An oldie but a goodie

Not good for marriage Young men are dropping out of the labor force

“When all cover text is considered, the most commonly occurring words are heart, love, man, family, baby, Christmas, wedding, and marriage”

“Replicating previous findings, the most frequently appearing title words are baby, bride, Christmas, and billionaire.”

"We analyze 1,103 books from the Harlequin Romance imprint, published between 2004 and 2022, to determine whether the information on their covers is convergent with women’s evolved mating strategies."

Politics is downstream from culture. Culture is downstream from technology.

On average, women have a stronger preference than men for wealth and status in a mate. [Link below.]

it’s weird that enjoying masculine domestic pursuits like living off the land, chopping wood, carpentry is idealized as a lifestyle, but enjoying feminine domestic pursuits like cooking, tidying, laundry is denigrated. i like making my home/life really nice for my family.

I just read the story of a very successful chef, Brother Luck. When he was 10, his father passed away, and as a boy, it hit him hard. He started getting into trouble, heading straight for juvenile detention or worse. He was put in a vocational school where he discovered his love

NEW @Famstudies report! For the first time in U.S. history, married mothers with kids under age 5 are just as likely as unmarried mothers to be in full-time employment. What’s driving more married mothers of young children into the workplace? 1) The cost of raising a family is

Thank you Bob Dylan and his band for that fantastic Rough and Rowdy Ways Show in Belfast tonight. I liked that venue. Bob and the band once again with a great performance. My Own Version of You was genius!.. Bob introduced the band—and at the end returned to the stage. @BobDylan

The "gender pay gap" exists due to having kids. Mayer-Rokitanski-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome makes women infertile, but they're otherwise normal. By 28-30, MRKH women earn as much as men and a "wage gap" opens up for them relative to normal women when normal women have kids.

Just, wow.

When you watch stuff like this as a parent, you realise how truly empty and meaningless all of those things are.

Super cool! Humans, like other primates, do have a tendency towards fear of snakes. But we've known for decades that this comes online in monkeys after observing shocked and fearful responses from adults. I'm guessing these kids haven't seen their parents scream, grab them,

1/5 Hormigas reinas parásitas Han descubierto que la reina de algunas especies de hormigas actúa como un parásito en las colonias de otras especies, manipulando el comportamiento de las obreras para que maten a su propia reina y así poder sustituirla ella después.

“The findings revealed a persistent marking bias in favor of girls. Although the effect wasn’t huge, Terrier found persuasive evidence that the bias contributes to boys falling behind in school.” [Link below.]

When a man claims that men don't like educated women, it reveals nothing about men in general and everything about that particular man's status.

A very important study. Many figured that chimp warfare was adaptive. Now we have proof. Lethal displacement of a neighbor doubled fertility and even had a greater impact on survivorship. However, as usual we need more details as other questions emerge. https://t.co/F45dFgcBoS