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What incredible powers do gorgeous women have?
bsp; Seeing attractive women makes men stupid. Actually, it's even worse than that: just thinking about dealing with a beautiful lady makes male IQ plummet. When CNN shows have attractive female anchors men can't even remember the news. To be fair, it's not just the guys who get distracted by female beauty. There's a reason there are more women on the covers of magazines than men. Both sexes pay more attention to attractive women than attractive men. Just seeing hot…
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Do stories rule our lives? Would that be good or bad?
bsp; Studies have shown that stories are key to the most fundamental parts of our lives: Increasing happiness Meaning in life Group solidarity Stories are so powerful they can fulfill our need for belonging when we are lonely. Fiction actually makes us into nicer, kinder people. How does it do this? That leads us to the dark side... Often it works its magic by misrepresenting the world. Fiction makes us more prosocial by making our perspective less accurate: In Appel’s…
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Is email killing you?
ail stresses us out: A new study released Thursday by the University of California, Irvine, which was co-written with United States Army researchers, found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive. And: “We were able to get second-by-second stress levels from our tests and we found that over the five-day period away from e-mail, people’s stress levels went down compared with when they were using e-mails,” Ms.…
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How can you live life without regret?
bsp; First, what do we regret the most? You're more likely to regret the things you didn't do than the things you did. (The split is about 75/25.) Education was the biggest inducer of regret, followed by career, romance, parenting, the self, and leisure. You're more likely to regret purchasing things. You're more likely to regret not purchasing experiences. And for the big picture: what do people regret the most before they die? 1. "I wish I'd had the courage…
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How can you be a superhero crimefighter without ever throwing a punch?
bsp; Is there anything you can do to help those around you be more active, happier, or smarter? All of these produce better citizens or reduce crime. Easy access to pornography reduces rape and sex crimes. Likewise with violent movies. They don't increase real violence -- they reduce it. Sending people to prison can be counterproductive. (Crazy as it sounds, even odd initiatives like helping criminals get plastic surgery has shown positive results.) All this seem beyond the reach of…
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5 reasons why your eyes might really be the window to your soul:
es definitely have some unique powers: Eye contact can make people fall in love with you. You can tell which couples are in love by how long they stare into each others eyes. They say making someone look into your eyes can facilitate lie detection and there is evidence that this is true. Feeling eyes looking at you (even if they're on a picture) makes you behave better. Genuine smiles involve the eyes, not just the mouth. Women are better…
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What makes more money: sports or porn?
a Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships: Worldwide, pornography is reported to rake in anywhere from fifty-seven billion to a hundred billion dollars annually. In the United States, it generates more revenue than CBS, NBC, and ABC combined and more than all professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises. According to U.S. News and World Report, “Americans spend more money at strip clubs than at Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and nonprofit theaters,…
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