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A new study finds a backlash against men who act modestly in a job interview.

According to Corinne Moss-Racusin, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Rutgers, applicants in staged interviews were judged equally competent, but the “modest” males were less liked—a sign of social backlash.

Modesty was viewed as a sign of weakness, a low-status character trait for males that could adversely affect their employability or earnings potential. Modesty in women, however, was not viewed negatively nor was it linked to status.

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For the Afghan soldiers who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas, there’s no place like Canada.

Since 2002, 46 Afghans have deserted their armed forces while in the U.S. for language and military training. Of those 46, roughly half–at least 22–have found their way north of the border.

They made the trip with the help of a network of people, including Afghans who left Lackland Air Force Base before them; a group of naturalized and undocumented Mexican women in Texas; relatives of current and former Afghan military students living in the West; and at least one Iranian taxi driver who runs a human smuggling business at the Canadian border.

The Afghans who have made it to Canada appear to be living comfortably there — and many have put themselves on Facebook, where they connect with other Afghan dissenters and active U.S. and Afghan military personnel, including members of the Afghan military currently attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland or receiving training at other military bases in the U.S.

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Dan Ariely: My name is Dan Ariely and I’m the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.

Question: What did you find when you started looking into the world of online dating?

Dan Ariely: I became interested in online dating because one of the people who were sitting in an office next to me was incredibly miserable, and he was an assistant professor; he just moved to the university where I was at; he was spending long hours; he was not finding anybody to date; he was, couldn’t date students at the university, he was a professor; he didn’t have time to go outside. You know, we were not particularly a social bunch, you know, he was basically stuck. And online dating was a very promising way to think about this solution for a marketplace that wasn’t working very well, and he tried online dating and he was just failing miserably, continuously. So that kind of piqued my curiosity about it. And then I started looking at online dating.

So I start looking by registering myself and looking at other people and then I said, let me ask some of my friends to enroll. So I didn’t ask them to really enroll, I just took their profile sheets and asked people, “Could you fill those out but without your name?” And I took people that I liked more and I liked less, and I took their profile and I tried to figure out could I tell the difference? …
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about time. Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet GamblingMarveling at Wonders Out of This World

everyone thinks the Washington Post study of national security a Pulitzer-worthy work: not this guy:

Ok. Wikileaks is all over the place. Now the Pentagon wonders if its release risks Afghan lives by giving names

No matter how one feels about illegals attempting entry at the borders, we have this taking place:

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An Underground Duo Finds Unfamiliar Perch Atop the Charts and you can listen to them here

If you love history, then you want to read about the Roosevelt letters going to the National Archives.

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By Conor O’Clery[1]- GlobalPost

Ash trays up for sale outside a bar on Parnell Street, Dublin. The Irish government is proposing desperate measures to meet Ireland’s crippling national debt of 84 billion euros ($108 billion). (Fran Veale/Getty Images)
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DUBLIN, Ireland ─ Like to buy a nice new airport? No? How about a railway network or a power station? Well then, wouldn’t you like to have a bus company, or a harbor, or a television service or a chain of post offices?

Anyone of these properties could be yours; all reasonable offers considered. They are slated to come under the auctioneer’s hammer in a fire sale of national assets in Ireland.

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18-year-old Peter McBride was murdered in Belfast on 4 September 1992 by Mark Wright and James Fisher, members of a Scots Guards battalion commanded by Tim Spicer. The unarmed father of two was shot dead minutes after being stopped and searched by a British Army patrol.[1]

Local police were not able to speak to the two soldiers until some hours after the shooting.[2] In the meantime, the men were interviewed by Spicer along with three other officers. Spicer later wrote “I thought between us we could reach a balanced judgement on what happened.”[3] The delay gave rise to allegations that the Army was helping the men to prepare a defence.[4]

Lt Col Spicer has since maintained the same version of events as Wright and Fisher, that the two soldiers believed McBride was about to throw a coffee jar bomb contained in a plastic bag he was carrying.[5] This in spite of the fact that McBride had been searched moments earlier by members of the same patrol. The bag was subsequently found to contain a t-shirt.[6]

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The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms.
Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you’ll probably find something here to interest you.

