New Study: Heavily Tattooed Students More Prone to Deviant Behavior. By Thaddeus M.
Baklinski LUBBOCK, Texas, January 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study titled "Body Art, Deviance, and American College Students" suggests that people who have multiple tattoos or body piercings are more likely to engage in risky and criminal behavior. The research by Jerome R. Koch, a sociology professor at Texas Tech University, reveals that those who have four or more tattoos, seven or more body piercings, or one "intimate piercing," are far more prone to use illegal drugs, be arrested for criminal offenses, cheat on college work, binge drink, and have multiple sex partners.
Professor Koch surveyed 1753 American college students, asking them to report their level of body art acquisition and their history of deviance. "These students," the report states, "are ten times more likely to have an arrest history, a four-fold increase in drug use, other than marijuana, and there's a five-fold increase in having had nine or more sex partners in the last year. " Love, child: Statistically speaking, marrying young can spell disaster. Not for me. To celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary last year, my husband and I spent the weekend at a funky motel in the Catskills.
We arrived Friday night, poured some wine, put on Bonnie and Clyde, and exchanged gifts. The T-shirt I gave Adam featured a bear fighting a shark; he gave me earrings shaped like shark teeth (we often have similar ideas). Then we noticed there was a fly buzzing around the room, so Adam started chasing it, doing ninja moves in his underwear. We're 29, and we've been married since 2005, cohabiting since 2000, and together since 1997—which comes to 14 years total, or roughly half of our lives. Television Lets You Reach Inside, Control the Action. You remember Wonkavision from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, right? Well that portal like ability to reach in and manipulate things inside your television has just become reality… or pretty close. Media student Jayne Vidheecharoen from the Art Center College of Design in California has designed a prototype TV that converts physical hands into virtual ones when users put them in the back of the television, allowing them to manipulate what’s on the screen.
Fun stuff! Reaching inside the box, users hands are transported to the screen via a green screen. Gen Y's impact in the workplace. Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it. You have probably heard about the continual struggle between Apple and Samsung over similarities in their designs.
Apple is suing Samsung and asking the courts to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab in many countries (and succeeding). Saturday, The Verge reported that Apple, in their usual arrogant way, felt they needed to tell Samsung how to design their devices. The Urban Speaker: Call it Today - Culture. Mental_floss » The House of Blood. Where is the house of blood? List of common misconceptions. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
List of inventors killed by their own inventions. 30 of the World's Greatest Wedding Cakes. Few things are more important on a wedding day (apart from both partners turning up; the ring being secure; and nobody objecting during the ceremony) than the cake.
Very few weddings are without such a centrepiece. It's just a shame that so many couples opt for the same traditional, boring designs when there is so much opportunity to impress and surprise the guests. Here are 30 brilliant examples, to be used as inspiration for your own big day. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958. A Letter to Parents About the Fake 'Teen Crazes' on the News. 7 Ridiculous Origins of Everyday Words.
Between technology and pop culture slang, our language is changing at a terrifying rate.
Remember when a hipster was an old-fashioned type of pants? Now it's a guy who wears them ironically. 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls.
But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. Top 10 Bizarre & Controversial Archeological Discoveries. Many strange archeological discoveries have been made in modern history.
Hundreds of artifacts have been unearthed that have baffled scientists and challenged modern man’s view of history. Many of these objects have been labeled out of place artifacts or anachronisms. These archeological discoveries are always controversial and the scientific community is extremely selective in what they accept as fact. Forbidden Fruit: Illegal Fruits & Foods. Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day.
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You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. How Oscar Wilde Painted Over “Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde was not a man who lived in fear, but early reviews of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” must have given him pause.
