Study: Booze Doesn't Give You a Case of the Sads After All

You might physically feel like complete a** the day after downing six too many mojitos, but drinking won't get you down mentally, according to new research out of Australia.

Looking at over 3,000 old dudes, and focusing on how certain genetic mutations might play a role in how people metabolize alcohol, clinical neuroscientists from The University of Western Australia debunked the long-held myth that alcohol causes depression.

"Because of the observational nature of the association between alcohol and depression, and the risk of confounding and bias that comes with observational studies, it is difficult to be entirely certain that the relationship is causal," lead researcher Professor Osvaldo Almeida said. "For example, people who drink too much may also smoke, have poor diets and other diseases that could explain the excess number of people with depression among heavy drinkers."

But while booze may not give you a permanent sad face, it's obviously still not good for you, warns nutritionist JJ Virgin, author of The Virgin Diet.

"Alcohol can do plenty of other damage, including putting fat burning on the backburner," she says. "Your liver perceives alcohol as a toxic substance, since it can potentially be fatal if you overdo it. So everything else — including fat metabolism — takes a backseat as your liver metabolizes that alcohol. Sugary alcohol drinks can also wreak havoc on your blood sugar balance, leading to hunger, cravings, and weight gain."

While Virgin doesn't recommend drinking from a health perspective, she advises being smart about your consumption by taking in two glasses of water for every cocktail and never drinking on an empty stomach. As for which drink to order, your best bets are indulging in a glass of pinot noir — which is full of anti-aging antioxidant resveratrol — or, oddly enough, taking a shot of tequila. 

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Guinness Is For Cheating Boyfriends Says Boozy Study

While I could have sworn the culprit would have been Natty Ice, beverage of choice for Welcome Week frat house parties everywhere, a study by the UK's Illicit Encounters (via HuffPo) looked into which brewskis were most favored by unfaithful men. As it turns out, Guinness and Corona were the top two beers of choice for dirty cheating scrubs followed by Peroni San Miguel and Budweiser.

Oddly enough, the study claims that men who cheat actually drink less than men in monogamous relationships (you'd think only having sex with one person would actually lead to more boozing) mostly because they're watching their weight and have to stay sharp to pick up Mad Chixx. Some other helpful hints based on our unscientific Cosmo research: If a dude orders a Six Point Sweet Action, he is pretentious. If a dude orders a Flirtini he is probably gay.

But it's not only dudes who give themselves away to be cheaters by their personal preferences: The same UK research group found that women who cheat prefer to shop at Banana Republic. I guess nothing says "I'm a mom on my way to a cheap hotel in Midtown to have dirty sex with a guy I knew in college" like "sensible workwear for women at a mid-range price point"

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Study: There's a Wage Gap Because Women Choose Low-Paying Jobs

Okay, help us out here. We’re not sure if this is good news or just another BS attempt from anti-Lean In-ers to convince us ladies that we are on the same professional playing field as our lovely male counterparts. A new survey from PayScale (via The Atlantic) insists that the ol’ “women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes” proclamation—a defense that we clutch onto and spew out whenever a misogynistic d-bag laughs at our jobs (no, just me?)—is utterly untrue.

Sure, there’s a wage gap when you look at salaries across the board, the peeps behind the survey say, but when you compare salaries between men and women with equal levels of education and experience, same responsibilities, similar company size, and other constraints, the ratio diminishes so drastically, it’s barely existent. So…WTH is really happening?

This research claims that the real issue isn’t that women are simply paid less, it’s that women work in careers that pay less overall, like health care versus engineering. In fact, nine of the 10 highest-paying jobs on PayScale’s list were held mostly by men, while nine of the 10 lowest-paying jobs were majority female. I guess that explains why you never hear a guy say, “Oh, I’m just going to marry a rich girl.” Sigh. This being said, we think there's more contributing to the gender gap than just women choosing lower-paying gigs. Like gender discrimination, hi?

The good news? With women earning more bachelor’s degrees these days and the recent push toward STEM careers, things could—and hopefully will—change. P.S. If you’re still grazing the great abyss trying to figure out your future, become a dental hygienist: According to the survey, it pays to be a lady.

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Study: If You've Got Long Hair, Then You're Probably Wife Material (Obvi)

It almost worked for Cece on New Girl.

We love long hair just as much as short hair. But according to a new study, long hair will get him to put a ring on it quicker. LOL...