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Coined by a flamboyant absinthe-addicted french poet who died of syphilis, a flaneur walks the streets to break the pattern of the boring, busy clonepeople rushing to and from work. A flaneur can use their camera to change the world…

The term ‘flaneur’ is a lovely, decadent concept from the 1890s. It comes from a French verb which means "to stroll". So as a flaneur you walk around your city – but not on purpose, you simply STROLL – in order to experience it, and possibly change it.

The beauty of the idea is that anyone can be a flaneur. Oscar Wilde was a flaneur. Jack Kerouac definitely was. So was Hunter S. Thompson, in his own crazy ether-snorting way.

If you go for an aimless walk, watching people, maybe doing something to shake them up from their city daydream – or maybe capturing everyone else’s citd daydream in a poem, or in a photo – then you’re a flaneur, too.

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Researchers have found a molecule that causes the nerve cell death in the brain that sparks the condition – and hope they can soon stop it in its tracks.

The discovery was described as a “significant step forward” in the battle against the degenerative disease that affects 120,000 people in the UK – or one in 500 of the population – with 10,000 new cases being diagnosed each year.

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check this out! “they” know a lot about you that you do not know they know!

What They Know.

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According to Amazon.com, the Kindle edition e-books have outsold hardbacks for the last 3 months. During this period Amazon said it sold 143 Kindle edition books for every 100 hardbacks. These figures don’t include the hundreds of thousands of public domain kindle downloads that are given away for free.

This is a pretty impressive figure and is indicative of the meteoric increase in e-book sales. The Association of American Publishers has stated that e-book sales are up 400% through May over same period last year.

There appears to be a little spin going on.

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don’t miss the anti-Apple ad and the new Kindle announcement here

DAILY ROTATION.

funny. He doesn’t look Jewish: http://huff.to/asyvTy

Poetry Daily: Today’s Poem.

What would two dozen servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it? Well, for starters, when to go out, what not to order, what really happens behind the kitchen’s swinging doors, and what they think of you and your tips. Here, from a group that clears a median $8.01 an hour in wages and tips, a few revelations

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This article concerns the sinking of the South Korean Corvette ‘Cheonan’ on 26 March 2010 with the loss of 46 South Korean sailors. The event occurred about 1 nautical mile off the South West Coast of Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea and close to the maritime border with North Korea Map. The island is dominated by a joint U.S.-Korean base for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations. The sea channel between Byeongnyeong and the North Korean coast is narrow enough for both sides to be in artillery range of each other.

Baengnyeong Island shown in red

The event took place in the aftermath of the 11-18 March 2010 ‘Foal Eagle’ Exercise, which included anti-submarine maneuvers by a joint U.S.-South Korean squadron of five missile ships. Mystery surrounds the continued presence of U.S. missile cruisers in the locality more than eight days after the ASW exercise ended.

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LEARN GREEK AND HEBREW WHILE GETTING YOUR TEETH CLEANED.

Gastonia, North Carolina (photo by Lewis Wickes Hine).

Spinners. Smallest girl – Pearlie Turner, 408 East Long Ave. Been at it 3 years and runs six and seven sides. Her Sister (largest girl) runs only four sides. I found other cases where youngest sister did much more work than oldest and family stimulated her by praising her speed and the other’s slowness. — Lewis Wickes Hine

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all things amazing.

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The Franklin expedition, in a painting by W Turner SmithSir John Franklin and his entire crew perished in the frozen Arctic, and the Investigator went to find them

Canadian archaeologists have located a British ship abandoned in the Arctic while on a 19th Century rescue mission.

Parks Canada researchers found HMS Investigator in Mercy Bay this week.

Canada’s government says the discovery bolsters its claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which is feared threatened by increased shipping.

