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Darwin Eats Cake, science, sex
Medical emoticons and the orgasm face
So, a few months ago, I posted the series of three Darwin Eats Cake comics in which Guillaume explains why we make funny faces when we orgasm. (You can find the original comics here, here, and here.)
Neuroskeptic pointed out the need for an orgasm-face emoticon. I thought maybe something like this:
!O
but John Wilkins (no recent relation) suggested this:
>8-{p
I came across this chart of medical emoticons, which includes the Viagra Emoticon and the Priapism Emoticon, so we're getting close. Anybody out there ever see or receive an orgasm emoticon? Maybe one of Herman Cain's former employees?
Post your submissions in the comments !O
via I Love Charts
Books, Darwin Eats Cake, Occupy Wall Street, Politics
Fate of the People's Library, Updated
So, as of right now, it looks as if Dev and El were right the first time:
The claim from the NYPD that the books and other belongings had been safely stored turns out to be, well, not so much true. Some books were at the Sanitation Garage, but most were not, and many that were had been damaged or destroyed.
America's Plutocrats: protecting you from the dangers of literacy!
culture, Politics, video
Happy American Censorship Day
So, today is the day that congress begins deliberation on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This is a bill that would impose ridiculous criminal penalties on all sorts of people, from a kid singing a song on YouTube to Tumblr and Facebook. Nominally, the bill seeks to deal with online piracy of copyrighted material, but it makes internet providers and companies accountable for things that their users do. This would effectively require them to police content (like everything you post on your blog, or your Facebook page).
A host of internet companies took out this full-page ad in the New York times opposing the measure:
View more readable version on Boing Boing, here.
The whole bill is a testament to just how wholly owned our government is. The bill was basically written by special interests in Hollywood and Pharma, along with the US Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of each of these interests will be speaking at the hearings. However, last I heard, only one voice opposing the bill (Google) is being allowed to testify. (N.B.: If you want to pass sweeping censorship legislation, the key is first to censor any anti-censorship voices.)
Importantly, but unsurprisingly at this point, no civil rights proponents are being permitted to testify. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a collected many of the arguments as to why this bill is insanely bad. Among them, the bill would:
impose liabilities on internet companies in a way that will severely discourage innovation and impact job creation.
damage the ability for free speech.
effectively hamstring the internet worldwide, not just in the US.
impose the type of censorship that we routinely condemn in repressive regimes around the world.
On point four, here's video of Joe Biden explaining why internet censorship laws exactly like this one are really bad, un-American even.
(via Boing Boing.)
You can send e-mail to your Representative and Senators opposing the bill by going here.
You can join the protest by placing a black "STOP CENSORSHIP" bar on your website. Get yours here. (I could not figure out how to do it on Blogger, but I've added one on Darwin Eats Cake.)
comic, Darwin Eats Cake, Occupy Wall Street, Politics
Dev and El and the Occupy Library go to jail
So, last night Mayor Bloomberg sent the NYPD in to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters under cover of darkness, excluding any press coverage (and physically assaulting and/or arresting any press who tried to actually cover the eviction).
Most of the characters from Darwin Eats Cake were able to evacuate from Liberty Plaza before things got out of hand, but Dev and El were among those who wound up getting arrested. They posted this report:
The thing about the library was based on this early report. The NYPD later stated that the books had not been thrown away, but were in storage, and could be reclaimed on Wednesday. They posted this, which looks to me suspiciously like a hostage photo:
Anyway, seeing as they were in jail, Dev and El did not have good real-time access to information today, so I hope you won't hold their statements against them.
If you want to see what's going on now, The Other 99 has been doing an awesome job of livestreaming events from Occupy Wall Street, and Global Revolution has a livestream that covers many of the different occupy sites.
Books, poetry
Transistor Rodeo mini-review in The Literary Review
So, I just found this short review of my book in the Summer 2011 issue of The Literary Review. Thanks to reviewer Sarah Barber for the kid words:
Jon Wilkins
University of Utah Press, 2010
Jon Wilkins's Transistor Rodeo is a portable rodeo where poems barrel through American cities from Memphis to Los Angeles, roping in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, James Madison, tired waitresses, the Pope, and proms. In an explosion of association, invocation, and formal trickery, this daredevil of a book asks us to consider the seriousness of play, to imagine the wolf-whistle as an endangered species, to picture the "wee symbolic life" of people living in a topographical map, and, above all, to enjoy the smash and noise of language, "a hammer / in a London china shoppe." Wilkins lets us pretend to be very skilled rodeo riders, crashing around without taking any very bad tumbles. —Sarah Barber
culture, media, video
Cheers / Star Wars Mashup
So, sometimes you just want to go where everybody knows your name, as well as the names of those droids you're looking for.
via Geekologie.
Reflected Glory, science, video
Best space time-lapse video yet
So, there have been a number of time-lapse videos of earth as viewed from space making the rounds recently. But this new one is extra awesome. Except for the fact that the International Space Station has its thumb in front of the camera for many of the shots. Also, I would have used Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'" for the soundtrack.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
via Gawker.
math, Occupy Wall Street, Politics
What power laws actually tell you about wealth and the 1%
November 13, 2011 jonfwilkins 6 Comments
So, there's an article published in yesterday's Guardian titled, "The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1%," which is fine, except for the fact that the "law" is not really a law, nor does it necessarily show "why" wealth flows anywhere.
To be fair, it's a perfectly reasonable article with a crap, misleading headline, so I blame the editor, not the author.
The point of the article is to introduce the idea of a power law distribution, or heavy-tailed distributions more generally. These pop up all over the place, but are something that many people are not familiar with. The critical feature of such distributions, if we are talking about, say, wealth, is that an enormous number of people have very little, while a small number of people have a ton. In these circumstances it can be misleading, or at least uninformative, to talk about "average" wealth.
The introduction is nicely done, and it represents an important part of the "how" of wealth is distributed, but what, if anything, does it tell us about the "why"?
To try to answer that, we'll walk through three distributions with the same "average," to see what a distribution's shape might tell us about the process that gave rise to it: Normal, Log Normal, and Pareto.
The blue curve, with a peak at 300, is a Normal distribution. The red curve, with its peak around 50, is a Log Normal. The yellow one, with its peak off the top of the chart at the left, is a Pareto distribution.
In each case, the mean of the distribution is 300.
The core of the issue, I think, is that there are three different technical definitions that we associate with the common-usage term "average," the mean, the median, and the mode. This is probably familiar to most readers who have made their way here, but here's a quick review:
The mean is what you usually calculate when you are asked to find the average of something. For instance, you would determine the average wealth of a nation by taking its total wealth and dividing it by the number of people.
The median is the point where half of the distribution lies to the right, and half lies to the left. So the median wealth would be the amount of money X where half of the people had more than X and half had less than X.
The mode is the high point in the distribution, its most common value. In the picture above, the mode of the blue curve is at about 300, while the mode of the red curve is a little less than 50.
The Normal (or Gaussian, or bell-curve-shaped) distribution, represented in blue, is probably the most familiar. One of the features of the Normal distribution is that the mode, median, and mean are all the same. So, if you have something that is Normally distributed, and you talk about the "average" value, you are probably also talking about a "typical" value.
Lots of things in our everyday experience are distributed in a vaguely Normal way. For instance, if I told you that the average mass of an apple was 5 ounces, and you reached into a bag full of apples, you would probably expect to pull out an apple that was somewhere in the vicinity of 5 ounces, and you might assume that you would be as likely to get an apple that was bigger than that as you would be to get one that was smaller. Or if I told you that the average height in a town in 5 feet, 8 inches, you might expect to see reasonable numbers of people who were 5'6″, fewer who were 5'2″, and fewer still who were 4'10".
