Did you know that the best predictor of chronic diseases is not lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking or diet, but is in fact your position in the social hierarchy? An excellent documentary, Stress: Portrait of a Killer which features the fascinating research of Robert Sapolsky has found fascinating parallels between the development of chronic diseases [...]
Living, as I do in an urban area, many of the people I encounter find the idea of hunting alien. They ask how one could kill an innocent animal. Some go so far as to say that the idea of calling your prey in is sadistic, cruel or mean. This attitude is prevalent in cities, [...]
According to a recent study, men who hold more traditional views of gender roles earn substantially more than their male peers who are more “egalitarian” to use the authors words. Incidentally they earn more than traditional women as well. A more readable synopsis can be found here. So once again the fallacy of a gender [...]
What ever happened to holding oneself and others to any sort of standard, let alone a higher one? One of the signs of an Alpha is holding high expectations for oneself, and putting forth the effort to exceed them. Incidentally, this was once true for our nation as well. Though we still attempt to delude ourselves [...]
Do rising home values make you poorer? This is true for many according to the authors of this article: THE HOUSING BUBBLE AND RETIREMENT SECURITY and the reason is that when home values rise, in theory rents should rise also so that the choice between home ownership and renting is a zero-sum game. In financial terms, there should [...]
What makes us kill? Exhibiting Conspecific Violence, which is when members of the same species do harm to one another, is not exclusively a human trait. The obvious motive is competition for resources, but most mammalian species accomplish this without doing serious harm to one another. A combination of bluffing displays and stylized competition such [...]
The hormonal basis of falling in love has been discovered and the unfortunate truth is that passion is destined to fade inside of two years descending into a lifelong sentence of tedious cuddling and infrequent sex. This is the thrust of recent research into a class of hormones called neutrophins (notice the suffix is the same [...]
If you have ever been in a long-term relationship with a woman, you know the drill. After the limerence, the initial thrill of the relationship, has worn off, you find your girlfriend stops trying to put her best foot forward, and takes to lounging about the house in shapeless sweats and dowdy flannel pajamas. Gone are [...]
