A survey conducted with 6,000 Britons by Travelodge revealed 35% of adults admitted they sleep with their teddy because they found cuddling their bear comforting. Also the calming feeling of a bear hug also helps them to de-stress after a hard day -- which aids sleep. Research findings also revealed 25% of male respondents...
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Study: 25% of British men travel with their teddy bears
Men and women agree that men are the best bosses
By Geoff Maynard (Express UK) A massive 63 per cent of women and 75 per cent of men said they would rather have a man in charge at work. Both male and female workers believe male bosses were less likely to get involved in office politics, easier to reason with and rarely had mood swings....
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Survey reveals wives cheat more on vacation than husbands
New research from married dating site IllicitEncounters.com shows that most cheating spouses are reluctant to give up their unfaithful ways. The study of 800 men and 800 women revealed that 33% of cheating spouses have had an affair while on holiday, and 6% have dared to cheat while on holiday with their spouse. The...
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Moms’ favoritism tied to depression in adulthood
(ScienceDaily) Whether mom’s golden child or her black sheep, siblings who sense that their mother consistently favors or rejects one child over others are more likely to show depressive symptoms as middle-aged adults, finds a new study by Cornell gerontologist Karl Pillemer. Prior research has shown that parental favoritism among siblings negatively affects mental...
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Research says good or evil actions can improve strength
By Steve Bradt (Harvard) Research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows a similar or even greater boost in physical strength following mean-spirited deeds. Researcher Kurt Gray, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard, explains these effects as a self-fulfilling prophecy in morality. “People perceive those who do good and evil...
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Happy Bloomsday! Apple censors ‘Ulysses’ webcomic on iPad/iPhone
On, 'Bloomsday', June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce's book 'Ulysses' takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed 'obscene'), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.
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Promoting social media buzz can hurt sales
By Jerry Kronenberg “You would think that the more people you talk to about a new product, the greater the number of people who’d adopt it. But it turns out that that’s not always true,” said P.J. Lamberson, an MIT Sloan School of Management visiting assistant professor who’s just completed a study of the...
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Suppressed survey reveals the secret sex life of librarians
(UPI) — A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating...
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Almost a quarter in US say they are often too tired for sex
(PR) WASHINGTON, DC – The 2010 Sleep in America poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics and Whites. It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic groups. The poll shows that all groups report disturbingly...
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Angry airline passenger eats €10 thousand euro prize
(DailyMail UK) An airline passenger ate his £8,930 winning scratchcard after he was told he could not claim the money immediately. The unnamed British man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow in Poland to East Midlands Airport when he won 10,000 euros with the ticket. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1254570/Ryanair-passenger-eats-10–000-euro-winning-scratchcard.html#ixzz0gy8N6QSx
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