Posted February 09, 2011
According to ABC a study by a consumer electronics website found several interesting items women prefer men to have. The website found that high-tech gadgets are more of a turn-off than a turn-on. The women surveyed said they’d be more attracted to a man walking a dog than someone talking on a cool phone. Both sexes […]
Read MorePosted February 07, 2011
According to CBS 8 Allison Harden is being wheeled into an operating room, about to have gastric-band surgery. She can hear the operating staff, the monitors — it seems so real. But it’s not. It’s all in her mind. “You will not feel any pain at all… Just then the surgeon enters the room,” a […]
Read MorePosted February 04, 2011
According to CBS 10 Americans are spending too much money on brand name prescription drugs when generic versions will essentially do the same job, according to a new study. Consumer Reports’ Lisa Gill tells KNX 1070 that people could save a lot of money by opting for the generic drugs — and possibly even limit […]
Read MorePosted February 03, 2011
According to The Los Angeles Times listen up all you single people…it’s not you, it’s California! If you’re looking for romance, the Golden State is anything but the place to be. According to Amazon.com, the least romantic city in the entire United States — underscore entire country — is El Monte! And don’t feel too bad […]
Read MorePosted February 02, 2011
According to the LA Times for the first time, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a drug to reduce the risk of premature delivery, although it required the manufacturer to conduct more studies to demonstrate the drug’s efficacy. The agency gave the nod to a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, which is normally produced […]
Read MorePosted February 01, 2011
According to The Los Angeles Times Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Jacob Eisenstein and his colleagues looked for geotagged tweets – messages that were marked with their tweeter’s location. They collected one week’s worth of messages in March 2010 from people who tweeted at least 20 times during that week. That gave them a whopping 380,000 […]
Read MorePosted January 31, 2011
According to MSNBC a new study finds that one in five U.S. men have to get up at least twice a night to empty their bladders — which for some could signal an underlying medical problem or even contribute to poorer health. Known as nocturia, those frequent overnight trips to the bathroom can be a sign […]
Read MorePosted January 28, 2011
According to MSNBC if you’re a nobody who desperately wants to be taken seriously, Northwestern University researchers have this advice: Stop slouching, already. Even if you’re just a lowly intern, the way you hold yourself can make you feel more powerful than the boss man or boss lady — and that can make a difference […]
Read MorePosted January 27, 2011
According to The Los Angeles Times no one really knows what dreams are for. But evolutionary psychologists theorize that humans started dreaming to promote survival by “rehearsing” adaptive responses to challenges. “In prehistory it was, ‘How do I get away from saber-toothed tigers?’” says Sandy Ginsberg, an Encino psychotherapist who leads a weekly dream group […]
Read MorePosted January 26, 2011
According to The Los Angeles Times experts in the field of positive psychology still believe it’s possible for people to push their happiness baseline upward — not just temporarily but over the long haul. In his 2002 book, “Authentic Happiness,” psychologist Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, argues […]
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