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A new, broader definition of rape – often called “sexual assault” – led to a surprising result. The same number of men and women report of having been raped.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds concludes:
If, in light of the data, women exhibit a similar predilection for sexual misbehavior to men, then surely the colleges should be punishing roughly as many women as men for such conduct. If they are not, the only possible explanation is some form of institutional sexism.
New York Times:
Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand.
Photo-editing software restricts the control of objects in a photograph to the 2D image plane. We present a method that enables users to perform the full range of 3D manipulations, including scaling, rotation, translation, and nonrigid deformations, to an object in a photograph.
This is absolutely fascinating. I’m dreaming of a way to recreate entire 3D scenes from 2D photographs. This is getting us a step closer.
Awesome.
Nick and Mia meets [sic] for the first time. They know nothing about each other and seem to know everything about everyone else. But sometimes the less you know, the better…
I love Korean movies.
Henrik Kniberg also wrote “Lean from the Trenches”, a great book about agile development.
Christian Rudder about the result of one of several experiments, they conducted at OkCupid:
So, your picture is worth that fabled thousand words, but your actual words are worth…almost nothing.
I love OkTrends. It’s great that’s it’s back to live with new content. Check out the old posts as well.
In commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War, the Martin-Gropius-Bau is presenting an exhibition entitled The World c. 1914. Colour Photography Before the Great War, which features nearly forgotten colour photographs and films commissioned by the French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) before the First World War.
I would like to see this exhibition. It keeps fascinating me how little has changed in the last one hundred years. We wear other clothes, have more gadgets but the basic things of everyday life are still the same. You see pictures of people just like you and me. And they’ve been gone for decades. Color photography gets us a bit closer to this bygone world.
See more pictures at Spiegel Online.
Mauricio Estrella:
My password became the indicator. My password reminded me that I shouldn’t let myself be victim of my recent break up, and that I’m strong enough to do something about it.
My password became: “Forgive@h3r”
My password expired today. Let the new one change my life.
David E. Weekly is also done with Foursquare:
So after 3,044 check-ins and 68 badges, your user #11471 is throwing in the towel. Goodbye.
I only have 792 check-ins and 33 badges but I couldn’t agree more.
Sebastian Anthony:
Some intrepid biologists at the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered bacteria that survives on nothing but electricity — rather than food, they eat and excrete pure electrons.
Fascinating.
Volcanic eruptions created a new island near Nishino-shima. Both islands joined late last year. They are now firmly linked.
Brinton Parker tried three different levels of makeup on Tinder. She concludes:
Despite my reservations about the entire concept, however, the guys on Tinder surprised me. More men flocked to a bare-faced girl than a heavily made-up one, yet they seemed most aggressively interested in a face adorned in average levels of makeup.
Check the article for images and more information.