The Idea Man

John Hughes writes to  Alison Byrne Fields: a beautiful friendship of a wonderful man- we'll know when we get there

Would four day week become the norm?- The 17,000 employees in Utah who participated in the experiment love the extra day off (workers spent 10 hours per day at work four days per week), and the state has saved $1.8 million since May-  Lifehacker 

Officials in an English town that annually spends $66,7000 cleaning up graffiti say they are offering a class for children to improve their spray can technique.- Odd News - UPI.com

Statisticians can earn $125,000 in their first year after getting a doctorate.- NYT > Most E-Mailed

In case you missed it- "Seven Lies About Lying (Part 1)," and "Seven Lies About Lying (Part 2)," -  CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog 

The truth about Grit- via Mind Hacks They say that grit means you struggle in the face of all kinds of obstacles, but also you always keep in mind your long-term goal.

You do not understand things as well as you do once you talk to a woman-  BPS Research Digest ; they also say that men expect women to be sexually attracted to them.

They collected sweat from men after oral exams (stress sweat) and after exercise (sports sweat)- people who smelled the pads couldn't tell the difference- but their brain did- "stress sweat — and not sport sweat — triggered brain activity in areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and empathetic feelings (insula), attention (thalamus)."-  Love, Sex, Attraction...and Science

They found that young Orangutans in Borneo put up leaves in front of their mouths and use it like an equaliser to produce a deeper sound so that they looked like coming from a bigger adult- Not Exactly Rocket Science

They have found that you don't have to wait for a crisis to know what kind of a man you are- there is something called bystander effect- where people do nothing even though they see someone is harmed, that can reveal what kind of a man you are:  The Essential Read 

They have run historical films to student to check whether cinematic distortions affect the historical truth they study- it does. When the film agrees with their books, they remember that strongly- otherwise they trust the movie version. But not if the teacher lets them know, the movie says this, the truth is this: then they put up the right tags.-  We're Only Human...