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A study of male attitudes to health and how they use health services challenges the usual stereotype that men are uninterested in their health. The results will surprise those people who envisage the Australian pub-going male as brusque and disinterested in all things medical.
Rather than procrastinating, men may delay going to the doctor so that they can watch a health problem to see if it will fix itself. Indeed, a picture emerges of men as personal health detectives, monitoring rather than ignoring symptoms, and visiting the doctor only if a problem fails to resolve itself.
When men do…
There are ten key questions we have to answer this century, says a new report by the National Research Council. The questions represent where earth science stands, how it arrived at this point, and where it may be headed.
"With all the advancements over the last 20 years, we can now get a better picture of Earth by looking at it from micro- to macro-perspectives, such as discerning individual atoms in minerals or watching continents drift and mountains grow," said Donald J. DePaolo, professor of geochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley and chair of the committee that wrote the…
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PARIS, January 31 /PRNewswire/ -- On 24 January, in the course of an extraordinary show, Passionata unveiled its new image and the highly glamorous advertising campaign devised by David LaChapelle. A hot spectacle presented by Alain Prost, General Director of Chantelle's Group, and Adeline Desjonqueres, International Director of Passionata's brand : four Crazy Horse mythical scenes and an original creation staging the latest Passionata Lingerie sets worn by gorgeous creatures endowed with stupendous figures and knowing smiles...
To launch this new commercial and emphasize its novel…
A study in Social Science Quarterly says that religious women are less likely to have abortions than secular women - not because they're more pro-life, but because they're less likely to get pregnant before marriage.
“Religious influences on attitudes are much more powerful than religious influences on behavior,” the authors note. “While religion is the main reason for differences in abortion attitudes, religion is a relatively minor reason for differences in abortion behavior.”
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, researchers led by Amy Adamczyk, PhD, of John…
The stereotype that couples in same-sex relationships are not as committed as their heterosexual counterparts and are therefore not as psychologically healthy is disputed by two studies featured in the January issue of Developmental Psychology.
Results showed that same-sex relationships were similar to those of opposite-sex couples in many ways. All had positive views of their relationships but those in the more committed relationships (gay and straight) resolved conflict better than the heterosexual dating couples. And lesbian couples worked together especially harmoniously during the…
If you want to know how the Oscar celebrations will stack up, our very own Garth Sundem wrote the definitive Oscartronic equation last year. Bonus: Oscar fashion by the numbers is here as well.
But what if you just want to figure out who will get a nomination? You'll have to settle for Harvard and UCLA then. Their advice; don't be in a comedy.
"The odds of being nominated for an Academy Award are so much greater for performers who appear in dramas that — at least this time of year — it really pays to be a drama queen," said Gabriel Rossman, one of the study's two authors and an assistant…
Should a rural, sparsely populated and predominantly white conservative state be the initial battleground for presidential nominations?
Well, someone has to go first but Steven S. Smith, the Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences Washington University in St. Louis, says it's time for Iowa to just go.
Smith says he has nothing against Iowa or New Hampshire, but he has serious misgivings about their special role as the first in the nation to select nominees. Iowa, he says, is far from representative of the nation — its population is too rural and too white to play such a critical role in…
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Pop singer Alisa Apps shuns the idea of signing with major record label and decides to go her own way. Apps, who just launched her website and singing career 10 days ago, announced that she is not seeking to be signed with a major record label.
Her fantastically successful YouTube campaign started 10 days ago and has fans raving.
Alisa started with "Will somebody PLEASE sing Jingle Bells with me???" Within 2 days she had 90,000+ views.
In less than 3 days she has garnered thousands of comments, video responses, true confessions from her…
No one will be farther from home than the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, circling Earth at 17,500 mph and orbiting 16 times each day. NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send personalized holiday greetings to the orbiting crew.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko, a Russian cosmonaut, have been on the station since Oct. 12. Flight Engineer Dan Tani, a U.S. astronaut, joined them Oct. 25. Together, they make up the 16th resident crew of the orbiting outpost.
To send a personalized message to the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/home/…
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, December 8 -- The World Future Council (WFC),a global forum of 50 respected personalities who give voice to the shared ethical values of citizens worldwide that includes Bianca Jagger, Chair of the Executive Committee, Tariq Banuri and Anders Wijkman, today accused delegates from the world's wealthiest nations, above all the USA and Canada, of putting the brakes on negotiations.
Industrial countries, especially the US they say, still refuse to commit to drastic cuts in CO2 emissions. This suggests that an agreement on binding climate protection resolutions for the period…