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  • Procrastination and Risk Aversion

    As an intercultural consultant, I am surprised that none of the studies that were mentioned looked at the connection between procrastination and risk aversion or uncertainty avoidance. It seems to me that in cultures with higher risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance as values, they would not perceive procrastination as procrastination, but ...
    Posted to Procrastination by MamaH on May 14, 2008

  • Can Israel Survive 4 Another 60 years?

    You forget nother ''categories'' of Jewish people who don't care...or wish they didn't have to..... Israel is, after all, a FOREIGN COUNTRY, if one does not live there. I know, I know....everyone in the USA has an ''old country''....so why not be proud of Israel being your ''old country'' if you are Jewish? One good reason is, there is no other ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Little Neck on May 13, 2008

  • The time I ate dog.

    I'm a bit of an adventurous eater; I still regret passing up lamb's testicles a few months ago when I was in Syria, but there are few things I won't try, given a chance. I was travelling in China, attending a friend's wedding. One night (the day after the landslide trapped us in a rural village, if I recall correctly -- it was an awesome trip), ...
    Posted to Human Nature by ByeByeBaby on April 17, 2008

  • We "invented" dogs?

    Take an animal husbandry class. We invented more than just dogs, we ''invented'' every single domesticated species on the planet. You think thoroughbred horses are just found wild? Or Hereford cattle? Or how about the Japanese Wagyu cattle which produce $300 per pound Kobe beef? Yeah Kobe beef doesn't come from that same scrawny cow that gave you ...
    Posted to Human Nature by slysly77 on April 17, 2008

  • Bias vs. Principles, Which Wins?

    All those I heard speak with great emotion about Rev. Wright´s words, do it with great emotion and some tried to reach his level of eloquence and emotion, and fail -in both. But, what about the intellectual content of the words on both sides? One side could remind us of the price we must willing to pay and the excesses we must endure to be able ...
    Posted to Culturebox by MikeSar on April 11, 2008

  • Re: In 2008, people still kill their children for religion.

    We are more barbaric than we admit to ourselves. Our customs, our ways of life; we are not an advanced people. We still bury people. Let me say that again, we plant our dead, in reserved spots, and mark those spots with stones, which we engrave... That’s pretty darn archaic. That we should set aside land which could be used to improve ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Den on March 26, 2008

  • Re: Vixi

    Actually, I think 17 is the only number whose Roman numeral is an anagram for 'vixi'. Think about it: if you have one x, one v, and two i's, you've got to start with the x, because it represents the largest number. Sure, you have ix for 9, but not ixv for 14, which is written xiv. The general rule is that only one i can be placed before a ...
    Posted to Explainer by eccecattus on March 5, 2008

  • Fool or foolish?

    Is it foolish to place your economic future at risk by purchasing an asset likely to fall in value? Yes. Does that make you a fool? Only if you believe that poor judgment is an inherent character flaw, which, I believe, is not part of standard economic theory. Unfortunately, neither is emotion based decision making. Much as I enjoy the ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by MegHammond on February 21, 2008

  • Money doesn't buy happiness or love.

    A country founded by people who were persecuted, and we still are biased, bigoted, racists, anti-Semitic, hostile, angry, arrogant and blind to the person next to us and the world, because it was believed we could buy our way out. Since I was a child, all I heard was Americans were the lowest savers in the free world! We still are, and fighting ...
    Posted to Human Nature by To Tell The Truth on January 29, 2008

  • "Culture" is no explanation

    I disagree. To say culture plays no role in finding a mate is just plain ignorant. Culture plays a role in partner selection with many different cultures (Indian, Chinese, Jewish, Korean, etc), to say it has no effect in American culture, black or white, is preposterous. Black “culture” is going through an identity crisis. An example of these ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by gunsmoke on January 16, 2008
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