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Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington predicts that nap rooms in offices are going to be “as common as conference rooms” in the next two years. Huffington’s mission: to eliminate the stigma long associated with sleeping at work. Napping on the job used to “mean [that employees were] not as dedicated, not as hard-working,” she…
Dreamin’ of a matriarchal society… Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Blend Images Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Center recently conducted a study that found women need more sleep than men. About 20 more minutes of sleep per night, to be precise. Why? The director of the Sleep Research Center told the New York Post: “Women’s…
People with relatively minor health problems—say, the flu or a deep cut—aren’t the only ones getting relief from growing walk-in “urgent care” companies such as CityMD and PM Pediatrics. These companies also are providing a little tonic to retail landlords. In the last four years, more than 20 of these centers have opened in the…
Photo Credit Yann Kebbi AS the director of the human brain bank at the National Institute of Mental Health, I am surrounded by brains, some floating in jars of formalin and others icebound in freezers. As part of my work, I cut these brains into tiny pieces and study their molecular and genetic structure. My…
Early Saturday morning 65 women — aged 25 to 70 — arrived at a 5,000-square-foot former garage space in Brooklyn to compete in a female-only weightlifting competition. The Iron Maidens Raw Open was founded five years ago at Crossfit South Brooklyn to give women a place to compete in three powerlifts: the deadlift, squat and bench…
Canadian couple David and Collet Stephan have pleaded not guilty to charges that they “failed to provide the necessities for life” to their 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died of untreated meningitis four years ago. According to the CBC, prosecutors have claimed that the couple attempted to treat their son with home remedies rather than take him…
Photo The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low. Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said Monday….
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coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata After Willem de Kooning Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition ANNE Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University. In books like Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body, Fausto-Sterling pioneered the application of a feminist critique to biological studies of gender, adding…
There’s got to be a better way you could have put that, CDC. In an effort to raise awareness of and prevent fetal alcohol syndrome, on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued sweeping recommendations on alcohol consumption. And they got a mite preachy about it. “More than 3 million US women are…