More than a third of Britons still have feelings for their first love, and one in four has got back in touch thanks to Facebook, reveals a new study.
Six out of 10 people regularly think about their old flame, the study found.
Nearly four out of 10 admit to still carrying a torch for their teenage sweetheart, according to a poll for The Best Of Me, a film about a couple who give first love a second chance.
For men who resent wearing condoms, a new non-intrusive solution is on the anvil – a birth control pill.
At least two projects are in the pipeline for choking male fertility.
One is H2-gamendazole that makes sperms go half-cooked. Normally, premature sperm cells grow a tail and head in the testis, but H2-gamendazole keeps them from reaching this stage of development.
“If there’s no sperm, the egg’s not going to get fertilised,” said Joseph Tash, a reproductive biologist at the University of Kansas’ Medical Centre in the US.
Tash has worked on the compound since 2001.
Half of Indian men feel that Valentine’s Day is over-rated, according to a survey.
When young men were asked about ‘How they felt about Valentine’s Day’ in a survey by matchmaking portal Shaadi.com, more than 50 per cent men said they think ‘Valentine’s Day is overrated’.
About 49 per cent women also said it is overrated.
When women were asked if they like men who get excited to celebrate Valentine’s Day, a majority of 67.2 per cent said ‘No’.
The poll was conducted online with over 9,000 responses from men and women in the age group of 23 to 37 years.
Even short-term exposure to air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter may increase the risk for suicide, especially among men between 36 to 64 years of age, says a new study.
Higher levels of pollution might interact with other factors to increase the risk for suicide, the researchers noted.
“We are not exactly sure why risk of suicide was higher in these two groups,” said Amanda Bakian, assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Utah.
A New Jersey man has written love letters to his wife every day for almost 40 years.
Bill Bresnan, Toms River resident, has written a love letter every day to Kirsten Bresnan his wife of almost 40 years, and there are more than 10,000 of them filed chronologically in 25 boxes at their home, ABC News reported.
The daily expressions of love began as notes scribbled on napkins and small pieces of paper the 74-year-old gave to his wife over coffee while commuting together shortly after they met.
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On this Valentine’s Day Saturday, take your partner to a romantic destination and pop the question.
“Destination weddings are extremely popular in some countries, especially with travellers from India, the UAE, Australia and Southeast Asia,” Joachim Holte, chief marketing officer of travel search site Wego, said in a statement.
Unemployment drives around one in five suicides every year, according to a new study that included data from 63 countries.
For the first time, researchers from the University of Zurich’s Psychiatric Hospital have been able to draw a larger picture for four regions in the world from 2000 to 2011.
“Every year, around one in five suicides is associated with unemployment,” said first author Carlos Nordt.
Every year, almost a million people die by suicide worldwide, researchers said.
Single Indian men, on the lookout for a life partner, feel women must play a fair part in contributing to household expenditure, reveals a new survey by online matchmaking service www.shaadi.com.
The survey was conducted online with 6,500 responses from single Indians in the age group of 25 to 34 years, to understand the expectations of single Indians. As many as 3,538 men participated in the survey, as against 2,962 women.
Out on your first date? Make sure that the spot you pick has a soothing music running in the background to maximise your chances of falling in love.
According to Japanese researchers, background music is an important aid to falling in love as soft music may alter people’s behaviour and make them more charming during conversation, Bustle magazine reported.
“The effects may be even stronger if people can choose their own music,” researchers from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan said.
How about creating a dedicated work space at home to finish all pending chores from your office? Keep this zone funky and inviting to keep yourself motivated enough.
FabFurnish.com, an online Indian furniture and interior decoration retailer, has shared tips to help you add a snazzy twist to your home office:
* Bring home the basics: Fill your space with the essential furniture you need for working efficiently. Make sure you have sturdy shelves, tables and cabinets to organise all your equipment and files in an orderly fashion.
A Japanese man who was certified as the oldest living man by the Guinness World Records in August 2014, turned 112 Thursday.
Sakari Momoi, a resident of Saitama city, is still in good health, Xinhua news agency reported.
He now lives at a healthcare institution in Tokyo and celebrated his birthday with his friends and family.
Momoi was born Feb 5, 1903, in Fukushima prefecture.
He was an agricultural chemistry teacher and principal of prefectural government-run high schools in Fukushima and Saitama.
The world’s oldest living woman recognised by Guinness is also a Japanese.
A Chinese teenager was rushed to hospital after he took a drastic measure and cut off his own hand in an attempt to cure his internet addiction.
The 19-year-old boy from Nantong in the Jiangsu, known only as “Little Wang,” reportedly used a kitchen knife, and chopped off his hand while sitting on a public bench, the Mirror reported.
He had left a note for his mother which said “Mum, I have gone to hospital for a while, don’t worry. I will definitely come back this evening.”
