There is one thing men know about women; they are willing to believe anything about you if you just put forth the effort to fool them a little. A tuxedo in the eyes of a woman, for example, adds $10,000 to your income and knocks 10 lbs. off your weight.Now, it doesn't really do any of those things, even social psychologists would not believe something so silly, but women are willing to give you...
read moreSenator Patty Murray (D – Wash.) contends the gender gap between men and women is unfair and that individual differences between employees need to be controlled by progressive legislation, namely the Paycheck Fairness Act – unless the inequality is in her own office. Senator Murray, it turns out, is part of the gender pay problem and not part of the solution; her office pays female...
read moreEveryone has heard of the politicization of science - that is when various government agencies seek to insure that science is guided by the whims of the current administration. Obama does it, Bush did it (both 43 and 41) Clinton did it, Reagan did it - every president in the post-World War II era has done it, that was the whole reason to take over basic and applied research from the private...
read moreMore high school students are taking math and science classes - a good thing, we all want more science literacy - but the U.S. Education Department, in its quest to stop people from wondering how it still exists after 33 years of education not being a federal prerogative, cautions that scores have stagnated.To people not trying to rationalize their jobs, and not in the scare journalism business,...
read moreWe tend to associate with people we like and that like us because they are like us - so it's no surprise I hang out with wickedly smart, outrageously attractive people. Long-term relationships, even non-sexual ones with women as ridiculously awesome as me, are part of what separates us from food...I mean, other animals. Well, sort of. Maybe birds do that too. read...
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