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Do Brothers Stall Their Sisters’ Sex Lives?
Nearly eight months ago I gave birth to a baby girl. The child is now a seam-popping twenty-plus pounds. Infants, they grow so quickly it’s creepy — my thoughts fast-forward through her teething years...
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How big is your limbal ring?
Of all the qualities that give an attractive person an edge, here’s one you’ve likely overlooked: the limbal ring, the dark circle around iris. The limbal ring is the line that separates the...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Springtime Mind
Warm weather isn’t just good for the flowers. Sunny days have been linked to higher stock returns, and touching a warm object can make people more generous. My article in this weekend’s Wall Street...
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Are Men Likelier to Cheat When Their Partners are Pregnant?
It’s bad enough that Congressman Anthony Weiner had been taking photos of his naked self and sending them to women who weren’t his wife. It’s worse when we learn that his wife is three months...
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Are Extroverts That Way Because of Their Fathers?
All babies demand their parents’ attention. But how many 11-month-olds demand the attention of strangers, too? Ours does. We bring her to restaurants and she scans the room until she catches someone’s...
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Assorted Trifles (from the science of love, sex, and babies)
Research is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to find. An assortment of studies on love, sex, and babies — fresh from the lab. Scientists found that men whose ring fingers are...
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Do You Live Less if Your Mom Was Stressed?
Not long ago, a handful of scientists at the University of California at Irvine were curious about why some people live longer than others — even within groups that have similar ethnic and educational...
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Do Beautiful Babies Become the Most Beautiful Adults?
The Gerber baby, then and now Forgive me, I believe my one-year-old is the cutest baby ever. Yes, yes, mothers are biased about their own children. As I detail in my new book, certain reward circuits...
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Who Thinks Pregnant Women are Sexy?
Early one evening late in my second trimester of pregnancy, I was standing in the dairy aisle of the grocery store, with one hand on my back and the other over the kicking baby in my distended belly. A...
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