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Sexy video clips affect girls more than boys

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Sexy videos provide numerous negative influences for girls.

Sexy video clips have a more negative influence on girls than on boys, says Dutch pop professor Tom ter Bogt. Ter Bogt investigated the influence of sexy video clips on the thoughts, behaviour and self-image of 13 to 16 year old children. After viewing the clips, girls felt that outward appearance was more important, they were less satisfied with their own appearance, and they became less resolute in denying permissive sex…

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Current Events, Economy, Global Warming, Globalism, Latest News, Solar Power

BP drops solar division after 40 years of operations

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When the Going Gets Tough, BP Runs…

While it is well-known that the solar industry is highly cyclical, the general trend is definitely in an upward direction, with rapid double-digit yearly growth in production capacity and plenty of money to be made by the smartest players (both Warren Buffett and Google have recently invested in solar power). But apparently, when the going gets tough, BP cuts and runs. After 40 years of existence, now that solar power is more necessary than ever, the giant oil company has decided to drop its solar division. So much for ‘Beyond Petroleum’, a recent BP slogan, eh?

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The US Is Trying To Censor Scientific Journals

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Hear no pandemic, see no pandemic, speak no pandemic.

The US government has approached the scientific journals Nature and Science in order to censor data on a lab-made version of bird flu, because it could potentially be used as a weapon. That’s not cool!

According to the Guardian, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked the journals to publish redacted versions of studies carried out by two research groups…

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Analysis, Baby Gadgets, Big Problems, Latest Trend

Cocaine on 9 in 10 baby changing stations in the UK

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Changing tables are convenient for changing a baby or, apparently, snorting a line.

Those baby changing stations found in public bathrooms often look a little suspect when it comes to cleanliness. But of all the things you might imagine would be mucking up the surface, probably cocaine didn’t cross your mind.

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Analysis, Business, Economy

Jobs that became a thing of the past in 2011

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The Postal Service has considered canceling Saturday delivery, closing post offices and laying off some of its 280,000 workers.

The newest generation of of tech-savvy workers grew up hearing that the jobs they would hold as adults hadn’t even been invented yet. No one mentioned that the jobs they had come to think of as permanent might become a thing of the past.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

More Americans renting homes since financial crisis

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There will be more repossessions next year and tougher criteria banks are now imposing on potential borrowers.

The development of multi-family units – a category made up of apartments and townhouses – jumped 25.3 percent last month to an annual rate of 238,000, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. That helped drive overall construction on new homes up 9.3 percent to an annual pace of 685,000, the strongest since the spring of 2010.

Analysis, Education, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries

Why genetic determinism is bad for humans

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Genes determine a lot of things about your life.

Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shift in social behavior theory, since scientists previously thought the environment determined social behavior.

For example, scientists thought that where food was sparsely spread around, primates would live in large groups to more efficiently forage. But according to the new findings, which were published in the journal Nature, primates will behave the way their genes tell them to, regardless of food availability.

It’s evidence for genetic determinism—the idea that our genes dictate our behavior. But it seems wrong, right? I know I tend to go with the behavior that helps me to avoid hunger most effectively. But Nicholas Wade in The New York Times sums it up thusly…

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