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Are men scum?

From Psychology Today, a look at why women have better things to do than make money (and part 2 and part 3); what do Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals? Men do everything they do in order to get laid (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6); and are men scum? A review of The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man by Faye Flam. A review of The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change by Angela McRobbie. Intellectual sustenance: Laleh Khalili on two intimate, nourishing and, for female academics, often simultaneous acts: breastfeeding a child and feeding one's own mind. A review of Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing by Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman. A look at the daily routines of interesting people. Here are 12 examples of what the recession means for specific things, from Spam to sex addiction. Before utensils, everything was finger food; here’s how some of our common eating tools wound up on our placemats. Don't know much about (awesome tidbits of information). Rule by whim: Sometimes grammar usage edicts are just arbitrary. The loneliness of the last native speaker: Dozens are on the verge of taking to their graves a system of communication that will vanish forever. An article on the last of the Zoroastrians.