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Tame selfie craze, treat selfies as fun activity

If the disturbing news of two selfie deaths – one each in Mumbai and Jammu and Kashmir this weekend – shattered your Sunday morning, it is time to pause and see if your young ones are not trying a dangerous pose for a selfie to impress their peers. A college girl who fell into the swirling Arabian Sea while clicking ...

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Know if your toddler is ready for reading lessons

Even before they can read, children as young as three years of age can understand how a written word is different than a simple drawing, and the ability to make this distinction could signal if your toddler is ready to learn to read, a new study has found. Most children do not begin formal instruction in reading and writing until ...

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We are quick to blame others

Is your boss quick to blame you when something goes wrong but slow in giving credit for a job well done? New research from Duke University helps explain why people are biased towards treating negative actions as intentional but positive actions as unintentional. The researchers found that people use two different mechanisms to judge how intentional an action was. If ...

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Young drivers using phones despite knowing dangers

Teenagers do understand the dangers of using cellphones while driving-but they still use them, new research has found. Car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Teenagers think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teenagers behind the wheel,” said ...

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Women have more diverse patterns of sexual response

Exploring sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual arousal in women, new research shows that heterosexual women have more diverse patterns of sexual response than previously reported. In the first study, women watched short videos, and in the second study, women listened to stories about interacting sexually with a woman or a man. Genital response was measured with a vaginal photoplethysmograph ...

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Romance does change you as a person

If your friends say that you have changed after you started dating, they are right. A new study says that non-dating teenagers who start dating turn more similar to their romantic partners than to friends in behaviour-in this case, in alcohol abuse. “The results confirm what most friends complain about-romantic partners are a distraction from friendships,” said one of the ...

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Five tips to stay slim this festive season

We are in the midst of the festive season with Diwali just getting over and Christmas just round the corner. With winter peeping in through the windows, appetites are on a high and going on a diet is surely not a cake walk. Here are five tips that will help you help avoid putting on that extra weight: More water, ...

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Get flawless natural make-up look in five steps

Moisturise well as it gives your face a natural softness and instead of foundation, use a non-oily BB cream to get the natural make-up look, says an expert. We share five simple make-up tips for getting the perfect natural look. – Moisturise well: This is the most basic preparation for make-up looks of all sorts. However, when it comes to ...

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Rare, 25-carat pink diamond found among Imelda Marcos collection: Christie’s

A rare 25-carat, barrel-shaped pink diamond has been found among the jewellery collection of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, Christie’s said on Tuesday after the government asked the auction house to appraise her collection of rare stones. The Philippine government could decide to auction the collection after Christie’s and rival Sotheby’s appraise three sets of jewellery confiscated almost three ...

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Beauty blog: a yay or a nay?

In the era of social networking, where you can find everything online, one thing that is taking hype is online beauty blog. Not only these blogs are easy to access, they also spread out much more knowledge than any other source. Imagine, if you wish to learn a particular make-up tip what would you choose? Going out to saloon and ...

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