Random links
- Turkish man who killed two wives seeks new partner on TV show
- Reading the text of the article it seems that he only killed one of his two wives - the other killing comes from when he had an affair with some other guy's wife. Sounds like a great catch.
- The Importance of Family Meal
- "a lot of these guys (although none of the women, interestingly) love to cook, and so they help" Is it just me or are the gender stereotypes surrounding cooking reversing themselves? Or is that only when it comes to special occasions?
- Big Sometimes Friendly Giant
- On the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "the one thing Dahl never had trouble with was his teeth—because he had all of them removed, preemptively, when he was 21. He thought they were more trouble than they were worth and tried to talk everyone he knew into having theirs pulled, too."
- Ironic effects of racial bias during interracial interactions
- One reason it may be difficult to eliminate some sources of bias from society: "Blacks perceive White interaction partners who are more racially biased more positively than less biased White partners, primarily because the former group must make more of an effort to control racial bias than the latter. ... Blacks may, ironically, prefer to interact with highly racially biased Whites, at least in short interactions."