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A Female Sex Pill?
Read more: A Female Sex Pill?NYT: Push to Market Pill Stirs Debate on Sexual Desire [M]any experts say that unlike sexual dysfunction in men — which has an obvious physical component — sexual problems in women are much harder to diagnose. And among doctors and researchers, there is serious medical debate over whether female sexual problems are treatable with drugs. Some…
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Your Best Face
Read more: Your Best FaceNew feature at OKCupid helps ID your most alluring profile picture with the help of other users. Comes alongside this iffy move: OKCupid Hides Good-Looking People From Less Attractive Users. Unsavory–though a Consumerist commenter may be onto something re the attractive users thing: I think it’s just a ploy, I received the same email too and…
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Depression and Weight Gain
Read more: Depression and Weight GainNYT (again): Exploring the Links Between Depression and Weight Gain. In a society enamored with thinness, many assume that being fat is depressing — that if there is a cause and effect relationship, it’s obesity that makes people feel down. But “there is an alternative explanation,” said Belinda L. Needham, an assistant professor of sociology at…
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The Neuroscience of Contemplation
Read more: The Neuroscience of ContemplationAnother from the Google lecture series. Richard J. Davidson [explores] recent scientific research on the neuroscience of positive human qualities and how they can be cultivated through contemplative practice.
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What Babies Know
Read more: What Babies KnowStudy at ScienceDaily: Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts. “We’ve shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ relations across the number, size and duration of objects. And what’s really remarkable is they only need experience with one of these quantitative concepts in order to guess what the other quantities should…