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While we care to imagine that we are impressive, passionate, skilled performers in the boudoir, the truth might be somewhat different. Indeed, if your partner is a proficient enough actor, your own ego coupled with their enthusiastic fakery might lead you to believe that you are a far more accomplished…
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Wanting to appear effortlessly attractive to those around us is a common goal. The problem is, that taking steps to do so can come off as self-conscious and conceited if executed poorly, leaving us a decidedly less alluring proposition to prospective partners. It is something of a catch-22, then; the…
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I'm not going to lie, I am one of those people who obsesses over the number of hours of sleep I get and the number of steps I do in a day. Every day, without fail, I will check how many steps I have done when I get into bed…
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We've all had that moment where we've sent a message to the wrong person. It's a horrifying experience, which sees your stomach drop and you double check the contact name in the conversation. Most of the time, it's a lot of worry over nothing and you've got it right the…
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Photographer Peter Zelewski has spent years working with identical twins, exploring their bond and what makes them different. Using only natural light for his street portraits, he captured identical twins of different ages and backgrounds in London, where the photographer has lived since the 80's. Zelewski deliberately dressed the subjects…
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When we think of people predicting the future, we tend to think of flying cars, underwater cities and other outlandish things. However, what we don't think about is how far we have come already. While we are currently in the midst of a wave of "time-travelers" coming back to 2018…
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While our parents and grandparents thought entering into the institution of marriage in their early twenties was the "normal" thing to do, us Millennials are saying "no" to marriage in record numbers. And because we're all eschewing settling down with near-religious fervour, it's common to hear less-than-wonderful tales of marital life. Case in…
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We always describe life as a circle, but really it's more of a line. You have birth at one end, a load of weird stuff in the middle (where you try to figure out puberty and taxes) and then death at the other. It sounds depressing when you put it…
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Back in 1997, Beth Yarnelle Edwards undertook a project which saw her photograph the people of her neighbourhood in order to document the everyday lives of families in suburban America. Dissatisfied with her own suburban existence, Edwards wanted to find out what it is about this way of life that…
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People crack their knuckles to calm anxiety, relieve stiffness, prepare for an epic kung-fu fight, and annoy the hell out of their co-workers. Also, it feels good. At least, that's what I've heard. I've never cracked my knuckles before, and I don't plan to. That POP is pretty unsettling. Whenever…
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While we've all considered ourselves unfortunate souls from time to time - plagued with a coterie of stubbed toes, lost possessions, and far too many drunken nights - there are some people who are so unlucky that we just assume they go around smashing mirrors and walking under ladders. One…
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On May 28 2014, 13-year-old Athena Orchard passed away. The teenager, from Leicester, England, had been suffering from bone cancer, and died in her father's arms. As you can imagine, this was a heartbreaking thing for the whole family to go through, especially the parents. In the days following her…
