Oxytocin, the Love Hormone, Also Keeps People Apart

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A hormone that promotes social attraction also helps men keep their distance

By Michele Solis

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Oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, activates feelings of trust and attraction between people when it is released in the brain, and it rises in the early stages of romantic love. Yet it is not just a Cupid's arrow that spurs you to fall in love with the nearest person, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Instead oxytocin's social magic depends on whether or not a person is in a monogamous relationship.

A team of researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany and elsewhere monitored a first encounter between straight male study participants and an attractive woman in a laboratory setting. When given oxytocin via an intranasal spray before the meeting, men who had indicated they were currently in a stable relationship kept a greater physical distance from the woman in the lab compared with single guys given oxytocin and with single and ?taken? guys given a placebo. Although they stayed only 10 to 15 centimeters farther away, the extra distance left the woman outside of what most people consider ?personal space,? a zone reserved for loved ones. Moreover, it was not because they did not find her attractive: the monogamous men who received oxytocin rated the woman just as good-looking as the other men did.

The results suggest that oxytocin has a role in maintaining relationships after they are sparked and add to growing evidence for differences in how the hormone acts to modulate social interactions?for example, promoting bonds with familiar people but provoking aggression with strangers. ?It's not all positive with oxytocin,? says Dirk Scheele, a psychologist involved with the study. ?And what you call prosocial or antisocial depends on your perspective.?

This article was originally published with the title Love That Knows Bounds.

Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=oxytocin-love-hormone-keeps-people-apart

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These Awesome Maps Show Off All the World's Geo-Tagged Tweets

There's only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter's been diligently indexing them all. These new visualizations from the Twitter team show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We're talking billions of them.

We've seen this sort of thing before, whether it's Twitter and Flickr usage across the country illustrated by bursts of light, or Foursquare check-ins displayed the same way. And hopefully we'll never stop seeing them, because they're always awesome.

Looks like folks out west don't find much use in geo-tagging their tweets as "in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere" (I KID!) and if you're looking for a new place to tweet from on the isle of Manhattan, good luck; you'll need it. [Twitter Blog via The Verge]

Boston

Tokyo

The United States

Europe

Top image of Manhattan, all images by Twitter/Flickr

Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-awesome-maps-show-off-all-the-worlds-geo-tagged-510840167

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The rise of online gaming through technological improvements and ...

Over the years, online gaming and especially online gambling is an industry constantly on a rise.
With tons of sites to choose from they are all competing for players with each of them yearning to have more players. To achieve their goals, they are using all means that will enable them to lure more players. One of the most common means being used by these casinos is offering bonuses and promotions. Currently, there are many online gambling casinos that offer players bonuses just for signing up for an account with them. This implies that players start making money immediately after enrolling in them. Others offer bonuses on a continuous basis to encourage players to keep playing and recommending them to friends and colleagues. Lucrative payouts are also being used to lure players.

Money management and self-control

Effective money management is among the most important aspects of gambling. Online gambling entails a lot of risk that one needs to be careful about. For you to keep gambling for long and continue having fun, you must know how to manage your money. Regardless of how skilled or experienced a player is, without money they do not have a chance of winning. Therefore, make sure that you have self-control, patience and a winning strategy. Your strategy should enable you to avoid betting all money or huge amount of it at once.

Technological improvements and benefits for both player and brand

Over the recent years, many gambling websites have embraced innovative technologies to lure more players and give them better gaming experiences. These technologies entail use of captivating graphics, sounds and innovative software. These have always given players a feeling of being in a real casino while gambling online. This has always made many players to always want to spend their time gambling online rather than engaging in other leisure activities. The software embraced by modern casinos ensures accuracy, efficiency and fairness in gambling. This has not always given gamblers the best experience, but also built confidence when it comes to winning and losing.

Today, many people engage in play in these casinos for fun as well as making a living. A huge number of people are making money through payouts and bonuses offered by these casinos. All this can be attributed to the efficiency, accuracy and fairness that technological improvements have brought into online gambling.

Social benefits a new trend implemented

Online casinos have become a social place for people from different parts of the world to meet virtually and spend time having fun. This has enabled many people to relax when tired even when alone at home. People who used to engage in illegal activities are also spending their time on these casinos as they make a living through gambling. Thus, online casinos have reduced insecurity and also provided a source of income for many people in the current society.

The online payouts and bonuses offered to players in these casinos are worth the time and effort that they invest in gambling. In addition, the taxes paid by players and these casinos have been used to improve the living standards of many citizens. Therefore, if you are thinking of venturing into online gambling, why not visit www.luckyhillcasino.com for more information on what you should know about this field. It is considered a highly recommended online casino website with a huge reputation that allows you to either try out some lucky games or play with real money.

