Strict parents raise fat kids!
Strict mothers were nearly five times more likely to raise tubby first-graders than mothers who treated their children with flexibility and respect while also setting clear rules.
But while the children of flexible rule-setting moms avoided obesity, the children of neglectful mothers and permissive mothers were twice as likely to get fat.
One more thing to be anxious about when parenting: how to be "flexible," without being "permissive."
Okay, so, either a surprising number of people in the Bay Area are suffering from "Morgellons," a dubious malady that leaves patients infested with open sores and strange objects poking out of their skin, or a surprising number of people in the Bay Area are suffering from delusional parasitosis. Either one is pretty weird.
English: it is a marketable skill. In theory.
Today: the Date of the Beast. They're partying in Hell, Michigan. And Ann Coulter is finally admitting that she is "Godless." I hope that revealing her secret will lift a huge burden from her soul, and maybe she'll be less of a psychotic harridan from now on.
Mmmm. Coffee. Also, I never thought about it being closer, and therefore cheaper, to get coffee from Asia than from East Africa. I guess it makes sense, but they're both so far away I figured it was all the same.
Cool! Israeli scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem containing eight previously unknown species of crustaceans and invertebrates in a lake inside a limestone cave 328 feet below the surface, where the animals were completely sheltered from the outside world for millions of years.
Of course, if this were Buffy, they'd be demons, or if it were Star Trek, they'd be sentient or something. But in this reality, they're just crustaceans. And that's still cool.
So, according to this article, women account for about half the enrollment in university programs such as law, medicine and business. And women outnumber men on college campuses by 2 million overall. And the U.S. population is 51 percent female. And, "Researchers say that men, for different reasons, are not enrolling in or completing college programs with the same urgency as women." Except that... they already told us that women are slightly more than half the population, so if women earn slightly more than half the degrees, isn't that normal? Isn't that what you would expect to happen?
So, it actually works to wear something low cut so the clerk doesn't check your ID properly? Who knew?
"Smoking is part of dive-bar culture," said Zack Brown, a smoker in a literally underground establishment elsewhere in the city. "It's like people drinking PBR."
So, some physicists think that maybe they can make a cloaking device. Seriously.
Chinese voodoo dolls! China seems to have a very awkward relationship with its newfound capitalism, doesn't it? Anyway, since when did you have to buy commercially made voodoo dolls?
