PDF to happiness

I've been doing some work for Dresdner Kleinwort recently, who conduct some interesting macro-economic research. One of their stars is a guy call James Montier, who writes about behaviours involved in investing. He's written a particularly interesting article on the psychology of happiness, which is well worth the read even though it's in a PDF.

It's not just their tails that they lose...

What happens if you give an iguana Viagra and it overdoses? The Belgians seem to have found out.

Sex

Woody Allen told us about the things we wanted to know but were afraid to ask, but there are many things we didn't know that we didn't think to ask about; a case of Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns.
Once you've had sex -- successfully in the procreative sense rather than in the Kinsey sense -- many people will tell you that nine months later you need to do it again, to see the result of what you put in come out again.
Why? Because your sperm (yes, I'm addressing an exclusively male audience in this post, except that women ought to recognise that we know now) contains prostaglandin , a hormone-like substance that is supposed to induce birth. So it makes sense for you to mount / be mounted by the bearer of your child (even with your cracked ribs) to end procrastination. However, the prostaglandin doesn't need to go in that way. The hormone simply needs to be added to the expectant mother's body, and she can quite easily ingest it without the need to come to blows, so to speak.

Statistical anomaly

As I attend my Birth Basics classess with my wife, I have discovered a number of interesting facts on subjects as diverse as hormones and pain relief. But here's a striking one. Apparently 50% of all twins are now delivered by Caesarian section. Does that mean one each?