Archiv 1. August 2007

Mittwoch, 1. August 2007

Studie erklärt das (Liebes)Leben

Expressing love and showing affection were in the top 10 for both men and women, but they did take a back seat to the clear No. 1: „I was attracted to the person.“

Meston and colleague David Buss first questioned 444 men and women — ranging in age from 17 to 52 — to come up with a list of 237 distinct reasons people have sex. They ranged from „It’s fun“ which men ranked fourth and women ranked eighth to „I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease“ which ranked on the bottom by women.

Quelle: Study: Lust drives men, women to sex

Diese „Neuigkeit“ liess einen Benutzer von Digg zu folgendem Kommentar hinreissen:

In other news, studies have indicated food consumption is directly correlated with hunger.

Quelle: It’s Official: Lust Trumps Love

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Mittwoch, 1. August 2007

Hollywood-Romanzen schlimmer als Pornos?

Während gestern Männer dran waren, kriegen Frauen heute ihr Fett weg:

Some females who have been romantically desensitized by Disney films growing up won’t settle for anybody less than prince charming. Those same females grow up to watch other flicks like “The Notebook,” and “Titanic.” They enter the dating world thinking a man will sweep them off their feet […]

Quelle: Chick Flicks are Worse Than Porn!

Beide Film-Genres haben dasselbe Problem: Sie entsprechen nicht der Realität …

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Mittwoch, 1. August 2007

The Great Depression neu gedeutet

One argument is that the 1930s depression was really about the structural hickup as the economy shifted from being based on the power from agriculture and from a secondary extent from the power of coal to one actually driven by the power of oil.

Quelle: David Holmgren: PERMACULTURE & PEAK OIL: Beyond ‚Sustainability‘ (ca. bei -21:00)

Nachtrag: Ist es purer Zufall, dass 1928 ein Öl-Kartell gebildet wurde?

McQuaig described how three of the giants, Shell, BP and Exxon, met at Achnacarry Castle, Scotland in late summer, 1928 to end price competition and stabilize world markets. Their leaders „hammer(ed) out an agreement in writing that set the course for the international oil order for decades to come,“ lasting through the early 1970s. It was not to compete, but rather to set quotas, maintain existing market shares, cooperate in sharing facilities, and avoid surplus production to keep prices stable.

Quelle: Reviewing Linda McQuaig’s „It’s the Crude, Dude“

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Labels: Wirtschaft

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