Ever wonder how famous author and relationship expert John Grey writes best selling book after book after best selling book?
Since my last post, I took my five year old son to the library where he picked out four Fantastic Four books one of which is called Women Are from Venus And Men Are Atlantis. Quite frankly, I was shocked to see that John Grey was now writing graphic novels until I realized that he didn’t write it!
It’s now been over 50 years since Hugh Hefner started Playboy magazine, his little magazine for men about women, many of them naked. The barriers that Playboy broke are far too numerous to mention here yet bare (I couldn’t help it) repeating. While Playboy legitimized naked women it also served as a showcase for African-American musicians and various authors and artists that couldn’t get a fair shot elsewhere. Until Mr. Hefner, all of these great artists were confined to the underground of American society.
No doubt Mr. Hefner must have seen great promise in our next President, Barack Obama.
Whatever Mr. Hefner believes , the American people voted this past November, 2008 with their hearts, minds and ballots for the next President of the United States and chose the young senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
The funny thing is, it may not be Barack Obama that saves our country and for that matter the world. It might just be Hugh Hefner!
Let me explain.
Some scientists believe that human beings have lost the ability to mutate or change their genetic code.
Why might you ask? Isn’t this a good thing?
Well, you also have to consider that humanity evolves through mutation. Through evolution we’re able to better adapt to our ever changing environment. Because of our adaptions over the last million years, we are who we are today. In a very real way, we wouldn’t be here if our ancestors didn’t mutate.
So the scary thing is that the human race may not be up to the challenge of the next climate shift, super volcano, or ice age. This may explain why I hate winter so much.
Thankfully, like a bad science fiction movie, science has left the door open for our redemption. As it turns out, the reasons for less mutation are twofold. Scientists have determined that there are fewer isolated populations on earth leading to fewer unique people. They have also documented that older men are having less sex and therefore fewer babies with younger women. Why is this bad? Well, older men’s chromosomes mutate more than younger men’s and this leads to more mutations in the older men’s progeny. Less mutation equals less adaption and less adaption ultimately means fewer people survive the next time a global disaster hits.
That’s where Mr. Hefner comes in and saves us all. Mr. Hefner has decided to not take this lying down. That is to say he’ll lie down and have sex with as many young women as possible. With any luck, he’ll have lots and lots of super babies with amazing powers.
By example and through plenty of Viagra, Hugh Hefner and others like him, will lead the way to the future of the human race!
What’s the beginning of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawkes now defunct relationship have to do with yours? Well I’m glad you asked! You may or not know that Uma and Ethan met on the set of the sci-fi movie, Gattaca.
Gattaca is set some time in the not to distant future where humanity feels that it can tell everything about you, even your future, through a genetic test. I’m not sure that the movie did well at the box office, but I definitely enjoyed it and became a a fan of both Uma and Ethan ever since.
The reason I bring this all up is because Time Magazine just named 23andMe‘s Personal Genome Service as it’s invention of the year 2008.
What does the invention do?
First off the number 23 refers to the number of chromosomes we all posses as human beings.
23andMe can test your chromosomes on over 90 different traits and genetic defects. Right now they can tell you if you’re susceptible to various genetic diseases among other traits. Here’s the curent list from their website:
Clinical Reports (23)
Clinical Reports give you information about conditions and traits for which there are genetic associations supported by multiple, large, peer-reviewed studies. Those associations must also have a substantial influence on a person’s chances of developing the disease or having the trait. Because these associations are widely regarded as reliable, we use them to develop quantitative estimates and definitive explanations of what they mean for you.
Research Reports give you information from research that has not yet gained enough scientific consensus to be included in our Clinical Reports. This research is generally based on high-quality but limited scientific evidence. Because these results have not yet been demonstrated through large, replicated studies, we do not perform complete quantitative analyses of their effects. We do, however, explain how they may–if confirmed–affect your odds of having or developing a trait, condition or disease.
Research Reports also includes scientifically accepted, established research that does not have a dramatic influence on a person’s risk for a disease.
You future foretold for the low low cost of only $399!
In Gattaca, women even take skin cells from potential mates and test the skin for the right genetic code. Having the right genetic code means everything in the future that Gattaca foretells. Without the right code you’ll have no future because.
Your 23andMe scan includes genetic analysis on all of the following diseases, traits, and conditions. This list grows will grow as new research is published and tests developed.
The following comes from the 23andme website and gives a list of the traits that they will test you, your family or potential husband.
None other than the National Science Foundation and the University of Chicago, came out with a study that showed women are reporting that they are cheating on their husbands more than ever before. The number, while still only half that of men, is dramatically higher. In fact, the rate at which women are cheating has tripled in just 15 years, going from 5% in 1991 to 15% in 2006. So in the space of 15 years another 10/100 women have decide to cheat on their men. To be fair, the male infidelity rate has also gone up from 20 to 28%, a 40% increase in 15 years.
Anyway you look at it men and women are cheating on each other more than ever in modern history.
As usual I think I’ve cracked the code to this puzzle. In my book Crack the Guy Code, I write about how men and women who don’t find a balance between work, home and play will eventually find themselves up a creek when trouble hits.
Says Tom Smith director of the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago, “Their employment patterns are more like men, and you would suppose other behaviors would follow.”
