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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Generation YouTube: teaser

In August 2007, DeAndre Ramone Way posted a video on YouTube showing people how to dance to his self-published song, "Crank That (Souljah Boy)." Soon thousands of people had posted videos of themselves doing the "Soulja Boy" dance. By September the song had reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Approximately 10 hours of video are uploaded to the Web site every minute, according to YouTube, creating celebrities virtually overnight.

Darwin 101: teaser

There are many questions that women have struggled to answer about the opposite sex. Why do many men struggle with monogamy? Why the obsession with big breasts? Why would a man of fifty cheat on or leave his wife of decades for a girl barely out of her teens? If you believe the Darwinian psychologists, it all comes down to sex. That is, the body’s desire for sex, driven by our genes’ desire to be passed on through reproduction. Everything people do, every aspect of human nature, according to these evolution-based theories, comes down to natural selection. In other words, no matter how many millennia have passed in our evolutionary history, there are some habits that are just too hard to kick.