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Why Polyamory And Homosexuality Are Wrong
Poly is Greek for “many” and amor is Latin for “love”. Same goes for homo, which is Greek for “same” and sex, which is Latin for… “sex”. Homosexuality? What barbarity! It’s half Greek and half Latin!...
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How To Make Procrastination Work For You
Procrastination is a big problem for procrastinators, who generally would rather do anything than the thing they have to do right then. Strategies to defeat procrastination usually involve “just making...
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Shrinks Really Need To See Someone About Their Issues
Someone asked the world’s smartest man, Cecil Adams, if it’s true that mental health professionals are crazier than the average person. Short answer: yes. The data Cecil gives, based on several...
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How To Care For Introverts And Extroverts
The design comes from the Questionably Late Tumblr; the actual tips come from an article by a developmental psychologist. Then someone came up with a companion list for extroverts and the same...
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Nate Silver Predicted Most Of The Oscar Winners, Too
Nate Silver is now a famous statistician, after correctly calling the presidential election in every state for 2012, and all but one state for 2008. For his next trick, he’s applied his calculus on the...
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Divorce And Drinking
Scientists had a lot of data on some 20,000 people in a Norwegian county, so they did a study looking at how alcohol consumption affected their marriages. The percentage of subjects that got divorced:...
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Multitaskers Are Impulsive Risk-Takers… Who Are Also Bad At Multitasking
That’s the conclusion of a study at the University of Utah, that measured four of their subjects’ traits: how good at multitasking they thought they were, how good they actually were, how impulsive...
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Some Things Are Only For Symbolic Reasons
Also, why a rib and not, say, a hair or a pound of flesh? Or even a tooth. Via FAIL Blog
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Surprisingly, Most Panhandlers Are Not Homeless
In most people’s minds, panhandling obviously implies homelessness because if you have a home, why would you beg on the street corner? But according to both the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma, and the...
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Louisville, KY Is Sorta The Epicenter of Unhappiness In America
The map below shows people’s happiness levels in the United States: red means most unhappy, yellow is neutral, blue is most happy. As you can see, the biggest area of unhappiness is in Indiana and...
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