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14Feb/23

Jeep® Brand Slides Into the Big Game With ‘Electric Boogie’

February 14, 2023TransportAmerican Motors, Cars, Chrysler, Convertibles, Jeep, Motor vehicles, Off-road vehicles, Plug-in electric vehicle, Sport utility vehicles, Transportadmin

The Jeep® brand’s Big Game one-minute commercial “Electric Boogie” celebrates the brand’s expansion of its electrified lineup across the world, taking the new interpretation of the iconic song into the future with the brand’s new generation of vehicles.

The commercial, debuting on the day of the Big Game, features the brand’s hybrid electric plug-in vehicles Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe with species from across the animal kingdom dancing along to the all-new “Electric Boogie” track. Continue reading

14Feb/23

Klarna announces global campaign starring Paris Hilton, in collaboration with Hilton’s 11:11 Media

February 14, 2023FinanceAmerican people of German descent, Biographers, European diaspora, Hilton, Klarna, Paris, Paris Hilton, Time, Year 2000 problemadmin

Klarna, the leading global bank, payments and shopping service, today announced the launch of its global multimedia campaign starring Y2K icon Paris Hilton, in collaboration with Hilton’s next-gen media company, 11:11 Media. The campaign features Paris in a series of films responding to Klarna’s flexible payments and shopping app features with her newest catchphrase, ‘That’s Smoooth,’ proving that even the most experienced shoppers are impressed by Klarna’s elevated shopping products. Continue reading

14Feb/23

Valentine’s Day’s connection with love was probably invented by Chaucer and other

February 14, 2023Human InterestCarl Wilhelm de Hamilton, Chivalric romance, Claudius Gothicus, Courtly love, Crato, Creative Commons, Durham, Fowles, Geoffrey Chaucer, Italy, John Gower, Literature, London, Ma, Medieval literature, Natalie Goodison, Oton de Grandson, Pardo, Rome, Saint Valentine, Terni, The Canterbury Tales, Tradition, Valentine, Valentine's Day, Whanadmin

Natalie Goodison, Durham University

As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us a (likely fictitious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus (possibly 269-270 AD). Valentine was then imprisoned and beheaded in Rome.

His saint’s day has since become a celebration of romance. But earlier medieval accounts of Valentine’s life contain no mention of his association with love.

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14Feb/23

Five things research can teach us about having better sex, according to a sex therapist

February 14, 2023Human InterestBehavior, Chantal Gautier, Creative Commons, Fertility, Human behavior, Human sexuality, Interpersonal relationships, Orgasm, Sexology, Sexual acts, Sexual arousal, Sexual Desire, Sexual stimulation, SHUTTERSTOCK, Viagra, Virginia Johnsonadmin

Chantal Gautier, University of Westminster

Sex can be wonderful, but it can also be tricky. Science may be the furthest thing from your mind when you’re getting intimate with someone. But actually, there’s a lot we can learn from science when it comes to sex.

The science of sex is a broad field of research that encompasses many aspects of human sexuality, from physiology to the psychological and social factors that influence sexual behaviour.

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14Feb/23

DESPITE HOLDING MORE THAN 8% OF THE WORLD’S PROVEN NATURAL GAS RESERVES, AFRICA REMAINS THE MOST ENERGY-POOR CONTINENT

February 14, 2023EconomyAfrica Finance Corporation, African Energy Commission, Energy in Africa, Hawilti Ltd., International Gas Unionadmin

The International Gas Union (IGU) in partnership with Hawilti Ltd. released an important new study on Gas for Africa, assessing the potential for domestic gas resources to energise Africa in line with the global energy transition. The African Energy Commission (AU-AFREC) and the Africa Finance Corporation endorse the report and its findings. Continue reading

14Feb/23

Healthy.io Awarded Three New U.S. Patents for Wound-Image Technology

February 14, 2023ReasearchBranches of biology, Camera phone, Chronic wound, Clinical medicine, Medicine, Woundadmin

Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company three patents for the technology behind its Minuteful Wound app. The app enables nurses and healthcare assistants to scan chronic wounds using a standard smartphone camera, with the simple process of shooting an ordinary five-second video. Following this scan, the app runs a set of computer-vision and deep-learning algorithms to analyze the data and translate it into clinical outputs. These include a 3D reconstruction of the wound area, a breakdown of the state of the tissues, and the exact size of the wound. Continue reading

14Feb/23

Study Reveals How CBD Counters Epileptic Seizures

February 14, 2023ReasearchBranches of biology, Cannabidiol, Cannabis smoking, Effects of cannabis, Epileptic seizure, Health, Herbalism, Lysophosphatidylinositol, Medical cannabis, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Substance intoxicationadmin

A study reveals a previously unknown way in which cannabidiol (CBD), a substance found in cannabis, reduces seizures in treatment-resistant forms of pediatric epilepsy.

Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the new study found that CBD blocked signals carried by a molecule called lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI). Found in brain cells called neurons, LPI is thought to amplify nerve signals as part of normal function, but can be hijacked by disease to promote seizures. Continue reading

13Feb/23

Psychopaths: why they’ve thrived through evolutionary history – and how that may change

February 13, 2023Human InterestArticles, Callous and unemotional traits, Creative Commons, Criminology, Empathy, Evolutionary psychology, Forensic psychology, Human behavior, Jonathan R Goodman, Moral psychology, Personality disorders, Psychology, Psychopathy, Psychopathy in the workplaceadmin

Jonathan R Goodman, University of Cambridge

When you start to notice them, psychopaths seem to be everywhere. This is especially true of people in powerful places. By one estimate, as many as 20% of business leaders have “clinically relevant levels” of psychopathic tendencies – despite the fact as little as 1% of the general population are considered psychopaths. Psychopaths are characterised by shallow emotions, a lack of empathy, immorality, anti-social behaviour and, importantly, deceptiveness.

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11Feb/23

Burt Bacharach created music for all the ways men fall in love

February 11, 2023Music(They Long to Be) Close to You, A House Is Not a Home, Alfie, Aretha Franklin, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Caroline Aherne, Creative Commons, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Hal David, I Say a Little Prayer, Isaac Hayes, James Bond, Karen Carpenter, Luther Vandross, Musicians, New York, Painted from Memory, Reach Out, Richard, Shelley Winters, Songs, Stephen Downes, The Look of Love, Tom Jonesadmin

Stephen Downes, Royal Holloway University of London

American composer Burt Bacharach, who has died at the age of 94, is arguably one the greatest songwriters of all time. With hits going back to the 1950s, Bacharach continued working until the age of 92.

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11Feb/23

Faeces, urine and sweat – just how gross are hot tubs? A microbiologist explains

February 11, 2023HealthcareArticles, Bathing, Creative Commons, Greece, Health, Hot tub, Hydrotherapy, Hygiene, Industrial hygiene, Jacuzzi, Legionnaires' disease, Primrose Freestone, Pseudomonas, Sauna, Spa, Swimming pools, United Statesadmin

Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

For many centuries we have bathed in communal waters. Sometimes for cleanliness but more often for pleasure. Indeed, in ancient Greece, baths were taken in freshwater, or sometimes the sea – which was thought of as a sacred place dedicated to local gods and so was considered an act of worship.

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