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Couples can’t agree to disagree for most of life’s decisions, like whether or not to have a baby. So when there is room for opposing opinions, don’t sweat it too […]
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For thousands of years people have been looking to beat the system. Don’t bother.
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Instead of building up expectations for the evening, couples should engage in one of life’s most intimate acts: mutual gazing.
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Why older couples often have the best sex of their lives.
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A conversation with the director of the Marriage and Family Health Center and the author of "Intimacy and Desire."
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the origin of big, bad, brawny Jackson Pollock’s drip and splatter paintings were a wifely homemaker, mother, and grandmother from Brooklyn? And wouldn’t it be […]
Philosopher BHL has an “existence” rather than existential problem after he made an epic gaffe by quoting a made-up philosopher in his latest book.
American President Barack Obama has vowed to attempt a “global warming bailout” by setting up a new “Climate Service” to track global warming.
Lawyers for Brooke Mueller Sheen, the wife of Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen, have said she wants the domestic violence case against him dismissed after the pair were reunited.
A staggering 95% of user-generated content for the second half of last year was “malicious,” according to a report from security film Websense.
Beer drinkers are toasting a new study which suggests that beer is good for your bones as it is rich in silicon and may help prevent osteoporosis.
There now seems “little doubt” that Saturn’s moon Enceladus holds a “large body of liquid water” beneath its icy surface after a probe returned yet more evidence.
The non-religious know their right from wrong just as well as churchgoers, according to new research revealing a strong moral compass among atheists.
Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed has wowed America with new movie “Prodigal Sons” which tells the tale of two young brothers and their battle with sexual identity.
Congo has become the “world capital of rape, torture and mutilation” during the brutal war that has killed over 5.4m people and is still raging, writes The New York Times.
The Independent’s Liz Hoggard asks why heterosexual men refuse to emote on paper despite nearly 80 per cent of women desiring love letters.
For artists and illustrators, the cover of The New Yorker is the most treasured piece of real estate in American magazine publishing. New Yorker covers have inspired laughter, sorrow (as […]
The capuchin monkeys that Dr. Laurie Santos and her research team work with are "clever—sometimes more clever than we are." Not only do they sometimes get the better of humans, […]
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Some of Big Think's top experts--including Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Noam Chomsky--weigh in on the nature of love.
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Dr. Laurie Santos’s studies of monkey "economics" suggest that greedy, loss-averse human behavior may have deep evolutionary origins.