The Baby Name Book – 100,000 Baby Names
Science has proven that what you name your child really can affect them as they grow up.
A study of 3000 parents suggests that 20% OF PARENTS REGRET WHAT THEY NAMED THEIR CHILDREN.
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Charlotte, North Carolina – the “Queen City of the South” – has been named the MANLIEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY by Combos snacks.
We know. Web Watch was shocked too.
This was the same city where the Carolina Panthers’ Fight Song was deemed too cheesy to be played after a touchdown. No wonder the team struggled for a few years, even posting a 1-15 record one season. What good is an NFL team without a Fight Song?
Over 1,500 young adults (age 21-26) in America were recently asked about WHAT THEY EXPECTED TO HAVE HAPPEN BY THE YEAR 2050.
40% of those surveyed said that they expect the second coming of Jesus to occur by 2050.
On the other hand, 31% said that they believe an asteroid will destroy the Earth in the same timeframe.
Some of the other items on the survey include:
The new “Dad”-related website, MANOFTHEHOUSE.COM conducted a survey that asked over 1,000 dads about how they felt their home-oriented responsibilities were going.
What they found was 91% OF DADs SURVEYED SAID THAT THEY HAVE A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER HOME RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR SPOUSE WHEN THEY SHARE CHORES EQUALLY.
The Biggest Loser – 6 Weeks to a Healthier You
Nathalie Bajos of the National Institute of Health and Medical Reseach (Inserm) took data from a 2006 French survey regarding sexual behavior and concluded that OBESE PEOPLE SUFFER FROM A VARIETY OF SEXUAL-RELATED ISSUES. Her results were published in the British Medical Journal.
The study, entitled SEXUALITY AND OBESITY, A GENDER PERSPECTIVE: RESULTS FROM FRENCH NATIONAL RANDOM PROBABILITY SURVEY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS, turned up the following observations from a pool of over 10,000 respondants:
Think about this while you sit at your desk or sit in traffic: HOW MANY STEPS DO YOU THINK YOU TAKE IN A DAY?
In a 2004 study of 200 men and women, researchers determined that an average man walks about 7,192 steps per day, while the average woman takes about 5,210 steps per day.
Trust us when Web Watch tells you that those numbers are way above today’s average of around 3,000 steps per day (most likely due to Web Watch and other Internet distractions). If it helps, RECENT GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDATIONS call for a healthy person to be taking 10,000 steps per day – or about 5 miles.
What? You’re not walking 5 miles a day? Apparently, neither are a lot of other people.
However, everyone thinks they are.
Office Mate – Your Guide to Romance at the Office
And by “sleeping with a co-worker”, we mean “share a hotel room with while on a business trip”.
And this has happened to Web Watch more than once, as we’re sure it has happened to many others.
One occasion was due to a winter business trip that required a cross-country flight through a few major snow storms — resulting in delayed… then diverted flights into an overnight stay in a city with very few available hotel rooms. Luckily, our travel department found an Embassy Suites with one room available – and it allowed for all parties involved to have their own bit of privacy until the next day’s flight.
Another was just a situation where there were more people than available rooms, and everyone in the group was bunked up with another. Luckily, our hotel buddy decided to hook up with someone they had just met earlier that day, so Web Watch ended up having the entire room to ourselves all night. I suppose that this one didn’t officially count as sharing a room, but it could have been, so we’ll count it.
In any case, both of these were perfectly good, legitimate business-oriented reasons for co-workers to share a hotel room. And it ends up that Web Watch was just at the beginning of this new trend in business travel.
This week, the NEW YORK TIMES finally wrote an article about a study that WEB WATCH wrote about in a September 2009 piece entitled “MULTITASKING SUCKS”. Glad to see that the NY Times is on top of today’s news…
In the NYTimes article called “Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” (or, depending on which version you’re reading, also titled as “Your Brain on Computers – Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price”, take your pick), the NYTimes examines the impact that computers and portable gadgets have on people today, and whether being so surrounded by information and multitasking our way through the Internet marsh is worth it.