Just read this first:
Men like women who resemble dear old mom, and women like men who look like dear old dad, a computer analysis now shows.
Scientists in Hungary investigated 52 university students and their parents. They also looked at the significant others of the volunteers and the parents of these significant others, for 312 faces total.
The computer analysis of the volunteers’ faces revealed that women often resembled their male partner’s mother, a finding echoing psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s legendary “Oedipus complex.” This proved especially true when it came to aspects of the lower face, such as lips and jaws.
Alright, I have completely had it with studies. 312!?!? Holy crap! That’s a study!
Look, there may be something to this, probably not. Couldn’t it be that in Hungary most people look fairly similar and that any resemblance would be shared with large swaths of the population? And 312 is hardly enough to make a really good study.
I look at the people I know who are married and their wives or their husbands do not look like their mother or their father. This is just crazy talk from a shrink (Freud) and a lazy study from some academics in Hungary.
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If convicted they can get two years in jail. But, please, don’t overreact. We are dealing with a different culture and we need to respect it. That’s how they do it in Dubai and I don’t think any of us have the moral authority to judge.
A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge on Tuesday to be allowed to leave the country.
Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors, speaking in low voices, asked the judge for a “quick ruling” that would let them return to Britain. But judge Hamad Abdul Jawad disregarded the request and scheduled another hearing for Sept. 9 to hear testimony from the policeman who arrested the couple.
Palmer, 36, and Acors, 34, were arrested in the early hours July 5 on a Dubai beach after they had been at a hotel party. They were later charged with having sex outside of marriage, public indecency and public drunkenness.
Horse crap! Of course we can and we should judge other cultures. Sure, it is lewd to have sex on a beach. But two years!?!? Now, if the judge sends them to jail for their horribly awful teeth….
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Yup, it’s true. It really is true.
The elephant’s memory is legendary, but in a large, gray surprise to science, the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for math as well
Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially comprising a large cage and two buckets of assorted fruit — one elephant at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo managed to get its sums right 87 percent of the time.
A slightly less gifted pachyderm across the country in Kyoto scored a still respectable 69 percent.
OK. So it’s not exactly differential geometry but it’s still something.
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