Pi is wrongScience | WIRED 'τau = 2π. That's the first thing you need to know. The second is that tau is a whole lot more friendly to use than the awkward pi. Instead of defining a circle by its diamater, it allows you to define it by its radius, making it as equally transcendental and irrational as pi is... |
Stewert Lee and Bo BurnhamCulture | THE FINANCIAL TIMES Stewert Lee writes in the FT, ‘Oddly, Burnham’s Guardian piece had the headline “The 20-year-old could be his generation’s Stewart Lee”. I am a comedian but the comparison struck me as unfair to the boy, especially as it didn’t relate to any desire he appeared to have expressed on record anywhere. Besides which, in an interview last summer, the young rapper had cast doubt on the originality of my wo... |
Women aren't funnyCulture | GUARDIAN Zoe Williams likes Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist. ‘I don't care that Bridesmaids features bridesmaids, nor that it is ultimately uncritical of the American nuptial hyper-consumption.’ |
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10 strange ways to dieYourMagless | Mistrey New research into accidental deaths in Tudor England reveals the strange way people died, writes Sean Coughlan. Oxford University historian, Dr Steven Gunn, has been scouring 16th Century coroners' reports and researching accidental deaths in Tudor ... |
Male goats producing "human" milkYourMagless | Mistrey Genetic engineers are deliberately breeding transgender goats to see if their milk is similar to that produced by humans. |
A field guide to bullshitScience | NEW SCIENTIST In Stephen Law’s book, Believing Bullshit, he presents the strategies of people who attempt to defend their beliefs in bizarre conspiracy theories or the power of chrystal. Alison George asks him about avoiding "intellectual black holes". |
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Strauss-Kahn's pals bid to pay off woman's kinCulture | NEW YORK POST 'Friends of alleged hotel sex fiend Dominique Strauss-Kahn secretly contacted the accusing maid's impoverished family, offering them money to make the case go away since they can't reach her in protective custody, The NYPost has learned.' |
Why is an anti-abortion group advising the government on sexual health?Families | NEW STATESMAN 'Life, a group which is opposed to abortion in all circumstances and promotes an abstinence-based approach to sex education, has been appointed to a government advisory group on sexual health. The forum excludes the British Pregnancy Health Service (BPAS), which had a long-term position on the previous advisory group.'... |
Solving the Mystery of Female EjaculationThe Sexes | Psychology Today Pamela Madsen; ‘Some folks called the liquid that a woman ejaculates during sex "Amrita". There are some folks who believe it to be urine. I have seen Amrita and frankly it does not look or smell like urine. It is something very different.’ |
Can we ever condone the notion of state-sponsored assassination?News and Politics | GUARDIAN The killing of Osama bin Laden produced a small crisis for the liberal conscience. Just as the world marked the operation with muted approval, liberals found themselves gulping at the suggestion that torture might have played a part |
HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTISTYourMagless | Pooh This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave yesterday at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. It’s a simple list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was in college. |
Backstage Rider: Iggy Pop & the StoogesYourMagless | Pooh As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained. The document--all 18 pages of which you'll find here--describes Iggy's requirements in terms of amplifiers, security, lighting, stage set up, and dressing ... |
Hugh Grant taps the papCulture | NEW STATESMAN This is funny; ‘After a chance meeting with a former News of the World executive who told him his phone had been hacked, Hugh Grant couldn’t resist going back to him – with a hidden tape recorder – to find out if there was more to the story . . .’ |
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Aintree Ladies Day attracts Janet Street Porter’s wrathCulture | DAILY MAIL 'Without being too brutal — given a big occasion, Northern women have absolutely no sense of style.' Personally, I think these women know exactly what they're doing and why shouldn't they wear what they want? Why conform to being 'tasteful' and 'stylish'. It would probably translate into boring.... |
Russell Brand attempts to explain why he diSagrees with DawkinsCulture | NEW STATESMAN I'm glad Jemima Khan asked me to contribute to this issue of the New Statesman as it (at last) gives me the opportunity to prove the existence of God. You may think me unqualified for a task that has baffled the finest theologians… since the dawn of time but don't ... |
If I'd known then what I do now, I'd have wanted him to die in my arms'YourMagless | Mistrey Alexia Pearce adores her 'gorgeous' three-year-old son, yet she is aware that his life – a life blighted by cerebral palsy and chronic lung disease – is unlikely to last long into his teens. In this moving account, she asks: are we always right to save premature ... |
