Attractive Girls Union refuses to talk to Mike

The Onion; Team Men, Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dating for men is not easy, which is putting it mildly. Who to listen to, Dr. Wendy Walsh (KFI) or PUAs who get results? It's a mad, mad world. Look what has happened to poor Mike G. Who better to trust in matters of such importance than ONN, the Onion News Network? In this investigative piece, the network looks into Mike's case to see where he went wrong and what we can all learn from him.

Did AI prove our subatomic view is wrong?

PBS Space Time, June 21, 2023; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Did AI prove our proton model WRONG?

(PBS Space Time) The humble proton may seem simple enough, and they’re certainly common. People are made of cells, cells are made of molecules, molecules are made of atoms, atoms are made of electrons, protons, and neutrons, and protons are each made of three up or down quarks. Simple stuff, right? All except for that last part. Protons are actually made of many, many quarks that happen to look like three only when we look at them in a particular way. And even then, sometimes they’re made of five quarks, including the charm quark. [It's all BS and it's wrong if AI is to be believed.]

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Sex and Science (video)

Amber Dorrian, Wisdom Quarterly

A week after appearing on NPR's ever popular "Science Friday" to pitch her movie, Harvard beauty Valerie Heather Weiss is set to become a star of screen and lab.

LOSING CONTROL is a quirky romantic comedy about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is "the one."

What's a beautiful scientist to do? Moreover, how does a socially conscious movie maker get the message out to the world that we need more science literacy in place of the usual Hollywood nonsense?

Written and directed by Weiss, the film stars Miranda Kent, Reid Scott, Kathleen Robertson, Lin Shaye, and Steve Howey.

• Why Science is Sexy (Ira Flatow)
  
• All you ever wanted to know about "Losing Control" (PDF)
• The Brains Behind "Losing Control" Weiss and Kent
• Is World of Warcraft best way to get a date?
• VIDEO: Madonna's last hurrah, kissing Minaj

Men don't think about sex (that much)
Patt Morrison and Prof. Terri Fisher (SCPR.org)
We’ve all heard the ballpark statistics about men and their incessant daydreaming about sex.

But some new (December 2011) research by Professor of Psychology Terri Fisher from Ohio State University is throwing a little cold water on those common assumptions.

Her study showed that, while men do think about sex more than women on a daily basis, the number of times men think about sex isn’t nearly as high as we were told in school. (Men do not think about sex every seven seconds).

• AUDIO: Listen to the Interview
  

The reality is closer to 19 times a day for men. And surprising to some, women on average think about sex 10 times per day.

Even more surprising is the range of frequency of thoughts about sex between the genders -- men’s racy suppositions ranged between 1-388 per day, whereas women’s ranged between 1-140.

This means that there aren’t many Americans of either gender who don’t think about sex at all. But the fact remains, although less than imagined, men still think about sex more than women on average.

• Sex on the Brain? An Examination of Frequency of Sexual Cognitions as a Function of Gender, Erotophilia, and Social Desirability
• Do Men Really Think About Sex More Often Than Women?
• LA Times: Men's thoughts about sex may not be as frequent as we think
• Study shows men don't think about sex as often as thought
• AUDIO: When it comes to equal pay, sexism is dead, or is it?
  

Buddhist Social Media: Facebook to Twitter

Religious Uses of Social Media
Laura Busch

There are a number of Buddhist uses of social media that fit within the contemplative/monastic traditions. Probably the most famous is the work at Zen Mountain Monastery, which hosts its own communications center: dharma.net.

They have an online radio station, store, and are working on a "cybermonastery" where, last I heard, they would put up teachings and have a question and answer service.

There is a Buddhist monk on Twitter who sends out daily messages: twitter.com/buddhistmonk

You can also find a list of other Buddhist twitter users here: lodenjinpa.com/buddhists-on-twitter.

I have also observed monastics on Web forums discussing guided meditation practices with other forum members via chat using texts and images from the Web to guide the practice. (There are a great deal of Buddhist texts online in multiple languages).

• Buddhist monks could be banned from social networking
• Buddhism on Facebook: wildmind.org/tag/social-media
• Search: Buddhist+social+media