So what sorts of processes lead to a Normal distribution? The simplest way is if you have a bunch of independent factors that add up. For example, it is thought that a large number of genes affect height, with the specific variants of each gene that you inherited contributing a small amount to making you taller or less tall, in a way that is close enough to additive.
What would it mean, then, if we were to find that wealth was Normally distributed? Well, it could mean a lot of things, but a simple model that could give rise to a Normal wealth distribution would be one where the amount of pay each person received each week was randomly drawn from the same distribution. Maybe you would flip a coin, and if it came up heads, you would get $300, while tails would get you $100. Pretty much any distribution would work, as long as the same distribution applied to everyone. After many weeks, some people would have gotten more heads, and they would be in the right-hand tail of the wealth distribution. The unlucky people who got more tails would be in the left-hand tail. But most people's wealth would be reasonably close to the mean of the wealth distribution.
Image from Alex Pardee's 2009 exhibition "Hiding From The Normals"
Now, it's important to remember that just because a particular mechanism can lead to a particular distribution, observing that distribution does not prove that your particular mechanism was actually at work. It seems like that should be obvious, but you actually see a disturbing number of scientific papers that basically make that error. There will typically be whole families of mechanisms that can give rise to the same outcome. However, looking at the outcome (the distribution, in this case) and asking what mechanisms are consistent with it is an important first step.
Alright, now let's talk about the Log Normal distribution (the red one). Unlike the Normal, the Log Normal is skewed: it has a short left tail and a long right one. This means that the mean, mode, and median are no longer the same. In the curve I showed above, the mean is 300, the median is about 150, and the mode is about 35.
This is where talk about averages can be misleading, or at least easily misinterpreted. Imagine that the wealth of a nation was distributed like the red curve, and that I told you that the average wealth was $30,000. What would you think? Well, if I also told you that the wealth was Log Normally distributed, and I gave you some additional information (like the median, or the variance), you could reconstruct complete distribution of wealth, at least in principle.
The problem is that we tend to think intuitively in terms of distributions that look more like the Normal. In practice, we hear $30,000 average wealth, and we say, "Hey, that's not too bad." We probably don't consciously recognize that (in this example), half of the people actually have less than $15,000, and that the typical (i.e., modal) person has only about $3500.
What type of process can give rise to a Log Normal distribution? Well, again, there are many possible mechanisms that would be consistent with a Log Normal outcome, but there is a class of simplest possible underlying mechanisms. We imagine something like the coin toss that we used in the Normal case, but now, instead of adding a random quantity with each coin toss, we multiply.
This is sort of like if everyone started off with the same amount of money invested in the stock market. Each week, your wealth would change by some percentage. Some weeks you might gain 2%. Other weeks you might lose 1%. If everyone is drawing from the same distribution of multipliers (if we all have the same chance of a 2% increase, etc.), the distribution of wealth will wind up looking Log Normally distributed.
Vilfredo Pareto, who grew a very long beard in order to illustrate the idea of a distribution with a very long tail.
Finally, we come to the Pareto distribution. This is sort of like the Log Normal, but much more skewed. In the graph we started off with, the yellow Pareto distribution has a mean of 300, just like the Normal and Log Normal. But where the Normal had a median of 300, and the Log Normal had a median of 150, the Pareto had a median of only about 20.
In our wealth example, we could say that that average wealth in a nation was $30,000, but if that wealth was distributed like the yellow Pareto curve, half of the people in that nation would have less than $2000. Furthermore, 97% of the people in that nation would have less than that $30,000 average.
With a Pareto, the mode is as far left as we set the minimum value. In this case, it was set at 10. Under such a distribution, the "typical" person has as little wealth as possible.
The fact is, this extremely skewed sort of distribution, a Pareto or something like it, is what real-world wealth distributions tend to look like. [UPDATE: This is true of the rich, right tail of the distribution. The body of wealth distributions are more Log Normal. H/T Cosma Shalizi.]
The greatest success so far of the Occupy Wall Street movement may be that it is starting to make people understand just how skewed the distributions of wealth and income are, in this country and around the world. A graph posted Friday on Politico shows the dramatic increase in the discussion of "income inequality" in the news over the past several weeks:
Dylan Byers plotted the number of times "income inequality" was mentioned in print news, web stories, and broadcast transcripts each week. The graph reveals a five-fold increase over the past two months.
Consider that along with this graph, which is part of a nice set of illustrations of American inequality put together by Mother Jones:
This graph reveals two things. First, that Americans think that wealth should be more equally distributed. Second, and more importantly for the sake of the current discussion, they dramatically underestimate the extent of the inequality that actually exists.
In the terms that we have been using here (and speaking very loosely), Americans think that wealth should be somewhat Normally distributed. They think that it is more Log Normally distributed. They fail to recognize that, in reality, it is more like Pareto distributed.
What types of processes can give rise to a Pareto distribution? Again, lots. What are the simplest models, though? Generative models that give rise to this sort of distribution tend to have some sort of positive feedback mechanism. Basically, the more money you have, the more leverage you have to make money in the future. In the simple models, you can start off with a bunch of things that are identical (like our nation of people who all start off with the same amount of money to put in the stock market). But now, if you do well, it increases your chances of doing well in the future: the people whose coins come up heads in the first few rounds are given new coins, which come up heads more than half of the time.
It is easy to list the features of our current economic system that lead to this sort of positive feedback loop: successful companies have the resources to undermine and disrupt smaller competitors, the rich have the ability through advertising and lobbying to steer public opinion and write public policy. If you didn't read it when it came out, or haven't read it recently, the Vanity Fair piece from May, "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" provides an excellent overview of how increasing inequality leads to reduced opportunity, which leads, in turn, to further increases in inequality.
Power laws and Pareto distributions don't show how or why wealth flows into the hands of the few. However, the nature and magnitude of wealth inequality hint at truths that we already know from experience: that wealth begets wealth, that the playing field is not always level, and that when inequality becomes great enough, hard work and ingenuity may have a hard time competing with privilege and access.
In the "real" world of empirical data, there are two kinds of power laws: things that are actually power laws, and things that are not really power laws, but get called power laws because science thinks that's sexier.
I think someone once said, "God grant me the the serenity to accept the things that are not power laws, the appropriate statistical tools to fit those that are, and the wisdom to know the difference."
If the God thing doesn't work out for you, a good back-up plan starts with this paper:
Clauset, A., Shalizi, C., & Newman, M. (2009). Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data SIAM Review, 51 (4) DOI: 10.1137/070710111
Free version of the article available on the ArXiv, here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
culture, music, video
Lao Lai Qiao Gaga
So, if you're like me, and I know that you are, you love Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," but have always felt that it could be improved. For instance, if it were sung by by a choir of old Chinese people standing in a giant dollhouse, accompanied by young Chinese women playing crystal instruments.
Today, you and I are in luck, because this exists:
via Boing Boing.
Behavior, comic, Darwin Eats Cake, Sports
Now we know what a Nittany Lion is
So, if you're like me, you've always sort of wondered what a Nittany Lion is. For a while, I thought it involved crochet somehow, but I guess maybe that would be a Knittany Lion. For years, it remained shrouded in mystery, at least, if you're like me, and did not actually care enough to check Wikipedia.
But then this week we learned that for the past ten years, or possibly longer, numerous officials at Penn State have been involved in protecting and enabling a serial child rapist. And then, when Penn State's football coach was fired for his involvement in protecting and enabling a serial child rapist, the school's students rioted. I think we now have our answer:
Update: via Justin Stapleton on Google+, from now on the Honey Badger will be known as the Nittany Badger


