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How to Make Love Like a Caveman
Asked to imagine prehistoric human sex, most of us conjure the hackneyed image of the caveman, dragging a dazed woman by her hair with one hand, a club in the other. Psychologist Christopher Ryan says this image is mistaken in every detail.
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Lower College Tuition Fees Could Reduce Teen Sex
Lower college tuition fees can reduce risky sexual behavior in teens as students will have more to lose when things go wrong.
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Helen Mirren on Sex and Perception
Though Helen Mirren has a reputation for being something of a libertine, she sees herself as a straight-laced, hard working actress from an immigrant family—a bit Jew and Gypsy, too.
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Do Skirts Get Shorter When Wealth Declines?
George Taylor, an economist at Wharton School in the 1920’s, claimed there was an inverse relationship between the state of the economy and skirt lengths.
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How Positive Thinking Keeps You Healthy
about 13 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? It is no coincidence that you feel more energetic and relaxed when you are thinking positively, or that you feel lazy and tired if you are thinking negatively. Hormones secreted by the body, which are then carried into the blood stream, greatly affect how we feel ... Read More
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Digital Breakup? No! Digital Get-Over-Your-Ex? Yes!
5 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Online dating sites are increasingly accepted as a good way to look for a partner but, unfortunately, that is only half the story. For people who need to get past an ex, some new apps and websites are dedicated to keeping you from the obsessive side of your ... Read More
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Stupidity Only Partly Explains Homophobia
7 days ago
I have always thought that the fable that best describes the modern world is that of the Emperor’s New Clothes. You know the one in which the ruler struts around naked while his subjects tell him how wonderful his new robes are rather than risking to appear to be stupid. Of course at the end of the ... Read More
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Should employers be entitled to punish women for poor choices?
11 days ago
I had a heated debate on Facebook this week over the issue raised in this opinion piece in The New York Times that argues that anti-discrimination laws don’t go far enough to protect women who lose their jobs because they are pregnant. The woman who tipped off the Facebook debate is a human ... Read More
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Why Smokers Can't Get a Date
13 days ago
My son told me yesterday that he doesn’t think he will be dating this year since he refuses to date any girl who smokes. He is in grade 7. I wonder if the group of girls that I see collected outside of his school in the morning having one more smoke before the school day begins realize that because ... Read More
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The Economics of Second Trimester Abortions: Market Supply
16 days ago
New research finds that government regulations that restrict the supply of abortions performed after 15 weeks gestation in the state of Texas increased the price of late abortions by 37% ($454) and lead to an increase in the number of unintended births by over 6,600 in the three years following the ... Read More
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The Economics of Second Trimester Abortions: Market Demand
20 days ago
This is the first of two posts on the topic of the market for second trimester abortions. Later on in the week we will talk about the impact of government policies on the supply side of that market. Before we do that, I want to start with a discussion of the economic factors that are contributing to ... Read More
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Your Storytelling Brain
29 days ago
The left hemisphere of the brain is always trying to make sense of past thoughts and experiences. Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga ponders our need to hear and tell coherent stories about ourselves. Read More
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A New Reason for Women to Invest in Education – Toyboys.
about 1 month ago
I had a drink with a friend a few weeks ago who informed me that the only men looking for a woman my age (mid-forties) are men in their early to mid-sixties. After I beat him senseless with my old-lady handbag, I thought to myself: There has to be some empirical evidence that shows whether or not ... Read More
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Why Matchmaking Makes Us Happy
about 1 month ago
You know the type of book that your library would like someone to take home and never return? I picked a little gem this way recently called How to Find the Love of Your Life: 90 Days to a Permanent Relationship, and was charmed to see that it contained this nugget: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if ... Read More
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Just Enough Adversity Breeds Resilience
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? A meta-analysis of studies of how traumatic events affect mental health found that the number of adverse experiences may determine whether we become better able to handle what life throws at us. Those who underwent no or few hardships, or many adversities ... Read More
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My Experience with ADD
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Freelance writer and editor Molly Oswaks first found some relief with cocaine. Instead of giving her a high, it calmed her down and helped her focus. Later, an ADD diagnosis and medication gave her more lasting clarity and attention consistency after a life mostly ... Read More
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