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Tracking a Cheating Spouse

Written by MackDoppler

Tracking technology has greatly improved but it’s usually a bad idea to use it to track your mate … here’s why:

I recently ran across an article which was titled “Study: Macho men die younger” (on the USA Today website) and another article based on the same study which was titled “Study: Machismo Cuts Men’s Lives Short” (on the LiveScience website).
These two had me rolling my eyes in spots thanks to their superficiality.
For example, they indicated [...]

Don’t Marry Career Women: Here’s Why

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across an article in the Forbes magazine archives which was titled “Don’t Marry Career Women” (with a subheading of “How do women, careers and marriage mix? Not well, say social scientists”). It was written by Michael Noer and dated August 23, 2006.
Unlike a lot of the research I run across (which these [...]

The Best Men Are Taken: How Social Proof Works

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across an article entitled “It’s true: all the taken men are best” (written by Andy Coghlan and posted on the NewScientist website on August 17, 2009), and I decided to add my own comments on this topic.
Without getting into the mechanics of the research study which the article addresses, the gist of [...]

What’s Love Got To Do With Marriage?

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across an article entitled “In love? It’s not enough to keep a marriage, study finds” on The Yahoo News website, which had picked it up from Reuters Life (datelined Sydney, Australia July 14, 2009).
That write-up, in turn, had been based on a study by researchers from the Australian National University entitled “What’s [...]

Will the Y-Chromosome Eventually Disappear?

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across an article which was titled “Will Chromosome Y Go Bye-Bye?” and subtitled “Is the End of Men Imminent?” (written by Radha Chitale of the ABC News Medical Unit and dated Friday July 10, 2009), and I decided to offer my own two cents worth on this topic.
The article itself looks in [...]