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Homepsychological facts 50 Fantastic Psychological Facts About Love you Didn't Know?
50 Fantastic Psychological Facts About Love you Didn't Know?
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Love is a complex and multifaceted emotion that is central to many of our relationships and experiences. Here are a few psychological facts about love: Actually, poets and songwriters put love romantic thoughts and feelings into eloquent words, but love fact remains a complicated mystery...... Anthropologists have a lot to say about how and why humans fall in love, and most importantly, love the quality of our thoughts, and the science behind it all. We dug through pages of studies texts to uncover these.
Suffering those melancholy moments... At the end of the day, being in a love with, emotionally, of course, - can be so rewarding: It has the capacity to reduce stress, even on a physical level, speed the healing process, and even lengthen your love span...
We cannot experience intimacy, Lust has a reputation for being
Love is pure, and love is painful, love is sweet, and love is dreadful. facts about lovers, true love are overwhelming, to understand it better, we've gathered some interesting facts and theories about it...
(40 psychological facts about girls when it comes to love?)
Psychological Facts About Love Probably Didn't Know
1. Love is not just an emotion, but also a complex set of behaviors that are influenced by social, cultural, and personal factors.
2. Love can be selfless and altruistic, or it can be driven by selfish desires.
3. Love can be conditional, based on the actions and behaviors of the other person, or it can be unconditional, given without any expectation of return.
4. Love can be accompanied by strong feelings of attachment, commitment, and loyalty, but it can also involve fear, anxiety, and insecurity.
5. Love can be passionate and intense, but it can also be calm and steady.
6. Love can change and evolve over time, and it can be affected by external factors such as distance, communication, and other relationships.
7. Love can bring great joy and fulfillment, but it can also cause pain and heartache.
8. Love can inspire us to be our best selves and to care for others, but it can also lead us to make poor decisions or engage in unhealthy behaviors.
9. Love is a universal experience, but the way that it is expressed and experienced can vary greatly from person to person and culture to culture.
Here are a few more facts about love:
1. Love can involve physical attraction, but it is not limited to it. Love can also be based on shared values, interests, and emotional connection.
2. Love can be influenced by social and cultural norms and expectations, but it can also be influenced by individual experiences, personality, and biology.
3. Love can involve a sense of familiarity and comfort, but it can also involve excitement, novelty, and challenge.
4. Love can involve feelings of security and protection, but it can also involve vulnerability and the risk of being hurt.
5. Love can involve feelings of acceptance and understanding, but it can also involve feelings of judgment and criticism.
6. Love can involve feelings of respect and admiration, but it can also involve feelings of disrespect and contempt.
7. Love can involve feelings of warmth and affection, but it can also involve feelings of distance and emotional disconnection.
8. Love can involve feelings of emotional and psychological closeness, but it can also involve feelings of emotional and psychological distance.
9. Love can involve feelings of gratitude and appreciation, but it can also involve feelings of entitlement and expectations
(psychological facts about love and crushes)
Here Are Some psychological Facts About Love And Crushes:
1. Love and infatuation are not the same things.
Love is a deep, long-lasting emotion that involves caring, respect, and affection for another person. Infatuation, on the other hand, is a strong but short-lived attraction characterized by feelings of excitement and desire.
2. People tend to fall in love with those who are similar to them in terms of values, beliefs, and personality. This is known as "homophily."
3. Love is not just an emotion, it is also a behavior. People who are in love tend to show their love through their actions, such as by being kind, thoughtful, and supportive of their partner.
4. Love can be influenced by cultural and societal expectations. For example, in some cultures, it is expected that love will lead to marriage, while in other cultures, love and marriage may be seen as separate entities.
5. Crushing on someone can be a sign of a desire for intimacy and connection. Crushes can also serve as a way to explore one's own feelings and desires.
6. Love can have physical and psychological effects on the body. Being in love can lead to increased levels of the hormone oxytocin, which is associated with feelings of bonding and attachment. It can also lead to increased levels of dopamine and serotonin, which are associated with feelings of happiness and well-being.
7. Love and attachment can be learned and cultivated. People can learn to love and form attachments through positive experiences and interactions with others.
Here are some 40 Psychological Facts About Crushes Falling In Love:
Here are a few psychological facts about boys that may be helpful to consider:
1. Boys and girls have similar cognitive abilities and potential for learning and development.
2. Boys tend to have more difficulty with verbal communication and may be more likely to act out their emotions through physical means, such as rough play.
3. Boys may be more prone to engage in risk-taking behaviors and may be more physically active than girls.
4. Boys may be more sensitive to criticism and negative feedback than girls.
5. Boys may be more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, particularly during their teenage years.
It's important to note that these are generalizations and that individual differences play a significant role in how boys develop and express themselves. Every boy is unique and may not exhibit all of these characteristics.
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1. Girls and boys have similar cognitive abilities and potential for learning and development.
2. Girls tend to have better verbal communication skills and may be more likely to express their emotions through words rather than physical means.
3. Girls may be more sensitive to criticism and negative feedback than boys.
4. Girls may be more prone to anxiety and depression, particularly during their teenage years.
5. Girls may be more influenced by peer pressure and may be more concerned about fitting in with their social group.
It's important to note that these are generalizations and that individual differences play a significant role in how girls develop and express themselves. Every girl is unique and may not exhibit all of these characteristics.
Weird But True Facts About Relationships
1. Studies have shown that people who engage in affectionate behaviors, like holding hands and kissing, tend to have lower blood pressure and are less likely to catch a cold.
2. Research has also found that couples who have a strong sense of attachment and commitment to each other tend to live longer and have better overall physical and mental health.
3. Studies have shown that couples who argue in a healthy and constructive way tend to have stronger relationships and are less likely to break up.
4. It's a common misconception that men and women communicate differently, but research has shown that men and women use language in similar ways and that there are more similarities than differences in how they communicate.
5. Studies have found that people who are in happy and fulfilling relationships tend to be more productive at work and have better overall job satisfaction.
6. One study found that people who have a positive and supportive relationship with their partner are more likely to have a positive outlook on life and are less likely to suffer from depression.
7. Research has shown that couples who have a strong sense of shared meaning and purpose in their relationship tend to be more satisfied and have stronger bonds.
8. It's a well-known fact that people who are in happy and fulfilling relationships tend to be more satisfied with their lives overall. However, research has also shown that people who are in unhappy relationships tend to be less satisfied with their lives overall, even if they have other positive aspects in their lives.
Psychological Facts About Love And Dreams
Love and dreams are two complex psychological phenomena that have fascinated people for centuries. Here are a few psychological facts about love and dreams:
1. Love can be a powerful emotion that affects our thoughts, behaviors, and overall well-being. People who are in love often experience increased levels of oxytocin, a hormone that is associated with bonding, attachment, and happiness.
2. Love can also have a positive effect on physical health. Studies have shown that people who are in loving relationships tend to have lower blood pressure, reduced stress levels, and a stronger immune system.
3. Dreams are a natural part of the sleep process and are thought to serve as a means of processing and integrating memories and emotions.
4. Dreams can be influenced by a person's thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and can sometimes provide insight into unconscious desires or conflicts.
5. Some people experience lucid dreams, in which they are aware that they are dreaming and have some control over the dream content.
6. Dreams can be vivid and emotionally intense, and can sometimes feel real even after a person wakes up.
7. Many people find that their dreams are more vivid and memorable when they are experiencing strong emotions, such as love or fear.
8. Some researchers believe that dreams may serve as a way for people to practice and rehearse important skills or behaviors, such as problem-solving or social interactions.
9. Some people report having dreams that seem to anticipate future events or contain elements of precognition, but there is limited scientific evidence to support these claims.
Love Can Be Addictive.
Falling in love really is much like taking a dose of cocaine, the most interesting love as both experiences affect the brain similarly, and love triggers a similar sensation of euphoria.
The research found that falling in love produces several euphoria-inducing chemicals that stimulate 12 areas of the brain at the same time, love There's a reason why cuddling feels so much better. relationship Oxytocin, the so-called love or cuddle hormone, is produced during the kiss and embrace or a cuddle...
(A) the feeling of euphoria you get when you fall in love.
(B) love the same feeling that substance users experience.
(C)According to a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine:
The releases of happiness, Both actions trigger hormones, like dopamine, and oxytocin ... you hopefully never come down from, adrenaline, giving you a natural high: For hints that you're off to a better start... Hugging your partner is instant stress relief, check out 18 Undeniable Signs a First Date Went Well...(a fact about love)
Falling in love, at first sight, is apparently true according to...
psychologists. It takes only" 2-4 minutes to fall for someone on to make a good" impression on someone... if you keep gazing at them, love life is you be careful whom you look at because you can fall for a stranger...(40 psychological facts about girls when it comes to love?)
When two people are in love. (real psychological facts)
look into eyes of each other for three minutes, and their, heart rates sync up with each other... better about themselves - Bad Boys, in the end, become very successful in dating...
According to some love psychologists, human beings are. not capable of being" 'just friends with members of the opposite love. facts about love. romantic love lasts a year. but after that attachment love sets in.
Do you think that only humans stick with one partner? you are mistaken, as there are some animal species that live with one partner: wolves, swans, penguins, and even termites.
fall in love with funny boys
if you look into a stranger's eyes you can actually fall in love with men who cheat on their partners.
have lower IQs than the person who irritates.
you are the one who loves you the most but fails to express it some love is always hidden because they don't want to spoil their friendship with men in their early 20s feel more emotional and painful after a breakup than women.
women's tears have been biologically proven to be reduced.
testosterone levels and arousal in men kissing on the forehead is one of the sweetest things in the world for a girl who is still a kid by heart believe me will never break your heart.
what psychology says about love
it becomes to lie to them that most women are attracted to.
to men who possess a strong sense of humor as it indicates higher intelligence and honesty
sleep-deprived men are more likely to assume that women.
want to have sex with them when a guy who really likes a girl can't help but tell his friends about her you Holding hands with someone you love can help alleviate physical pain as well as stress.
fear you're talking with someone and you're not sure if they are interested fold your arms if they do the same they probably are women's tears have been, biologically proven to reduce testosterone levels and Arousals in men according to a study
wonder why we act so inappropriate" and irrational when we fall for someone?" well, it's not your fault, it's'' the chemical known as cortisol.
when a girl is in love you can see it in her smile.
when a guy is in love you can see it in his eyes person that truly loves you will never let you go no matter how hard.
the situation is when a girl takes care. of a boy thinks it's love but it's friendship when a boy takes care of a girl thinks it's friendship but it's love.
fun facts about love
wonder why we act so inappropriate love
when a man finds someone attractive he may suck, in his gut flex his muscles and take postures that make him appear taller and stronger women felt that men became more attractive
if they saw other women smiling at the people are most likely to break up once they have hit the three to
month period in their relationships men love
who possess deeper voices are more likely to appear attractive or make an impression on women than men who possess higher.
voices survey revealed that 52 women say their husband is not their soulmate simply looking at a picture of a loved one can help relieve Spain love can leave a memory that no one can steal but can also leave pain that no one can heal the more sexually attractive you find someone the more difficult.
if you're always the one to text a person first there's.
a 90 chance that this person isn't interested in you within five seconds of meeting someone you make a lasting impression based on the following order first how they look second.
how you sound and third what you say men are more attracted to women who possess a bone structure that resembles that of their mothers if you want to know if someone loves you look at his or her eyes.
the pupil expands as much as 45 percent when you are in love when you become really close to someone you can hear their voice in your head when you read their texts.
socially desirable are most likely to end up with, each other. according to research, people who share the same level of attractiveness or equally love partners with too much similarity or in a relationship with' many differences' tend not to last very long.
Surprising Scientific Facts about Love
Attraction is based on obsession.
real psychological facts people generally prefer an attractive face over an attractive body. when they are looking for a long-term relationship 23 percent of the couples who meet through online dating end up marrying the more they talk about someone.
the more you fall in love with that person sleep-deprived men are likely to assume that women want to have sex with them psychologically it is impossible to just be friends with someone you have fallen in love with.
Attachment isn't exclusive to romance
based on a psychological study a crush only lasts for a maximum of four months it exceeds you're already in love it's impossible to remain angry at someone you truly love anger lasting for more than three days indicates that you're not in love hugs that last over 20 seconds.
release a chemical in your body.
called oxytocin that makes you trust someone more couples who spend at least 10 minutes a day laughing together are more likely to have a stronger relationship.
the survey has found that fit legs are the sexiest part.
of a woman according men in their early 20s feel more emotional pain after a breakup than women romantic love lasts a year after that attachment love sets according to some psychologists human beings are not capable of being just friends with members of.
In the opposite sex according to a study,
a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her how do you know you're in love when it hurts but you still want to stay?
men and women are more likely to fall for each other in dangerous situations than in uneventful surroundings. research has shown.
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(ann landers.)__ humans interesting facts about, love is the friendship that has caught fire... it is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. it settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Immature love says;
I love you because I need you... mature love says' i need you because I love you. A crush develops fast, while love grows over, a time when you first develop a crush on... someone, it can feel fun, flirty, and exciting, love It's a lot quieter and more subtle even.
Love, Differences Between Lust versus Love One, kissing lust is driven by a physical connection, but love comes from an emotional connection.
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body-mind this, in turn, will raise levels of nerve. women
grow for about a year. men more than women use kissing in an attempt to. psychology facts about guys in love you can find your lover's lips even in complete darkness because of certain neurons in the brain aid.
love on average a person spends 14 days of this life kissing the fact a love literally makes you grow. love the fact the act of falling in is known to have a calming effect on a person's.
statistically love men are more likely to say.
I love you in a relationship than women men are also more like to be more emotionally "affected by breakups than women are. facts about lovers an attractive Face Is Preferred to an Attractive Body for long-term Relationships, attachment caring Intimacy Perfect Love.
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love more frequently kissing in a relationship is linked to the quality of a relationship.
facts on love three passionate kisses a day can double your metabolic rate and can help you lose up to a pound. more than 95% of men and women occasionally like to rub their noses while kissing.
amazing love weird but true facts about love, A crush forms from the basics, while loving, thrives from deep connections have you, ever liked someone because they shared the same interests as you?
love life can be ten times more effective than morphine in reducing pain love a kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation you feel insecure when you compare yourself to others but love is built on the foundation of trust".
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psychopaths fact is more likely to kiss with their eyes wide open. men are more likely to initiate a kiss before sex while women are more likely to do so after Mating.
facts about lovers love Cuddling Releases Natural Painkillers, A crush might feel insecure while love stems from trust Crushing on someone can leave"
When two people kiss they exchange between ten million and one billion bacteria the facts of love Romantic Love Eventually Ends Only to be followed by committed love, Heartbreak Is Not just a metaphor,"
You'll learn, how to be vulnerable, how to compromise, and how to grow with someone's love fact when two lovers gaze At each other's eyes, their heart rates synchronize. when you kiss someone for the first time you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making you crave more.
love thinking Of love and mating influences creativity.
Concrete thinking respectively: love psychology facts love life people At the same level of attractiveness are more likely to end up together.
love facts about guys men who kiss their wives before.
leaving for work getting into fewer car accidents love, however, operates on the ground of reality have you ever looked back on past relationships and wondered how on earth you two got together?
fact love kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay.
this is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean. life is the important release of love kissing is a pain killer mentally, emotionally, and physically monogamous Relationships exist Throughout the animal kingdom, love Is all that Matters.
picture-perfect Kodak moments,
It asks us to be vulnerable and go past the small talk hobbies, sharing secrets, and sometimes, it means confronting the past and mending together. psychological facts on love it is possible for a woman to reach orgasm through kissing.
love" Expressing- Gratitude" Towards- People, You Love"
Causes An -Immediate- Spike In- Your Happiness...
prostitutes avoid kissing, on their lips to reduce the likelihood of bonding. Butterflies In the Stomach are real and They're Caused by Adrenaline... love a woman can reach orgasm through kissing psychopaths fact- are more likely to kiss with their eyes wide open.
A crush feels new while love feels familiar, when you crush on someone, it often feels fresh and young. making enter rooms that feel familiar, you get to know someone better, and love forms.
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It's like being with your best friend, someone who knows you inside and out, perhaps better than you may know yourself. When you're crushing on someone, you're too shy to even make it past the welcome mat. when kissing someone for the first time you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making craves more.
A crush might feel insecure while love stems from trust.
Crushing on someone can leave you feeling insecure when you compare yourself to others, but love is built on the foundation of trust. when you love someone, you feel at ease with them, you're neither possessive nor jealous. Love teaches us to let go of our fears, whereas crushing on someone allows them to linger.
