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The Look of Love
Read more: The Look of LoveA pair of studies looks at the look of love: First: Attitudes Towards Sexual Relationships Can Be Judged From Photos Of Your Face And in another: Volunteers looked at faces with exaggerated or reduced male or female features; the faces had been morphed to look either more or less masculine or feminine. As the faces…
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Near-Immortality
Read more: Near-ImmortalityLong for this World, by Jonathan Weiner, looks at the possibility of science conquering disease and people living much longer lives. [One scientist] predicts that when life expectancy reaches multiple centuries, humans may become extraordinarily risk-averse, unwilling to ride in a car or ski because they’ll have too much time ahead, too much to lose. “When.”
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Dysregulation Nation
Read more: Dysregulation NationJudith Warner coins a phrase and paints a grim portrait of our culture and its consequences: [I]n the anything-goes atmosphere of our recent past, it wasn’t just external controls that went awry; inwardly, people lost constraint and common sense, too. Now there is a case to be made that problems of self-regulation — of appetite,…
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Relationships Better with Age
Read more: Relationships Better with AgeAt PsychCentral: Relationships Grow, Improve with Age. “Older adults report better marriages, more supportive friendships and less conflict with children and siblings.” So…time to start aging.
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Selling “Pink Viagra”
Read more: Selling “Pink Viagra”NYT Business article about the efforts to make and market a female sex pill. Regulators and doctors tend to be less tolerant of side effects in quality-of-life drugs than they are in medicines intended to mitigate life-and-death diseases. Some industry critics, meanwhile, contend that in the quest to find new and treatable quality-of-life problems,…