By RACHEL HERZ l WSJ Jan.28, 2012
Disgust is one of our most basic emotions—the only one that we have to learn—and nothing triggers it more reliably than the strange food of others.
Nattō is a stringy, sticky, slimy, chunky fermented soybean dish that Japanese regularly eat for breakfast….
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
“If we can understand how behaviors spread…we could potentially promote behaviors like…condom use or tolerance.”
Sinan Aral’s two areas of interest are behavioral contagions and causality. He believes that if we can understand how behavior is spread in a population, there’s the potential to promote good behaviors such as condom use and tolerance and to deter behavior like smoking and violence.
A Kayapo boy with traditional body paint and piercing is seen at his home the day before the start of the “Expedicionarios da Saude” (Brazilian Health Expeditions), in the Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil, April 21, 2011. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes) (via All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks … - In Focus - The Atlantic)
No. 2: Leave “now” and “then” photos lying around
This is a highly effective way to draw attention to the explicit changes to her body as you see them. By consistently reminding her of how she used to look, she’ll inevitably be more inclined to do something about her excess flab. Appropriately chosen and strategically placed photos should accomplish this quite nicely.
Keep in mind, if she confronts you about trying to shame her into losing weight, the key approach here is denial, as you reply: “Do you actually think I would be that manipulative?” Of course you would, but she doesn’t need to know that.
All of these are terrible and offensive and if a guy pulled this on me, that would be the end of that relationship. But No. 2 was a highlight… she doesn’t need to know you’d be that manipulative, so you’ll lie?
Fuck no. Who thinks this is a good idea? Seriously… who?
What’s wrong with society today? Articles like this, for one.
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing something, that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never…
This is extremely well said.
Frenzied bargain shoppers spread Black Friday mayhem across the U.S yesterday, and you won’t believe how many people were shot, tasered, or pepper-sprayed. A few of the worst:
• A woman shopping at a Walmart in Porter Ranch, Calif., pepper-sprayed at least 10 fellow customers to get an edge over a crowd swarming around Xbox video game systems. Police are still looking for the woman.
• A viral video showed a grandfather lying bloody and unconscious on the floor of a Walmart in Buckeye, Ariz., where police reportedly tackled the man because they thought he was attempting to steal a video game. But witnesses said Jerald Newman, 54, only tucked the game into his waistband to help his grandson, who was being trampled by frenzied shoppers.
• At a Hollister store in New York City’s swanky SoHo district, a group of frustrated would-be shoppers turned into late-night burglars instead, breaking into the store and stealing armfuls of clothes after it failed to open at midnight.
• A video uploaded to Twitter — and featured on the cover of The Daily today — showed a riot-like scramble for $2 waffle makers at a Walmart near Little Rock, Ark.
Walmart allows its own workers to die on the job, without remorse. So who’s surprised they haven’t changed their ways?
this is so disgusting
“The reality of the situation is that most people had premarital sex, and it’s been that way for several decades,” says Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute, a New York City-based non-profit organization that studies reproductive and sexual health.
During the Rwandan genocide, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other.
At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the country, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. KINYARWANDA is based on true accounts from survivors who took refuge at the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the madrassa of Nyanza. It recounts how the Imams opened the doors of the mosques to give refuge to the Tutsi and those Hutu who refused to participate in the killing.
KINYARWANDA interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human resilience and life during the genocide. With an amalgamation of characters, we pay homage to many, using the voices of a few.
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(Source: thesmithian)
