Older Men and Younger Women: Gross, Natural, or Something In-Between?

When I was 25, I married a man 12 years older than me. At the time, our relationship seemed perfectly natural to me. I'd always felt pretty mature for my age (as so many women do), and especially in comparison to the guys around me. I stayed married to my husband for seven years, and by the time our relationship ended, I saw our age difference in a completely different way. Now that I'm single in my 30′s, I really only want to date guys very close to my age. Less than a handful of years younger would be okay, and maybe one or two years older, but that's about it. 

Having a senior moment? Memory lapses? Anesthetics may be to blame

You meet a good friend in the mall and you suddenly forget her name.

You try to call out to your youngest child but you end up enumerating all the names of your four-plus children before finally getting to the right name.

You search the entire house for your car keys and you find them still stuck in the ignition.

A new baby affects a man's sexual desire: study

A new study finds that a new baby doesn't just affect a mom's sex drive, but her partner's as well.

Vibease Redesigns Vibrator as Wearable Tech, Now Seeking Crowdfunding

It’s been a long journey for Vibease, the Singa-US startup that puts the ‘hard’ into hardware. First seen as one of the competitors at our Startup Asia Singapore event in early 2012, now the company is taking its concept for a Bluetooth-connected vibrator and accompanying app onto IndieGogo in search of crowdfunding. Last year we saw that the stimulating smartphone-controlled vibratorlooked like a rabbit, but the startup team has come up with a sleek, new pink design that they’re calling “wearable” because it can be slipped into a lady’s underwear so that it can vibrate and stimulate the wearer hands-free. Vibease co-founder Dema Tio explains that “because of the tip design, it will stay in place”. This “smart vibrator” is controlled through the Vibease Fantasy app that includes a store for visual erotic stories (no, not porn) that work in sync with the vibrator. Dema tells us:

German boy finds 'a mummy' in grandmother's attic

 

 The Kettler family plan to get their "mummy" examined by archaeological experts in Berlin

 

A 10-year-old German boy has found what appears to be a mummy hidden in a corner of his grandmother's attic.

The "mummy" was inside a sarcophagus complete with hieroglyphic adornments, packed in a wooden crate.

Beware, Oral Sex Can Cause Cancer

Actor Michael Douglas made headlines on Monday after telling The Guardian that his throat cancer may have been caused by the human papillomavirus transmitted through oral sex.

The link between oral sex, HPV and cancer has been receiving more attention in recent years. HPV is a virus that's transmitted through sexual contact -- genital or oral. There are more than 40 types, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and approximately 79 million Americans are currently infected. Most people have no symptoms.

26 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012

We may never have our flying cars, but the future is here. From creating fully functioning artificial leaves to hacking the human brain, science made a lot of breakthroughs this year.


1. Quadriplegic Uses Her Mind to Control Her Robotic Arm

At the University of Pittsburgh, the neurobiology department worked with 52-year-old Jan Scheuermann over the course of 13 weeks to create a robotic arm controlled only by the power of Scheuermann’s mind.

The team implanted her with two 96-channel intracortical microelectrodes. Placed in the motor cortex, which controls all limb movement, the integration process was faster than anyone expected. On the second day, Jan could use her new arm with a 3-D workspace. By the end of the 13 weeks, she was capable of performing complex tasks with seven-dimensional movement, just like a biological arm.
To date, there have been no negative side effects.
Source: gizmodo.com

17 Reasons Why Having Sex is Good for Your Health

Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. But too much sex, can also be harmful: more than thrice a week it can weaken the immune system, making us vulnerable to infections...

Pyramids Globally Beaming Energy To Mysterious Space Cloud

NASA and the European Space Agency have been warning the world for two years about the approaching catastrophes that may unfold during 2012 to 2013. Few listened.

Although NASA covered up the strange photon cloud that's now enveloped the solar system, the word has leaked out from some scientists.

And now, as the ominous cloud approaches it's affecting the sun and planets in measurable ways.

Amazingly, as the bizarre energy invades our space, some of the world's most famous pyramids are generating intense energy.

Several incredible incidents of visible power beams shooting skywards into space towards the region of the alien photonic cloud are well-documented.

Incan Girl Who Had Been Frozen For 500 Years.

Well initially this might look to you like any normal girl being treated by a doctor,the girl in the photo is not any normal living girl but the mummy of a 15 year old child who has been dead for about 500 years. 

Leandro Granato, Artist Who Paints With His Eye!

Leandro Granato, an artist from Buenos Aries, paints using only his eye as a paintbrush.  

First he puts the paint into his nose, next he forces the paint up through his eye and finally he squirts it onto a canvas.