5. A crush is reckless while love is mature Ever had a crush on someone that made you scratch your head years later? Crushes can be confusing, reckless, and inconsistent. Love isn't so easily discarded though.
When love begins, so does maturity.
It is more than just a feeling but a life-changing experience. Do you think you're crushing or falling in love with someone?
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we guess you like someone, which is either great or absolutely terrible. We have no clue.
However, you might be wondering, what are the things that make us attracted to each other? What roles do our brains play?
First off, you've got to sound and smell like youre bigger and better than you are. sound until you make it, and you fake your smell.
Studies from the University of Wroclaw - thank you, Poland - held a study about the effects of one's sound and smell on attraction.
you someone from their voice, age, gender, weight, You can tell a lot about dominance, emotional state, personality.
So, if you sound more attractive, or even more confident, you'll come off that way. Then you have a scent, where an androgen steroid, called androstadienone, comes into play.
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This steroid has an odorless chemical compound that people can smell on each other, which naturally leads to attraction. This actually occurs in body odor.
The deodorant is still recommended. Secondly, women's attraction changes throughout the menstrual cycle.
According to several studies, women are attracted to different things depending on where they are in their menstrual cycles.
psychological facts about love-self-explanatory,
when they're fertile, women like more masculine features, and vice versa when a woman is not ovulating.
Thirdly, men don't value intelligence as much as women, which I think is pretty self-explanatory,
the stats explain that women are more likely to date less-than-average-looking men with higher intelligence.
However, average women with intelligence are deemed attractive by men at 40%.Four:
the study that delved into speed dating found that people who were the most narcissistic scored higher in attractiveness.
because narcissists care so much about their appearance, pretty much, translates to them being more attractive.
psychological facts about love - really shallow, number five is.
date people in your league, To stop people from cheating on you settle for people who are traditionally less attractive than you are...
This, again, is SUPER shallow, but studies that people who felt more attractive than those from Harvard showed, partners felt less satisfied but felt like they needed more and cheated more.
opposites attract. the different genetic blueprint than their own, A study found that people are attracted to which lies and HLA complex, which crucial to our immune system...
So, supposedly, we can sense each other HLA complexes through smell, and opposing complexes lead to sexual attraction.
the study found that beards are hot, and women think a full beard is hubby material, while a little bit of stubble is great for one-night stands.
Over to eight: it's better to be weird in pick-up lines. A unique metaphor-like your smile is a sea of flowers is better than you're pretty because it shows that you have some creativity and intelligence.
which is pretty much an offshoot of love of us being attracted to people who remind us of our parents Finally, women are attracted to people who are like their brothers.
psychological facts brain: How Your Brain Falls In Love.
Lust has a reputation for being the flame people jump into Think of Fifty Shades of Grey or your classic bad boy or bad girl, who all games in danger with no strings attached. But according to leading love
Without the desire of wanting someone first, we cannot experience intimacy. So, how do we know if we're still stuck in the initial stage of attraction, Or ready to transition into something more meaningful and long-lasting?
Here are the Key Differences Between Lust versus Love One, lust is driven by a physical connection, but love comes from an emotional connection.
It all comes down to our brains.
Which areas are being activated when you hang out with your partner?
Research shows that lust lights the regions associated with reward and motivation whereas love stimulates the areas that help you empathize.
Lust happens when you and your partner don't have much to talk about but have great sex. This is common for two people who haven't been dating for too long
But love, on the other hand, happens when you appreciate your partner for more than just their looks and can spend meaningful time with them.
This is what ultimately forms the start of a deep and serious relationship. Two, over time love, grows stronger, whereas lust becomes weaker.
Psychologist and sex therapist Shannon.
Chavez states that as attachment and bonding grow over time so does love. But lust is more temporary and fades when sexual desire fades away.
If a relationship is based solely on lust, there is inevitably no foundation to fall in love with each other just feels like an exciting roller coaster but can only be sustained by physical pleasure.
When the real work kicks in the dynamic either transitions into love or the relationship begins to fall apart. Three, lust is based on fantasies.
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Imagination can come in handy when life gets mundane, but more often than not it's like a double-edged sword.
When you like the idea of someone more than whos actually in front of you can cause you to miss a lot of red flags.
Relationship experts state that there is only so much time before reality sets in it make you realize that your partner has faults just like you and that your expectations were unfair.
Four, in lust, you are romantic partners, but in love, you're lifelong friends.
Psychiatrist Judith Or loff discovered that people in lust are just lovers but true love is built on the foundation of a strong friendship. Sure!
Two people can agree to be in a relationship, go on fun dates, and even meet each other's family,
if they lack compromise, communicate poorly, and fail to understand each other the prospect of having a future together is very low.
Five, lust is all about thrill-seeking whereas love is the pursuit of stability.
Researchers have looked at MRI scans of people in lust and found that their brains look similar when an addict gets a fix of cocaine. Sounds intense, right?
that's why infatuation is not likely to last as long as love.
The drug effects wear off when you can no longer satiate your sexual desires.
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facts about love are the relentless search for stability. Six, lust is selfish but love comes from a selfless place.
When you love someone, you focus more on helping them reach their goals and care about their health and well-being.
Lust, on the other hand, is all about your own wants- like boosting your ego when youre next to your attractive partner simply fulfilling your sexual desires.
To move from the initial stage of lust to love, you must determine whether you could see yourself doing favors and making sacrifices for your partner.
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Hugo Grotius, the founder of a purely rationalistic system of pure regulation, argued that law arises from both a social impulse—as Aristotle had indicated—and purpose. Immanuel Kant believed an ethical crucial requires legal guidelines "be chosen as though they need to hold as common legal guidelines of nature".
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As a result, as time went on, increasing numbers of residents petitioned the King to override the widespread law, and on the King's behalf the Lord Chancellor gave judgment to do what was equitable in a case. From the time of Sir Thomas More, the first lawyer to be appointed as Lord Chancellor, a systematic body of fairness grew up alongside the inflexible frequent legislation, and developed its personal Court of Chancery. At first, fairness was often criticised as erratic, that it various in accordance with the size of the Chancellor's foot.
Over time, courts of equity developed stable principles, particularly under Lord Eldon. Socialist regulation is the authorized techniques in communist states similar to the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Academic opinion is divided on whether or not it is a separate system from civil regulation, given major deviations primarily based on Marxist–Leninist ideology, such as subordinating the judiciary to the chief ruling party.
Jeremy Bentham and his scholar Austin, following David Hume, believed that this conflated the "is" and what "should be" drawback. Bentham and Austin argued for law's positivism; that actual law is totally separate from "morality". Kant was additionally criticised by Friedrich Nietzsche, who rejected the principle of equality, and believed that legislation emanates from the need to energy, and cannot be labeled as "ethical" or "immoral". John Locke (1632 – 1704) was another outstanding Western thinker who conceptualized rights as natural and inalienable.
The UK, Finland and New Zealand assert the ideal of parliamentary sovereignty, whereby the unelected judiciary may not overturn regulation handed by a democratic legislature. However, the system became overly systematised—overly rigid and inflexible.
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Monday went against Friday. The sellers allowed the bulls to win back all of their losses which they had incurred after the release of a labor market report from the US. The euro/dollar completed a reversal northwards and renewed to 1.1330.
On Monday the economic calendar was bare. The yield on the 10-year German bonds was up around its maximums for the year, thus offering a hand to the euro. Bloomberg aided the eurobulls to reach the U3 line through quoting a French official, who said that Barak Obama had stated that the dollar was too strong and is a problem for the American economy. The President's administration refuted this information, but it was too late. The growth of the euro had hastened above 1.1190 from the protective stops that had been set off.
The euro/dollar is now way off the trend, in the zone above the U3. The euro rate went up by 180 degrees from a minimum of 1.1114. It's not the first time I say that the price never stays long outside the MA canal. The euro is trading around 1.1309 against the Asian maximum of 1.1330. I'm awaiting a rebound to 1.1250.
From today's news it's worth picking out the data on the UK's balance of trade and GDP for the Eurozone. The question of the Grexit is still putting pressure on the euro. I wouldn't exclude the market swinging by the trend line. Let's have a look at the Daily tab.
On Monday the eurobulls covered Friday's fall. This was a bad sign for the sellers since the risks of a break in the fundamental trend have shot up. The euro closed above the trend line set at the closing price. If 1.1350 will be passed, the road to 1.1466 will open up and 1.18 will be round the next corner. For the situation to stay under the sellers' control, they need to take the EURUSD rate back beneath 1.12. Let's have a look at the Weekly tab.
The sellers didn't manage to take advantage of Friday's strong report on the American labor market. On Monday they lost all of their points. The euro/dollar rebounded from the lower limit of the canal, so it's better to forget about 1.0818 for now. Better wait for a break in 1.1025.