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Margate and Ramsgate children 'have not seen beach'YourMagless | Mistrey Children who have grown up in Kent coastal towns but have never been to the beach are being encouraged to visit the seaside. Pupils from Margate and Ramsgate have regularly told school workers they have never been on the sands before. |
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Melanie Phillips thinks we must jail ALL drug dealersCulture | THE DAILY MAIL Last week, the Sentencing Council proposed that some criminals convicted of supplying the most dangerous illegal drugs, such as heroin or cocaine, should escape jail and be given community service orders instead. |
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Is the world about to go radiation crazy?YourMagless | agnes The California Department of Health explain the situation thus: "When radioactive material is spread through the atmosphere, it drops to the ground and gets in the environment. When cows consume grass, hay, feed, and water, radioactivity will be processed and become part of the milk we drink." It's the circle of ... |
10 Ways Google is taking over the worldGet some Google in your life, if somehow you haven't done already. As the arrival of Google's Nexus One signals another ambitious but potentially lucrative venture for the media giants, in the bigger picture it's just another step by the influential Google brand in its quest to filter into every aspect of our daily ... |
Talk about sincereThe Sun's apology for an article posted on their site. 'His parents have asked us to make clear he was not turned into a fireball, was not obsessed with the number 23 and didn’t go drinking on that date every month'. |
Homeopathy pills contain no trace of active ingredient.I think some people want to believe in homeopathy. I think many people don't realise the processes involved in homeopathy. Once the pill is on the counter, there is not a molecule of active ingredient to be found. They should be sold as placebo. Check the film on The One Show (see link) from about 1.45min ... |
Beyonce's father will no longer work as her managerI wonder what happened there then. Beyonce will no longer be managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the singer's publicist has said. |
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The 5 Percent DoctrineA minister in Gainesville, Fla., has created an international uproar by vowing to burn the Koran on Sept. 11. This is under the theory that the best way to honor Americans who died at the hands of religious extremists is to do something that is both religious and ... |
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Apps for babies.Culture | WSJ MICHAEL HSU writes, 'Like any new parent, I started with high-minded ideals: I'd only feed my children organic food. They'd be in bed by a reasonable hour every night. And the iPhone would be strictly off limits.' |
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Pictured: one sea turtle's worth of plasticLife | WIRED Pictured at Wired: one sea turtle's worth of plasticJoining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth's five great ocean rubbish patches. |
Another episode of Midsomer madnessCulture | SP!KED The hysteria following Brian True-May’s remarks reveals not just another example of ‘PC-gone-mad’, but rather a more insidious attempt at social engineering, based on a profound contempt for the Middle Englanders who watch the show. |
Farewell then, Liz. You knew your beauty was a fuel worth burningCulture | THE INDEPENDENT Blimey, Julie Birchill likes someone; 'You knew your beauty was a fuel worth burning. Taylor was fascinating for being far less interested in leaving a good-looking corpse than in wringing every drop of the juice from every inch of the ride.' |
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The Richard Madeley Appreciation SocietyCulture | richardmadeley.blogspot.com ‘And doing a lousy job of it,’ I complained. ‘You’ve not updated it once in all the time I’ve been away filming my new series celebrating some of North Africa’s most popular and long-serving leaders.’ |
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Budget 2011: Key pointsBudget | THE TELEGRAPH George Osborne will use the Budget 2011 to outline how the coalition Government aims to kick-start growth and create UK jobs. Louisa Peacock extracts the key news from today's Budget for us. No new taxes on alcohol or tobacco. |
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Palin in Israel: Why Do You Apologize So Much?News and Politics | NEWSER Arriving yesterday in Israel for a two-day visit, Sarah Palin asked this after learning about the ban on open Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount and the Arab riots following a 1996 Netanyahu decision regarding the Western Wall tunnels. |
The work-dad balanceCulture | PROSPECT New fathers will be entitled to take up to six months’ paternity leave. A 2009 survey found that nearly half of fathers don’t even take the two weeks’ paid leave every new dad has been entitled to since 2003. So how many will actually take it? |
Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honestyNews and Politics | SLATE Members of the Yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicate, have also been enforcing order. All three major crime groups have "compiled squads to patrol the streets of their turf and keep an eye out to make sure looting and robbery doesn't occur". |
Fukushima demonstrates that nuclear power is the solution not the problemViews & Ideas | NEW STATESMAN Nuclear power has so far maintained an enviable safety record, even during accidents: Three Mile Island which resulted in a partial meltdown in 1979, released very little radiation and had no impact on the health of surrounding populations. |
Even girlie Jihadists like nothing more than looking goodCulture | THE INDEPENDENT Not content with launching an English-language magazine that debuted with a feature called "How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom", al Qa'ida's media wing has followed up with a magazine for women, mixing beauty tips with lessons in jihad. |
Forget the finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’Views & Ideas | SP!KED "The representation of humanity as ‘hopelessly irrelevant’ resonates with the cultural pessimism sweeping Western societies. From this perspective, the phenomenal achievements of Japanese society since the Second World War count for nothing". |
This is what a tsunami looks like at ground levelCulture | THE ATLANTIC Having spent the whole weekend gripped by the unfolding destruction in Japan, we came across this 6 minute video at The Daily Dish that shows, in the most graphic way, the force and oddly slow nature of the tsunami in Japan as it overruns a town. |
The bad mother complex Why are so many working mothers haunted by constant guiltFamilies | BOSTON GLOBE Here I was, with pajamas and laptop, working in the family-friendly universe of quarterly magazines. And here was my firstborn, peeking in to entertain me with his shiny curls and a seminar on print production. I didn’t feel entertained or balanced. |
Chinese parents don't like Barbie, won't buy Barbie because she is too sexyCulture | SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 
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Do Parents Who Serve Teens Beer and Wine at Home Raise Responsible Drinkers?Families | WALL STREET JOURNAL Should parents teach their teens how to drink responsibly? But some parents do quietly allow their teens to have wine or beer at home occasionally, figuring that kids who drink in moderation with their family may be less likely to binge on their own. |
Egyptian wmen's march faces counter march against equalityNews and Politics | AL JAZEERA "We did not speak of our gender rights during these protests because it was not the right time. We spoke for the political and social rights of all Egyptians. If we were to campaign for our rights as women in parallel with the revolution's national goal, that would have been called political opportunism," says Hala Kamal, an assistant professor at Cairo University and a member of the Women in Memory Forum.... |
Sex with 15-year-olds, statutory rape and paedophiliaNews and Politics | GUARDIAN/DAILY MAIL "Teacher who had sex with schoolboy, 15, is spared jail after judge says: 'He touched you first.'" "Not quite a paedophile' – John Humphrys' strange correction" The Guardian and Daily Mail explore whether sex with a 15-year-old is paedophilia. |
Only one in five women describes herself as a feministNews and Politics | THE DAILY MAIL It may come as a surprise to those who feel hit the glass ceiling or hear one too many blonde jokes. Most women do not believe the UK is a sexist place. Fewer than 4 in 10 say they have experienced derogatory remarks or behaviour because of gender.... |
Don't you feel better not being patronised by your cheaper car insurance?News and Politics | THE OBSERVER Why so many women have lamented the end of sexual determinism in car insurance is that, for once, they had emerged as superior. Arguably, the ratio of car insurance premiums should reflect even more accurately the comparative carefulness of women. |
Parents Rationalize the Economic Cost of Children by Exaggerating Parental JoyFamilies | SCIENCE NEWSLINE Any parent can tell you that raising a child is emotionally draining. Despite tales of professional sacrifice, financial hardship, and declines in marital satisfaction, parents continue to insist that children are an essential source of happiness. |
For the American Supreme Court free speech also includes hate speechNews and Politics | WASHINGTON POST Westboro Baptist Church members show up to military funerals wielding signs that read "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" - reflections of their belief that soldiers die as punishment for America’s tolerance toward homosexuality. |
Has the rise of women turned men into boys?The Sexes | FORBES There is a new stage of life, what I call ‘preadulthood,’ that has been created by changes in the economy and the culture. This new stage has created all sorts of problems between the sexes. This is because women are further along than the men. |
I'm fed up of celebrities going on about their non-existent wobbly bitsThe Sexes | DAILY TELEGRAGH Jennifer Aniston recently said her bottom was too big, and Cheryl Cole once said that her bottom was too small. Uma Thurman can't stand her big feet. Angelina Jolie has moaned that her lips "take over my face". Do these women think it's endearing? |