Women are working more than ever and in essence becoming more like their husbands. Which is to say increasingly distracted and sidelined by their work, their phones and away from what’s most important to them and their families. Email, texting and social media all seem to take us all away from meaningful, face to face conversation.
With the current financial crisis at hand one can only wonder where these trends will take us. Will there be more infidelity? As husbands lose their jobs will they become more insular or take stock and re-connect with their wives? Will wives find themselves working more and more distracted from their marriages? Will the recession lead to more broken relationships? Only time will tell.
The Chicago Tribune and LA Times websites had a story on a study showing that men love the color red. This in spite of the fact they say that we don’t know that red turns us on!
The study was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The scientists took female pictures and framed them either with a white or red border. They then asked male volunteers to rate the attractiveness of the women. The red border was the hand downs winner when it came to the men rating the beauty of the women.
As an aside, it’s interesting to note a possible explanation for this. Blood equals red. It has long been known that women’s skin turns darker when they ovulate. If This color change comes from increased blood flow to the skin, that would explain much.
Me: Well, I think this pumpkin may not do. It doesn’t look right.I said.
Hannah: Why don’t I write something up and let’s see how it turns out?
Me: OK, then.
Phyllis, Hannah, Al and I all had a great time carving this years pumpkin. When Hannah and I went out to get it, I wasn’t even sure what I wanted. Did I want a tall one, big one, small one, or fat one? The one thing I thought I knew for sure was that I wanted one without any blemishes. Quite frankly I wanted one that looked perfect on the outside like the ones we had gotten before.
So when Hannah and I got to the store and picked the pumpkin, I was undecided on whether it would turn out OK. You see it had all kinds of warts and one long crease in the middle of the pumpkin. The crease was so prominent that it looked like a belt!
This reminds me that just because a relationship or situation looks ugly, it doesn’t mean you should abandon it. Things can get better. They are never as bad as they seem. All you have to do is step back and look at the situation with fresh eyes. Abandon any of your previous notions and give the situation, person or relationship a second look. Everybody deserves a second chance.
And so it was. I gave the ugly pumpkin a second chance. Took it home and carved it with my family. Hannah wrote the plan out, Al approved, and I carved it. If you check out the picture below or my Crack the Guy Code channel, on YouTube, you’ll see that we used the crease as the mouth and put simple fangs on the crease with great effect. Luckily no daddies or mommies were harmed in the carving of the pumpkin!
Have you seen those ads recently where the woman is climbing on the sheer face of some mountain in the middle of nowhere when she gets a call?
Who’s the call from?
Could the call be from her boyfriend? Mother? Sister? Brother? Doctor? The answer to all of these is a big fat No, No, No, No and No!
The call is from her banker!
I think the banker is calling to tell her that she’s overdrawn or not overdrawn or some such thing. Either way, was taking that call so important? Besides, who wants to take a call from a banker these days? Why not let it go to voicemail? Is it that important that she has to take that call? Geeze! Come on!
A million things could go wrong while she’s on the phone:
She could drop the phone on another climbers head
She could get distracted lose her footing
She lose her concentration and slip and fall
Whether or not the geniuses behind the commercial knew it or not they were making one of the central points of my new book, Crack the Guy Code: 8 Hidden Secrets No Guy Wants You Know – And Every Guy Secretly Wishes you Did! You can get a sneak peak of this book here.
The central point is that we all need to take a step back (not the rock climber!), take a deep breath and evaluate our priorities. Do you have to be such a slave to your phones (admit it, you’ve got at least three) that you have to stop what you’re doing to take a Robo Call?
Just as many things can go wrong with your life while your so busy answering the phone:
It seems like every month there’s a new story of an ancient civilization unearthed by archeologists. What archeologists seem to learn the most from is the garbage left behind!
That’s right.
These scientists can learn an unbelievable amount from the detritus left behind by our ancestors. Everything from earthen ware to ancient toilets can tell scientists many things that they didn’t know before. This isn’t surprising given written communication wasn’t as prevalent thousands of years ago. I Imagine 100 years from now, historians will not only go through our garbage but our texts and emails to see what we we’re truly thinking.
With that being said there was an informative article written by Ellie Tesher in The Naperville Sun recently concerning a husband accidentally going through his wife’s emails and texts and finding that she was fed up with him.
It’s my opinion that the husband (let’s call him Colombo) didn’t come upon these by accident. For whatever reason, he has no way of talking to his wife that works for him and her. He’s left sifting through the detritus of what his wife feels is a dead relationship. Kind of sad when you think about it.
Ok, so I’ve watched CNBC’s coverage of the financial crisis far too much and have come to a profound conclusion:
The politicians, pundits and wall street wizards have no idea what’s going on in our economy.
These same geniuses have no idea how to get us out of the current economic mess
Men like Henry Paulson and Ben Bernake watched us get into the financial crisis and said nothing. Their good friends and colleagues gladly helped us get into the financial crisis.
Now these same clowns are in charge of fixing it.
If that isn’t enough to scare the be jabbers out of you then I don’t know what will. It seems things are worse than reviews of recent M. Night Shyamalan movies. Have you see The Happening? www.thehappeningmovie.com/ Now that’s scary!
There are things that we can all do to ride out this storm and come out the other side better:
Never see a M. Night Shyamalan movie ever again
Generate CASH from more than just your job or the stock market
Check out the video above and I think you’ll see some provocative statements made by one American man. How he came to these statements is interesting in and of itself.
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