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Could A DNA Tests Find Your Soulmate?
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Could A DNA Tests Find Your Soulmate?

The One: could DNA tests find our soulmate? We study sex and sexuality — and think the idea is ridiculous The Netflix drama The One centres around a geneticist who invents a new matchmaking service. It uses DNA to help people find their romantic and sexual match: their “one”.“A single strand of hair is all it takes to be matched with the one person you are genetically guaranteed to fall in love with”, says Dr Rebecca Webb (Hannah Ware). “The moment you meet your match, your one true love, nothing will ever be the same again.” The One asks what would happen if we could use a DNA database to match “soulmates”. More importantly, it assumes if such technology existed it would be a wholly commercial enterprise — imagining a not-to-distant future where tech (and tech giants) mediate dating, sex...
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Could Human-Machine Relationships Go Mainstream? — Sex, Love And Companionship With AI
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Could Human-Machine Relationships Go Mainstream? — Sex, Love And Companionship With AI

Sex, love and companionship … with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream. There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app. Not so anymore. Online dating is so mainstream that you’re an outlier if you haven’t met your partner on Tinder, Grindr or Hinge. We bring up online dating to show just how quickly conventions around romance can change. With rapid advances in AI technology over the past few years, these norms may well evolve to include sex, love and friendships with AI-equipped machines. In our research, we look at how people use technology to form and maintain relationships. But we also look at how people bond with machi...
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Could Smartphones Be Ruining Your Love Life
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Could Smartphones Be Ruining Your Love Life

The majority of our relationships are in shambles. The U.S. divorce rate hovers at 40 percent, but that’s not the whole story. Many intact relationships are on life support. According to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center, 60 percent of people in a relationship say they’re not very satisfied. There are some familiar culprits: money problems, bad sex and having kids. But there’s a new relationship buster: the smartphone. My colleague Meredith David and I conducted a study that explored just how detrimental smartphones can be to relationships. We zeroed in on measuring something called “phubbing” (a fusion of “phone” and “snubbing”). It’s how often your romantic partner is distracted by his or her smartphone in your presence. With more and more people using the attention-siphon...
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Alexander Skarsgård With Abs So Rigid You Could Grate Cheddar On Them
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Alexander Skarsgård With Abs So Rigid You Could Grate Cheddar On Them

While he had been in multiple movies including Zoolander (2001) and HBO’s Generation Kill (2008), it wasn’t until his breakout role as Viking vampire Eric Northman on True Blood that Alexander Skarsgård finally dropped his pants. In a show filled with hot guys and saturated with male nudity, Alexander shows off his amazing, fit body, and exposes gorgeous glutes so tight you could bounce Thor’s hammer off of them. Skarsgård once told GQ: “Nudity is great. If it makes sense in the script, I really don’t care.” That’s the spirit! Alexander’s nudity resume is a mile long! You can see Alex show some skin in War on Everyone (2016), The Legend of Tarzan (2016), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), and at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards! We get a great look at Alexander’s chiseled chest and tight tush i...
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A Trait Could Be Key To A Lasting Romance
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A Trait Could Be Key To A Lasting Romance

Passion and commitment are widely believed to be the foundation of strong romantic relationships. But a relationship is made of two unique individuals, and personality traits these individuals possess or lack can often make a relationship more likely to endure. In a 2019 study, we found that one trait in particular – humility – is an important indicator of successful relationships. An honest view of shortcomings Humility can sometimes be confused with low self-esteem, low confidence or meekness. But researchers have come to realize that being humble generally indicates the presence of deeply admirable personal qualities. It means you have the ability to accurately assess your deficiencies without denying your skills and strengths. For example, you might recognize that you’re smart but rea...
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E-cig flavors may be more than alluring; they could cause damage themselves
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E-cig flavors may be more than alluring; they could cause damage themselves

Millions of Americans are vaping, and some are getting sick. Since June 2019, 2,711 have been hospitalized and 60 have died due to EVALI (e-cigarette-associated lung injury), the devastating lung disease linked to e-cigarettes. Five million users are middle and high school students. Some are as young as 11, although it’s illegal to sell vaping products to anyone under 21. A vape shop in New York City shows a line of flavorings on Jan. 2, 2020. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo, CC BY-SA Especially for kids, much of the lure is flavor. E-cigarettes offer attractive smells and tastes. Fruit, mint, candy and dessert flavors are the favorites, and studies suggest they ignite the desire to vape. That’s why the Trump administration just banned the sale of those sweet flavors from cartridge-based e-cigs, t...
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