Obscene Gesture Benefits Economy

Researchers have discovered that “the global hegemony of American culture and its gestural memes” has made a certain hand signal a no-no everywhere in the world. However, the researchers also calculate that this gesture commonly called “the finger” added more than $200 billion to the world economy.

Colloquium Defines What Is Human

A fourteen-hour discussion among the world’s leading academic psychologists, sociologists, biologists, anthropologists, and philosophers ended in consensus on a new definition of what it means to be human. “I don’t want to sound grandiose, but someday people will look back and see this discussion as a turning point in human history,” said one participant.

Research shows wide gap in incomes and happiness of fans of the band the Replacements compared to fans of the band R.E.M.

Co-authors Hanphram T. Zennels and Moira Beverley have found that fans of R.E.M. earn $4,400 more, annually, than fans of The Replacements. However, Replacements fans exhibit far greater levels of happiness, shaped by what the authors called “their ability to see everything that is bad, and good, be aware of all that, and realize that life is what obtains, not what should obtain. …”