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Johnson & Johnson Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns (no replies)

Lisa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:49:51 -0700

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—After decades of coddling young children, Johnson & Johnson unveiled its new "Nothing But Tears" shampoo this week, an aggressive bath-time product the company says will help to prepare meek and fragile newborns for the real world.

http://bitsy.spinics.net/284

Smuggling (no replies)

Lisa — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:49:01 -0700

Marked Rise in Intensely Sexualized Images of Women, Not Men (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:14:49 -0700

ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 2011) — A study by University at Buffalo sociologists has found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even "pornified." The same is not true of the portrayal of men. These findings may be cause for concern, the researchers say, because previous research has found sexualized images of women to have far-reaching negative consequences for both men and women.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810133015.htm

Promising Results of Phase I Diabetes Trial (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00:41 -0700

ScienceDaily (June 26, 2011) — Promising results of the Phase I clinical trial of the generic drug BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guerin) to treat advanced type I diabetes were announced June 26 at the American Diabetes Association scientific sessions in San Diego. A research team led by Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Immunobiology Laboratory is presenting two abstracts (No. 2240-PO and No. 0057-LB) -- the first which describes the apparent reproduction in human patients of the mechanism that reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model and the second proposing that lack of a key part of that mechanism may explain why recent trials of an antibody-based diabetes therapy were not successful. The Iacocca Foundation has been the primary supporter of this work.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110626145244.htm

Coming to TV Screens of the Future: A Sense of Smell (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:34:13 -0700

ScienceDaily (June 14, 2011) — Today's television programs are designed to trigger your emotions and your mind through your senses of sound and sight. But what if they could trigger a few more? What if you could smell or taste the cheesy slices of pizza being eaten by your favorite characters on TV? Is it possible? Would audiences enjoy the experience? Would advertisers jump on the opportunity to reach consumers in a new way?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615094520.htm

Rule 34 (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:11:26 -0700

9 Reasons Not to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:40:32 -0700

http://mingle2.com/blog/view/dating-tyrannosaurus

Are you dating a cat? (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:14:00 -0700

Gutting a Furbi (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:06:45 -0700

"Bomb" turns out to be sex toy in Friday scare in Bishop (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:52:04 -0700

What Inyo Law enforcement feared might be a bomb of some sort turned out to be a battery-powered sex toy found in the car of a reported parole violator.

http://news.sierrawave.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4559:qbombq-turns-out-to-be-sex-toy-in-friday-scare-in-bishop&catid=6:&Itemid=200021

Doctors Who Ask Patients To Sign Over Copyright On Any Online Reviews Are Only Harming Themselves (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:08:14 -0700

Over the past few years, we've written about the controversial program from a group called "Medical Justice" to get doctors to force their patients to sign over the copyright on any future reviews they might write on sites like Yelp or RateMyMD. The whole setup is both ethically and legally dubious, and a few weeks back some highly respected law professors, Eric Goldman and Jason Schultz, set up the site DoctoredReviews.com to help counter Medical Justice's efforts.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110524/07250114411/doctors-who-ask-patients-to-sign-over-copyright-any-online-reviews-are-only-harming-themselves.shtml

Happy Guys Finish Last, Says New Study on Sexual Attractiveness (no replies)

eeek — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:28:50 -0700

ScienceDaily (May 26, 2011) — Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of "bad boys" and other iconic gender types.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110524070310.htm

George Takei vs. Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:36:06 -0700

May 21 Rapture Caught Live On Tape (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:28:46 -0700

Want Lasting Love? It’s Not More Commitment, but Equal Commitment That Matters (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:49:56 -0700

ScienceDaily (May 18, 2011) — It stands to reason that a well-loved child can become a loving adult. But what prepares us to make a strong commitment and work out differences with an intimate partner? And what happens when one person is more committed than the other?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518131435.htm

True Love May Wait -- But Waiting Won't Make You a Safer Lover Later on (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:23:45 -0700

ScienceDaily (May 17, 2011) — Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're married. In "comprehensive" or "abstinence-plus," the idea is to delay sexual relations until . . . later.

"The underlying assumption is that delay reduces sexual risk-taking" -- and with it unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, says University of South Florida psychologist Marina A. Bornovalova. "If they just wait, then they'll be less likely to have multiple partners or get pregnant early."

"But until now, no one had tested this assumption."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110517132632.htm

A Woman's Blues Bring a Relationship Down (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:42:55 -0700

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2011) — Depression erodes intimate relationships. A depressed person can be withdrawn, needy, or hostile -- and give little back. But there's another way that depression isolates partners from each other. It chips away at the ability to perceive the others' thoughts and feelings. It impairs what psychologists call "empathic accuracy" -- and that can exacerbate alienation, depression, and the cycle by which they feed each other.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330142344.htm

Ass Hat of The Week: TLC “The Learning Channel”? (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:34:02 -0800

Learning. It’s one thing I love to do. I like to learn anything and you would think that I could learn something from a television channel named “The Learning Channel“. Otherwise known as TLC. I don’t watch much television but I figure if I’m going to turn on the boob tube, it’s going to be to watch a channel I can learn something from.

