A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Imparting childcare improves for more content couples to sexual experiences, US research recommends. In an investigation of 487 families, folks who split childcare obligations equitably reported more prominent fulfillment, both sexually and inwardly. In any case, in couples where the lady did the greater part of the childcare, both men and ladies reported being less substance. The analysts said men doing a more noteworthy offer of childcare did not have the same effect. The conclusions have been drawn from a study called the 2006 Marital and Relationship Study, which was a review into marriage and connections among hetero couples.
The data, being presented at a meeting of the American
Sociological Association, shows that couples where the women performed more than 60% of childcare - specifically in terms of rule-making, praising and playing - fared the worst on scores of relationship satisfaction and conflict, as well as being less happy about the quality of their sex life. The study leader, Dr Daniel Carlson, an assistant professor of sociology at Georgia State University, said: "One of the most important findings is that the only childcare arrangement that appears really problematic for the quality of both a couple's relationship and sex life is when the woman does most or all of the childcare."
The team found that fathers could in fact take on most or all of the
childcare responsibilities without negatively affecting the quality of the couple's relationship. The study did not look at who performed tasks such as feeding and bathing the children. The academics are planning more research into why those couples with more equal childcare responsibilities seem to have better relationships.We are trying to understand what is it about sharing that couples view so positively, Dr Carlson added. Prof Sir Cary Cooper, an expert in organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, said the findings made sense, but they might reveal more about the kind of couples who shared their responsibilities. "If you have a 'new' man who is happy to share childcare, he probably invests more in the relationship anyway," he said.
He added that it was becoming increasingly acceptable for men to opt for more flexible working and to take on more of the responsibility for family and domestic life. "Increasingly there's a lot of pressure on men who wouldn't normally do that - the question is would that make a difference in the relationship. I think it could do."
The 487 couples in the study were selected at random and included low-to-moderate income couples who had children living with them and where the woman was under 45 years. A total of 605 couples were interviewed, but the researchers only included in this study those where both partners had completed the full survey.
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