Long Ring Finger Traits Similar Between Men & Women Sexually & In Business
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Long Ring Finger Traits Similar Between Men & Women Sexually & In Business
New research examining individual attitudes relating to non-committed sex versus committed sexuality suggest that the length of the ring finger compared to the index finger is a strong predictor of tendencies to ‘stay’ or ‘stray’ in both men and women.
A longer ring finger is associated with greater exposure to testosterone in the womb.
Professor John Manning of Northumbria University’s Department of Psychology has studied finger ratio data for nearly 20 years and believes this is the first study to suggest that both men and women may have alternative mating strategies. Women were not included in earlier studies examining finger lengths and promiscuity.
Boys Club | Henceforth, Let Women Make The Trades | Lehman Sisters Wouldn't Have Failed | Uber Update |
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Best Wishes For Wall Street
Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street Bloomberg View
BoingBoing directed me to Michael Lewis’ new prescription list for Wall Street, along with this priceless view of Arturo Di Modica’s ‘Charging Bull’, located in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
3. Women will henceforth make all Wall Street trading decisions.
Men are more prone to financial risk-taking, and overconfidence, and so will be banned from even secondary roles on Wall Street trading desks — though they will be permitted to do whatever damage they would like in their private investment accounts. Trading is a bit like pornography: Women may like it, but they don’t like it nearly as much as men, and they certainly don’t like it in ways that create difficulties for society. Put them in charge of all financial decision-making and the decisions will be more boring, but more sociable. Of course, this raises a practical question: How will our society find enough women older than 35, with no special intellectual ability, to fill all of Wall Street’s trading jobs? Well …
4. Wall Street will take the resources it once hurled at Harvard and Yale universities, to recruit their students, and invest in America’s leading retirement communities, to recruit their swelling population of elderly women, most of whom are currently wasting valuable trading hours.
Lenman Sisters Wouldn’t Have Failed Big Think
Writer John Cookson explains why women are probably better constituted biochemically to work on Wall Street as traders and fund managers. You see, men tend to go all hormonal!
Men’s cortisol levels respond very powerfully from competitive situations, and women not so much. Women’s cortisol responses and stress responses seem more powerful from social stressors.” According to this theory, which (John) Coates has begun testing, a male’s cortisol-fueled stress response might exacerbate a bear or middling market by responding with skewed memories and anxiety to events, whereas a female risk response would be more stable across a variety of circumstances.
The numbers don’t lie, says Coates. “Women have been found over a long period of time to outperform men by up to two percent return—which is a lot,” he says. According to BusinessWeek, hedge funds run by women turned an annual rate of return of 9% between 2000 and 2009—versus 5.82% from funds run by men over the same period. A study by U.C. Davis researchers also found that men in the financial industry make 45 percent more trades than their female counterparts do—a gap that reduces their net returns by 2.65 percentage points per year compared with the 1.72 percentage points women lose on their trading fees.
The truth behind testosterone: why men risk it all Wired UK
CTPartners
In wake of controversy, CTPartners loses a client New York Post
Embattled Wall Street recruiter CTPartners may have ‘mommy issues’ New York Post
After ‘boozy romp’ claims, firm’s stock takes a dive New York Post
Phallic shadows, naked scrums, and a very bad day for CTPartners MarketWatch
It all started early Monday when the New York Post reported some colorful claims of discrimination against women. Not only did female workers “routinely” have profitable accounts taken away and given to their male counterparts, they were also subjected to some inappropriate “booze-fueled” behavior, according to the complaint.
One exec called himself “daddy” and offered a spanking. Four others formed a naked rugby-like scrum in front of a mixed crowd of coworkers and ran into the ocean. Another would call women into his office to talk about how the shadows on the buildings outside looked like “penises.” All told, there were more than a dozen different sexual-harassment complaints brought internally in the New York office in 2012, according to the Post.
Have Wall Street’s Gay and Female Diversity Policies Gone Too Far or Not Far Enough Vault
Uber News
Uber’s Delhi Rape Incident Has Opened A Hidden Entrepreneurial Door Forbes
Delhi is not unlike most major metropolises in the world – safety is a matter of concern in the same way as it is in New York or London or Paris. Being street-wise and conscious of one’s movements and actions is just as pertinent here as it is anywhere.
