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TikTok And Instagram Are Making Obsessively Organized Kitchens A New Status Symbol

9Dec

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TikTok And Instagram Are Making Obsessively Organized Kitchens A New Status Symbol

‘Pantry porn’ on TikTok and Instagram makes obsessively organized kitchens a new status symbol. Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. Wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks. Rows of flavored seltzer water stacked in double-decker plastic bins. In today’s consumer culture, “a place for everything and everything in its place” isn’t just a mantra; it’s big business. Nowhere is this more evident than the kitchen pantry. Most people can relate to finding half-empty cereal boxes squirreled away in the cupboard or letting produce sit just a bit too long in a refrigerator drawer. But for a subset of social media denizens, such sacrileges would never grace their feeds. As someone who studies digital consumer culture, I’ve noticed an uptick ...

The “36 Questions Of Love” That Have Taken The Dating World By Storm

13Dec

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The “36 Questions Of Love” That Have Taken The Dating World By Storm

Do those viral ‘36 questions’ actually lead to finding love? The “36 questions of love” have taken the dating world by storm. First published in 1997 as part of scientific research into relationships, the 36 questions of love gained global popularity through Mandy Len Catron’s viral 2015 New York Times essay “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This”. In that essay, she outlines how she used the 36 questions with a university acquaintance on a casual night out. The result was the two fell in love, not dissimilar to two research participants who took part in the study back in 1997. In the publishing of that essay, a phenomenon was born. Social media, dating websites, dating coaches and bloggers were posting, writing or discussing the 36 questions of love – often framing these questions as a sur...

Teens Pornography And Sexting Experiences At School — What Parents And Educators Need To Know

12Dec

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Teens Pornography And Sexting Experiences At School — What Parents And Educators Need To Know

What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and sexting experiences at school. Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they even became a teenager. That’s according to a new report from Common Sense Media that examines the role pornography plays in the lives of today’s youth. Some teens do more than just watch pornography. By way of “sexting,” teenagers are also creating and sending their own images and videos of themselves in the nude. For the most part, it’s not the job of school staff to worry about what kids are looking at on the internet or sending over their phones. However, as an expert on human development – and as one who studies adolescent sexuality – I believe parents and educators should be prepared to address potential iss...

Social Prescribing Can Treat The Loneliness Making Us Physically Sick

13Dec

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Social Prescribing Can Treat The Loneliness Making Us Physically Sick

Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it – podcast. Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly becoming societal problems, as they contribute to polarization and affect our physical health. Mental health professionals, community advocates and health-care providers have been raising the alarm about this impending crisis. The pandemic may have exacerbated social isolation and the subsequent feelings of loneliness, but it did not invent it. In 2018, two years before the pandemic, the United Kingdom created a ministerial portfolio for loneliness. Japan, where nearly 40 per cent of the population report experiencing loneliness, began a similar position in 2021. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to three researchers who invite...

When We’re In Love What Happens In Our Brain And Body?

13Dec

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When We’re In Love What Happens In Our Brain And Body?

What happens in our brain and body when we’re in love? Love dominates our popular culture and is the subject of countless songs, movies, and works of literature and art. But what’s happening in our body when we feel love? Love is difficult to define, but can be described as an intense feeling of deep affection. At the most basic level, science sees love as a cocktail of chemicals released by the brain. From an evolutionary perspective, romantic love evolved from the primitive animal drive to find and keep preferred mates. Love keeps people bonded and committed to one another, to raise children through infancy. This ensures our species will continue to reproduce, survive and thrive. However, romantic love is not just about reproduction. Some argue we should consider love a motivation, like ...

