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Spying Spouses Alert: The Odds You’re Being Watched
What’s the harm in a little spying? Maybe you know the temptation—your significant other’s cell phone is right there on the nightstand while she’s in the shower; it’s just so…
Read the story →How Many US High School Students Cheat?
Up to 2023, at schools in Challenge Success surveys (not national), 60 to 70 percent of students self reported a cheating behavior in the past month.
Read the story →Interview by Email: Erika Eiffel
What does the term “objectum sexuality” mean to you? Objectum-Sexuality is a natural inclination to develop meaningful and significant relationships to objects that possess a particular uniqueness in the eye…
Read the story →Cruise Ship Crime
Taking a cruise conjures up images of moonlit romance and high adventure—far from the worry of daily life. Yet cruise ships are no strangers to crime. In fact, executives of…
Read the story →The Odds of Falling Off a Cruise Ship
On September 5, 2009, 23-year-old Shane O’Halloran and his female companion were in a romantic embrace when they tumbled overboard from Lady Brisbane, an Australian cruise ship. The woman was…
Read the story →Titanic’s Lifeboats Had Hundreds of Unused Seats
Titanic had 20 boats with seats for 1,178, but the British inquiry found only 652 people could have left the ship in them, about 36 per boat.
Read the story →The Dead of the Titanic
On the afternoon of April 20, 1912, passengers on the German ship Bremen were told they were passing by the iceberg that had sunk the Titanic five days earlier. Those…
Read the story →Ocean Liners: Titanic to Today
On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the…
Read the story →Suicide and the Titanic Survivors
The odds a person who survived the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912 would later commit suicide are 1 in 89. Eight of the approximately 705 people who survived…
Read the story →Fatal Politeness: British Mortality and the Titanic
How would you react if you found yourself on a sinking ship with a couple of thousand other people? A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy…
Read the story →Behind the Numbers of the Titanic Disaster
A New York Times article published on April 19, 1912 said the Titanic was “laden with 2,340 souls,” while the British Board of Inquiry gave the total number aboard the…
Read the story →Who Survived the Titanic, by Sex and Class
A first-class adult woman: 97% survived (140 of 144), against 46% of third-class adult women and 33% of first-class adult men (British inquiry).
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