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...just gotten easier. Cindy Meston and David Buss, psychologists at the University of Texas, interviewed over 1,000 women around the world for their book Why Women Have Sex and managed to come up with 237 reasons, ranging from the predictable - commitment - to the puzzling - curing a headache. Spoiler alert: love may be further down on the list than one might think. TIME spoke to Buss about the myriad mind games, turn-ons and turn-offs involved in female sexuality, and what a guy can do to stand a chance...
...feeding the public a steady visual diet of falsified people, places and products. This artificial reality leads people to expect perfection from themselves and the world in an impossible way, she says. "When writers take a news item or real event and considerably embellish it, they are required to alert readers by calling the work fiction, a novel or a story based on dramatized facts. Why should it be any different for photographs?" Boyer asks. "Rules on food-labeling let consumers know the origins of the contents and the presence of things like additives and preservatives. What's wrong with...
...Sept. 29, an earthquake deep under the Pacific caused a massive tsunami that devastated the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, killing 111 people, ravaging villages and flattening homes. The earthquake struck at 6:48 a.m. and measured 8.3 on the Richter scale. By 7:04 a.m., an emergency alert went out from the Tsunami Warning System, a global network of sensors monitored by scientists. Less than 10 minutes later, the tsunami, with waves measuring nearly 15 ft. high, hit land...
...featuring Ratatat. An exquisitely executed marriage of hip-hop and techno, it combines Ratatat’s effortlessly cool beats with eerie lyrics: “There’s something going wrong with me / I am changing rapidly / I’m feeling stronger, more alert / I’m on the move / I smell her scent / and I know I will find her soon, soon, soon….” One of the album’s darkest tracks, Cudi’s haunting lyrics are perfectly complemented by Ratatat’s space-age sound...
Tucked away on a tree-lined Cambridge side street, the Maria L. Baldwin School regularly attracts some of the greater Boston area’s newest fashion talent. On select Sundays each month, a few splashy sandwich boards along Massachusetts Avenue alert pedestrians to the Design Hive. Located in the school’s auditorium, the self-proclaimed “retail experience,” and “urban street market” showcases the work of independent designers and various artisans. Just beyond the public school’s front doors, crayon-scribbled artwork mingles with arrow...