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A Croatian museum dedicated to failed relationships is to have its permanent home in Zagreb after returning from a sell out world-wide tour.
The Museum of Broken Relationships, which was opened again more than a month ago in the city centre, displays exhibits donated by lovers who want to illustrate their bitter break ups.
Along with an anonymous short story detailing the emotional resonance of each donation, these artifacts of failed romances provide a much-needed alternative to the usual heartbreak-recovery methods.
It's worth it, check the full story here - http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/27/a-trip-to-the-museum-of-broken-relationships/A Croatian museum dedicated to failed relationships is to have its permanent home in... more
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There's something wrong with redheads?
LONDON (Reuters) – An ad for a TV dating show has been banned for suggesting that redheads are unattractive, Britain's advertising watchdog said on Wednesday.
Virgin Media's newspaper advert for the program "Dating in the Dark" included the text: "How do you spot a ginger in the dark?"
Virgin said the premise of the show was to challenge people's perception of attractiveness and to encourage decisions based on personality as well as looks.
However the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) agreed with three complainants that the ad was likely to cause serious offence and should not be used again.
"We considered the text was likely to be interpreted ... as a statement that reflected a choice between looks and personality ... being a suggestion that people with ginger hair were unattractive," the ASA said in a statement.
"We considered the ad was unlikely to be interpreted to be light-hearted in tone and was instead likely to be seen as prejudicial against people with ginger hair."
Other adverts in the series used to promote the show had included the tagline: "When the lights come on I just hope I haven't been kissing Shrek."
On Tuesday, Britain's biggest retailer Tesco apologized and said it had withdrawn a Christmas card which showed a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: "Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones."
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Steve Addison)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091216/od_nm/us_ginger
http://filmgordon.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/hr_red_sonja_poster_2.jpgThere's something wrong with redheads?
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"When we see someone with a broken leg, we feel his pain instantly. But it takes a bit longer to feel compassion for a broken heart, say researchers from the University of Southern California.
A team led by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang used functional MRI to study the brains of 13 people as they responded to stories designed to provoke a range of emotions.
Immordino-Yang reported in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it was easy to get people's brains to react to another person's physical pain. All it took was a few seconds of video.
"For example, a tennis player reaching for an outside shot," Immordino-Yang says. "And then you just see her ankle break as she lands on it."
The response is immediate because people are born hard-wired to react to other people experiencing simple emotions like pain or fear, Immordino-Yang says. That's why when one baby starts crying, other babies tend to join in.
Scientists know quite a bit about which parts of the brain make us wince when we witness a physical injury. They're the same parts of the brain that respond when we're injured ourselves.
And there's evidence that a basic ability to feel another's pain emerged pretty early in human evolution, says Antonio Damasio, a co-author of the study. Damasio is the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at USC and the director of USC's Brain and Creativity Institute.
Damasio says early humans were probably more likely to survive if they could tell when a friend needed help or a foe was in pain.
"It probably took longer in evolution to get to a stage in which human beings could look at another human being, not see anything externally wrong with them, but imagine that there was something quite wrong in terms of their feelings, in terms of their mental pain," he says.
Damasio says people still aren't born with this sort of compassion. They have to learn it.""When we see someone with a broken leg, we feel his pain instantly. But it takes... more
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Liam Gallagher has exclusively revealed to MTV Two that he thought his brother Noel had been stabbed after a fan attacked in Canada recently.
Noel was seriously injured- suffering three broken ribs- when an audience member jumped on stage and pushed him into his amps.
have you ever seen a funnier video though?
funnier videos welcome!!
Liam Gallagher has exclusively revealed to MTV Two that he thought his brother Noel... more
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Now there's mounting evidence that it is possible to die from a broken heart. The risk of death increases by up to a fifth following bereavement. I'm no scientist, but I'm not surprised by this. Psychological stress can put a huge toll on your body, and losing a loved one is definitely one of the most stressful experiences I can think of. What i find interesting is that "one study found men were 21% more likely to die after the loss of their wife... widows had a 17% increased risk of death."Now there's mounting evidence that it is possible to die from a broken heart. The... more
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The Museum of Broken Relationships asks people in the cities it visits to donate mementos of everything from short flings to painful divorces.
Originating in Croatia, the show has visited Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia and has amassed more than 300 exhibits. The Museum of Broken Relationships asks people in the cities it visits to donate... more
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Can a bad relationship cause a heart attack? A study of 9,000 British civil servants has at last established it is possible to die of a 'broken heart'.Can a bad relationship cause a heart attack? A study of 9,000 British civil servants... more
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