One Community’s Story Of Meth Use And Domestic Violence – ‘When He’s Not On Drugs, He’s A Good Person’

12Dec

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One Community’s Story Of Meth Use And Domestic Violence – ‘When He’s Not On Drugs, He’s A Good Person’

One night, after five days of smoking meth, Misty* heard a voice. It just said ‘BOOM! Get up’ and I got up and was like, ‘where’s my son?’ and I run to the bathroom and my little girl’s standing at the sink and I could see the water running and coming down the hallway and he was already blue at the bottom of the tub. So I grabbed him up and was like, I mean, panic – I couldn’t do nothing but sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ It’s the only thing I knew to do. Misty’s son, one of her five children, survived – he was saved by a neighbour who worked for the ambulance service in their Alabama community. At first glance, Misty’s story is a cautionary tale against drug use, not unlike those portrayed in campaigns like the Faces of Meth and the Meth Project in the US. Media depictions of people who use meth...

Lift And – Oops! Spontaneous Ejaculation While Exercising

16Dec

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Lift And – Oops! Spontaneous Ejaculation While Exercising

Wow! There's nothing quite like a really good workout to make a guy feel good. Sure, he may feel tired, but he also has gotten his blood flowing, his heart pumping and his body that much more fit. In some cases, though, there can be an embarrassing consequence of exercising - spontaneous ejaculation, or spurting semen in the gym shorts without consciously stimulating the penis. Spontaneous ejaculation is a fairly uncommon penis health issue, but that doesn't make it any less awkward when a guy tries to cover up a wet spot as he quickly exits the gym floor and hurries to the locker room. Spontaneous ejaculation There aren't really statistics kept on how common spontaneous ejaculation is, but it seems to be fairly rare. It also is rare for one person to have what might be termed recurrent sp...

Do Adults Judge Children Who Told Blunt Polite Truths More Negatively Than They Do liars

11Dec

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Do Adults Judge Children Who Told Blunt Polite Truths More Negatively Than They Do liars

Despite the common lesson that it’s paramount to tell the truth, adults judged children who told blunt polite truths more negatively than they did liars in a recent study my colleague and I conducted. We asked 171 adults to watch videos of children between the ages of 6 and 15. Participants got a bit of written background identifying which children were lying and which were telling the truth. The lies were what psychologists call prosocial, meaning they benefited someone other than the child him- or herself. For instance, they might have been trying to protect a sibling who had destroyed their bike or to be polite and tell their parent they enjoyed the birthday party organized for them. On the other hand, when they told the truth, the children were betraying a sibling to tell on them to t...

Is It Such A Bad Thing That You Can’t Have A Hollywood Meet Cute On A Dating App

13Dec

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Is It Such A Bad Thing That You Can’t Have A Hollywood Meet Cute On A Dating App

The “meet cute” is the moment in which two unlikely people encounter each other while going about their ordinary lives, and something extraordinary begins. In the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), Arthur (Eli Wallach) describes it thus to Iris (Kate Winslet): It’s how two characters meet in a movie. Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in, and they both go to the same men’s pyjama department. And the man says to the salesman, “I just need bottoms”. The woman says, “I just need a top”. They look at each other, and that’s the meet cute. The meet cute is a magical moment of happenstance. The people involved aren’t looking for love (at least, not right then). In 1991, Roger Ebert rather prosaically described the meet cute as: a comic situation contrived entirely for the...

Never Had A Girlfriend Before? Guess What You Are Not Alone

13Dec

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Never Had A Girlfriend Before? Guess What You Are Not Alone

What if you have never had a girlfriend before? Common things I see when guys call the dating and relationship radio show that I co-host are: 1. A lot of guys in this boat are introverted and shy. To the point of extreme anxiety. You know that she wants a confident man but when just talking to her gives you a "flight or fight" reaction then it is tough to portray confidence. Women do not respond to fear, as you well know. 2. Negative thinking. When you have been down for so long, it is easy to fall into the "well, she is just going to reject me anyway" line of thinking. Guys who have never had a girlfriend before are more comfortable living in a negative world because it is safe for them. They do not have to risk anxiety and rejection and they can confirm the negative pattern that is impri...