http://thenewlybed.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:53:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good question. It was lost in a pile of irony the last two months. See, a few weeks before I launched The Newlybed, I took a job at a luxury travel startup.  The recession decimated the luxe travel industry and that, my friends, is what prompted the owners of the company to ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=96 A few weeks back, I promised some changes at The Newlybed. They're here!  We've got a new look, a new blogging platform and a new url (kinda). Readers of the old site will be automatically redirected.  I'll also be migrating content over. In the meantime, let me know what you think of the ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=3 Yes, it's hard to believe, but the leading romance novel publisher is 60 years old this month.The purveyor of pulp fiction has weathered storms of social upheaval, grown alongside women through empowerment movements, and continually found ways to balance realism, escapism, relevance and desire.Says a thorough and compelling article on ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=92 The question that continues to elude the curious: what is love? Is it an emotion, a choice, a steady drip of neurochemicals, an evolutionary adaptation for childrearing, a biological imperative shared by other animals?Maybe, says new research which argues that kitties express love and affection for you. And ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=90 Location: Somewhere in AmericaThe set-up: A Nigerian green card scam gone wrongThe explanation: This story from Ghana News online, describes how a Nigerian couple that migrated to America in search of a better life and a green card."First, the man introduces his betrothed wife to his American darling as his ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=89 The research on sexiness, lustfulness, committedness, and marriage-ness this week is a mixed bag of good, bad and ludicrously ugly. See if you can figure out what's what, and which ones span all three.Sweat is sexy: Women can differentiate between men who are turned on and men who ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=87 Yes, it's not just the cascade of neurochemicals from physical contact that help couples feel good. There are other, albeit less understood, plusses that come from dating and relating.According to a Barbados Advocate interview with Harry Reis, PhD and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, married people [and ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=86 I have something to admit. I swoon over Josh and Fergie.I don't follow their careers, and I definitely don't consider myself a fan of either of their work.But I adore them, probably because they strike that hard-to-find balance between the fantasy of fame and sweet mundane-ness of ordinary life.By ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=85 A few weeks ago, I wrote about a handful of senators in Georgia who engineered a grass-roots campaign to, ahem, liberate professors who study human sexuality from their state-university posts.Today, two professors - Dr. Mindy Stombler and Dr. Kirk Elifson - are testifying in front of the Georgia Senate to ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=84 CBC's always excellent Quirks and Quarks tackles the question many have been asking this month:"Tired of all that mushy nonsense that comes with Valentine's Day - the schmaltzy cards, the heart-shaped box of chocolates, the earnest whispers and secret nothings? It's about time someone took a cold, harsh look at ... http://thenewlybed.com/?p=83