Wet weather ain't so bad.

Science is cool.

I was right in criticizing the "smart atheists and liberals study"

Phew, I'm still decent at being critical.

Stop patting yourselves on the back.

I'm not sure I buy this, but it's interesting

From ScienceDaily. I think the title is a bit misleading, but it's interesting nonetheless. More intelligent people are more likely to adopt novel social values and religious and personal preferences, and the converse is sometimes true, that liberals and atheists (only one of many many novel social values/religious/political preferences) appear to be more intelligent (based on IQ).

Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds

It doen't say that those who adopt ANY novel social values are necessarily more intelligent though...

For example, fundamentalists are definitely outliers in their religions...from Jews to Mormons to Muslims.  Wouldn't we also say that they adopt "novel social values and religious and personal preferences?" Wouldn't their values also lie outside of society's preferences?

In addition, it makes me wonder about the past...would Lutherans and Calvinists and those who first protested the Catholic church also exhibit this behavior?

hmm.

this post isn't very well organized because i'm just waking up. BLarg.

In fact, the more I think about it the more I think it's kind of a load of crap (besides the author's hypothesis).  Something else is going on for sure.  Karrigan? help me out here.

Things I love right now.

1. James Franco...even in Milk (I know), but not in Spiderman.

2. Carnivorous plants...Check this out!
A pitcher plant has evolved to serve as a toilet for a shrew. No kidding.  Wow. Here's the photo from the linked article:

Also, they are lovely, and how can you not love something that turns the tables on typical predation dynamics?  I ask you, how can you?!

3. Shaun White - Completely adorable and lovable, yet a TOTAL BADASS.

4. Meyer lemons

No shit.

“In the study, husbands’ marital hostility was significantly related to increases in wives’ symptoms of depression,” said Proulx, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Human Environmental Sciences.

“The more hostile and anti-social behavior exhibited by husbands, the more depressed their wives were after three years.

“These findings suggest that husbands’ treatment of their wives significantly impacts their psychological well-being and that hostile behavior has a lasting effect on couples that continues throughout their marriages.”

The researchers found no significant relationship between wives’ hostile behavior and husbands’ depression, unless significant life events, such as a death in the family or a job loss, were present.

Additionally, warm, positive behavior from husbands lessened the negative impact of their hostile behavior.

Anti-social behaviors are those that are self-centered, defiant or show a lack of constraint; hostile behaviors are those that are angry, critical or rejecting.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/02/23/husbands-hostility-spawns-depression/11635.html

Does this mean I can marry an antisocial, hostile man if I stay on the meds?

The effed up thing is that the reciprocal isn't true. What the heck?

Religious belief positively correlated with crime rates