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Is There Such A Thing As A Happy Gene?
Contrary to what all of the grey-haired men whose girlfriends are twenty-somethings believe, this is not the happiest group of people on the planet. That distinction belongs to the Danes, who year after year, score at the top or near the top of the Happy Scale. Scientists have started to study why this might […]
Your Cat Wants to Kill You First and Then Make You Crazy
October 20, 2014
No one would deny that we have been drowning lately in a tsunami of very bad news. If you feel that things couldn’t get any worse, you should know that they just have. And, if you are a cat-owner, they have just gotten so much worse, that you might want to stop reading this […]
What Do Women Really Want?
October 6, 2014
Reader’s Note #1: The following post is about yet one more expensive blob of scientific research To the question “What do women really want?” some men will answer “Money,” others will answer “Who the hell knows?” and those of a more prurient bent will answer “Seven inches or more.” Reader’s Note #2: Life in the […]
If You Smell Like A Member of the Guns and Dope Party, I Love You
September 25, 2014
A new study in the American Journal of Political Science reveals that people find the smell of others with similar political opinions to be attractive, suggesting that one of the reasons why so many spouses share similar political views is because they were initially and subconsciously attracted to each other’s body odor. During the study, […]
How the Boomers Changed Sex
September 10, 2014
An apology to loyal readers of this blog and to those who arrived here because they will read anything with the word “sex” or “lubrication” in it. The following is not a boomer version of the Kama Sutra. Reading this will not allow you to cavort between the sheets as though it were 1976 […]
The Answers Issue
September 2, 2014
Time Magazine has done the impossible. Their current issue, titled The Answers Issue, has hit the newsstands. Not only does Time tackle the big questions, the ones we didn’t think had answers, it goes well beyond that. It answers questions we didn’t even know we had and questions we should be asking but aren’t. […]
We are getting smarter. Or, we are getting dumber.
August 13, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane, in an attempt to distract herself from the current havoc being wreaked around the planet by 1) people 2) infectious disease and 3) Bob McDonald, turned, instead, to psychological research to give her the lift she deserves. Researchers, who are immune to the flotsam and jetsam of political, religious, and […]
The Real Key to Improving Brain Function is to Grab a Swimsuit and Then Toss it Aside
July 28, 2014
An alert reader has directed Life in the Boomer Lane to information that will allow her to immediately stop doing what she doesn’t do anyway. But now she doesn’t have to feel guilty about not doing it. Nicholas Spitzer, professor or neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of brainfacts.org, has a message for […]
The Difference Between Love and Lust
July 23, 2014
Researchers from the University of Chicago, taking a break from doing things like finding a cure for cancer or chronic chapped lips, decided to study the difference between love and lust. They found out incredible things, like where on your body your date looks at you could indicate whether he is feeling love or lust. […]
How to Have Sex Without Taking Your Clothes Off
July 7, 2014
Good news for older boomers and seniors: A new study based on the National Health and Sexuality Survey, in which 1,939 heterosexual elderly people participated, show that 62.3% of men and 37.4% of women are sexually active. “The most common practices are kisses, caressing and vaginal penetration. On the other hand, the least practiced are […]
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