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Does the internet make you smarter, happier and more productiveCulture | LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS The brain is not ‘a blob of clay pounded into shape by experience.’ Its wiring may change a bit when we learn a new fact or skill, but its basic cognitive architecture remains the same. There is no evidence that using the internet can remodel’ it. |
Bleedin' kids today. Huge sense of entitlement and no respect for othersFamilies | THE TIMES “The British used to produce generations of tough, independent children. My mother, brought up during the war, walked alone to her nursery school in Cambridge alone at the age of three and looked after herself while her mother worked for the WVS.” |
Are boardroom quotas the only way women will be hired for the boardroom?Views & Ideas | THE GUARDIAN For Maria Reinertsen the Norwegian experience shows “Mandatory quotas are bureaucratic, they hurt both the pride of women and the freedom of business. But if you genuinely want more women in the boards, it's probably the only way to achieve it.” |
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Why Assange lost the extradition hearing and his case for appealViews & Ideas | NEW STATESMAN Assange will be extradited to be questioned about an allegation of rape, two of sexual molestation, and one of unlawful coercion. There can be no doubt that these allegations are serious: far more serious than they have been represented by many. |
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In Canada, rapists avoid jail if flirty women wear boob tubes and heelsNews and Politics | WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Justice Robert Dewar called a rapist a "clumsy Don Juan" who may have misunderstood what the victim wanted when he forced intercourse. Justice Dewar specifically noted the woman was wearing a tube top with no bra, high heels and plenty of makeup.... |
Evidence, if any were needed, that all anti-abortionists hate womenNews and Politics | MOTHER JONES A Republican from Georgia has introduced a State bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion illegal. Any "prenatal murder" in the words of the bill, including "human involvement" in a miscarriage, would carry life in prison or death. |
The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia show that this is not an Islamic revolutionNews and Politics | NEW STATESMAN In Europe, the ongoing popular uprisings have been interpreted using a model that is more than thirty years old: the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Commentators have been expecting to see Islamist groups lying in wait, ready to seize power. |
If we lose our privacy, do we sacrifice a fundamental part of our humanity?Culture | WIRED.CO.UK As Katie Roiphe has observed, "Facebook is the novel we are all writing." We are becoming WikiLeakers of our own lives. There has been a massive increase in "self-produced" legibility driven by our need to broadcast our uniqueness to the world. |
"I am very impressed by the progress Bahrain is making on all fronts"News and Politics | MIAMI HERALD Bahrain’s recent parliamentary elections were described by Hillary Clinton as “free and fair”. But Bahrain, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet, is not free. The Obama administration ignored popular unrest and serious repression by a friendly autocracy. |
High court quashes practical way to help women in need of an early termination.News and Politics | THE GUARDIAN The early medical abortion involves two pills taken 48 hours apart. The first terminates the pregnancy; the second stimulates a process akin to miscarriage. Now, unless you live near the clinic, you are likely to start miscarrying on your way home. |
Moral Combat: Why do liberals play computer games like conservatives?Culture | THE AMERICAN PROSPECT To what extent the choices we make in game play are evidence of and serve to reinforce our real values and characteristics is still up for debate, but a study in 2008 found that violent games increased aggression in kids with had hostile tendencies. |
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Winter is not the time to fret about your lady gardenCulture | THE INDEPENDENT If you ask me, Rachel Johnson's article in this month's Vogue on "tidying up" her "lady garden" and having her first Brazilian bikini wax was a shocker even if you only thought, as I did: What? In February? Seriously? On top of everything else. |
Mean Girls web of popularity achieved by bullyingCulture | NEW YORK TIMES Research in The American Sociological Review suggests the road to high school popularity can be treacherous, and that students near the top of the social hierarchy are often both perpetrators and victims of aggressive behavior involving their peers. |
How To Manage Your Own Body LanguageHealth | FORBES If you think consciously about moving your hands in a certain way to emphasize a point, your gesture will come too late, and you’ll look awkward, bizarre, or fake. That’s because the natural sequence of events is intent – gesture – thought – speech.... |
