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I think I mentioned many a time before how much I am amused by Digg.com articles. Anything from silly to stupid to downright bizarre interpersed with something intersting and worth knowing.

This article, about how sex is not allowed on Singapore Airlines in the new double bed private suites definitely fals under the more bizarre news. The short summary went along something like this: Even though Singapore Airlines has equipped its new A380 jets with private double bed suites, company officials are saying you'd better not do the bouncy bouncy in there or you'll meet with their stern disapproval. What are they going to do? Throw you off the plane?

Another article is of a more serious nature. It reviews a book, "Shyness:How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness" that addresses the issue of shyness and how over time it became viewed as a mental disease allowing the pill-happy pharmaceutical companies to hawk their often not well-performing drugs onto the duped market. The author, Professor Christopher Lane who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study psychopharmacology and ethics talks about the psychiatry is using drugs with poor track records to treat growing numbers of normal human emotions and o course, the pharmaceutical industry's willingness to exploit this constantly expanding market of treating human emotions. The review is concise is and comprehensive and fortunately, in my opinion at least, escapes the pitfalls of too much scientific high-browed words when reviewing a scientific book.