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Recognizing and playing with our differences as men and women is a favourite human pastime. It’s also the subject of serious research by a number of scientists who have contributed to our understanding of how men’s and women’s brains work. The body of research has taught us that men are generally better at spatial perception, while women excel at verbal fluency, and for many other categories there seems to be a better performer between the sexes.

I’ve taken all the tests, they are short and fun to do if anyone is interested.

Perceptual speed: 13.6 -> between men and women

Object displacement: 67 exactly->more like men

Mathematical calculation: 20.1 ->faster than the average woman and much much faster than an average man

Spatial perception: 16.9 -> worse than both

Disembedding ability: 25.2->worse than both

Mathematical reasoning: 82.1->close to an average man, I used a calculator btw :p

Tags: Brain

Which is the weaker sex when it comes to pain? It may be hard to say since women and men have different experiences with pain.

New research has found that women report more pain throughout their lifetime. Compared to men, women feel pain in more areas of their body and for longer durations.

“The bottom line seems to be that women are suffering more than men,” said Ed Keogh, a psychologist from the Pain Management Unit at the University of Bath.

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Women are bigger wimps

“Shashat’s Women’s Film Festival in Palestine” is not a traditional film festival. Its objectives and the presence of films and guests are seen as an impetus to public awareness of women’s creativity and the implications of representations of women. The festival will take place from September 22 to September 29, 2005 in three cities – Ramallah, Nablus and Bethlehem. The festival will focus its outreach to the public especially students and youth, Palestinian filmmakers and the women’s community.
In Ramallah the main festival screening site will be Al-Kasaba Theatre. The opening and closing ceremonies will take place at the Cultural Palace. Lectures and workshops will be held at Shashat’s offices, the British Council and the Franco-German Cultural Centre. Additional screenings and lectures will also be held at Birzeit University. Special day-time screenings at Al-Kasaba will be arranged especially for high school students.

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Here are my 5 recommended blogs for this year:

1- Under The Same Sun, reflections on a world where the sun never sets. I’ve been following this great blog for a couple of months now and all I can say is that to me its where I can see the other face of the coin, the irony of this crazy world.
All articles are political in nature yet very humane and sensible.

2- Abeer’s Blog. The personal blog of a cute friend I had the pleasure to know via the cyber world
She’s cute, funny and too busy to post everyday :p

3- Raed in the Middle, Caught between the East and the West. Raed Jarrar, blogging from Jordan about Iraq, the US policies in the Middle East and politics in general.

4- Terrorism Unveiled, Commentary on the War on Terror. Athena, talks about Islamists, political Islam and terror in the Arabic media.

5- Arjan El Fassed, the personal blog of the co-founder of the online publication The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at electronicIntifada.net and electroniciraq.net. Make sure you check this one out!

Tags: BlogDay 2005

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