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Nike Sportswear 2009 Fall Lookbook If the UK were a village of 100 people… The 80 adults in the village would share a personal debt of £2.4m (£30,480 each, on average) (tags: geography stats uk)

What Your Stuff Reveals About You We consume books, movies, music, and visual art primarily to fulfill the internal emotional needs that are fundamental to our personalities. But we also make choices about art based on a desire to carve out identities for ourselves—to articulate the stories of our lives. By the same token, we…

Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief (tags: language psychology brain science research interesting swearing)

The problem with junk stats? It's you The serious point is that it's easy to treat data as if it falls into our laps and that only then can people do underhand things with it. As the writer Joel Best points out, it's people who count, and what they mostly count is other people. If…

The Brangelina industry: why Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie keep making the headlines The weeklies are their own world, with their own rules. Their priority is to keep the rollercoaster of a star's life – romance, betrayal, marriage, separation, reunion – moving as quickly as possible. Real facts play a role, but not…

Girls now as bad as boys for underage drinking "According to the survey, one in six men (17%) are concerned that their drinking will lead to "man boobs", one in four (27%) are worried about developing a beer belly, more than one in eight (13%) fear their drinking is affecting their appearance and nearly one…