The difference is this: the average male in a population of a billion is raised to believe that he is better than the average female, and can therefore live his life in any way he chooses, while the females are told they must remain in fear.
Uber Driver Charged With Kidnapping, Sexual Assault Boston.com
Let Uber Operate With Less Regulation And Riders Can Make Their Own Choice Forbes
Uber says it will toughen background checks CNN
He said Uber is developing biometric and voice verification to enhance driver screening, and building ways for passengers to communicate with the company immediately in case of emergency. It will also start working with partners with expertise in issues like women’s safety, conflict resolution and road safety to provide additional training to the company, he said.
After a spate of bad press for Uber, some turn back to traditional taxis NY Daily News
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House of Lords mends its own caterer because Parliament’s Champagne isn’t good enough BoingBoing
Britain’s Parliament website estimates that about 20% of members of the House of Lords — the upper chamber of Britain’s governing body. Today Lord Fowler will handle oral questions on the Number of NHS medical staff trained in Africa. Earl of Clancarty will lead discussion on the devolution of arts and culture within the UK. Lord Sharkey will be talking about the Higher Education Commission’s report Too Good to Fail. And Lord Marks on Henley-on-Thames will be speaking on the appointment of a chairman for the independent panel inquiry into child abuse.
Lord Faulks will report on legislation concerning the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill. And Lord Boswell of Aynho will lead debate around the Report of the European Union Committee on The Role of National Parliaments in the European Union.
Champagne is nowhere on the agenda, but in real life the unelected House of Lords is having a bubbly meltdown over plans to merge its catering service with those of the House of Commons.
NPR radio took up this tragic national problem a few days ago and now BoingBloing guarantees that we are all part of the pending national tragedy. During this government (whatever that means) the Lords have drunk 17,000 bittles of champagne — about five bottles each) at a cost of £265,770 to British taxpayers.
There are other problems say the Lords, refusing to agree that they are having an elitist temper tantrum. There are mice in Parliament’s kitchens and problems with pay negotiations, argue the Lords. And they will have none of it — as long as the sun never sets on British soil.
(Image: champagne tower, kenichi nobusue, CC-BY)
Can Curry Make You Manly?
Why liking hot curries really does make you the alpha male: Men who enjoy spicy food have higher testosterone levels Daily Mail UK
Researchers at the University of Grenoble in France confirm that men with a preference for spicy foods tend to have higher levels of testosterone.
Curry Cult Catches Fire in the East Village WSJ Metropolis (2010)
On busy weekends, the dining room teems with post-collegiate frat boys high-fiving each other, brave gourmands shooting YouTube videos and ruddy-cheeked culinary tourists posing for photos alongside empty bowls.
Phaal, which contains ten different chilies and emits so much heat that chefs wear a protective mask while making it, first appeared on Brick Lane’s menu in 2002, but an appearance on the Travel Channel’s sleeper stunt-food hit “Man Vs. Food” in 2008 put it on the map for local stunt diners.
Stunt Dining Reaches New Heights
Restaurant Features 180-Foot-High Dinners in the Sky Vegas Eater (2013)
Where do men go when they want to get away from it all? How about a dangling, 180-foot-high dining experience over Las Vegas. Diners are strapped to tables for an hour-long dinner, hanging via a crane over the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.
Male Canary Brains Bathed In Testosterone Hit The Seductive High Notes
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Male Canary Brains Bathed In Testosterone Hit The Seductive High Notes
Seducing a female canary isn’t easy. They are picky, frankly, looking for males particularly adept at singing “sexy syllables” that may indicate their overall genetic robustness. Researchers have previously determined that unlike most vocal notes produced by a male canary, the sexy trills require “extraordinarily fast and coordinated alternation between the left and right sides of the syrinx (the avian vocal organ) more than 16 times a second.
For the male canary capable of executing this performance — even on tape — caged female canaries assume postures inviting copulation.
