Psychology in Brief: 5 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week (28 June 2013)
Meeting online = longer marriages--Internet banging--Suicides peak in spring--The power of cutlery--When uncertain we choose narcissistic leaders.
Five things we didn't know last week from the world of psychology:
Meeting online = (slightly) longer marriages
Did you know that one-third of people who get married in the US originally met online? And it seems these marriages are slightly less likely to fail. In this sample of almost 20,000 people in the US:
"...marriages that began on-line, when compared with those that began through traditional off-line venues, were slightly less likely to result in a marital break-up (separ...
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - June 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Psychology in Brief: 5 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week
Meeting online = longer marriages--Internet banging--Suicides peak in spring--The power of cutlery--When uncertain we choose narcissistic leaders.
Five things we didn't know last week from the world of psychology:
Meeting online = (slightly) longer marriages
Did you know that one-third of people who get married in the US originally met online? And it seems these marriages are slightly less likely to fail. In this sample of almost 20,000 people in the US:
"...marriages that began on-line, when compared with those that began through traditional off-line venues, were slightly less likely to result in a marital break-up (separ...
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - June 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Easy as plums
I cut up a couple of punnets of plums. (I didn’t take the stones out, because life is short, and the people who will be eating them – ie mainly Alan and I – are quite capable of taking them out.)
I broke a couple of cinnamon sticks over them. I added a sprinkle of ginger and drizzled some honey on top. I added a glug of orange extract, which is not strictly necessary, but does add a certain je ne sais quoi.
I put the dish in the oven, at 180 degrees for half an hour, but that was really only because the oven was already on, cooking parkin, and the parkin had half an hour to go. The oven part is not an exa...
Source: Bah! to cancer - January 29, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good baking plums Source Type: blogs
Progress report
It's now been three and a half years since I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and began my quest to cure myself. Although I have not achieved the dramatic recovery I was hoping for my condition appears to be generally stable and this can be considered an acheivement given that the tendency for CKD patients is to gradually lose kidney function until replacement or death becomes necessary. Here are my findings and tips to date so that others may benefit from them (none of which should be construed as medical advice!):
Comments on this blogThanks to all the people who've taken the time to comment on th...
Source: All Kidney News - June 26, 2012 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