Little did I know that TLC really stands for Totally Ludicrous Crap.

http://thedailyblonde.com/2009/05/ass-hat-of-the-week-tlc-the-learning-channel/

One Third of Us Have Tried Dating Websites With Middle-Aged Suitors Using Them Most (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:08:25 -0800

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2011) — An Oxford University study suggests that nearly one in three of us who use the internet have visited online dating sites. An international survey of 24,000 men and women who are presently online found that just six per cent had gone to dating websites in 1997 but by 2009, 30 per cent of the sample had tried them with 15 per cent finding their current partner that way.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110215150142.htm

The 'Science Of Kissing' (no replies)

eeek — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:10:22 -0800

Socializing is found across the animal kingdom, but osculation — or kissing — seems to a human behavior. How did it start and why? The Science of Kissing author Sheril Kirshenbaum discusses the history and biology behind kissing.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133686008/The-Science-Of-Kissing?ft=1&f=5

15 of the BestWorst Pick-Up Lines for Valentine's Day (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:04:37 -0800

http://www.funnyordie.com/slideshows/a0e32d230f/15-of-the-bestworst-pick-up-lines-for-valentine-s-day

Women Are More Attracted to Men Whose Feelings Are Unclear (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:30:59 -0800

ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2011) — Are you still looking for a date for Valentine's Day? Here's some dating advice straight from the laboratory: It turns out there may be something to "playing hard to get." A study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110207142623.htm

The Language of Young Love: The Ways Couples Talk Can Predict Relationship Success (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:56:19 -0800

ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) — We know that people tend to be attracted to, date, and marry other people who resemble themselves in terms of personality, values, and physical appearance. However, these features only skim the surface of what makes a relationship work. The ways that people talk are also important. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who speak in similar styles are more compatible.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110125104141.htm

Is Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' homophobic? (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:24:09 -0800

ritish rockers Dire Straits are not among rock’s natural controversy magnets. But a brouhaha has erupted in the past few days over their 1985 track “Money For Nothing,” which private broadcasters in Canada are no longer allowed to play because it features the word “faggot.” Last Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled that “Money for Nothing” is “extremely offensive” and inappropriate for airing on radio or television because it contains repeated use of the anti-gay slur.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/01/17/dire-straits-money-for-nothin/

Abandon your resolutions. Stop looking for your soulmate. Reject positive thinking (no replies)

eeek — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:36:02 -0800

New Year's Day, when you stop to consider it, hasn't been very well thought through: the day traditionally assigned for the turning over of new leaves is also the day many of us are far more likely than usual to be waking up hungover, or at least seriously late, and generally without the energy for launching effortful new self-improvement projects. The gym's probably closed; new year resolutions rarely work out anyway; and besides, today marks the 30th anniversary of the achievement of self-government by the island nation of Palau, which is surely as good a reason as any to indulge in further alcohol-fuelled celebration. Then again, on some level, who doesn't want to be a bit happier, more productive and generally a better person? Allow us to suggest a few modest, down-to-earth, evidence-backed ideas for 2011 that might actually work…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/01/how-to-better-person-2011?CMP=twt_fd

Shopping Differences Between Sexes Show Evolution at Work (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:37:54 -0800

ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2010) — The last-minute holiday dash is on: Men tend to rush in for their prized item, pay, and leave. Women study the fabrics, color, texture and price. The hunting and gathering ritual of yesteryear continues today in malls around the world. Understanding the shopping behavior of your partner can help relieve stress at the stores, according to a researcher at the University of Michigan.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221154530.htm

The Key to Being Attractive (and Looking Healthy)? (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:43:22 -0800

ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2010) — If you want to look attractive and healthy, the best thing you can do is get a good night's sleep, finds research in the Christmas issue published on the British Medical Journal website. For the first time, say the authors, there is scientific backing for the concept of beauty sleep.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214201530.htm

Man Not Belonging To Movie's Target Demographic Escorted From TMan Not Belonging To Movie's Target Demographic Escorted From Theater By Hollywood Officialsheater By Hollywood Officials (no replies)

eeek — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:16:54 -0800

ST. LOUIS—Hollywood officials removed David Sinclair, 24, from the AMC Esquire 7's 9 p.m. showing of The Time Traveler's Wife Monday for failing to meet the minimum gender, age, and socioeconomic status requirements set forth in new guidelines to ensure marketing is reflected in movie audiences.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-not-belonging-to-movies-target-demographic-esc,6897/

Good Grades in High School Lead to Better Health (no replies)

eeek — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:21:10 -0800

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2010) — The "A" grades that high schoolers earn aren't just good for making the honor roll -- they also make them healthier as adults, too. Studies have long shown that education is linked to better health, but new research by Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that higher academic performance in high school plays a critical role in better health throughout life.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112448.htm

Touch-a Touch Me, TSA Security (no replies)

eeek — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:20:32 -0800