generally similar results, showing that an increase in physical...
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Dogs are better than cats – at least... →
While dogs were thought to bond better with their owners especially as they appeared to offer unconditional love, cats were more independent and needed less care.
Dogs are good pets because they’ve been bread to be great pets…Most other species don’t have this advantage…
mabelmoments:
Vindicated!
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Urban Dictionary: word receptacle →
n. The person that is on the receiving side of a one way conversation.
I couldn’t get a word in edgewise. She kept talking to me about her shoes, purse, and how her best friend just got dumped. I am a word receptacle.
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Paly Voice - Sexting growing trend among Palo Alto... →
“I sext pretty often,” Britney, an anonymous Palo Alto High School junior whose real name has been changed, said. “I don’t really mind doing it because once you do it a lot it gets really routine and you know what the other person wants to hear so its just a fun break from homework or something.”
“Sexting is fun because it lets you just say whatever you...
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Eight tips for knowing if you’re boring someone... →
(via psychotherapy)
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Master the Produce Aisle | Eat This, Not That →
muroo:
Store unripe bananas on the counter, away from direct heat and sunlight (speed things up by placing green bananas in an open paper bag). Once ripened, refrigerate; though the peel turns brown, the flavor and quality are unaffected.
Good to know!
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Tiger’s Wife Elin Is To Blame For Affairs | Celeb... →
silly satire, but it made me smile :)
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Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious (NYTimes.com) →
The “cells born from running,” the researchers concluded, appeared to have been “specifically buffered from exposure to a stressful experience.” The rats had created, through running, a brain that seemed biochemically, molecularly, calm.
thx psychotherapy:
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BBC News - Chinese performer wows with speedy face... →
I’ve never been to a play where a character changes face masks to emphasize different emotions…and what really makes it work is the speed at which the face masks change.
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Hack your brain-How to hallucinate with ping-pong... →
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The Science of Success - The Atlantic (December... →
how much of these different personality types passed through genes, and how much derived from the manner in which the monkeys were raised? To find out, Suomi split the variables. He took nervous infants of nervous mothers—babies who in standardized newborn testing were already jumpy themselves—and gave them to especially nurturing “supermoms.” These babies turned out very close to normal....
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Urbanites Explore the Primal Lure of Hunting -... →
(via hilker)
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Urban Dictionary: turkey bark →
Farting after eating turkey.
I let out out a massive turkey bark after Thanksgiving dinner.
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Tiger Woods's Wife, Elin: An Angry White Woman |... →
the golfer reportedly told a friend shortly after the incident that his wife had gone “ghetto” on him. An interesting comment coming from someone who probably hasn’t been anywhere near a ghetto, and another example of how prevalent the idea of black women as aggressors has become, even when the alleged attacker is a Swedish blonde. But Elin Woods had been humiliated and hurt by...
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Study: Looking young may mean living longer -... →
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James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film... →
good article about one of the greats :) and his new movie….was more interesting though just hearing about his life and what drove him.
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Rippling Muscles on TV Dance Shows Are a Pigment... →
Spray Tans Create Fake Six Packs in Seconds
This is just kind of foul. I’m not a fan of these shows.