eating or shopping

Would you visit hotels while shopping?

Shopping in the sens eof buying wanted things. I ahve seen many friend swho do eat alot while they go for shopping.Money is not aproblem for the people wholove to eat when they shop,But many people...

Kids and Happiness

Some new evidence suggesting that children aren't such bundles of joy:Sociologists are discovering that children may not make parents happier and that childless adults, contrary to popular...

Happiness and Children

Ronald Bailey looks at the data and concludes that having children doesn't make us happy:"Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people's overall happiness and have consistently...

More on Demography and Having Fewer Children

It has been a big month for talking about the demographic transition here at Pure Pedantry. (See here and here.) Ronald Bailey at Reason had this interesting article speculating why people choose...

Age and Happiness

The correlation is pretty clear: the older we get, the happier we become. Only in the last decade have researchers begun to measure happiness across the life span and, in doing so, try to...

Hand-held Language Translators Available at Madison Public Library

From Check It Out @ the Madison Public Library:Traveling to another country and want to dine out or shop? You need a Language Translator! Madison Public Library now has a variety of hand-held...

San Francisco Memories and Lots of Food, but Not Enough Photos!

Last summer I went to San Francisco with my two gorgeous friends Mary and Jacque where we had so much fun we vowed we'd go every year. So this past weekend Mary and I returned to San Francisco to...

A few tips to make your Maui trip more enjoyable

I would recomend you on renting a car and so drive the Road to Hana. Stop and buy a bunch of CDs at the town just before the road starts. It is a guided tour that prompts you when to start and stop...

A few tips to nake your Maui trip more enjoyable

I would recomend you on renting a car and so drive the Road to Hana. Stop and buy a bunch of CDs at the town just before the road starts. It is a guided tour that prompts you when to start and stop...

How Many Kids Should You Have?

From Psychology Today: Conventional wisdom dictates that people become parents because children bring joy. But do they really? For scientists studying the subject, simply correlating parenthood and...

Osaka (part 2 of 2)

Zen tempura experienceI'm a big, big tempura lover so I made it a point to ask our hotel's amazing concierges to recommend a good place to eat tempura. They suggested Ippoh, which they said is both...