Random links
- Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
- The lead in: "One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink tend to die sooner than those who do"
- Too Few Women -- Figure It Out: If their numbers in math and science don't add up, blame schools, not brainpower
- Basically, the argument here is that brain science suggests that the portion of the brain used for language matures earlier in girls and those parts of the brain used for math mature earlier in boys. Essentially, the author is arguing that a gender-specific curriculum could produce better educated boys and girls.
- Williams syndrome children show no racial stereotypes or social fear
- "Santos’s results also suggest that racial and gender biases have different origins." Are you really surprised?
- Church Giving During the Depression vs. Giving Now
- "fewer than 5 percent of churchgoers actually tithe 10 percent of their income; the average ... is now 3.4 percent, or 21 percent less than what dust-bowler counterparts gave during the worst of the Great Depression."