You can safely say that this sort of job will never be part of my personal career path.
Science
Women Like Male Sweat
Sometimes it is good to be a big sweaty man. 😉
Sept. 18, 2007 – Liz Gabor calls the odor “man sweat.†And though she’s loath to admit it, the aromatic scent makes her feel, as she calls it, a little frisky. “My friends think I’m crazy, but I think male sweat is kind of pleasant and, well, kind of hot,†says Gabor, 28, a customer service rep and happily married mother of two young girls.
Actually I think that this story is kind of interesting. Here is one more excerpt:
According to the Rockefeller and Duke researchers, about 70 percent of adult men and women have the genetic capacity to perceive a particular chemical called androstenone in male body odor. To them, the testosterone-laden substance can take on a pleasant bouquet similar to vanilla or other sweet or woodsy scents. Others who have a functional copy of the gene perceive androstenone as less than pleasurable, akin to the aromatic elixir of stale urine. About 30 percent of adult men and women can’t smell androstenone at all, leading researchers to suspect they might be missing the gene responsible for smelling the aroma.
Here Is News That Is Not News
Men want hot women, study confirms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
And guys won’t be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
“Just because people say they’re looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn’t mean that is what they’ll end up choosing,” Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone interview.
Researchers led by Todd report that in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study found humans were similar to most other mammals, “following Darwin’s principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say something different.”
Their study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
I’ll concede that there might be some real science involved here and that there could be information that is beneficial to mankind. However, I have a hard time using such a small sample group. Too many variables are not accounted for.
Not a Tiger Or A Lion- A Liger
Read More about Hercules the Liger. And don’t forget to look at the pictures here.
Email Aggravates Me
I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love knowing that I can reach out and click someone. I am still amazed that in a matter of seconds I can contact someone on the other side of the world and receive a response. Instant gratification. It is pretty cool.
However, it is also pretty aggravating. Instant gratification has wreaked havoc upon my ability to be patient. If I don’t hear back from someone with a reasonable amount of time I start to wonder if they received my email.
Maybe it was caught in their spam filter. Maybe my ISP went down and it wasn’t delivered. Or maybe I sent it to the wrong address. Often times it is none of those things. Email has become so prevalent a lot of people take their time to respond. The rules of the blog dictate honesty so here is my reaction to that, it aggravates me.
Last night I received a response from an email I had sent out three weeks ago. The person who sent it hasn’t been out of town. They weren’t trapped beneath a heavy object or held captive. I know because they have sent out emails to a group that I am included on. All it would have taken to mollify me would have been a short response saying that they were busy and would get back to me.
But if that is the worst thing that happens to me I suppose that I can consider myself quite lucky.
Study Links Diet Soft Drinks With Cardiac Risk
MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Drinking more than one soda a day — even if it’s the sugar-free diet kind — is associated with an increased incidence of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors linked to the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, a study finds.
The link to diet soda found in the study was “striking” but not entirely a surprise, said Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, study senior author and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. There had been some hints of it in earlier studies, he said.
“But this is the first study to show the association in a prospective fashion and in a large population,” Vasan said.
That population consisted of more than 6,000 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, which has been following residents of a Massachusetts town since 1948. When the soda portion of the study began, all participants were free of metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors including high blood pressure, elevated levels of the blood fats called triglycerides, low levels of the artery-protecting HDL cholesterol, high fasting blood sugar levels and excessive waist circumference. Metabolic syndrome is the presence of three or more of these risk factors.
Over the four years of the study, people who consumed more than one soft drink of any kind a day were 44 percent more likely to develop metabolic syndrome than those who didn’t drink a soda a day.
That sound you hear is the collective groaning of Diet Coke addicts all over the world.