I’m reading a book called “Perfect Soldiers” about the 9-11 hijackers, and the exact section I was reading was the description of how they determined how much sway to allow the towers.
They did an experiment on how much sway people would tolerate – setting the upper limit to what 2% of test subjests “seriously objected to.”
Park Sloper – Do you really think women’s role in public life is circumscribed in Latin America? Putting aside that there have been infinitely more female heads of state in Latin America than the United States, I believe that Latin Amican social structure is much more dominated by women than in the United States. The men might be out in front doing the macho thing, but the women are making a lot of decisions behind the scenes. They have a significant sphere of influence in LatAm. Here they basically have none left, which ironically is a result of the women’s lib movement.
if you’re concerned about Mercury,
you better not go to the upper floors
of the CitiCorp building.
There’s a pool of mercury up there.
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Thanks for sharing that! I’ll go to upper floors if I have a reason, but I am thinking of when the structure was deemed unsafe a few years ago and had to be re-engineered lest it fall over. So now I am learning that a whole pool of mercury may fall over on us in a tornado or an earthquake or if the re-doing of the weaknesses in the structure were not done completely 🙂 🙂 :-).
I think I would have challenged your assumption about male=female here except for equipment. Seems to me that what is being strongly suggested here is they(women) are much smarter.
Lech: then putting aside Dave’s post about my reading comprehension abilities, you’re not talking about the actual, remaining matriarchal/matrinlineal societies. I get your point about Latin America, but I certainly do disagree that the land of machismo is more matriarchal, and that it explains what may be a higher incidence of male homosexuality (even if it’s on the “down low”) in Latin American countries than in the United States (assuming that’s even true — I don’t know that we really have data that establishes that). In fact, I’d argue the opposite: that it’s in places where women’s role in public life is circumscribed that a male-dominated culture leads to the type of “male bonding” that also allows for male sexual bonding.
Pete,
was eying this one:
http://www.brooklynproperty.com/content/ProDetails.aspx?pid=265
legion,
I’m reading a book called “Perfect Soldiers” about the 9-11 hijackers, and the exact section I was reading was the description of how they determined how much sway to allow the towers.
They did an experiment on how much sway people would tolerate – setting the upper limit to what 2% of test subjests “seriously objected to.”
Park Sloper – Do you really think women’s role in public life is circumscribed in Latin America? Putting aside that there have been infinitely more female heads of state in Latin America than the United States, I believe that Latin Amican social structure is much more dominated by women than in the United States. The men might be out in front doing the macho thing, but the women are making a lot of decisions behind the scenes. They have a significant sphere of influence in LatAm. Here they basically have none left, which ironically is a result of the women’s lib movement.
speaking about Mercury and CitiCorp,
if you’re concerned about Mercury,
you better not go to the upper floors
of the CitiCorp building.
There’s a pool of mercury up there.
—-
Thanks for sharing that! I’ll go to upper floors if I have a reason, but I am thinking of when the structure was deemed unsafe a few years ago and had to be re-engineered lest it fall over. So now I am learning that a whole pool of mercury may fall over on us in a tornado or an earthquake or if the re-doing of the weaknesses in the structure were not done completely 🙂 🙂 :-).
prezanon, those bedbug alerts from 2-3 weeks ago.
Pete, m4l, I got a StreetEasy update today that there’s a house on 2nd Place for $1.2m, but haven’t looked at the listing yet.
And I want this day to end sooooo bad. I just want my boss to leave so I can go home.
And where the hell is DH???
the warren mews doll house is in contract, cgar.
is it the weekend yet?
I think I would have challenged your assumption about male=female here except for equipment. Seems to me that what is being strongly suggested here is they(women) are much smarter.
Lech: then putting aside Dave’s post about my reading comprehension abilities, you’re not talking about the actual, remaining matriarchal/matrinlineal societies. I get your point about Latin America, but I certainly do disagree that the land of machismo is more matriarchal, and that it explains what may be a higher incidence of male homosexuality (even if it’s on the “down low”) in Latin American countries than in the United States (assuming that’s even true — I don’t know that we really have data that establishes that). In fact, I’d argue the opposite: that it’s in places where women’s role in public life is circumscribed that a male-dominated culture leads to the type of “male bonding” that also allows for male sexual bonding.