Touched by evil: Fritzl, Filyaw and Reiser

Friday, May 9th, 2008

When this happens, we are all touched by evil.

Josef Fritzl, Vincent Filyaw, and Hans Reiser. Three monsters, who committed atrocities as instrumentalities — as the means to an end, not as the end in and of themselves. One, to shut up his daughter so she wouldn’t rat him out for incest. Two, [...]

E harmony is so wrong on so many levels where do I start

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I think internet dating can be terrific (read this, though), but the whole thing about personality testing — like human resources personality testing — is just wrong.
 

 

Findings: Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
By JOHN TIERNEY
NYT Published: January 29, 2008
As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle [...]

Neurological Correlates: Neuroeconomics of men doing housework - “The Odd Couple”

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

“He’s Happier, She’s Less So“, NYT 9/27/07 (David Leonhardt)
In a previous post about sloth I wondered about the recent report that women still do more housework than men - and mused that it could be that women and men are equally as lazy once you subtract any maternal bonding influence.
In other words, lacking kids, [...]

Neurological Correlates: Of Sloths and Men and Vasopressin

Monday, September 24th, 2007

The Seven Deadly Sins-a-rama continues with sloth, but first, I’m going to sit on the couch and watch TV. The person of the other gender who lives in my household in Europe will do my housework and take care of my kids. That’s because I have a short-form arginine vasopressin 1A receptor promoter, so what did you expect? Altruism? No way, I’m a born mooch.

Neurological Correlates: Greed

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

How greedy the society you live in has to do with how many plant sterols people eat. Ok, you all can go home now.

No, seriously folks. It’s in the chemicals.

Neurological Correlates: Lust

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins, Lust (Detail)
Do you have friends who are dating. It always happens that in the first week, I get the call — they are in LOVE. Yes, it is pretty fast, but he’s so great, he likes hiking, and I like hiking. He wears T-shirts and I [...]