Dita Von Teese on WhoSay. ADVANCED STYLE. Liggande stolen. Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors. Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex. A new study shows that religious people have as much sex as atheists, but with less sexual satisfaction and more guilt. Do atheists have better sex? Yes. According to science, that is -- and more specifically, according to the recently released "Sex and Secularism" study.
In January 2011, organizational psychologist Darrel Ray, Ed.D. (psychologist for 30 years and author of The God Virus as well as two books on psychology) and Amanda Brown (undergraduate at Kansas University, focused on sexuality and sex therapy) conducted a sex survey of over 14,500 people -- atheists, agnostics, and other people in the secular community. But if you just want to know the gist? Leaving religion improves people's sex lives. A lot. Atheists and other non-believers, as a whole, experience a lot more satisfaction in their sex lives than they did when they were believers.
Now, when it comes to people's actual sexual behavior, religion doesn't have nearly as much impact as you might think. Osama Bin Laden Dead. Science for Everyone! The Official Star Wars Blog. Earth and other unlikely worlds. The Mary Sue - A Guide To Girl Geek Culture. GeekMom. (. Butterflies and Wheels. Skepchick. The Whore of All the Earth. Greta Christina's Blog. This piece was originally published on AlterNet.
In a society that reflexively copes with death by using religion, grieving atheists are turning to each other. How do you deal with death -- your own, or that of people you love -- when you don't believe in God or an afterlife? Especially when our culture so commonly handles grief with religion... in ways that are so deeply ingrained, people often aren't aware of it?
A new online faith-free grief support group, Grief Beyond Belief, is grappling with that very question. And the launch of the group -- along with its rapid growth -- presents another compelling question: Why do so many atheists need and want a separate godless sub-culture... for grief support, or anything else? Grief Beyond Belief was launched by Rebecca Hensler after the death of her three-month-old son. So about a year later, she started a Facebook page, Grief Beyond Belief. So why do atheists need this? Salt in the Wound But these beliefs aren't universally shared. Feministing | Young Feminists Blogging, Organizing, Kicking Ass. GodlessGirl.com | atheism, faith, culture, theology, & religion. In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. On Monday night, Donald Trump’s wife Melania touched hearts as she addressed the Republican National Convention, sharing the lessons she learned growing up as a black girl on the South Side of Chicago.
As first spotted by journalist Jarrett Hill, Melania’s speech bore more than a passing resemblance to another speech at another convention about eight years ago — Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention. The cribbed portion discussed the values that Michelle and Melania apparently share, including working hard for what you want in life and keeping your word. Read more → I apologize for Feministe’s long, long radio silence, and I hate that this is the occasion to break it. Read more → [Content note: mentions of transphobia and child sexual abuse] While Feministe has been down, an issue erupted in North Carolina about where trans people are allowed to pee. Here are some highlights, if somehow you missed it while you were missing us. Read more → Calm down. Read more →
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Victoria Jaggard, physical sciences news editor A stellar corpse has been caught masquerading as a giant planet, bending the light of its orbital companion during a fly-by. Critically Skeptic. Chalmers magasin. En tidning för alumner Chalmers magasin grundades 2001, och utkommer med fyra nummer per år i en upplaga på 40 000 exemplar. Magasinet ges ut av avdelningen för kommunikation och marknad och vänder sig till alla som är intresserade av fördjupande läsning om högskolans verksamhet. Vår främsta målgrupp är Chalmers alumner. Kontakt {*style:<b> Nr 2|2012 </b>*} {*style:<b>UR INNEHÅLLET </b>*}Profilen: Anna-Lisa Osvalder sätter ljuset på den mänskliga faktorn Studentprojektet Solar Decathlon presenteras av Astrid Hunnerfelt och Agnes Hammar Utblick: Dricksvattenforskaren Thomas Pettersson berättar Krönika av Miljöpartiets förra språkrör Maria Wetterstrand: Stick ut hakan mer i samhällsdebatten, forskare!
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Your First Year in Physics Grad School : Starts With A Bang. Teacher Writes on Blackboard: “The Method of Guessing”Student: “What! There’s a method???????” Teacher: “Yeah, there’s even a proof!” -overheard in a physics grad school As a physics professor, one of the challenges I face is how to advise young students nearing the end of their undergraduate career on how to succeed in graduate school in physics. The best I can do is tell them about what I’ve done myself that’s worked for me, and what pitfalls I’ve seen others fall victim to. As an undergraduate, my grades were all over the place. But I did what many undergrads — in many disciplines, not just physics — do. Go to class, having not looked at the book or my previous notes,take notes and try to pay attention,and then open up the book, my notes, and the homework assignment the afternoon before it was due, and try to crank the whole thing out.
And there was, of course, always an extensive amount of cramming the night before a test. Image credit: Matthias Bartelmann. Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life. Blogging Innovation » Different Thinking is Needed. We Should Develop Our Skills at Divergent and Convergent Thinking by Paul Sloane We are creatures of habit. Each day we wake up on same side of the bed. We put on the same type of clothes we wore the previous day, we eat the same type of breakfast, we sit in the same car and we take the same route to work or school. When we get there we think in the same way as we thought the previous day. Most of our thinking is in the same groove – it is analytical, convergent, critical, left-brain thinking. This is our normal mode of operation and it is hard to appreciate just how severely we hamper ourselves by restricting our thinking in this way. We express our thinking in words. In How to be a Brilliant Thinker we explore different kinds of thinking and other approaches to some of the mental challenges we face.
Divergent thinking, on the other hand, involves moving away from the core subject in a spread of directions. Einstein said, ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Blogging Innovation. Articles by McKinsey Quarterly: Online Business Journal of McKinsey & Company. Business Management Strategy - Corporate Strategy - Global Business Strategy. Presentation Zen. Shortly after he returned to Apple in 1997, Steve Jobs gave an internal presentation to employees from the Town Hall building on the Apple campus (YouTube link below). This was an important presentation to let employees know where the company stood and where it was heading. A typical CEO may have put together a slide deck and run through a kind of SWOT analysis. But in this presentation, Jobs —dressed in shorts, sandles and a black turtleneck— stood before the audience and took them on a journey, without notes or slides, where he did touch on Apple’s Strong & Weak points, and also on the Opportunities and Threats, but in a way that was conversational with clear examples.
Jobs starts the talk by stating the problem (the “ideal world” is implied): “This is a very complicated world, it's a very noisy world. Jobs then reminds people that Apple is one of the world’s top brands, right up there with Disney, Nike, SONY, etc. “Nike sells a commodity, they sell shoes. Change your life blog. Colbert Nation | The Colbert Report. Closer to Truth. Videos about Consciousness. Videos about Cosmos.