Almost a quarter in US say they are too tired for sex

(PR) WASHINGTON, DC – The 2010 Sleep in Amer­ica poll released today by the National Sleep Foun­da­tion (NSF) reveals sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ences in the sleep habits and atti­tudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, His­pan­ics and Whites. It is the first poll to exam­ine sleep among these four eth­nic groups.

The poll shows that all groups report dis­turbingly sim­i­lar expe­ri­ences miss­ing work or fam­ily func­tions because they were too sleepy (19–24%). Among mar­ried peo­ple or cou­ples liv­ing together, all eth­nic groups report being too tired for sex fre­quently (21– 26% of the time).

via Poll Reveals Sleep Dif­fer­ences among Eth­nic Groups | National Sleep Foun­da­tion — Infor­ma­tion on Sleep Health and Safety.

How the media echo chamber makes little Fox News look big

By Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)Even in prime time, Fox has a cou­ple mil­lion view­ers — that’s about 1% of Amer­i­can adults — and the other oper­a­tions have a mil­lion or so. Cable news is a mole­hill that gets rou­tinely turned into a moun­tain range because...
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Scientists find that porn is good for society

By Mil­ton Diamond Over the years, many sci­en­tists have inves­ti­gated the link between pornog­ra­phy (con­sid­ered legal under the First Amend­ment in the United States unless judged “obscene”) and sex crimes and atti­tudes towards women. And in every region inves­ti­gated, researchers have found that as pornog­ra­phy...
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Weaponized Mozart: British use classical music to repel youths

By Bren­dan O’Neill (Rea­son) In Jan­u­ary it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the mid­lands of Eng­land, was “sub­ject­ing” (its words) badly behaved chil­dren to Mozart...
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Death sentence more likely if victims are of high status

(Sci­ence Blog­gers) A defen­dant is much more likely to be sen­tenced to death if he or she kills a “high-status” vic­tim, accord­ing to new research by Scott Phillips, asso­ciate...
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Vice detective gets 130 ‘VIP’ lap dances, makes no arrests

By Levi Pulkkinen (Seat​tlepi​.Com) Defense attor­ney Colette Tvedt told the court that one under­cover detec­tive vis­ited Tal­ents West clubs more than 160 times dur­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion, pay­ing some­where between $16,835 and...
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Shock jock Hal Turner claims FBI paid him $100,000 to help infiltrate right wingers

(North​Jer​sey​.com) Shock jock Hal Turner of North Bergen took the wit­ness stand in his fed­eral trial Wednes­day and accused the FBI of urg­ing him to make vio­lent state­ments as...
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Crash caused by woman driver who was shaving her bikini area

By Adam Lin­hardt (The Cit­i­zen FL) Florida High­way Patrol troop­ers say a two-vehicle crash Tues­day at Mile Marker 21 on Cud­joe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman dri­ver who...
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Is dwarf theme park in China a ‘zoo’ or ‘fairy tale’?

KUNMING, China — Chen Mingjing’s entre­pre­neur­ial instincts vaulted him from a peas­ant upbring­ing to undreamed-of wealth. Last Sep­tem­ber, Mr. Chen did what any socially aware entre­pre­neur might do: He...
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Innocent man who died in Texas prison granted posthumous pardon

By Danny Aeber­hard (BBC News) The gov­er­nor of the US state of Texas, Rick Perry, has posthu­mously par­doned a man who had died in jail after being wrongly con­victed of...
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In Britain, a gift registry for divorces

(Time) You’ve heard of a wed­ding reg­istry — well, this is a divorce reg­istry.” Obvi­ously divorce is quite an expen­sive time with legal fees and it can be quite...
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$381,000 golden coffin with cell phone on sale at Verona fair

$381,000 golden coffin with cell phone on sale at Verona fair

(AFP) Shop­pers won­der­ing how to deal with the after­life found an answer Fri­day — a cell-phone-equipped golden cof­fin, one of many items on dis­play at the open­ing of an...
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Norway conquers infections by cutting use of antibiotics

By Martha Men­doza and Margie Mason (AP) OSLO, Nor­way — Aker Uni­ver­sity Hos­pi­tal is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust...
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Paradox: rich and poor both suffer more in unequal societies

By Nico­las Baumard (LSE-ICCI) 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...
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Rich hire occupational therapists to groom their kids for élite kindergartens

By Peg Tyre (NY Times) In Man­hat­tan, the bru­tally com­pet­i­tive nurs­ery and kinder­garten admis­sions process is lead­ing many par­ents to sign up their tod­dlers for ther­apy. “Preschool admis­sions tests loom...
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