When heterosexual couples cooperate well, so a new study suggests, men act like responsive marionettes and women act like emotional puppeteers. That is, men tend to mimic their partner’s mood, while women try to regulate their partner’s emotions because we’re all just trying to appease each other and keep from falling … Read… 6/30/13 3:30pm 6/30/13 3:30pm

If there's one thing that still sucks about living in a technologically-advanced society in the year 2013, it's the fact that we're all expected to communicate with one another using long strings of words that (ugh) sometimes abide by the rules of grammar. How has technology not eliminated this inconvenience yet? I… Read… 6/12/13 7:15pm 6/12/13 7:15pm

Divorce is never easy, but it's one of those life events that deserves a serious postmortem examination to figure out what really happened. I went through a divorce last year, and from that failure I've learned a lot about what it takes to make a relationship work. Read on Lifehacker 4/25/13 3:49pm 4/25/13 3:49pm

Sooooo word lengthening is totally a thing now. It used to be that only young people did it in text messages and over IM, but now it's popping up in workplace emails and other more formal settings. This might be hard to deal with, especially if you're particularly attached to the integrity of the English language or… Read… 2/27/13 7:00pm 2/27/13 7:00pm

Remember those good old days when we all used to sit around in the parlor and snipe cleverly to each other's faces? Remember when we used to spend hours (and $$) making long-distance calls to our far flung loved ones? Remember when we used to leave each other voicemails? Man, those were the days. But now it is all… Read… 6/04/12 10:50am 6/04/12 10:50am

A new study has found that dolphins have their own cute little signature whistles that they use to introduce themselves to others when meeting up at popular ocean hangouts. It works kind of like a "What's goin' on, man." If Ryan Gosling was a dolphin, his signature would probably be the whistle version of "Hey girl." Read… 2/29/12 6:15pm 2/29/12 6:15pm

Babies are pretty fun as it is, but now a new study has found that they might be even more entertaining than we thought—we just haven't been paying close enough attention. Researchers at Charles Sturt University in Australia wanted to study how babies interact with each other while in childcare. So they strapped tiny… Read… 2/22/12 10:40am 2/22/12 10:40am

Anyone who spends any time in public knows that there are any number of ways a cell phone can turn a person into an asshole, but now science has discovered yet another way that phones are ruining us and destroying our social fabric. It turns out, according to a study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith… Read… 2/21/12 10:00am 2/21/12 10:00am

Dis just published a story with some of the online art/fashion magazine's favorite new faces of the season. Many of them — including Wang Xiao, pictured, Flaviana Matata, Marihenny Rivera Pasible, and Cris Urena — happen to be some of my favorite new models, too. But what's even more striking than the photos is that … Read… 10/10/11 5:15pm 10/10/11 5:15pm

A recent Oregon State University study found that in 40% of heterosexual couples, one partner claimed that the coupling was monogamous while the other claimed that no such agreement existed. Marriage and children did not increase monogamy between couples. Discuss… 1/23/11 10:54am 1/23/11 10:54am

Oh, brother. (Sister?) "Women don't listen to what's being said around them - unless they're eavesdropping or gossiping, according to new research." [Daily Mail] Discuss… 5/08/09 9:20am 5/08/09 9:20am

After watching NBC bleep out the words "tits" and "fuck" during a recent broadcast of their new drama, "Southland," the folks at AdAge wonder if bleeping out profanities on network television shows is really necessary. Read… 4/19/09 6:45pm 4/19/09 6:45pm

Women may not fall for a smarmy sweet talker, but they may, in fact, find themselves falling for a man with an impressive vocabulary, according to a recent study taken at the University of Nottingham. Read… 3/21/09 11:30am 3/21/09 11:30am

When Anna forwarded me this Onion piece about a father messing up a Princess Bride quote, I could not stop laughing; like the best Onion pieces, it was funny because it was painfully, painfully true. Read… 3/14/09 1:30pm 3/14/09 1:30pm

For those of us who spend countless hours clicking around the internet, the language of websites, comment sections, and silly internet jokes comes quite naturally. But what of the souls who don't speak fluent Interweb? Read… 1/10/09 12:40pm 1/10/09 12:40pm

Neurologists say that girls process words differently than boys do, which may account for their superior language skills. According to today's Scientific American: "Girls completing a linguistic abilities task showed greater activity in brain areas implicated specifically in language encoding, which decipher information … Discuss… 3/05/08 6:40pm 3/05/08 6:40pm

An accurate but ultimately anemic article picked up by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune yesterday asserts that women are still prone to apologize for things they have no reason to feel "sorry" about, like asking for help, advice, respect or the salaries they deserve. "Traditionally, women didn't have the power — the economic, … Discuss… 1/08/08 3:30pm 1/08/08 3:30pm