When it comes to the wheels, middle aged men prefer sleek, sexy sports cars or brawny motorcycles, while women of the age go for more practical drive.
To know why, Ipsos Public Affairs carried out a survey of 1,005 U.S. adults on behalf ofCarMax, and found that on a whole, 25 percent of participants admitted they were likely to buy “a car associated with a midlife crisis”, Fox News reported.
Men who earn less are more likely to help their spouses with household chores, a study has found, suggesting that women are by far doing the most around the home no matter how many hours they work or how much they are paid.
While the burden of keeping the home clean is starting to be shared more equally between couples, signs of a class divide are beginning to emerge, says a researcher from the University of Warwick in Britain.
Howard Stern has recently been voted as the “Best Men’s Hair in America” over some big Hollywood shots like George Clooney, Chris Hemsworth and Bradley Cooper .
The radio personality host grabbed the title after around 40 professionals in the hair care industry voted for their favorites to Groominglounge.com, E! Online reported.
Mike Gilman, founder of Groominglounge.com said that for almost last 12 years, their team have been keeping an eye on men’s hair and their locks, and when his experienced team voted for the “best hair,” Stern won the majority of the votes. (ANI)
A UK company is providing new service that will provide guaranteed rain-free weather on people’s wedding day with the help of “cloud seeding” technology.
The new service, by Oliver’s Travels, will charge 100,000 pounds to use chemicals to keep rain from falling and ruining weddings, the Independent reported.
The technology uses silver iodide to “seed” the clouds, the compound allows the water vapour in the clouds to condense, and then produces rain in advance of the big day.
A Detroit man James Robertson walks 21 miles every day to get to his factory job.
56-year-old Robertson, started walking to his workplace, Schain Mold and Engineering, his 1988 Honda Accord broke down, and has been taking the road 5 days a week by foot and partly by bus for the last 10 years to cover the 23-mile distance to Rochester Hills, Mich., the New York Post reported.
A Florida-based man, who had sex with Dolly the dolphin in a year-long “relationship” in 1971, has revealed that it only happened because she “seduced” him.
In a new 15 minute documentary, the 63-year-old Malcolm Brenner, from Punta Garda, said that he started rubbing her along her back, working her way to her flukes, her tail and as he was rubbing her and moving her hand towards her tail, Dolly was slowly rolling around her long axis, the Mirror reported.
Binge-watching TV series such as “Game Of Thrones, “Breaking Bad” or “Broadchurch” is linked to depression and loneliness, says a recent study.
People who suffer from low moods are more likely to spend hours or days viewing multiple episodes of their favourite programme online or on DVD. But by doing so they could neglect work, relationships and even their family, reports dailymail.co.uk.
A Canadian climber has made history by becoming the first person to scale icy walls of Niagara Falls.
The 47-year-old Will Gadd used only ice hooks to climb up the frozen cliffs at Terrapin Point, a 147-foot section directly next to Horseshoe Falls, the CNN reported.
Gadd said that people’d be swept away by the torrential downpour in the summer and on a warm winter (day), there’s no climb there, but on a cold, freezing day in late January, the wall of water is a wall of ice which was a perfect scenario for him.
In a study involving college students, Australian researchers have linked porn addiction with increased sexual risk such as unsafe practices and more sexual partners.
In an article titled “Association Between Pornography Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adult Consumers: A Systematic Review,” the team from University of Sydney and Curtin University discussed the potential value of including “porn literacy” information in sexual health education and prevention strategies.
Orchids and lilies, hydrangeas and heliconias, anthuriums and birds of paradise – exotic flowers all and easy to buy from the neighbourhood florist. But if it’s Valentine’s Day it’s got to be roses, red roses.
With the global day of love just round the corner – Feb 14 – it’s all about roses again. It could be the one long single stem, one dozen of those deep red blooms or a glorious profusion of 1,000, lovers will say it – and say it best – with roses.
A new study has found that people aged over 70 too enjoy an active life.
According to new research from The University of Manchester and NatCen Social Research, more than half (54 percent) of men and almost a third (31 percent) of women over the age of 70 reported they were still sexually active, with a third of these men and women having frequent sex – meaning at least twice a month.
More than two drinks a day in middle-age may raise your stroke risk more than traditional factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, warns a study.
Regular heavy drinking of any kind of alcohol can raise blood pressure and cause heart failure or irregular heartbeats over time with repeated drinking, in addition to stroke and other risks.
“For mid-aged adults, avoiding more than two drinks a day could be a way to prevent stroke in later age,” said Pavla Kadlecova, statistician at St Anne’s University Hospital’s International Clinical Research Center in the Czech Republic.
A new study has recently revealed that men and women misinterpret the signals regarding sexual interests a lot while having the conversation, it has been reported.
Researchers at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), stated that women reported that men often misinterpret their signals of friendliness as sexual interest. Conversely, the men in the study reported that women often misinterpret their signals of sexual interest as friendliness.