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Turkey’s Islamist Dailies Spread Anti-American, Antisemitic Incitement
Since the AKP rose to power in Turkey, the country’s Islamist media has freely disseminated venomous anti-American and antisemitic allegations, propaganda, and conspiracy theories. [1] This campaign has been led by Islamist Turkish dailies such as Vakit, Milli Gazete, and Yeni Safak (which is close to the AKP government and especially to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan). These newspapers have published stories about the U.S.’s alleged use of chemical and low-grade nuclear weapons in Iraq and U.S. soldiers’ alleged systematic rape of Iraqi girls, and have blamed the U.S. for the December 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia and for the August 1999 Istanbul earthquake. [2]

The marketing divisions of these papers distribute anti-American DVDs, books, and CDs at no charge or at very low and clearly subsidized prices. [3] These dailies also glorify terrorism, and disseminate antisemitic messages, including praise of Hitler, Holocaust denial, and passages from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

This report focuses on a two-part Vakit interview with a Turkish prisoner, claimed to have been recently extradited to Turkey from Guantanamo. Vakit has been banned in Germany because of its antisemitism, and Germany has demanded that the Turkish government either implement or pass the necessary laws to rein in the paper.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, Vakit journalists are invited to official events, granted interviews with government ministers, and frequently accompany PM Erdogan in his private plane on his official trips.

The following are excerpts from the Vakit interview: [4]
The Women Soldiers Tore My Clothes Off and Attacked Me Verbally and Physically

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Tokyo 2008
Goro Bertz (b.1980, Sweden) was born and raised in Stockholm and is a self-taught photographer. When he turned 25, he moved to Tokyo in order to devote all his time to photography, especially around areas such as Shinjuku, Kabukicho, Golden Gai and Shin-Okubo. He is also shooting a lot in the countryside north of Tokyo, around a place called Iwama, a small village and the place where his mother was born and his grandmother and some relatives still live. Goro has been published in various magazines in Sweden and was recently interviewed on the 591 Photography site. He is currently working various part-time jobs in Tokyo that allows him the time to make photographs. Goro is member of the Swedish image bank Folio. This summer he will have an exhibition in Nishiwaki (near Osaka).

About the Photograph:

“For me the art of photography begins with chance and not planning anything in advance. It’s certainly the case with these two photos.

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Researchers reporting in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin last week say people are drawn to others who resemble their parents or themselves. This may explain why incest taboos are found in many cultures – to counter a natural tendency.

University of Illinois psychologist, Chris Fraley, said there had been a century-long debate on whether incest taboos are psychological or cultural adaptations designed to suppress a biological urge. In the early 20th century Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst, proposed it was psychological, while Edward Westermarck, a sociologist, proposed it was cultural. Westermarck thought there was a critical time in childhood during which people would not find attractive people who were raising them or raised with them.

Most modern researchers think Westermarck was correct, but a new study led by Fraley suggests there may also be a psychological component in which we align ourselves with our kin, who are genetically close to us.

The research involved three experiments.

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[...]The reality: The Pakistani army and the ISI are now at war with their country’s jihadists, especially the Pashtun Islamists who make up the Pakistani Taliban. Lots of military and intelligence officers have now died in this conflict. The impulse to backtrack is no doubt still there—an impulse made much more powerful by Americans who want to wash their hands of Afghanistan, and who somehow believe that Pakistan will be no worse off with an American withdrawal. But civil war north of the Durand Line would certainly follow a U.S. retreat, and Islamabad would have to support massively the “new” Afghan Taliban in this conflict. The militant forces in Pakistan, especially within the army and the civilian bureaucracy, who have argued all along that the Americans would leave defeated, would be supercharged.[...]

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The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Arranged in chronological order. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it. Reader notes are in italics.

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* Proposed National Security Agency facility believed to be for communications interception purposes

* Estimated costs range from $1.5-1.9 billion

* 1 million square foot, 65 Megawatt facility

The Utah Data Center (UDC) will be a highly secure 65 Mega Watt, Tier III National Security Agency datacenter facility to be located near Camp Williams, Utah. The fast-track program will consist of approximately 1 million square feet of new facilities, of which 100,000 ft2 will be mission-critical space with raised flooring, and the other 900,000 ft2 will be devoted to technical support and administrative space. Ancillary support facilities include water treatment facilities, electrical substations, a vehicle inspection facility and visitor control center, perimeter site security measures, fuel storage, chiller plants and fire suppression systems. The UDC will incorporate green building strategies and will be required to be a LEED certified facility, with the goal of obtaining a LEED Silver rating. 1

The construction of the facility has been broken into three phases.

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