Random links
- Egyptians Remain Optimistic, Embrace Democracy and Religion in Political Life
- Pew Global Attitudes Project polls Egyptians: "When asked which country is the better model for the role of religion in government, Turkey or Saudi Arabia, 61% say the latter. However, most also endorse specific democratic rights and institutions that do not exist in Saudi Arabia, such as free speech, a free press, and equal rights for women. ... The survey also finds ongoing opposition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel: 61% prefer to annul the treaty, up from 54% a year ago."
- "It was hell, I can't walk!" Man found sobbing in street after 36-hour sex ordeal with German nymphomaniac
- The byline reads that "The woman was arrested last month after another exhausted lover escaped onto a balcony and cried for help" so this isn't the first time that the woman in question did that. It involved men trapped for quite some time - compare to withdrawal of consent laws which when "a female consents to sex initially and, during the course of the sex act to which she consented, for whatever reason, she changes her mind" will deem this rape if stopping takes 5 seconds or so. Equal treatment? "Nymphomaniac" or serial rapist?
- Internal Time
- A few interesting tidbits. "Across most ages, men are on average later chronotypes than women. The differences decrease as men and women age. Thus, when the man is older than his female partner, their chronotypes tend to be more similar." "Young children are relatively early chronotypes (to the distress of many young parents), and then gradually become later. During puberty and adolescence humans become true night owls, and then around twenty years of age reach a turning point and become earlier again for the rest of their lives." "Our internal clocks, in fact, can be traced down to the genetic level, with individual “clock genes” and, most prominently, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN — a small region in the brain’s midline that acts as a kind of “master clock” for mammals"
- Women want full-time work … for men
- Originally from The Australian: “‘There's no conflict about this: Australian women don't like it when their men work part-time,’ says Jan van Ours, an international researcher… from Australia's HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey. ‘Australian women want their men in full-time jobs. They are least satisfied when they, themselves, have a
job of more than 50 hours, and most satisfied when they are working part-time, or not at all.’ Happily, Australian men are in lockstep: they too prefer to work full-time - although, unlike women, they don't mind if their partners work full-time, part-time, or not at all.” (Notably, the average CEO works 58 hours per week and Fortune 500 CEOs work even longer, which would seem to suggest that such a lifestyle is one that women generally find unsatisfying - i.e. women working these hours where the least-satisfied group)