Makes some memories that will last.
Or perhaps friends may call.
Tennessee has been and gone.
But not before having a cuddle.
I shall be catching up on jobs.
As of late life has been in a muddle.
"Only This Moment Is Mine".
Greetings Yvonne. A pleasant piece that I enjoyed reading. I am staying in today, besides walking Sadie. I saw some of my Family last-night. Glad Tennessee has visited you again. Thank you for the well-wishes, they are warmly received. Blessings my Friend. Love love, Andrew.
Thank you Andrew, whatever you do today enjoy it.
It's winter here all right. Ten degrees below freezing this morning!
Golly Alex that's VERY cold. Try and keep warm.
They say a woman's work is never done I guess they're right.
Very uplifting prose, Yvonne. I enjoyed it.
Hope your weekend is wondrous.
Thank you Sandra for your kind comment.
Saturday was fine but nots so Sunday Joanne.
I have too many senior saga's myself.
Hi, Yvonne! I'm not the best in living in the moment. I'm always in my head. I do hope that you have had a good weekend. We've had a snowstorm, but at least the streets are now bare and dry even if there is snow piled up everywhere. Wishing you a great week!
Weekend was both good and not so good Fundy Blue.
Pleased your snow has come and gone.
I like that saying: "Only this moment is mine." So true. We have no assurance of what's to come so enjoy what we have. We can waste each moment or do something useful. Speaking of which: I must clean this house. I've been making excuses but it's time to accept what needs to be done. Have a good week.
Thank you Beverly for coming by. Hope you managed to fulfill your house cleaning.
Hope your week is good also.


