Humpday Humor: Human Reproduction

Do human reproduction rates vary by IQ level?  Mike Judge dives right into the topic during the opening scene of his 2006 movie Idiocracy...

Teaching Kids Violence

An interesting blog post by Michael Kaplan at The Forward.

Israel

Of course it is not just in Israel that adults encourage children to "pretend" violence.  Kids playing army is common the world over.

Iraq

Russia

What are the repercussions of these games?  Are they meaningless?  Just boys being boys or does "acting" out pretend violence breed the potential for real violent acts?

A New Stereotype: The Well Behaved Teenager

New data from The Centers for Disease Control suggests that teenagers are getting into far less trouble than they used to.

Exhibit A:
 

Exhibit B: Teen abortion rates have dropped by half since 1990.*

Exhibit C: Alcohol use is way down.

Exhibit D: Exercising is more popular than cigarettes among young adults.

*according to Guttmacher Institute 

Find more details and analysis of the well behaved teenager at Vox.