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Would you want your partner to leave you recuperating while he went back to worKFamilies | POLITICS DAILY Is Mark Kelly selfish, ego-driven, does he care more about his career than he does his wife? How can he even think of abandoning her in her fragile state? Or is he going back to work, like thousands of others have to with sick or injured partners. |
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To bush or not to bush, that is the questionThe Sexes | THE GUARDIAN Pubic hair elimination. It's a small but itchy area of contention. Last month's Elle and this month's Vogue have long pieces by Avril Mair and Rachel Johnson , combing through the various strands of argument for and against total pubic purging |
Mercy for domestic abuse victims who lie about rapeNews and Politics | LONDON EVENING STANDARD Women who make false allegations of rape in retaliation for domestic violence or suffered prolonged intimidation and abuse, or were pressured into retracting by the alleged attacker could escape prosecution under new guidelines published today. |
Did you ever suspect that some people choose anxiety?Health | NEWSWEEK Researchers who study emotion regulation are discovering that many anxious people are bound and to cultivate anxiety. The reason, studies suggest, is that for some people anxiety boosts cognitive performance, while for others it feels comforting. |
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Belgium's politicians face call for sex strike by their wives, husbands and loveNews and Politics | DAILY TELEGRAGH A female Belgian senator has called on the husbands, wives and other bed partners of all of Belgium’s politicians to ban sexual intercourse until the deadlock that has left Belgium without an operational government for 241 days, has been broken. |
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Meet the Egyptian child vigilantes - too young to stay at home alone in the UKNews and Politics | NEW REPUBLIC As I strode up the streets towards my apartment in Cairo’s Dokki neighborhood, a posse of teenagers approached. One was packing a his pistol. Another carried a sword. Trailing a few feet behind, a couple of ten-year-olds carried broomsticks.... |
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The bizarre and contradictory legal world of WikiLeaksNews and Politics | NEW STATESMAN It is reported that Assange believes WikiLeaks has some form of legal ownership in the confidential and secret information. This is an astonishing and legally incorrect view. Assange has threatened to sue the Guardian on this remarkable basis. |
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Does oral sex really cause cancer?Health | SALON It's been an unsexy week for oral sex, with headlines sounding the alarm about links to cancer. The same thing happened last year and a couple of years before that, thanks to emerging research, and each time it stirs a panic. Is the risk real? |
Injunction by JIH reveals a worrying trend towards anonymised justiceNews and Politics | DAILY TELEGRAGH The greater public interest is for justice to be open but we see a wider shift towards less transparency. Anna Soubry’s Private Member’s Bill would ban the media from reporting the names of those questioned about crimes until they are charged. |
Coming to a young adult near you: “emerging adulthood.”Culture | NEW ATLANTIS The traditional cycle seems to have gone off course, as young people remain untethered to romantic partners or to permanent homes, going back to school for lack of better options, traveling, avoiding commitments, forestalling adult life. |
Freakonomics, Wikinomics and now Spousonimics. The original idea award goes to..The Sexes | NEWSWEEK To prove a point after a nasty argument—kitchen cabinets were again left open, words were exchanged—my husband sketched a graph plotting the recent state of our marriage. His point was that we were having more bad days than good days... |
Take a paternity test for peace of mind so you can move on with your lifeFamilies | LONDON EVENING STANDARD A kit, Assuredna, for testing paternity will go on sale in Boots. Mandy Hartley, technical manager at manufacturer Anglia DNA, said: "Assuredna provides families with peace of mind so they can move on with their lives.” Literally or figuratively? |
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The new neurosexism behind discussions on sex differenceScience | TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Wandering wombs, an anatomically conferred destiny of penis envy and masochism, smaller brains, smaller frontal lobes, larger frontal lobes, right-hemisphere dominance, cross-hemisphere interaction, too much oestrogen, not enough testosterone |
Journalists seem to be sleep-walking into more reporting constraintsViews & Ideas | GUARDIAN Another day and another sympathetic article from The Guardian about attempts to restrict what newspapers can report. MPs are now very keen on pre-conviction anonymity. Such anonymity would have put the kibosh on the expenses revelations of last year. |
Tiger mums are a response to a society that won't push kids to succeedCulture | SP!KED Many discussions of parenting today tend to blame parents for ‘hyper involvement’ in their kids’ lives, without recognising that their behaviour is a response to a situation where the formal/informal socialisation of children often no longer happens. |