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"I give BIG kudos to Scott Ahearn, who played (incredibly!)... the pizza boy, the yoga instructor, the massage therapist, the makeover guru, and the groom. If I had not read the playbill, I would never have guessed that it was the same guy playing all of those roles. What a talented and amazing performer!"
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"...Scott Ahearn, playing Millie's boss Trevor Graydon, is bewitching in the novel tune 'The Speed Test.' Ahearn plays up the comic factor with perfect timing...banter with Ahearn is the show's comedic highlight."
"...reasons for seeing Chicago include performances by Scott Ahearn..."
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"...features a very strong and personable cast that in some cases out perform their counterparts from the national tour... choreography is scintillating, especially since his corps of dancers is so lithe, exuberant and skilled."
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A shocking assault on liberty of expression and human life today in Paris at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. What weak faith these killers must have if they believe their Prophet must be avenged because of a French satirical magazine.
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And from the tragic to the ridiculous, this other incident related to a free press: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/06/375436143/kirby-delauter-who-didnt-want-his-name-in-a-news-story-is-now-a-story?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150106
I'm linking to the NPR story, but the editorial from the Frederick News-Post is pure genius.
What this makes me think is that all of us need to work on hearing things we don't like/agree with/think are wrong.
Why does Kirby Delauter hate America?
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Unfortunately since the much larger massacre in Nigeria this week by Boko Haram will not be getting anything approaching the coverage of the one in Paris.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2015/01/african-lives-matter-too-baga-massacre.html
I agree Otto–great point. I left a longer comment over on your blog, but what are your thoughts on Goodluck Jonathan's leadership (or lack thereof?) The U.S. news media have commented a lot lately on his odd disengagement with the ongoing crisis in his own country, while he joins the international chorus condemning the Paris murders. If he made a deal with Boko Haram to lay off during his re-election campaign, it doesn't seem like it was very effective in moderating their violence, so I don't get what his silence buys him politically (if there's a strategy to it at all.) They're only escalating, and it's alarming and depressing.
Nigeria's Horror in Paris's Shadow
I agree with his overall premise, but someone should tell Matt Schiavenza that there are more newspapers in the U.S. other than the New York Times. NPR featured this story prominently, as did several other print and online dailies. He makes a good point here, however:
But it's not that the media doesn't cover Nigeria, or that Westerners don't care about Africans. After all, when Boko Haram fighters kidnapped nearly 200 girls from a school in Chibok in April of last year, a public campaign to bring them back attracted widespread publicity, with even First Lady Michelle Obama contributing a photograph. Two years before that, a video from the now-defunct NGO Invisible Children that highlighted Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord who leads the Lord's Resistance Army, was viewed over 100 million times in its first six days. These campaigns, whatever their shortcomings, did at least show that people in the West aren't totally indifferent to African suffering.
The main difference between France and Nigeria isn't that the public and the media care about one and not the other. It is, rather, that one country has an effective government and the other does not. The French may not be too fond of President Francois Hollande—his approval ratings last November had plunged to 12 percent—but he responded to his country's twin terror attacks with decisiveness. Not so Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan. Since assuming the presidency in 2010, Jonathan has done little to contain Boko Haram. The group emerged in 2002 and has consolidated control over an area larger than West Virginia. And it's gaining ground. Perversely, the seemingly routine nature of Nigeria's violence may have diminished the perception of its newsworthiness.
Jonathan's failure to confront Boko Haram, of course, is nothing new. Nigeria has long been cursed with a corrupt, ineffective government, one perennially unable to translate the country's vast oil wealth into broad-based prosperity. During his campaign for re-election—Nigerians go to the polls on February 14—Jonathan has vowed to tackle his country's problem with graft. At a campaign rally on Thursday, the president exhorted his followers to support him.
"You must vote for your liberation, you must vote for your development, you must vote to take Nigeria to the moon," he said.
"You cannot vote to take Nigeria backward."
Boko Haram wasn't mentioned once.
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Reminder emails will start being sent tomorrow.

