It’s said that the shape and size of the mannequins in a particular society is indicative of what people in that society see as ‘the ideal’ body shape.
Cameron Diaz has written a book called ‘Her Body Book’ – it’s a guide to how the body works.
A team of researchers have concluded that richer people, particularly women, have better sex than their poorer counterparts of the same gender. At least, that’s true of a control group of Spaniards who took part in the study. The slightly more astounding conclusion is that 90% of the people polled (not intended) in this study were satisfied with quality and quantity of sexy time in their lives.
Committing indecent acts with dairy products in Northeast Philadelphia is a crime. At least, that’s what we’ve learned today.
Getting a parking space in central London has become such an impossible task that the Westminster council has decided to begin rolling out smart parking sensors.
North Korea, a country that can barely keep its citizens fed, has just opened a lavish new ski resort.
Originally created as an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock still hangs on a board in the University of Chicago – and still ticks over with doomsday predictions.
This is it – we’re calling last rounds on the Bacardi Oakheart competition where you and your best Oaks can win the ultimate local Oaks’ getaway worth R8,500. Simply tell us where you and your mates would go and what you would get up to while you’re there, like sand boarding in the Kalahari or […]
Since Colorado legalised recreational marijuana use and distribution a few months ago, dispensaries have been inundated with baby boomers who have finally got what they’ve wanted all along.
Tired of cycling that same old route? Check this out. The Carretera Austral is known as one of the most spectacular and challenging cycle tours in the world.
Sho, but 2014 has started with one hell of a bang. I don’t know about you, but I am certainly due for a treatment. And the Beau Constance Spa is putting the treat in treatment, let me tell you that much. The Beau Constance Spa is set among a shady stand of trees on the […]
What, you think a couple of bankers don’t like to kick back and smoke a doob every now and then? ‘Course they do. They do that, and a whole lot of other stuff.
This fascinating animation by Dr Nicole Avena for TED-Ed explains how sugar causes your brain’s dopamine levels to spike, creating a sugar rush and causing you to crave more of it. She also reveals how the increasing amount of sugar in food today is increasing our desire for a sugar high, much like a drug addiction.
Sweet Mary mother of Jesus – this one is a shocker. Apple’s App Store had to pull a ‘Barbie-inspired’ plastic surgery app off their digital shelves this week, because it was so obviously, clearly, unambiguously and definitely wrong.
Shampooing seems as much a part of our daily routine as brushing your teeth or drying yourself after a shower – but some people have eschewed the practice altogether.
Shakespeare, whoever he really was, can be given credit for inventing thousands of words that we use almost everyday. He was a particularly prolific wordsmith because, when he was writing his works, the English language was in a state of flux.
The pursuit of happiness. That’s what we’re all doing, isn’t it? Although, one gets the feeling that we don’t always pursue it in the right ways.
Correcting someone when they misquote a movie line can generate a significant amount of smug pride, but it can also generate a fair deal of anger. Make sure you’re on the right side of the equation with this list of the most famous misquoted movie lines.
Yes, truly. Innocent, if poorly written, Mills & Boon novels have given way to classics like ‘Cum For Bigfoot’. It seems ’50 Shades of Grey’ has woken the Kraken of human sexuality, and now the ferociously horny are looking for something a little more…exotic.
Grootbos Private Nature Reserve has scooped the Daily Beasts ‘Grand Award’ in their list of the best hotels to visit in 2014.
A man from Afghanistan has been granted religious asylum in the United Kingdom, because he’s an atheist.
Filmed on the s65 near Skukuza in the Kruger National Park, footage emerged today of an elephant charging and rolling the vehicle of two tourists. The British teacher and his partner were injured, but survived.
When comedy group, ‘Improv Everywhere’ started the ‘No Pants Subway Ride’ in their local subway station in 2002, they surely had no idea that their idea would one day be replicated across the globe.
British socialite Lady Victoria Hervey wasn’t invited to the Golden Globes based on merit. She wasn’t nominated for anything, and she isn’t even an actor.
California banned smoking in public places over 20 years ago, which is why the site of DiCaprio having a smoke inside the Golden Globe Awards ceremony caught some people off guard. It’s all good though, he was just taking a hit of his e-cigarette. Meanwhile, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was sitting alongside a surprised-looking Reese Witherspoon, was […]
A Johannesburg teacher who sent a nude picture of himself (holding his penis while lying in the bath, nogal) to a 17-year-old student has been fined R3,000 after pleading guilty to contravening the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act. What a guy. Ostrowick, who has since been dismissed by the Gautend Department of […]
The CAR has been ravaged by war for some time now, but the latest reports of cannibilism in the area are totally unprecedented.
Despite winning a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes this year, not all is well with the Woody household.
Big news everyone! Prince Harry has decided to keep his big, ginger beard right were it belongs.
We often read about whether countries are increasing or decreasing their nuclear activity, but statistics on nuclear weapons security will leave you surprised. Since 2012, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit initiative launched by CNN founder Ted Turner and former US Senator Sam Nunn, have been issuing snapshots in time of each countries nuclear capabilities, intentions and safety.