Should Andy Burton be fired for calling Siân Massey “a bit of a looker”?Views & Ideas | NEW STATESMAN Following the sacking and resignation at SKY, Jason Stamper asks whether calling someone a "looker" is any worse than calling them good-looking and whether calling someone good-looking is enough to get them sacked? Is Andy Burton another SKY sexist. |
Even if you have a puffy face, you can still have great absFamilies | NEW YORKER My perturbed, puffy face sets you up for a blubbery gut. But then you see these abs, stacked like bricks, clearly delineated, and you have to ask, “Does he work out for two or three hours a day, or does he just work out all day?” My secret is simple... |
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Apparently, women are yearning to stay at home. That's guilt talkingBudget | THE GUARDIAN There is a whole generation of women who were raised to believe that it is possible to have a stellar career, a wonderful marriage, an amazing sex life, several well-balanced children and still have time to see your girlfriends and get your hair done. |
Rich helicopter parents and the law of diminishing returnsFamilies | WALL STREET JOURNAL Children from wealthy households get all the advantages that money can buy, from music lessons to SAT tutors. Although parents might fret over the details of such these details are mostly insignificant, subject to the law of diminishing returns. |
Why music sometimes make you weep, sometimes makes you danceCulture | WIRED The pupils in our eyes dilate, our pulse and blood pressure rise, the electrical conductance of our skin is lowered, and the cerebellum, associated with bodily movement, becomes strangely active. Blood is even re-directed to the muscles in our legs. |
'Informed Consent' ploy by anti-abortionists is an attack on reproductive rightsViews & Ideas | NEW STATESMAN The Tory MP Nadine Dorries is a well-known anti-abortionist, with 2 failed attempts to lower the limit to 21 weeks. Her intention is to introduce "fully informed consent" for women seeking abortion rather than to campaign for a return to illegality. |
How Nicole Kidman's surrogate birth will soon be a crime in NSWViews & Ideas | SYDNEY MORNING HERALD “I believe the message this Parliament needs to send to all citizens is that commercial surrogacy - an act that commodifies women and children - is wrong, whether it takes place in Australia or another State or country”, NSW Minister, Linda Burney. |
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Tiger Mum is a wimp sheltering her kids from things that will help them achieveCulture | NEW YORK TIMES Sometime early last week, a large slice of educated America decided Amy Chua is a menace to society. Chua, as you probably know, is a Yale professor who has written a bracing critique of what she considers weak, cuddling American parenting style.... |
Women of science, do you know your place?Culture | EXQUISITE LIFE Why are there so few women in science? Or to be precise, why are there so few women in the physical sciences, and so few at the top of any field? While it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, backward attitudes toward female scientists remain. |
Darwin's Rape Whistle. Have women evolved to protect themselves from rape?Science | SLATE.COM Not only do rape conceptions completely undermine the female's mate selection—and so the quality of her offsprings' genes—but rapists are unlikely to stick around and help raise children, putting such children at a significant disadvantage. |
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If you want to live longer, walk faster.Health | io9.com Typically, you calculate life expectancy by combining information about a person's chronic conditions, medical conditions, blood pressure, body mass index, and hospitalization history. Or, alternatively with ten feet of pavement and a stopwatch. |
Regular exercise may drive you to drink. Cancel that gym membershipHealth | NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Can regular exercise avert or undo some of the harm associated with binge drinking? Perhaps even better, could exercising beforehand pre-emptively reduce your urge to overindulge in alcohol later? Or does exercising actually drive you to drink? |
Seems harsh, but eighteen is old enough to face the musicFamilies | DAILY TELEGRAGH Children grow up and, as the adults our teenagers are constantly telling us they have become, there comes a point when they have to bear the adult consequences of their actions. But when are they old enough to face the consequences of their actions? |
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Most Americans feel political rhetoric unrelated to Tucson shootingNews and Politics | CBS NEWS Forget the pundits’ views. Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country's heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. |
Scientists discover female tears cause decline in male sexual arousalScience | WASHINGTON POST It's widely held that women's tears will turn men to mush. And many think that sympathetic response is a sign of sensitivity, a psychological shift away from baser male impulses. New research suggests that much of the response may be involuntary. |
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