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A Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2012Cultureandrew delton, andrew e white, behavior, credit cards, economic decisions, Economics, engagement rings, expenditures, financial behavior, financial consequences, iceberg, impulsive, joshua m ackerman, joshua tybur, local population, men and women, news articles, perception, photo arrays, products, psychology, sex ratio, theresa robertson, twin cities of minneapolis, university of minnesota, us cities, valentine gifts, violence and survival, vladas griskevicius, women

*University of Minnesota Research Finds Sex Ratios Influence Financial Decisions*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

“What we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive. They compete more for access to mates,” says Vladas Griskevicius, an assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School and lead author of the study. “How do humans compete for access to mates? What you find across cultures is that men often do it through money, through status and through products.” (more…)

‘Tiger Mothers’ Should Tame Parenting Approach

By Guest PostJanuary 11, 2012Cultureacculturation gap, adolescent development, amy chua, battle hymn of the tiger mother, best selling author, chinese immigrant parents, chinese mother, chinese students, chinese tiger mothers, desiree baolian qin, east and west, east lansing, eastern view of parenting, emotionally healthy kids, family, happiness, hardline parenting, harvard university, helena, maladjustment, michigan state university, native china, olivia, parents, piano, ridiculous, self-esteem, success, tiger mother, tiger mother philosophy, tom buffett, united states, violin, washington d c

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Eastern view of parenting, as defined by best-selling author and self-described “tiger mother” Amy Chua, is that children should be pushed to excel at all costs. Parents needn’t worry about their happiness, she argues, only their success.

But now a Michigan State University scholar is refuting that theory. (more…)

At UChicago, Many Have Dreams and Many Voiced Them in Honor of MLK’s Legacy

By Guest PostJanuary 10, 2012Culture, Generalcampus visitors, commemoration, dream, dream wall, fear and doubt, generations of americans, geoffrey canada, harlem, harlem area, hopes for humanity, keynote speaker, laurie davis, marcus board, marianna manzanares, martin luther king, martin luther king jr, mlk celebration, mlk facebook page, new york, potential, reynolds club, rockefeller memorial chapel, Twitter, uchicago community, world affairs

New York teacher Geoffrey Canada’s dream is for a stronger Harlem, with better educational opportunities for its children. Marianna Manzanares hopes that more of her fellow college students pay attention to issues affecting their communities and the world at large. Marcus Board dreams of a world where fear and doubt don’t hold people back from achieving their potential.

Hundreds of people from the UChicago community have voiced such dreams over the past two months as part of the preparations for the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Celebration on Thursday, Jan. 12. Community members and campus visitors were invited to share their dreams for a better life or a better world, by writing them on sticky notes and placing them on a mobile “Dream Wall” that traveled across campus. (more…)

Bringing Passito to America

By Guest PostJanuary 5, 2012Culture, Generalamerica, cold climate viticulture, dessert wines, fickle winter, frozen grapes, grapes, italian wine, michigan state university, native italian, northern united states, old italian technique, paolo sabbatini, passito, percentage of market share, straw wine, united states, vintners, winter storm

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University researcher is working with vintners to introduce passito, an age-old Italian wine to the United States.

Passito, traced to 800 B.C. in Italy, is also known as straw wine. The grapes for passito are typically hand-picked and allowed to dry on cellar racks or, more traditionally, on mats of straw. (more…)

What is The Real Meaning of Christmas?

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2011Culturebest seller, Bible, biblical material, biblical stories, biblical text, brian j turner, christian background, christmas, curriculum materials, david spriggs, during phase 1, eleanor holmes, esther reed, exeter, key stage 3, king james version, project, rob freathy, stories in bible, university of exeter, visual artist, world

There are thousands of stories in the Bible and a visual artist in Exeter is currently on a 30-year mission to paint the whole lot.

The University of Exeter is incorporating some of what will eventually be a series of up to 3,000 artworks by Brian J Turner into new school curriculum resources that explore how biblical stories are read and interpreted.

The Art of Narrative Theology in Religious Education project is being led by Drs Esther Reed and Rob Freathy from the Department of Theology and Religion and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter. The aim of the project is to get school pupils to investigate biblical stories and how people, whether from a Christian background or not, interpret and use them to make sense of their world and their role within it, particularly how they can live a good life. (more…)

Facebook Helps Researchers See How Friendships Form

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2011Culture, Technologyadvertising, basic building blocks, classical, diffusion, emotional health, Facebook, friends, friendship, harvard university, influence, internet, internet and society, internet relationships, jason kaufman, jazz, kevin lewis, marco gonzalez, mechanisms, national science foundation, network, obesity, online social network, patterns of social segregation, relationships, reproduction of inequality, role, society, sociologists, statistical methods

*Long-term study analyzes social selection and peer influence in online environments*

New research funded by the National Science Foundation and published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by three Harvard University sociologists examines how we select our friends and the role that friendship plays in transmitting tastes and new ideas.

Relationships are basic building blocks of society, and understanding who befriends whom can therefore provide insight into patterns of social segregation, mechanisms for the reproduction of inequality, social support (including mental and emotional health), and access to job opportunities. Some have even viewed these relationships as a means to influence behavior whether to control obesity or target advertising. But is it really that easy, even on the Internet, to make friends with people who have different cultural upbringings, different interests, different backgrounds and different tastes in movies, music and books? (more…)

Researcher Explains How Santa Delivers Presents in One Night

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2011Culture, Sciencebody parts, cell phones, delivery methods, DNA, ekgs, electromagnetic waves, emerging technologies, kris kringle, larry silverberg, magic, mary, miami, michael from minneapolis, nano toymaker, Nanotechnology, north carolina state university, north pole labs, npl, organic material, reindeer, relativity clouds, saint nicholas, santa, santa claus, science and technology, Space, time continuum, tissues, traditionalist, trumps

Don’t believe in Santa Claus? Magic, you say? In fact, science and technology explain how Santa is able to deliver toys to good girls and boys around the world in one night, according to a North Carolina State University researcher.

NC State’s Dr. Larry Silverberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, can explain the science and engineering principles that allow Santa, also known as Kris Kringle or Saint Nicholas, to pull off the magical feat year after year. (more…)

Presidential Cuisine a Focus of Archaeology at Montpelier

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Culture, Generalambrose madison, american president, animal remains, arizona state museum, barnet pavao zuckerman, blue ridge mountains, bones, dining table, dolley madison, excavations at montpelier, james and dolley madison, james madison jr, james madison sr, kitchen, marybeth harte, mount pleasant, northern virginia, picture of montpelier, pre revolutionary war era, republic, slaves trash, zooarchaeologist

Arizona State Museum zooarchaeologist Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and her students are analyzing the remains of an early American president’s dining table.

Arizona State Museum archaeologists are looking through historic table scraps in an effort to find out more about the kitchen of America’s fourth president and author of the U.S. Constitution.

For about a decade, Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and her students from the University of Arizona have been part of ongoing excavations at Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison. The archaeology of Montpelier’s grounds offer some light on what day-to-day life was like from the pre-Revolutionary War era to well into the 18th century. (more…)

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