";
    $mail_flag='y';
    goto check_user;
}

if ($option=="off")
{
    echo "Option set to off";
    $message="
Reminder emails will stop being sent tomorrow.

";
    $mail_flag='n';
    goto check_user;
}

echo "Invlaid email option set.
Please inform us of this problem using the 'contact us' menu option.
Thank you.";
goto end;

check_user:
$prm_user_log_in=$current_user->user_login;

$select_data="SELECT * FROM SHD_Users_Data WHERE SHD_user_login ='$prm_user_log_in'";
echo "
select data = ".$select_data;

$result_select = mysqli_query($con,$select_data);
$rowcount=mysqli_num_rows($result_select);

if ($rowcount == 0)
{
    goto insert_record;
}

// record exists update it

$update_data="UPDATE SHD_Users_Data SET SHD_reminder_email = '$mail_flag' WHERE   SHD_user_login = '$prm_user_log_in'";
echo "
Update data is below
".$update_data;

if (mysqli_query($con,$update_data))
{
    Echo $message;
}
else
{
    echo "
User Update Failed Error = ".mysqli_error($con).
    "
 Please inform us of this problem using the 'contact us' menu option.
Thank you.";
}
goto end;

insert_record:

$insert_data="INSERT INTO SHD_Users_Data (SHD_user_login, SHD_reminder_email) VALUES ('$prm_user_log_in', '$mail_flag')";

echo "
Insert data is below
".$insert_data;

if (mysqli_query($con,$insert_data))
{
    Echo $message;
}
else
{
    echo "
Failed Insert Error = ".mysqli_error($con).
    "
 Please inform us of this problem using the 'contact us' menu option.
Thank you.";
    goto end;
}

end:
mysqli_close($con);

Here's the echo outputs from the program.
Running set_email_reminder.snippet.php
Option set to on
select data = SELECT * FROM SHD_Users_Data WHERE SHD_user_login ='wmayhew@walnuthillcc.org'
Insert data is below
INSERT INTO SHD_Users_Data (SHD_user_login, SHD_reminder_email) VALUES ('wmayhew@walnuthillcc.org', 'y')
Reminder emails will start being sent tomorrow.

A: I'd try it this way:
if ($option=="on")   {
    echo "Option set to on";
    $message="
Reminder emails will start being sent tomorrow.

";
    $mail_flag='y';
}
if ($option=="off")   {
   echo "Option set to off";
   $message="
Reminder emails will stop being sent tomorrow.

";
   $mail_flag='n';
}

$prm_user_log_in=$current_user->user_login;
$sql = "replace into shd_users_data (SHD_user_login, SHD_reminder_email) values ('".$prm_user_log_in."', '".$mail_flag."')";

if (mysqli_query($con,$sql)) {
   Echo $message;
}
else {
   echo "
User SQL Failed Error = ".mysqli_error($con).
        "
 Please inform us of this problem using the 'contact us' menu option.
Thank you.";
}

To use this be sure that the table has primary key on SHD_user_login and SHD_reminder_email

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