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Happy marriages hinge on well-rested wives?
by Cristen Conger | June 27, 2011
Science just pulled a fast one on me. Last week, I was raising the roof about how a study from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that sleep deprivation doesn’t have as potent an effect on women, compared to men. Now, a study from the University of Pittburgh School of Medicine seems to throw a monkey wrench in that notion.
Today is Discover Your Impact Day, the companywide volunteer day at Discovery Communications and HowStuffWorks. Discovery employees across the globe are abandoning their offices and pitching in on a variety of service projects around their communities. If Discovery left volunteering up their employees, I wondered whether more women or men might participate. Chances are, altruistic [...]
Preliminary research from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine indicates that lost sleep affects women less potently than it affects men. When men and women only snooze for six hours or less throughout the workweek, cognitive performance takes a hit, which accumulates over time as well. Even sleeping in during the weekend isn’t enough to make up the difference — especially in men.
I’ve barely dipped my toes into my late 20s, but I found out today that I’m only a few short years away from feeling old. A survey from a British funeral business, published in March, revealed that women start “feeling old” at 29 years old. We ladies don’t even have to crest the 30-year mark to already start unnecessarily aging ourselves? Heaven help us.
I’d wager that around 99.9 percent of “swimsuit season” anxiety perpetuated by advertising and weight-loss articles are targeted toward women and girls (Men’s Health subscribers, correct me if I’m wrong here). Why? Because guys don’t have to flaunt it all in a bikini, so they have no reason to be body conscious, right?
I’m left-handed. So is Prince William. As a young girl with tween dreams of becoming Kate Middleton with an American accent, I thought it was a special bond between us. And statistically speaking, it is a rather uncommon commonality.
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Kissing and Why You Feel So Cold
by Molly Edmonds | February 18, 2011
This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, Cristen and I tried to warm you up, only to cool you right back down. Monday’s topic was kissing, something that’s guaranteed to give a person a fever, if Peggy Lee is to be believed. Most of the time, we’d prefer other people’s saliva stay far away from us, so why are we so eager to swap it with a person we love?
Cristen and I have done several Stuff Mom Never Told You episodes about our love of reading. We discussed chick lit and children’s literature, each time asking our listeners to send in a list of the books on their reading list (you can check out this old blog post to see the top picks from this past year). It was only a matter of time before we got around to discussing librarians; in many cases, it may be a librarian who fostered or enabled your love of reading. And, in grand Mom Stuff tradition, there were plenty of gender stereotypes to consider when it came to librarians.
A New Theory About Old Sex Differences in Jealousy
by Cristen Conger | April 26, 2010
It’s refreshing to run across new studies like this one from Pennsylvania State University that poke holes in the kneejerk theory that in relationships, men are ultimately motivated by sex and women live for love. That idea especially came up while Molly and I were researching for our episode on whether men and women cheat for different reasons. Time and again, the studies seemed to condense women down to soul mate-seekers straight out of Debra Messing movies, while the men play sex-hungry beasts.
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