In the study, Great Clips surveyed women and men to find out which hairstyles they love and hate. Seventy-four percent of men said they found women with long hair the most attractive. Me thinks it's so he has something to grab as he goes doggy style (aka every man's favorite position), but that's just a hunch.

ANYWAY. The guys were then asked to describe the top four qualities a woman with long hair possibly possessed. Number one was sexy, followed by fun, young, and...wife material.

HAHA, yeah. Let that sink in.

Your hair can say a lot about you, but does it really tell him if you're the one to marry? Probably not. Call me crazy, but there are other factors there are other factors that lead to tying the knot that don't have anything to do with your tresses.

And, as a girl who once had a pixie cut, short-haired girls know how to have more fun. :)

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Dating Someone Your Own Age? You're Smarter, Hotter, and Richer, Says Study

Attention all cougars, boy-toys, sugar daddies, and everyone else looking to date way outside of your age bracket: It could be time to wise up.

A new study conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder shows couples with large age discrepancies aren't the Hollywood happy endings we imagine them to be (cue Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs.Robinson).

Instead, overall, people who marry someone significantly older or younger have lower earnings, are less educated, and are less attractive compared to those who marry someone their own age.

"Hugh Hefner is an outlier," says Hani Mansour, Ph.D, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver. Apparently. The study found that men who shack up with women who are significantly older or younger (cough, cough, Hef) make less money than those married to women of a similar age.

And if that not-so-bulging-bank-accounts wasn't enough of a confidence crusher for guys who may be trying to mac on young thangs, a slew of intelligence tests conducted showed that men married to women at least eight years younger scored an average of 8.4 points less than those with wives of a comparable age.

The only findings not particularly eyebrow-raising are that boy-toys of the Ashton Kutcher variety are more attractive than those in other age groups.

“Overall, the estimates indicate that individuals married to differently-aged spouses are less attractive than those married to similarly-aged spouses, with the possible exception of men married to older women,” said researchers of the study.

So older women want hot, young, chiseled men? That's no surprise. What we are surprised about is that men aren't as picky about the younger women they select to bunk up with, according to the study. Looks like we may be the more discriminating sex, after all.

Another surprising find from this study is that while the term cougar has been more popular in the past few years than Andy Cohen at a Real Housewives reunion, it's no hot new trend.

“We really didn’t find any evidence of a new cougar phenomenon,” a researcher for the study said. “Although their share has slightly increased over time, cougars have been among us since the 1960s.” Word.

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Study: Unshaven Faces Majorly Turn Us On

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New Study Shows Major Differences Between Girls' and Guys' Brains

There's been an ongoing, battle-of-the-sexes debate for years (and probably centuries) about who's got better brains, men or women. And some recent research seems to have finally put this question to rest—we both do.

Turns out that men and women's brains are so different that it's almost like comparing apples to oranges, according to various studies that have examined the differences between both genders' thinking caps.

For example, men's brains are about 8-to-10 percent larger than women's, which might seem to indicate that guys have the cranial upper hand. But! After looking at 26,000 brain scans, one neuroscientist found that women had increased activity in 112 of the 128 regions of the brain he measured.

The reason? The male brain is much quieter in how it processes information, while the female brain is firing all the time. However, just because our brains are more active, that doesn't mean our brains are better—in fact, so much activity actually makes us three times as prone to migraines as guys are.

Other fun tidbits on brain differences by gender include the fact that women feel more pain and are more sensitive to touch than men are, and that while stress makes women want to talk things out, feeling anxious makes dudes angry. (Good to know when you or your man comes home after a particularly bad day at the office.)

The bottom line, according to various studies and scientists, is this: Men and women are equal when it comes to our brains, we're just wired really differently.

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Study: Kilts Make Guys More Fertile

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New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity

Gary A. Anderson, "New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity "
2013 | ISBN-10: 9004207430 | 302 pages | PDF | 3,8 MB
This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms of biblical interpretation, investigating connections within and between Jewish and Christian interpretive texts.

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New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity

Gary A. Anderson, "New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity "
2013 | ISBN-10: 9004207430 | 302 pages | PDF | 3,8 MB
This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms of biblical interpretation, investigating connections within and between Jewish and Christian interpretive texts.

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Study: More People Are Realizing That Living In Sin Is Great

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Study: Being a Party Girl in College Totally Affects Your Future

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Study: The Pill Makes Us Dig Pretty Boys

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