A New Home For Dollars and Sex! — October 23, 2012

A New Home For Dollars and Sex!

After two wonderful years at Big Think, Dollars and Sex has found a new home at MarinaAdshade.com. Please visit me there to keep up with my blog and to get information on my new book, Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love, which will be released in the spring of 2012.

A very big thank you to everyone at Big Think for all their support!

The Past

The earliest modern humans in Europe mastered bow-and-arrow technology 54,000 years ago

A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.

Starts With A Bang

XENON experiment puts the squeeze on WIMPy dark matter

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector than ever before, the XENON collaboration leaves little wiggle room for WIMP dark matter.

Health

Are you a rapid ager?

Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.

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13.8

How do we know if a scientific model is useful or speculative nonsense?

Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.

Trends & insights

10 top corporate training videos to inspire L&D teams

Whether you’re developing or in the market for corporate training videos, these examples from PwC, Chick-fil-A, and others are sure to impress.

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