2. Rice was first domesticated in China. Whew!
3. City birds have bigger brains than country birds...all that smog and humans.
4. Obese American men who visit male physicians are much liklier than obese women who visit female physicians to receive counseling about weight loss. Vanity?
5. Immigrants become as fat as native- born Americans within 15 years of their arrival...diet change!
6. A majority of African-Americans call their friends rather than 911 when experiencing strokes...fear factor?
7. The sense of justice resides in the amygdala.
8. Women, if they become powerful, are as likely as men to cheat...it's power not sex.
9. Morning heart attacks kill more of the heart....Failed sex?
.......Harper's, July 2011, " Findings"
Osama bin Laden's Death.
2/5 of Americans think his death will make it "easier to win the global war on terrorism", but 3/5 thought the death of Saddam qwould.
16% feel safer since he was killed but 14% feel less safe.
UCLA geographer, in 2009 study established the likelihood that he was at Abbotabad, and W ikileaks' classified memo of 9/10/08, suggested he vwas there....What took them so long to act? By the way he paid 59cts. for every cricket ball hit into his compound.... allowed no on to enter.....cheap price for secrecy.
......... Harper's Index july, 2011