Is Membership in the Forest Lake Country Club Inherently 'Sensationalist'?

I see what Katon did as evidence of his commitment to
including and involving people from all walks of life and all races.
Katon took a stand for what was right. He stood up in front of his
friends at the club and told them what they were doing was wrong, and
when they refused to change, he decided to leave. I’m not saying that
Katon deserves a medal for the courage he showed that day, but I do
think this one incident revealed the depths of Katon’s personal
commitment to inclusion.

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Last week, researchers at Heriot Watt University's Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory in Edinburgh, which studies best practices in relationship counseling, completed a study of 40 Hollywood romantic comedies released between 1995-2005. They found that problems typically reported by couples in relationship counseling at their counseling center reflect misconceptions about love and romance depicted in Hollywood films.

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

Meredith Chivers is a creator of bonobo pornography. She is a 36-year-old psychology professor at Queen’s University in the small city of Kingston, Ontario, a highly regarded scientist and a member of the editorial board of the world’s leading journal of sexual research, Archives of Sexual Behavior. The bonobo film was part of a series of related experiments she has carried out over the past several years. She found footage of bonobos, a species of ape, as they mated, and then, because the accompanying sounds were dull — “bonobos don’t seem to make much noise in sex,” she told me, “though the females give a kind of pleasure grin and make chirpy sounds” — she dubbed in some animated chimpanzee hooting and screeching. She showed the short movie to men and women, straight and gay. To the same subjects, she also showed clips of heterosexual sex, male and female homosexual sex, a man masturbating, a woman masturbating, a chiseled man walking naked on a beach and a well-toned woman doing calisthenics in the nude.

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Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Carework: I have a long-term interest in carework and in the care workforce. In particular I am interested in the ways in which carework is a species of bodywork, and I have written on this as an occupational category.
Paper: Carework as a form of bodywork (pdf)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/academic/twigg/care-body.pdf

Our National Eating Disorder

The New York Times > Magazine > Our National Eating Disorder

October 17, 2004
Our National Eating Disorder
By MICHAEL POLLAN

Carbophobia, the most recent in the centurylong series of food fads to wash over the American table, seems to have finally crested, though not before sweeping away entire bakeries and pasta companies in its path, panicking potato breeders into redesigning the spud, crumbling whole doughnut empires and, at least to my way of thinking, ruining an untold number of meals. America's food industry, more than happy to get behind any new diet as long as it doesn't actually involve eating less food, is still gung-ho on Low Carb, it's true, but in the last few weeks, I can report some modest success securing a crust of bread, and even the occasional noodle, at tables from which such staples were banned only a few months ago.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

In addition, a majority of those imagining the encounter predicted that they would not pick the racist student as their partner. However, those who were actually present in the room showed no tendency to shun the white student, even when he had been rude about the black one. People, it seems, are rather more prejudiced than they think they are.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

Not surprisingly, they reported that weight was the least important factor in their choice. However, their actual decisions revealed that no other attribute counted more heavily. In fact, they were willing to sacrifice quite a bit to have a thin team-mate. They would trade 11 IQ points—about 50% of the range of IQs available—for a colleague who was suitably slender.

In a second study the team asked another group, this time of students who were about to graduate, to consider hypothetical job opportunities at consulting firms. The positions varied in starting salary, location, holiday time and the sex of the potential boss.

When it came to salary, location and holiday, the students’ decisions matched their stated preferences. However, the boss’s sex turned out to be far more important than they said it was (this was true whether a student was male or female). In effect, they were willing to pay a 22% tax on their starting salary to have a male boss.

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated, 2nd Edition, finally boils down all the variables into an overall city rating.

1. Gainesville, FL
2. Bellingham, WA
3. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA
4. Colorado Springs, CO
5. Ann Arbor, MI
6. Ogden-Clearfield, UT
7. Asheville, NC
8. Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
9. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
10. Boise City-Nampa, ID