Human behavior
The Financial Literacy Movement
According to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report, most Americans do not have financial plans or clear financial goals. Thirty-three percent of US adults, for instance, do not have any non-retirement savings. More than half of US adults do not maintain a budget or track expenditures. With 3.8 million foreclosures in 20106, an [...]
What Makes a Pretty Face? The Biological Basis of Beauty
Biological Basis of Beauty By Thomas Gizbert Poet and philosophical essayist Kahlil Gibran wrote in the early 20th century, “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” [1]. However, a number of recent studies are building a scientific case against this statement, claiming that beauty resides not in the heart, [...]
Sex and Aging: The Social Stigma
Many people find the idea of older people having sex disgusting to the point of absurdity. Older people’s sexuality is often exploited for laughs on television or casually mocked. While it is true that sex often becomes more difficult as one gets older, and the level of desire for sex often changes, the need for [...]
The Altruism of Recycling
Why do we recycle? A 1996 New York Times commentary declared recycling to be “the most wasteful activity in modern America” [1]. Critics have suggested that recycling lowers industrial rates of production and consumes enough energy to easily outweigh its scant benefits to the environment [2]. On the other hand, there is also evidence proposing [...]
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