Unless something happens to boost Japan's birth rate, its population
will shrink by a third between now and 2060. One reason for the lack of
babies is the emergence of a new breed of Japanese men, the otaku, who
love manga, anime and computers - and sometimes show little interest in
sex.
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Friday, 18 October 2013
Chinese tourists detained in Paris over one-euro coins
Two Chinese tourists have been briefly held in
France on suspicion of forgery after trying to settle their hotel bill
with one-euro coins.
Police were called in after a hotel owner in Paris became
suspicious about the two men, and 3,700 one-euro coins were then found
in their room.
But the coins were not counterfeit.
Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood?
New guidance for
psychologists will acknowledge that adolescence now effectively runs up
until the age of 25 for the purposes of treating young people. So is
this the new cut-off point for adulthood?
"The idea that suddenly at 18 you're an adult just doesn't
quite ring true," says child psychologist Laverne Antrobus, who works at
London's Tavistock Clinic.
"My experience of young people is that they still need quite a considerable amount of support and help beyond that age."
Child psychologists are being given a new directive which is that the age range they work with is increasing from 0-18 to 0-25.
Say It Aint So: The Movement to Kill the Apostrophe
Today is the 10th annual National Punctuation Day, a high holiday on
nerd calendars across these great United States. Its stated purpose is
to be a celebration of underappreciated, misused marks like the
semicolon and “the ever mysterious ellipsis.” But a better-known piece
of punctuation has been getting some apocalyptic press and deserves
attention on this day of celebration: the apostrophe.
MIT’s President: Better, More Affordable Colleges Start Online
Everyone would like a solution to the problem of rising college costs.
While students worry that they cannot afford a college education, U.S.
colleges and universities know they cannot really afford to educate them
either. At a technology-intensive research university like the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it now costs three times as much
to educate an undergraduate as we receive in net tuition—that is, the
tuition MIT receives after providing for financial aid. To push the
research frontier and educate innovators in science and engineering
demands costly instrumentation and unique facilities. Even for
institutions with substantial endowments, subsidizing a deficit driven
by these and other costs is, in the long run, unsustainable.
Behavior Blame Game: Why We Hate to Feel Guilty Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/10/03/blame-game-why-we-hate-to-feel-guilty/#ixzz2i5TCJw4k
When things go south and we’re to blame, we’re supposed to feel guilty. Right? Not necessarily.
It turns out that when we do something
that causes negative consequences, we actually feel less responsible for
our actions. Not only that, but we see the entire interaction
differently than we would if our actions had yielded a more positive
result.
Business Soon You Can Pay Employees at This Wisconsin Business to Snuggle With You
A new business is opening in Madison, Wisconsin that will allow
customers to cuddle with employees for a small fee. It’s called Snuggle
House, and it’s not a brothel, okay?
The soon-to-launch establishment has run into a number of snags
in advance of its opening day, which was originally slated for Tuesday.
According to ABC affiliate WKOW, the cuddle castle still needs to pass a
fire inspection as well as file a business plan with the city.
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