by ATinNM
Fri Jul 16th, 2010 at 01:35:58 AM EST
Reading through my Bookmarks and came across this:
The Local: Swedish women equate jogging with sex: survey
... according to the survey of 1,774 women between the ages of 15-60, jogging is equal only to sex and time spent with the family. A third of the women replied that pounding the streets was in fact preferable to exercise between the sheets.
Further in my Bookmarks I discovered a background analysis by Moonlight on the Swedish Dating Ritual posted on the Lost In Stockholm blog which starts:
With one of the highest birth rates in Europe, the Swedes seem to be pretty prolific when it comes to making babies, but even after six plus years of living in Stockholm, I'm still not sure how Swedish relationships actually happen.
and goes in an exhaustive analysis of the subject.
I thought would be of interest to the ET community.
by ATinNM
Tue Jun 15th, 2010 at 06:25:08 PM EST
43-MAN SQUAMISH
by ATinNM
Sun May 30th, 2010 at 06:51:18 AM EST
On May 29th there will be an election for the Reykjavik City council.
The new Best Party is contesting the election and, if the polls are accurate, will capture seven of the fifteen seats being contested.
OK, what's the Best Party?
frontpaged - Nomad
by ATinNM
Fri Feb 19th, 2010 at 09:18:13 PM EST
A book review well worth reading by Nicolas Baumard:
Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
In a quite fascinating book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett demonstrate that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone - the well-off as well as the poor.
...
The differences revealed, even between rich market democracies, are striking. Almost every modern social and environmental problem - ill-health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations - is more likely to occur in a less equal society.
by ATinNM
Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 01:15:29 PM EST
From Jeff Masters on Weather Underground.
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice in recent years has created a fundamental new change in the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere that has sped up sea ice loss and is affecting fall and winter weather across most of the Northern Hemisphere, according to several recent studies. Arctic sea ice loss peaks in September and October, exposing a large area of open water that heats the air above it. This extra heat has helped drive September - November air temperatures in the Arctic to 1°C (1.8°F) or more above average over about half of the depth of the lower atmosphere (Figure 1). This deep layer of warm air has grown less dense and expanded, pushing the top of the troposphere (the lower atmosphere) higher. The result has been a decrease in the pressure gradient (the difference in pressure) between the North Pole and mid-latitudes. With not as much difference in pressure to try and equalize, the jet stream has slowed down in the Arctic, creating a major change in the atmospheric circulation for the Northern Hemisphere.
by ATinNM
Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 04:25:45 PM EST
Every year on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November is an Election day. This election day is particularly interesting as a by-election for New York 23rd (NY-23) Congressional House seat has gone bizarre and will have national repercussions (more, below.)
There are other elections, for office as well as ballot measures - where the voters of a state, etc., can legislate or over-turn legislation previously enacted by the state government - that are of possible interest. These are (and please add to the list):
- Ballot measure overturning of the legality of Gay Marriage in the State of Maine.
- The Special election in the California 10th Congressional district
- Governor Races in New Jersey and Virginia
by ATinNM
Sun Aug 30th, 2009 at 02:00:06 PM EST
WAD = Whiny Assed Diary
Reading today's Open Thread and was taken aback by Drew's comment:
ET piefights don't typically result in 400 whiny ass diaries every six seconds
and it occurred to me this, in fact, a serious lacuna in the ET oeuvre.
As I understand the matter, one of the goals of the founders of ET was to create a "dKos for Europe." If so it is immediately apparent we have utterly failed in our task of writing WADs seeing how deeply buried in the operational workings of dKos.
This diary is my attempt to kick-start the WAD production on ET.
by ATinNM
Sun Apr 5th, 2009 at 01:18:02 PM EST
Because it needs to be said:
by ATinNM
Thu Apr 2nd, 2009 at 01:57:50 AM EST
(Lazy YouTube Diary)
In eight parts (over an hour) so sit down, grab your favorite beverage, and watch.
The examples Dr. Bartlett gives are US centric but the analysis is appropriate for the globe.
by ATinNM
Fri Nov 7th, 2008 at 10:28:45 AM EST
Lazy Questions Diary --
Which country has the best Health Care System?
by ATinNM
Tue Sep 30th, 2008 at 02:40:43 PM EST
Bernie Sanders, the independent Socialist Senator from Vermont, has published a letter he sent to Treasury Secretary Paulson outlining his plan for dealing with the financial crises.
by ATinNM
Mon Sep 29th, 2008 at 01:10:00 AM EST
A key stumbling block ET faces is the almost 100% use of English as the communication language. Regularly over the years this has been noted as a barrier to greater participation by EU citizens. To counter this problem the suggestion has been made, several times, that the diaries and comments be automatically translated. To my knowledge an experiment has never been conducted to see how useful these tools are.
This diary is intended to be a preliminary, but substantive, test of the Google Language Tool.
by ATinNM
Sun Aug 31st, 2008 at 02:50:46 AM EST
This gives some idea of the size of Gustav
Promoted by afew
by ATinNM
Sun Jun 1st, 2008 at 11:09:41 AM EST
I am interested in finding what you found to be the largest problem when learning English as a second language. I am especially interested in comments by anyone who is in the process of learning English.
This request is made to gather test data for a computer project I'm working on.
Thank you for your participation.
by ATinNM
Sun May 4th, 2008 at 04:25:48 AM EST
This was a press release by Zogby (yeah, I know) but given the large number of responses and our interest in making ET a quality, respected, and influential news source I thought it of interest to the community.
Since the release was not copyrighted it is presented in full.
by ATinNM
Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 04:00:40 AM EST
Ran across an article in New Scientist, Why the Demise of Civilization May Be Inevitable
(Behind a subscription wall.)
by ATinNM
Tue Feb 5th, 2008 at 04:05:22 PM EST
In case you've been living under a rock ...
This is an election year in the US and today 22 states are conducting their primary. While I am loathe to post US-centric diaries on ET the international interest in the next President of the US nudges me to post this diary.
Plus it will quarantine the comments thus preventing infection on the Open Thread & etc.
by ATinNM
Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:42:20 PM EST
Every blog in the entire frickin' Universe has an Iowa Prediction diary.
Why should ET be any different?
Instead of giving percentages I will give my top 3 predictions and why I put them there.
from the diaries. Use as a results thread when they come out. -- Jérôme
by ATinNM
Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 02:58:09 AM EST
This is an in-depth look at the Iowa caucus. Contained herein is more information than anyone outside of Iowa cares about, or needs. The primary (HA!) purpose is to provide a basis for understanding, in my opinion, a sterling example of participatory democracy.
I have attempted to highlight the most important parts of the process.
The Iowa caucuses meet, precinct by precinct, to elect delegates and alternates to the county convention. At the county convention delegates are elected to the district convention who elect delegates to the state convention who elect delegates to the National Nominating Convention.
Naturally, other business happens at those other conventions but this thing is long enough.
by ATinNM
Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 09:20:28 PM EST
(Having been dared .....)
It has been suggested having an ET Meet-Up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This diary is posted to answer three questions:
- Is there enough interest to have a Meet-Up in Albuquerque?
- When?
- What should we do?