Source: http://www.inspirefirst.com/2013/06/02/rise-online-gaming-technological-improvements-social-media/

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91% Frances Ha

All Critics (80) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (7)

The dialogue and editing are zippy and generally charming, combining with the tart observations of 20-something culture to create a nice frisson.

A black-and-white salute to the French New Wave (the score is borrowed from Georges Delerue, composer of many a Truffaut and Godard film) that manages to be very much of this moment ...

The movie's a love letter to an actress and her character, but by the end you may feel like an intervention is more in order.

The obvious love of New York City echoes Woody Allen at his best. But "Frances Ha" is very much its own film, a story of life and love and messy rooms.

Baumbach ... makes the film a celebration of Gerwig's coltish, goofball appeal.

Late-blooming 20-somethings have never been so perfectly captured -- and Gerwig has never been more appealing -- than in this funny, tender, life-affirming movie.

Frances Ha is endearing, kind and, in many ways, Noah Baumbach's best movie to date.

It's a film that bears all of the zingy dialogue and sharp characterizations of Baumbach's other films ("The Squid and the Whale," "Greenberg") but with more of a generosity of spirit towards its characters.

Funny and touching, Frances Ha may very well be the most eloquent take yet on a generation in flux.

The light Frances Ha provides skittish moments of heartbreak and confusion on the humorous path to adulthood, but it sends a comforting message that our fate may use the same language as our dreams even if it doesn't tell the same story.

Easily Baumbach's warmest and most upbeat film to date.

Mostly the movie is the best showcase so far for Gerwig's brand of lovely klutziness (and)a contemporary everywoman appeal that's impossible to dismiss, making Frances' self-absorption easier to swallow and tasty, too.

One of the most appealing films of the year to date -- and it may well end up being the most appealing indie release of the entire year

This is a tough one, but I must recommend it, if you are at all inclined to witness creativity at its unconventional best.

"Frances Ha"? More like Frances Bah!

Gerwig dances the Millennial Limbo

...caters to the Gerwig persona while also sanding off the edges of Baumbach's usual bitterness.

"Frances Ha" is about the inevitability of adulthood; it can be postponed, but it can't be avoided.

[a] fresh-faced and spirited black and white comedy...

If Frances has a chance, there's hope for us all.

The near-incomparable Greta Gerwig gives Frances a fire, an exuberance, and a three-dimensional uniqueness that ensures the viewer never sways from her side.

It gives you two choices: find it delightful or don't: there is no unique, self-guided option. As frustrating as that conundrum may be, it's still hard not to take option one.

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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frances_ha_2013/

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White House: Asteroid 'poses no threat' to Earth

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles long poses no threat to planet Earth.

The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 was making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, keeping a safe distance of 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest was asked about the asteroid during a briefing. He says scientists have concluded the asteroid "poses no threat to planet Earth."

He added, to laughter, "I never really thought I'd be standing up here saying that."

The asteroid is believed to be about 1.7 miles long.

The White House was hosting a "We The Geeks" Google+ Hangout Friday, bringing together NASA's deputy administrator and scientists to talk about asteroids.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0ca3a594644ee9e50a8ec4ce2d6de/Article_2013-05-31-US-White-House-Asteroid/id-df7520b0998a4e569f9f0aba489d0190

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China president heads to Caribbean to talk trade

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ? Chinese President Xi Jinping is shopping in the Caribbean for new sources of energy for his growing country.

President Xi arrived in the rain Friday for a state visit to the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, a leading supplier of natural gas. The Chinese embassy says in a statement that Xi will seek to deepen trade and investment in energy when he meets with Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

He'll also attend a groundbreaking on Saturday for a hospital funded in part by China.

Trinidad has long been a major exporter of natural gas to the United States. But that has dropped as U.S. fuel production surges thanks to new exploration and drilling technology.

Xi is also visiting Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.S. on this trip.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2013-05-31-CB-Trinidad-Chinese-President/id-b886c09427884123987555063748b080

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EU agency calls for curbs on GSK, Valeant epilepsy drug

LONDON (Reuters) - Use of an epilepsy drug developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Valeant Pharmaceuticals should be restricted to patients for whom other anti-epileptic medicines have proved inadequate or not tolerated, EU regulators said on Friday.

The European Medicines Agency said the move followed cases of abnormal coloring of the skin, nails, lips and eye tissues, including the retina, in some patients who took Trobalt.

It recommended a comprehensive eye examination should be performed at the start of treatment and at least every six months during treatment. Among 55 patients receiving Trobalt in long-term studies examined so far, 15 had retinal pigmentation, the agency added.

Abnormal coloring of the retina can result in impaired vision.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a similar warning about the drug - which is sold in the United States as Potiga - last month.

(Reporting by Ben Hirschler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-agency-calls-curbs-gsk-valeant-epilepsy-drug-094702727.html

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