On the face of it, the murder trial of Christine English in 2019 was nothing unique. Christine, a 42-year-old registered nurse stood in the dock at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, her face sallow and pinched in disbelief. She stood accused of the stabbing death of her long-time companion, David English, in their […]
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Charles Duhigg in his 2012 book “The Power of Habit” tells the story of how Target Corporation, the parent company of Target Stores, learned a lesson in relationships the hard way. I would venture to guess that most people are not aware of the fact that their spending habits and their purchases are tracked by
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You’ve just met that special person. Your heart is racing, your hands are sweating, you’ve got butterflies in your stomach, and you tingle all over. You go to dinner together and you feel as high as a kite. At the end of the evening, your date kisses you and it makes you melt. For days
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The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But the researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind. The reason is that a sincere embrace produces a hormone called “oxytocin”, also known as the love hormone. This substance
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Why Women Are Sensitive The skin is the largest organ in the body, measuring around two square yards. Distributed unevenly across it are 2.8 million receptors for pain, 200,000 for cold, and 500,00 for touch and pressure. From birth, girls are dramatically more sensitive to touch, and as an adult, a woman’s skin is the
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Women hear better than men and are excellent at distinguishing high-pitched sounds. A woman’s brain is programmed to hear a baby cry in the night, whereas a father may oblivious to it and sleep on. If there is a kitten crying in the distance, a woman will hear it. A man, however, with his superior
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The eye is an extension of the brain that sits outside the skull. The retina at the back of the eyeball contains about 130 million rod-shaped cells called photoreceptors to deal with black and white and seven million cone-shaped cells to handle color. The x chromosome provides these color cells. Women have two x chromosomes,
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My other half and I recently sold our long time residence in New Jersey. And in dealing with a local realtor there, we met a personality who ended every conversation with a hug. I only mention this in passing, as there is a widespread controversy over what is appropriate touching behavior between people who are
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