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Oct. 6th, 2008
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Oct. 6th, 2008 04:30 pm-
Very, very true.
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In which it transpires investors no longer think that companies that give away their products are worth investing in...
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The coffee chain, which prides itself on being green, has a health and safety policy of leaving taps running in all of its 10,000 branches worldwide it has been revealed today.
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Mr Ehrman was a born again Bible-believing Evangelical until he read the original Greek texts and noticed some discrepancies.
The Bible we now use can't be the inerrant word of God, he says, since what we have are the sometimes mistaken words copied by fallible scribes.
"When people ask me if the Bible is the word of God I answer 'which Bible?'" -
Whereby the poor subsidise the rich. Which is a perfectly natural outcome of the system - but surely the point is that we _can_ make life fairer for the worst off...
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A paper in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making was inspired by the empirical observation that the poor spend a disproportionate percentage of their income on lottery tickets. They conducted two experiments to examine whether making people feel poor makes them want to play the lottery.
Subjects were made to either feel relatively poor or relatively rich The group made to feel poor purchased twice as many lottery tickets (an average of 1.27) than those made to feel relatively wealthier (0.67 tickets, on average).
In the second experiment, we indirectly reminded participants that, while different income groups face unequal prospects when it comes to education, employment and housing, everyone has an equal chance to win the lottery. This reminder that the lottery is a kind of "social equalizer" also increased lottery tickets purchases. The group given this reminder purchased 1.31 tickets, on average, as compared with 0.54 for those not given such a reminder. -
Using sensors that measure a married couple's heart rates, body movements and skin temperature, as well as a coding system for emotional responses, Gottman and his team are able to predict with 95 percent accuracy whether two people will divorce within 15 years.
The secret, writes Gladwell, is to pay attention to what Gottman describes as the 'Four Horsemen' of a couple's relationship dynamic: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism and contempt ...
"Even within the Four Horsemen, there is one emotion that he (Gottman) considers most important of all: contempt," writes Gladwell.
"If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt towards the other, he considers it the single most important sign that a marriage is in trouble." -
Well, to be fair, the worst plot you've ever read. Very funny, in a car crash kind of way.
Don't...know....what....to...think...
Oct. 6th, 2008 05:54 pmHarvey Keitel to play Gene Hunt in US remake of Life On Mars. Here
Good Thing? Bad Thing? I have _no_ idea.
Almost certainly a bad thing though:
"At home in Sam's apartment building in the East Village, there's Windy, a free-spirited, post-hippie chick who can teach Sam a thing or two about the cultural revolution taking place in front of his unbelieving eyes."
Good Thing? Bad Thing? I have _no_ idea.
Almost certainly a bad thing though:
"At home in Sam's apartment building in the East Village, there's Windy, a free-spirited, post-hippie chick who can teach Sam a thing or two about the cultural revolution taking place in front of his unbelieving eyes."