American married couples try to bring sexy back...

"Quiet, dear, the kids will hear us..."

If you are American, and are to get married, it is your statistical destiny to have sex with your spouse only about once a week (every 5.5 days, to be precise).

If you are a hormone-drunk 18-year-old newlywed, your average is marginally better (every four-and-a-half days).

Why not make a New Year's resolution to get down with your (worse) half every day for the next year?

These couples did.

Oranges 2.0

Sorry for the long delay in blogging, folks, but Greene Futures will be online regularly henceforth...I promise.


Cezanne's "Pommes et oranges" (1899) -- Fast food?

From Harper's Weekly (a very entertaining email digest produced by Harper's magazine):

"For the third year in a row, the consumption of oranges in Britain declined because people were too busy to peel the rind off the fruit."

Geoff Greene's Genius Idea No. 83:

Develop GM oranges who's peels come off as easily as those of a tangerine. Because--admit it-- oranges are a pain to peel for we people on the go. This could do for oranges what Yoplait's Go-GURT did for yogurt...