China’s Marriage Critic Liked Twitter Werewolves
Is Marriage Good For Your Health? by Tara Parker-Pope (New York Times): A happy marriage is good for your health, in a multitude of ways you wouldn’t quite believe if you hadn’t read the article. Including your blisters healing a day earlier, on average.
What Is Beauty? Your Kids’ Newest Art Critic by Jason Goldman (The Thoughtful Animal): Pigeons can tell the difference between good art by kids and bad art by kids. Why this is is perhaps just as interesting as the fact itself.
The Party’s Over: China’s Endgame by Gordon Chang (World Affairs): Chang argues that the narrative of China’s rise and rise that you see fairly often is perhaps overstated - China is a lot more unstable than it appears on the surface (if true, has sobering implications for Australia - China is the biggest importer of our minerals).
Materialistic People Liked Less By Peers Than Experiential People (ScienceDaily): Basically, if you want to be happy, you’re better off spending your money on concerts and travelling rather than that new plasma screen TV, despite what all that advertising on TV is telling you. [thanks Jadey!]
Twitter Updates, The 18th Century Edition by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries (Wall Street Journal): Diaries in the 18th century looked a lot like today’s Twitter - short, telegraphic updates on their lives - and were meant to be read by friends too. [via]
Where Have All The Werewolves Gone? by Brian Regal (Fortean Times): Because of the Darwinian revolution, werewolves and vampires receded from the popular imagination (at least the idea that they are actually real things), replaced by bigfoot and the yeti. [via]