Princess Diana Wanted to Marry Again, According to Report

As the British royal family celebrates its newest addition, Prince George, it’s hard not to miss the grandmother he will never know, Princess Diana.

There is no shortage of pictures and stories, however, to fill the void, including the latest in the September issue of Vanity Fair, “The Grandmother Prince George Never Knew.” The story details how Diana was “madly in love” with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, with whom she was in a two-year relationship before her death in 1997.

Meet Ai Hasegawa, the Woman Who Wants to Give Birth to a Shark

With a population nearing nine billion people and food shortages becoming increasingly problematic, the human race needs sustainable solutions if it wants to survive. Japanese designer Ai Hasegawa has come up with a very controversial approach to solving environmental and food-related issues – the possibility of women giving birth to various animal species and eventually eating them.

In one of her most intriguing projects yet, “I Wanna Deliver a Shark…”, Ai Hasegawa tackles “the problem of human reproduction in an age of over-population and environmental crisis.” She envisions the possibility of humans one day giving birth to their food and satisfying both their nutritional needs and that of giving life. The 33-year-old says having a human baby isn’t as simple as some people think, especially with our world about to face a major food crisis. She argues that bringing new humans into this world is definitely not the answer, but giving birth to endangered animal species might be just what we need to survive.

“We are genetically predisposed to raise children as a way of passing on our genes to the next generation but we live in an age where the struggle to raise a child in decent conditions is becoming harder with gross over-population and difficult environmental conditions,” Hasegawa says. “We must also eat, and we are equally facing growing food shortages as a result of over-fishing, land use and a growing population. By giving birth to an edible animal it might place more value on that endangered species and help prevent it’s extinction.”

Intrigued by the Japanese designer’s bizarre idea, VICE.com contacted Ai Hasegawa to learn if she thinks giving birth to an animal is even possible. “It will be, in the near future,” she said. A human uterus is just the right size to hold one fetus. I’ve been speaking to a gynecologist about ways of making it bigger. I believe humans could use their uterus as an aquarium or incubator.” Talking about possible compatibility issues between the human placenta and a shark’s, for example, Ai said the placenta comes from the fetus, so there’s no need to modify the human DNA.

The real problem is that a woman wanting to carry an animal fetus in her uterus would have to stop menstruation, and the medicine for that has very unpleasant side-effects. Hasegawa thinks the idea candidate for this unusual experiment would be a “rich, single, and above all, menopausal woman”. Asked why she chose a shark for her project, the designer said that research shows they would be the most compatible, plus they fit all her criteria: “they’re endangered, their life-span is almost as long as that of a human, and most importantly, they’re delicious.”

Some people might think Ai’s idea is preposterous, but she has thought it through. She even came up with a bonding system which works “ by sharing the mother’s stress with the shark embryo. When the mother feels stress, a device measures a galvanic skin response and heart pulse rate, translated as a “stress signal”, that triggers the low voltage electrical signal that mimics the emergence of a predator in the sea for the shark embryo. Giving such stress works as a training device for when they are returned to the sea after delivery.” Yes, the sharks would be returned to sea for some time, in order for them to taste like the wild sharks used in Japanese cuisine. Hasegawa says she loves a good piece of shark, but she always feels guilty for eating an endangered species. This way the problem is solved, plus “it’s also less costly than raising a human, and there are fewer responsibilities”.

But would humans actually eat a shark carried in the womb of another person? Ai seems to think so: “after all, there are some animals who eat their own babies. And we do eat veal, which comes from inside a cow. We even kill people, not even for food, and they too come out of somebody’s womb. I really don’t see the problem.” If it were her giving birth to a shark, she says she would track it’s position in the sea with a GPS device, and once it’s caught and sold at the market, she would buy and eat it. This way she would have it back inside her body one last time…

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Teen Transgender Couple: Boy Was A Girl And Girlfriend Was A Boy

TEENAGERS Arin Andrews and Katie Hill look like any loving young couple posing in their swimwear.

It is hard to believe that just two years ago he was a girl called Emerald and she was a boy called Luke.

Nearly Half a Billion People In China Never Brush Their Teeth

Almost half a billion people in China never brush their teeth, according to the country's health chiefs.

The Chinese Preventive Medicine Society believes that less than half of the country's 900m rural population brush regularly while just 10% of the 400m living in cities clean properly.

Scientists Create Artificial Skin That Emulates Human Touch

U.S. and Chinese Scientists used zinc oxide vertical nanowires to generate sensitivity. 

According to experts, the artificial skin is “smarter and similar to human skin.” It also offers greater sensitivity and resolution than current commercially available techniques. 

A group of Chinese and American scientists created experimental sensors to give robots artificial skin capable of feeling. According to experts, the sensitivity is comparable to that experienced by humans.