Economists don't have a reputation for being exceedingly sexy. They weren't perceived as funny either, but not long ago a "stand-up economist" popped up. Here we're looking at two studies where economists try to figure marital bliss. Read more »
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Where is best to be a single woman?
I’m supposed to do some work, but my thoughts are jumping around the world. The weather outside is frightful: after an Easter week-end with temperatures of 10 C and over, today we’re close to 0, it’s snowing and the wind is pushing the window toward me. And I’m thinking of a woman. Maybe more.. Read more »
Marriage and Joy. Division.
A friend's link posted on Facebook about fidelity, monogamy and marriage reminded me of a famous Joy Division song. Read more »
RIP JD Salinger
It is extremely difficult to pay your respects to an author whose book you haven't read. None of us has read catcher in the rye
What’s in a handshake?
society |
People seem to place an undue importance on the handshakes of the powerful, rich and famous. Let us take a quick look at the American presidents and their different approach. Read more »
British Sexophobia
On the wings of a new study that found a genetic background to some people's early sexual start, we decided to look at how the Brits and “United Statesians” cope with their prudishness, their Victorian and Elisabethan traditions and not in the least, the pressures of having the teenage population most prone to binge drinking and to pregnancies. Read more »
Zamudio and CRT vs Harrison Bergeron
My main beef with other libertarians is that so many of us (them?) seem to place a disproportionate emphasis on individualism in the sense that they see their own success as being the result of either their unique skills and / or talents and the failure of others as being the result of their respective lack of effort and “natural-born” abilities. Read more »
The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
art, entertainment, school, society |
I've recently had a chance to see The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco. I took it. Read more »
End of history: Hegel, Kojeve, Marx and Fukuyama
A very recent debate hosted by TVO reminded me of Fukuyama’s famous essay. The plan is to summarize it and eventually discuss it. Read more »
Adventures in Poetry
art |
One of the outcomes of the previously mentioned Space Jam is getting to know a number of poems I didn't know. I shall list and discuss them here. Read more »
Rules for writing from writers
tips |
The world is full of rules. First, there were the 10 commandments (we're purposely ignoring the ethical Greeks and others before them). Bill Maher ends his show with "new rules". APA and MLA have their own citations rules. There's a guy who even wrote Rules for life, work, management. Before we delve in any of those, we need to follow a few basic rules of writing. Read more »
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