- J.K. Rowling talks about writing kick-ass female characters – ‘I don’t like the marginalisation of women when the fight breaks out,’ she revealed of the epic battle at the end of the final film. ‘We get to fight too.’
- The first 65 years of SciAm available free for a month – See you in December.
- Freshman 15 is really more like Freshman 3-if-that (from Donnie)
- Dogs being walked by men are four times more likely to threaten and bite other dogs. WTF?
- And, for Cute Animal Friday (the real reason I wanted to cover the Quickies today): In the Are-You-Kidding-Me-With-The-Cute category: A dog with a seeing eye dog, 70 unbelievably cute baby animals and my dog, who decided a suitcase would make a good doggie bed. D’awwww….
I lost weight my freshman year … the dining commons were somewhat terrible at times.
Aaawwwww!!!
WTF? The bosses in Warner Bros. didn’t want McGonagall to fight snape?! She is awesome, why would they want to change that?
So cute! So much cute! *head asplode*
Here is my kitty in a sweater – http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=202169586522435&set=a.115857621820299.19071.115857395153655&type=3
*sniff*
The baby mouse with the teddy bear just broke me up.
I miss Miss Mouse.
The study seems to be about dogs on leash vs. off leash, not so much about being walked by men vs. walked by women. As someone who grew up in a house with up to ten dogs at a time, I have a lot of anecdotal experience that dogs on a leash always act more aggressive than off the leash. They also act more aggressive when in a crate vs. out of one. Something about being confined makes their territorial instincts kick in or something.
As for being walked by men as opposed to women, it looks like the study just had people walk their own dogs, so it seems to be more about how aggressive the owners trained their dogs to be or how likely they were to select aggressive dogs in the first place.