Live while you are alive
An article in the Daily Telegraph in Britain, written by Sean Thomas, listed some of the reports that link religious belief with health: in 2006, researchers at the University of Texas (it would be, wouldn’t it?) found that the more often people went to church, the longer they tended to live; a Duke University study …
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It is characteristic of human beings that if they grow up feeling in some way different from their peers, don’t feel loved, or look entirely different from their parents, they construct sometimes fantastical scenarios about their birth. Who are my real parents? Was I swapped at birth by a careless nurse? Or am I the …
We traditionally talk about the ‘seven-year itch’, but according to a new study, it’s at ten years that relationships start to really suffer. Researchers gathered 2,000 women who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, and had married in their mid 20s, and quizzed them at intervals over 35 years. Participants were asked, for instance, …
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on same-sex marriage, which is now legal in about three dozen states. But it’s also legal in most states to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodation. So, an LGBT person can get legally married in most states, …
One of the ironies of modern life is that while smartphone sales have soared, we talk less and less by phone. Phone calls are nowadays largely the preserve of the political fundraiser, or the family emergency. What people dislike is the expectation “of your immediate attention, paying no heed to the possibility that you may …
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