You’ve heard for years that the French and Japanese are much thinner than Americans because their diets are so much better than ours. A new mathematical model assesses why that is and how much thinner Americans could be if they changed their eating habits.
Month: July 2015
How a Human Scream Uniquely Activates the Fear Response in Your Brain
We know human screams are jarring. They’re loud, occasionally shrill, and tend to make us feel stressed, or even fearful. What’s unclear is why they elicit anxiety. But a new study suggests this response may have something to do with the acoustic quality of human screams, and how they trigger the brain’s fear response.
Stories from the sex trade
Dutch sex workers, pimps and johns share their stories.
A newspaper bans its own Nick Cave story – the Twittermob strikes again
The power of the Twittermob has officially crossed the line from ‘worrying’ to ‘terrifying’. Yesterday, these ready offence-takers, these always primed chest-beaters over words and images that don’t gel with the moral outlook of the Twitterati, managed to get a newspaper article expunged from the internet, shoved down the memory hole, made into an un-article so that it would never again offend their sensibilities. And they destroyed the article with such swiftness that many people won’t even have noticed that it happened. But it did happen, and we need to talk about it.
Mindfulness: Capitalism’s New Favorite Tool for Maintaining the Status Quo
The meditative practice is being used in a way that betrays its anti-materialist roots.
In Germany, they treat paedophiles as victims… not offenders
Project Dunkelfeld (which translates as “Darkfield”), allows individuals to anonymously contact therapists who help them control their sexual urges towards children.
Men and women reveal on secrets app why they DON’T like having sex
Men and women from around the world have taken to an anonymous secret-sharing app to reveal why they don’t like having sex.
In posts released by Whisper, reasons include being too body-conscious to enjoy being intimate with a partner, to finding doing the deed boring.
Here’s How To Stop A Migraine Before It Destroys Your Whole Day
Migraines cause severe throbbing in the head, sensitivity to light, sounds or smells, and are brutally painful. Researchers don’t agree on the number of Americans who suffer from migraines, but official numbers range from 16.2 percent to 22.7 percent. Dr. Wade Cooper, director of the University of Michigan Headache and Neuropathic Pain Clinic, explained that they’re a lot more common than you think.
The best age to get married if you don’t want to get divorced
Conventional wisdom has it that the older you are when you get married, the lower your chances for divorce. But a fascinating new analysis of family data by Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, suggests that after a certain point, the risk of divorce starts to rise again as you get older.
Reason Our Brains Love to Procrastinate
Sometime around 2006, two Harvard professors began to study why we procrastinate. Why do we avoid doing the things we know we should do, even when it’s clear that they are good for us?