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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | women, education, race, sociology, books
    Excerpts from Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life. - Slate Magazine

    This book looks worth checking out.

    Quoted: Slate is publishing two excerpts from Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life, which is premised on the notion that if we want to understand our world—or how to change it—we must first understand the rational choices that shape it.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 03 2008 | news, sociology
    The Sex Lives of Bar Flies | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com

    I don't think we need a study to tell us how booze affects human sexual behavior...

    Quoted: What a new study on alcohol and fruit flies can tell us about how booze affects human sexual behavior.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 10 2007 | careers, sociology, news
    MSN Careers - Generation Y: Too Demanding at Work?

    As long as this doesn't turn into a false sense of entitlement, I think it's great that younger generations are making demands that allow them to have lives outside work...

    Quoted: Not too long ago, the generation gap meant parents didn’t understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones or why every other word coming out of their child’s mouth was “like.” Now the gap means employers don’t understand why twentysomethings straight out of college expect a high salary and lots of vacation time.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 21 2006 | news, sleep, sociology
    People Who Share a Bed, and the Things They Say About It - New York Times

    Fascinating study...

    Quoted: A new book offers a psychological perspective on what it means to share a bed.

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