Living (and loving) Life

Legal statutes have been used for thousands of years to define the laws in different lands. These laws are usually meant to protect people and the public interest in general, but every now and again a law is made that is so strange or unnecessary that it piques the public interest.

Several of these laws are remnants of times past that just haven’t been taken off of law books yet. Even if that is the case, each of these laws is still prosecutable regardless of how strange they are.

Here are five examples of very weird laws that are actually still on the books in various places around the country:

1 – No Cussing Over the Phone [Read more…]

Raising toddlers can be challenging for most parents, especially when it comes to putting them to sleep. There are several effective tactics you can try, which don’t always work, since each child responds to these tactics in a different way, depending on the child’s personality.

In order to find the most effective strategy suitable for you and your toddler, you will need to observe how your child responds to each technique. On the other hand, it is also important to be aware that although it is quite rare, sleep disorders do exist in toddlers. [Read more…]

John Hibbing was a traditional political scientist. He studied elections, researched through opinion polls, and worked to understand why some politicians retired and some continued to run. “As traditional as could be,” he said.

About a decade ago, Hibbing began to shift his methodology in such a way that is revolutionizing how we understand politics. He started to study the relationship between biology and political preference, an idea that was met with skepticism from his peers. At the Political Physiology Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, though, Hibbing and his collaborators have since compiled supporting scientific publications.

As an example, Hibbing exposed both liberals and conservatives to aversive stimuli in order to study their physical reactions, and found that conservatives tend to have a stronger startle reflex in response to a loud noise, but are less perturbed by threatening images. [Read more…]

There are many things in life that can be free, and making memories with your dad is one of them. Memories are one of those things that can comfort people and make them happy, sad, angry, joyful and many more things.

Creating happy memories for your dad on Father’s Day can take a little more effort than the run of the mill bought in a store gift, but the extra effort is definitely worth it.

Haruki Murakami once told us that Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart. How true that is.

John Green spoke about ‘Paper Towns’ – ‘The town was paper, but the memories were not.’ Also true. Memories with your dad can be solid or ethereal. A few ideas are outlined below to help you create your own memories with your father on his day, and some of the other 364 days of the year. [Read more…]

Ever since men (ladies started later) played the first game of golf around the middle of the mid 15th century, it has been a tremendously enduring and popular sport. It’s said that King James II of Scotland banned both golf and soccer because it drew his archers away from their work of protecting the castle.

His successors, the III and IV James, kept the ban going for a while until it eventually did evolve into our modern game in 1744 with rules set down in the great city of Edinburgh.

Thank goodness that the game prevailed because millions of people, some in the remotest of places, love the sport. Grantland Rice said: “Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk”. [Read more…]