Interesting Links for 14-12-2016
Why some clinical psychologists are ignoring official best practice guidelines
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6 Reasons Why Intelligent People Fail to Be Happy
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Artist Teaches Roots To Grow In Beautiful, Alien Patterns
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China’s Huge, Eerie Tower Blocks That Will Soon House Millions
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Ummmmm ... I'm very hesitant to leap in on this one, because my knowledge of this sensitive subject is somewhat limited and I'm certainly not a researcher in the area, and I would not want to come across (sorry) as boastful. But ... that is so far from my lived experience that it seems ludicrous. Below three minutes, on average? Surely not?
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http://theconversation.com/health-check-how-long-does-sex-normally-last-56432
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"The average time for each couple (that is, averaged across all the times they had sex) ranged from 33 seconds to 44 minutes. That’s an 80-fold difference. [...] So it’s clear there’s no one “normal” amount of time to have sex. The average (median, technically) across all couples, though, was 5.4 minutes."
That's still on the low side of what I would have expected, but doesn't strain my personal credulity meter at all. I was thinking in terms of mean, rather than median, which would probably be much higher.
But that range! Wow. Humans are highly variable in their experience of sex. That, at least, seems entirely consistent with my lived experience.
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250 million is a lot of people. Rough calc says that if China wanted to reach the average rich world proportion of urban population of 80% then it needs a little more than 300 million to move from rural areas to urban areas. About the population of the USA.
It's a huge undertaking. I think the world after China urbanises and enriches itself and builds all the infrastructure it needs might look very, very different, unimaginably so.
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I wish I were a moron, my God, perhaps I am."
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