What popular activity leads to a statistically significant drop in personal happiness, drastically reduces leisure time, and decreases romantic satisfaction? Parenting, of course. We engage in other activities that are, in general, displeasing, but they are often a means to a greater end: We endure traffic or crowded public transportation to live in a neighborhood [...]
Archive for July 11th, 2010
11 Jul
Top 173 Things in World History: #133. The Dutch-Spanish Rivalry
The best part about Uruguay being knocked out in the semifinals of the World Cup was that it guaranteed an all-European final, which pretty much guaranteed a final between countries that, at one point or another, fought each other in a war. The special thing about the showdown in South Africa between Spain and the [...]
