If you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world. @A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR

“Being a woman is an art in which American women could learn much from their Chinese sisters.”  From 1942 @The Milwaukee Journal – Google News Archive Search.

Men seen as likely to be violent towards their wives could be forced to wear an electronic tag under a law being debated by the French parliament. @BBC News – Violent French husbands ‘may be tagged’

“High-intensity interval training is twice as effective as normal exercise,” said Jan Helgerud, an exercise expert at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. “This is like finding a new pill that works twice as well … we should immediately throw out the old way of exercising.”

“A lot of the (benefits) from exercise are due to a stress response,” said Stephen Bailey, a sports sciences expert at the University of Exeter. “If you disturb your muscles, there’s an imbalance created and your body will start signaling pathways that result in adjustments.”

@Interval training can cut exercise hours sharply – Yahoo! News

Unreflective people say, “But where are the intellectuals today?” – as if the problem were one of supply rather than (their) demand. @alaindebotton

Even if we learn from our mistakes, life is continually too new and uncharted for us (me) to avoid outright idiocy on a regular basis. @alaindebotton

In “No Context,” Trow pointed out the role of television in the destruction of American public culture and Americans' sense of history. “Middle-distance” institutions that had long given Americans' lives real contexts (such as fraternal organizations, bowling leagues, and women's clubs), had disappeared as people stayed home to watch television. Their replacements, television shows, were false contexts designed to be just compelling enough to keep people watching. What remained as real contexts for Americans to live in were “the grid of two hundred million” (the U.S. population at the time) and “the grid of intimacy” (the immediate family). Celebrities had a real life in both grids, and only they could now be complete. Deprived of real context, everyone else now wanted to be celebrities themselves. @George W. S. Trow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Also find more @Within the Context of No Context, and other Trow articles @New Yorker George W. S. Trow Archives.

“The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic,” she says, “because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It’s like being in a play; I’m always in a play.” @The Weekend Interview with Temple Grandin: Life Among the ‘Yakkity Yaks’ – WSJ.com

On paper, China has signed international wildlife treaties that ban all trade in tiger body parts and claims to have outlawed the industry. In reality, Xiongshen and other parks like it operate in a grey area of the law, using the bones of animals that have died naturally in captivity to produce “medicinal”  wine, apparently with the government’s blessing. @Exposed: Dark secret of the farm where tigers’ bodies are plundered to make £185 wine | Mail Online

For decades, a tidy narrative about the relationship between LDL cholesterol and heart disease has affected everything from the food we eat to the drugs ($$$) we take to the test results we track and the worries we harbor. This oversimplified view of cholesterol — that all LDL is the same and that all LDL is bad — has enabled the adoption of an accompanying oversimplified dietary belief, that all saturated-fat consumption raises your risk of heart disease. @‘Bad cholesterol’: It’s not what you think – Heart health- msnbc.com

In making decisions, your own mind may be your worst enemy. Here’s how to catch thinking traps before they become judgment disasters [PDF]. @The Hidden Traps in Decision Making | Harvard Business Review

Individuals employed closest to the bottom of the business hierarchy (such as messengers or doorkeepers) had a mortality rate that nearly tripled the rate of administrators and CEOs. @How Stress Ruins Everything And What You Can Do About It | The Emotion Machine

The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a despair not seen for decades. Ultimately, it is likely to warp our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years to come. @The Atlantic Online | March 2010 | How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America | Don Peck

As we age, our muscles deteriorate, and they don’t repair as quickly as they used to. But the good news is that exercise and weightlifting can still make muscles stronger. @Why We Gain Weight As We Age : NPR

The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008. @How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com