New research indicates that millennial men may be rejecting traditional views of manhood – in their attitudes, values, language, behavior, relationships, careers, and their definition of success. Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada, surveyed 630 milennial-aged men, aged 15-29, from Western Canada. Results published in April 2018, in the journal Psychology of Men…
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Study: Turning off phone and email notifications for one day can change your productivity for two years
A study on phone behaviour revealed that turning off phone and email notifications for one day can change people’s productivity for two years. Previous studies show that people check their phones about 150 times per day. Martin Pielot of the Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica, and Luz Rello of Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, decided to…
Why men’s health programs are important: 9 groups of men at risk of poor health outcomes
Men generally experience poorer health outcomes than women across a range of indicators
Childhood family environment linked with relationship quality 60 years later
A Harvard Medical School study has found that warm family environments in men’s childhood lead to more secure romantic relationships in later life
Face transplant: Dr Samir Mardini rebuilds a man’s face – and his life
Dr Samir Mardini conducts the first face transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota
Dogs judge humans by how they treat others
A 2017 study shows that dogs prefer humans who help their owners
105-year-old French cyclist Robert Marchand breaks world record
Is it Robert Marchand’s lifestyle, diet, or physiology that makes him a world record cyclist – or no-one else is in his category!
A rising tide lifts all boats: a rising living standard lifts everyone’s health
A higher socio-economic status may boost immunity from disease – so raising everyone’s standard of living is a win-win for all
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson: the man who defined the mathematical beauty of nature
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a man ahead of his time – a zoologist, the man who defined mathematical beauty in nature, and a conservationist
Singapore’s Philip Yeo – Neither Civil Nor Servant
Philip Yeo, of Singapore, is an unconventional public servant with 50 years in public administration
102-year-old scientist keeps working on ecology research
Dr David Goodall is 102 and has just won the right to keep working at an Australian university
Masculinity may be aided by female genes, says scientist
Sex chromosomes, rather than hormones, may be influencing masculinity … through an extra set of female genes