1
POPSDo You Find This Ad Offensive? There's a big story on the intersection of social media and health today. Unlike some of its competitors, Johnson & Johnson has been experimenting with advertising directly to consumers with Facebook applications and YouTube videos. But a video ad promoting Motrin for moms who carry their babies in slings sparked an uproar from connected consumers. I'm curious to know what you think --- is this video really offensive? It's clipped above.
6
POPSReferenda: Good News for Women, Bad for Gays Good on them. However, several states cast votes that they'll eventually regret. In California, Prop. 8 wins . Marriage equality is dead in California -- the same is true of measures in Arizona and Florida. In Arkansas, gays are banned from adopting or becoming foster parents . That's a shame -- literally. These are attitudes we'll all look back at with shame.
19
POPSA country's productivity increase as its gender gap narrows 3. The greater standing women have, the more everyone benefits: Industrialized countries can still grow their economies substantially by elevating women. Closing the employment gender gap "would have huge economic implications for the developed economies, boosting US GDP by as much as 9%, Eurozone GDP by as much as 13% and Japanese GDP by as much as 16%," according to the report
1
POPSThe Most Stressful Jobs Do you often come home absolutely exhausted, so that it seems, there's nothing harder than your job? Psychologists have made a list of the most stressful jobs. Many of you would dream of some of them.
10
POPSAnti-Abortion Terror The doctors and ordinary women are forced to pay a price for dirty politic, which bloating and exploiting family, health, may be moral question of our routine life.
1
POPSThin Safety? OK, they have a major problem with motor deaths. That's a given. But basing this on small chest size? Are they too small to reach the handle bars? I don't get it.
6
POPSEvery Woman in America Should Be Angry at John McCain After Barack Obama described how he opposes late term abortion except where the life and health of the mother are placed at risk, John McCain cast aspersion on the relevance of the health exception by using air quotes and treating the seriousness of the exception sarcastically. I guess the long-term health of pregnant women has little regard to John McCain.
1
POPS1.7 million displaced return to southern Sudan based on interviews with 875,000 internally displaced people during their return journey, 75 per cent used buses or trucks to get home, 17 per cent walked, five per cent travelled by boat and three per cent travelled by plane. Detailed information about those seeking to re-establish themselves in the region should help aid workers and government authorities plan assistance programmes, covering food, shelter, health care and other vital needs, according to the IOM. “Tracking spontaneous returns, particularly at the village level, provides important information on the reintegration needs of vulnerable individuals and families,” its Sudan mission chief, Mario Tavolaj, said in a statement. “It also represents an important tool for planning medium to long-term recovery in southern Sudan.”
13
POPSWhen healthy, you don't need the I "For example, Dr. Pennebaker has found that men tend to use more articles (a, the) and women tend to use more pronouns (he, she, they). The difference, he says, may suggest that men are more prone to concrete thinking and women are more likely to see things from other perspectives. "
1
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update