Typical mother puts in shifts with more than 10 hours a day dedicated to family activities such as cleaning up after the children , helping with homework and bedtime rituals.
This may not come as a surprise for many women — mothers give 70 hours a week to household chores, a study has found.
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Fourth graders made modest gains on the test compared to the last time it was given in 2001.
Only about a quarter of American schoolchildren scored “proficient” or above on a 2010 geography test the National Assessment of Education Progress has announced.
Continue reading… “Only 25% of American school children passed their geography test”
Only 43% of Americans use their smartphone for making calls.
What do most consumers do with their smartphones? Believe it or not, it’s not making phone calls. When using their mobile devices making calls ranks close to the bottom of the top five smart phone uses.
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Almost a quarter of all Americans have participated in binge drinking, and 8.4% have used an illicit drug in the past month, a new report says.
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“Perfected television and radio telephone combined!”
Seagram’s advertised its VO Canadian whiskey back in the mid-1940’s with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow”. They were unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram’s was patient enough to age VO for six years. Each of the ads depicted a different miracle that would transform postwar America and they were glorious. (Pics)
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The percentage of significant others, spouses and parents who admit to digital snooping is on the rise.
Many people are left slightly creeped out by the many ways strangers collect their online data through targeted online advertising. Strangers aren’t the only people who are likely to collect personal information without your notice according to a new study.
Continue reading… “37% of married people snoop on their spouses online”
Bono and his U2 bandmates have pulled in $85.8 million on their 360 tour.
The concert touring business is enjoying a healthy comeback this year after struggling in 2010. Despite the slow economy acts like U2, Kenny Chesney, Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga are bringing in concert goers.
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Festivals will be so much better with composting toilets.
As festival season rolls on, many party goers will have been putting up with the ordeal of smelly, chemical-laden and often disgustingly soiled portable toilets. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Roskilde’s p-trees have already tackled public urination, and I’ve written before about how the green-minded and ultra-friendly UK Shambala Festival has embraced some delightfully airy and well-maintained composting loos. But it’s worth giving a shout out to the folks behind those loos—and noting that they are available for purchase for private homes, camp sites, and just about anywhere where pooping takes place…
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Job security for U.S. government workers tops those in the private sector.
Job security for federal employees is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, according to a USA Today analysis.
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Many parents worried about what their children do online have taken matters into their own hands.
Fifty-five percent of parents log onto social networking sites like Facebook to spy on what their children are doing, a study has found.
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Researchers are working on a ‘time cloak.’
Ocean’s Eleven has nothing on this. A robber breaks into a bank safe and returns home, where he activates a device that conceals his earlier burglary, making it look like he never entered the bank in the first place. Such a “time cloak” is still a long way from reality, but researchers have now made an important first step, demonstrating a cloaking device that can hide for a fraction of a second an event that occurs at a specific point in time…
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A really, really large fork will not allow you to eat at all.
People who use big forks eat less compared with diners who use small forks – but only when eating from a plate loaded with food, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City monitored customers at an Italian restaurant during two lunches and two dinners. With one of the study’s authors and two research assistants serving as waiters, the researchers assigned either large forks or small forks to certain tables…
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