For me, the word "diet" has an ugly connotation to it. Setting a goal to adopt a healthier lifestyle is an admirable personal mission, but dieting in order to lose weight often involves desperately seeking...
opinion by Terri Potratz | 50 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago 16254 views | 21 recommendations | 11 comments
Is the "right" reducing itself to emotional extremes rather than acting as a movement for political ideas, and can its arguments be reduced to the most rudimentary logical proposition: "I am X, and X is both...
"Sex, Men and Video Tape of Women... Have you ever wondered was going through the minds of financial titans when they make they take huge monetary decisions or risk? Well...
Popular tales do far more than entertain, however. Psychologists and neuroscientists have recently become fascinated by the human predilection for storytelling. Why does our brain seem to be wired to enjoy stories? And how do the emotional and cognitive effects of a narrative...
created by ryanborja | 1 year ago 250 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study...
created by phoenixesrose | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 613 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences gay men are girly and lesbians are manly. Well, this is the case until they do further research anyways." Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain...
created by BigT | 1 year ago 545 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
"A robotic pet penguin which can interact with humans has been unveiled by South Korean researchers. Pomi (Penguin Robot for Multimodal Interaction) can see, hear, touch and emit smells as well as making faces,...
created by SteelePop | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 356 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Over the past week, Barack Obama has come under fire for his comparative lack of experience and his views towards foreign policy. McCain has attacked Obama as being “naive” and failing to understand “the...
created by I. Buffalo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 270 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
A man has been convicted in New York of stalking Uma Thurman, but he won't face much time behind bars."A former mental patient obsessed with Uma Thurman faces up to a year in jail after a jury convicted him...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 202 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Distance makes the heart grow fonder and pain makes the nose a better smeller. Researchers at Northwestern University have documented that when a smell is experienced while going through an intense emotional...
created by ryan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 536 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Scientists have alluded to two minds of man, one that thinks and one
that feels. This feeling and reason dichotomy parallels the folk
distinction between the “head” and the “heart”. It is for this reason
that if the heart rules the head, it can becloud the mind and...
created by affleap | 1 year ago 295 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
What a silly generalization to make, no? I know lots of guys who listen to the Cure."The great gender debate has once more been dragged out to play today, the topic this time how far a person's sex...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 738 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In part, blaming someone else for your problems seems to be a Canadian Pastime."It's a strange country we live in. For all the talk we hear about how brave men fought and died to keep Canada a free country, we...
Hurrah! Now there are wrinkles on the faces of video game characters. I'm still not seeing split ends, lost eyelashes, or hairs gone horribly awry though. One leap at a time I guess."Most game designers...
created by Rob Peters | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 466 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments