Maintenance has been surprisingly smooth for the last 5 months or so, but of course, the holidays present an extra challenge for foodies. Jenny offers a really nice guide to healthy holiday eating, but we didn’t exactly follow that this year. Instead, we started Christmas morning with some raisin-blueberry-cinnamon rolls. Read more…
“Everybody loves a winner,” or so we often hear, but it may not necessarily be true, especially at bowl time. According to Joseph Vandello and his colleagues at the University of South Florida (which incidentally boasts a pretty good football team), we like underdogs. Vandello et al. presented participants with Read more…
I must confess to being a sucker for any study involving rhesus monkeys. I developed a fondness for the little guys during my grad school days at UCLA, even though they were prone to homocidal impulses when they got loose. They’re just sooooo smart. Now we learn that they may Read more…
Given my outcome on the EQSQ scale, not to mention my addiction to Zelda on the Wii, I think I qualify as a bona fide geekette. Shopping for the geeks you love can be challenging, as of course, we buy every electronic gizmo at top price the minute it comes Read more…
Many of you enjoyed taking the EQSQ Tests (empathy versus systemizing) mentioned in a previous post. Tim Worstall, who runs the EQSQ site, picked up on my confusion about interpreting my 51 EQ score and my 97 SQ score and offered a very helpful clarification. If I understand Tim correctly, the Read more…