The NY Sun:
Letters give a new view of Van Gogh.
New Scientist:
Woman hears voices with a speech impediment. Speech impediments have, at times, been linked to epilepsy and ‘brain storms.’
NY Times Fashion & Style:
Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye. Single women order steak medium-rare, single men order kale? I wondered why I get so many evil looks ordering my tacos with beef, my enchiladas with chicken ...
The Economist:
Evolutionary psychology: Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption. “Geoffrey Miller is a man with a theory that, if true, will change the way people think about themselves. His idea is that the human brain is the anthropoid equivalent of the peacock’s tail. In other words, it is an organ designed to attract the opposite sex.” I’m curious to know where war fits into this theory ... to create ‘heroes’?
National Review:
Romney’s Radical Roots. Is there a website listing the political pasts of all candidates? And I don’t mean the press releases of the respective campaigns. Useful, if created.
NY Times:
Should emoticons be used in business email? Good luck trying to enforce that.
The Economist:
Is bottled water proof that consumers are daft?
NY Times Science:
The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting. “For instance, nowhere among the 237 reasons will you find the one attributed to the actress Joan Crawford: ‘I need sex for a clear complexion.’”
NY Times:
Times Online.UK:
“Children want to be looked at, but wearing items like thongs and revealing clothes sends the message that they are sexually available. It also implies knowledge of sexuality that just isn’t there ...”
in character:
I Cannot Tell a Lie - what people with autism can tell us about honesty.
Times Online.UK:
“Shy people have inherited an exaggerated fear response to social situations, but it can be cured with the right sort of parenting.”
Times Online.UK:
“Does full-time nursery care harm children? In Britain many parents think it does. In France there are no such qualms.”
Washington Post:
Hippotherapy: More than just horseplay.
Times Online.UK:
When prolonging life becomes prolonging death.
Reuters:
Key to marital happiness? Let the wife have her way. I take the Fifth on this one ...
scientistlive:
Failure breeds success. Better to be wrong for the right reasons ...
BBC:
“Four Italian management consultants have come up with a novel way to get ahead in business - read fewer textbooks and watch more films.”
CSM Commentary:
A boomer revival. The ‘encore’ career.
Linguistic Society of America:
Does the Language I Speak Influence the Way I Think?
Psychology Today:
Five shocking stats about men and sex. “The idea that men think about sex every seven seconds, like the claim that we only use 10 percent of our brains, is often repeated but rarely sourced. The number doesn’t bear up against scrutiny.”
IHT:
Why Dutch women don’t get depressed. “The Dutch woman ‘wants the man to do housework to help her feel equal, but he has to do it her way.’” That sounds awfully familiar ...
NY Times:
Forgetting May Be Part of the Process of Remembering.
National Post.CA:
Scholars are increasingly using the analytical techniques of the social sciences to examine the meaning of pop culture. I think we’ve all had that moment, seeing something new and supposedly cool ... when inside our heads, we hear our brains screaming, “but what does it mean?!!!”
Boston.com:
Heavy TV viewing under 2 is found. Not all toddlers are sensitized, but if you watch a gaggle of ‘em, you’ll see a couple who will stop stock still when commercials come on, rapt attention, unresponsive, until the commercial ends. Increased volume? Flashing? I never did figure it out. I wonder what the long-term effects of never-understood graphic symbolism are.
