Living

Is Facebook a symptom of our increasing loneliness culturally, or does the social networking site bring people closer together?

May's mild weather gives rise to a favourite pastime with market stalls across the country opening up to sell everything from jams to jewels!

How do we absorb past hurts without carrying the negative emotions and radically altering our experience of the present? It’s the struggle of life. For researchers and therapists, it’s also a lifelong subject of study.

Why would a woman want to bleach her private parts? Possibly because the culture in which she lives demands it. That appears to be the (sad) state of affairs for many dark-skinned gals in India, or so suggests a recent commercial for a vaginal whitening product directed at Indian consumers (via Time.com).

Are there certain factors that influence an individual’s moral behaviour more than others? According to UK professor Roger Steare (via The Daily Mail), the co-creator of the Moral DNA test (you can take the test yourself online at moraldna.org), sex and age are the two factors that most heavily influence morality.