Author: Michelle Korhonen
Psychologists occasionally talk about the “Michelangelo phenomenon”: Over time, romantic partners start to slowly change each other, like sculptors chipping away at blocks of marble. Could I help you find a therapist? one might ask their beloved. What if we started jogging together? Hmm, wearing the fedora again? Eventually—the hope goes—they’ll have chiseled a masterpiece of a companion. The result isn’t always a perfect David, but the point is that relationships mold people. And some researchers have found that when that happens, the art tends to look conspicuously like the artist.They call this convergence—when partners grow more and more alike.…
A 28-year-old Snapchat predator who used alcohol to lure a 13-year-old schoolgirl to his car before raping her has been jailed for 10 years.Rhodri Llyr Griffiths raped and sexually assaulted his young victim after tricking her into getting into his car before driving her to a hospital car park in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly, last year.After the horrifying rape he laughed at her and said: ‘I bet you won’t meet up with anyone else anytime soon’. The attack left the victim traumatised and she attempted to take her own life just months afterwards. A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Thursday…
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley waits as she’s introduced at a campaign rally on Tuesday in Clemson, S.C. Meg Kinnard/AP hide caption toggle caption Meg Kinnard/AP Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley waits as she’s introduced at a campaign rally on Tuesday in Clemson, S.C. Meg Kinnard/AP Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley sided with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered children, a decision that could have sweeping implications for in-vitro fertilization and reproductive health care across the country. “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley said in an interview Wednesday with NBC…
A few months ago, as I was absent-mindedly mending a pillow, I thought, I should quit therapy. Then I quickly suppressed the heresy. Among many people I know, therapy is like regular exercise or taking vitamin D: something a sensible person does routinely to clear out the system. BetterHelp ran an ad where a woman says she’s ignoring a guy’s texts because he doesn’t see a therapist. “Hard pass,” she explains. “Red flag.” Therapy for many people has no natural endpoint. It’s just “baked into my life,” as one patient told the psychiatrist Richard Friedman, explaining why he’d been seeing…
Nearly 134,000 cancer cases were missed during the first year of the Covid pandemic, a study suggests.Researchers at the University of Kentucky made the startling prediction after comparing the number of cancers expected to be detected from March to December 2020 to the number that were actually detected.Detection rates dropped nearly 30 percent over this period, they said, with patients with prostate, female breast and lung cancer most likely to have their illness missed.It happened as hospitals turned over whole wards to battling the virus and patients steered clear of ERs for fear of ‘being a burden’ or catching the…
The risks of medical tourism are depicted in a study of U.S patients who traveled to two clinics for procedures like tummy tucks and butt lifts — and were exposed to a virulent fungal meningitis.
For more than four decades, South Carolina has been the decisive contest in the Republican presidential primaries—the state most likely to anoint the GOP’s eventual nominee. On Saturday, South Carolina seems poised to play that role again.Since the state moved to its prominent early position on the GOP presidential-primary calendar in 1980, the candidate who has won there has captured the nomination in every contested race except one. Given Donald Trump’s overall lead in the GOP race, a victory for him in South Carolina over Nikki Haley, the state’s former governor, would likely uphold that streak.“We all underestimate how deeply…
Men need not worry, size really doesn’t matter.For women actually prefer average sizes, according to an unusual academic study.University of Kent researchers assessed the popularity of 265 sex toys, looking at their size, material, price and reviews.They concluded that ‘women don’t place considerable emphasis on large phallus size’. Analysis of over 200 toys by scientists in Kent found length was unimportant, suggesting women aren’t fussed by size. Instead, the study — believed to be the first of its kind assessing both a toy’s characteristics and dimensions — saw price and circumference rate topThis was based on them discovering bigger did…
Hi friends! I’m so excited to have Angie Lee on the show today. I’ve followed her on IG for a long time and she always cracks me up and inspires me. Here’s what we talk about: – ADHD and navigating ADHD as an entrepreneur – Her experience with a brain scan and the Amen Clinic – Her productivity hacks – Starting Soul and how she sources CBD for her company and so much more. Navigating ADHD as an entrepreneur and CBD with Angie Lee Here’s more about Angie and her background: Angie Lee is a multihyphenate hypewoman, comedy creator, keynote…
Alexis Ratcliff attends her 18th birthday party at the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. Susan Ratcliff hide caption toggle caption Susan Ratcliff Alexis Ratcliff attends her 18th birthday party at the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. Susan Ratcliff From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: “What 18-year-old gets sued?” Ratcliff is that 18-year-old, sued by the hospital in…