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Happy Caturday!

TresSugar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:47:00 -0800

I love when cats go into crouching ~~tiger~~ kitten, hidden dragon mode on little bugs. They don't want to kill them, necessarily, they just enjoy little scurrying things. (OK, maybe they want to eff with them a teensy bit.) His flexibility is quite impressive, I have to say.

Rihanna Admits Love For Chris & Watch, Pass, or Rent Weekend Movie Reviews

PopSugarTV — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:45:00 -0800

Rihanna Admits Love For Chris & Watch, Pass, or Rent Weekend Movie Reviews On the weekend edition of PopSugar Rush, listen to Rihanna explain what happened the night Chris Brown physically assaulted her and why she still cares about him, and find out if you should watch, pass, or rent A Christmas Carol, The Box, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Precious in our weekend movie reviews!

Très Cool! Babies Cry in Their Native Language

TresSugar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0800

I've always found it fascinating that dogs "bark" in different languages. Though we say "ruff ruff" in English, that same noise is expressed as "ouah, ouah" in French. Now here's something even cooler: German researchers have started to think that babies' wails sound different depending on what language their parents speak.

The scientists observed 60 babies born to families speaking French and German and found that the infants could be absorbing their parents' accents from inside the womb. In the last three months of pregnancy, babies have already begun to memorize sounds, and based on the analysis of the babies' cry "melodies," the sounds mapped closely to the parents' accents:

The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.

Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.

The findings suggest that unborn babies are influenced by the sound of the first language that penetrates the womb.

Fascinating, right? Now I want to hang out with a big international gang of babies and see if their cries all sound different. Wait, that means being trapped in a room with a bunch of crying babies - nevermind!

Add the PopSugar Network to the New Yahoo! Homepage

TresSugar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:59:00 -0800

Add the PopSugar Network to the New Yahoo! Homepage We are excited to announce that you can now get all of the latest PopSugar Network headlines on the new Yahoo! homepage! If Yahoo! is your home base, it's a great way to make sure you don't miss out on the newest stories, photo galleries, polls, quizzes, and all the rest of the features you love here on the PopSugar Network. All you have to do is add PopSugar to the new Yahoo! homepage to make it your own!

Ruh Roh! Employee Sends Steamy Emails to Co-Workers

TresSugar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

A tech consultant at Cornell did what we've all had nightmares about doing: he accidentally sent personal emails to everyone he works with. And they were quite the Freudian sends.

Gulp. But what makes it worse is that his emails were of a sexual nature. Big whoop, you say? Um, yeah. It gets more awkward. He's married - and so was his partner-in-crime.

Good lord. Has anyone ever done this? I can't imagine how humiliating this would be! Not to mention the fact that their marriages are probably over. Oh, the schadenfreude!

Are Teens Growing Up Too Fast or Too Slowly?

TresSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800

When I first saw this headline on Newsweek, "Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today," I thought, whaaa? With all the sexting and drugs, aren't teens growing up too fast?

Just because teens are doing adult things doesn't mean they are acting like adults, argue Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen, authors of Escaping the Endless Adolescence. By sheltering adolescents from work and other grownup issues in cookie-cutter high schools, we may be preventing their brains from maturing. Says Allen: "We don’t give teens enough ways to take risks that are productive." That results in bad risky behavior for cheap thrills and a generation of 25 year olds who act like teenagers. Do you think there's any truth to the argument that not treating teens like adults actually stunts their adulthood?

Très Trivia! Are You in the Know?

TresSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0800

This week we took a look at Pakistan's fashion week. Do you know what other stories strutted their stuff this week? Find out!

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Have You Ever Gotten Into a Brawl With Another Woman?

TresSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0800

First, a rumored bar fight involving Mischa Barton, and now Miss England? Whatever happened to sweet and demure?

Rachel Christie, the reigning Miss England, has to give up her crown and withdraw from the Miss World competition which will be held in South Africa next month because of an alleged bar brawl earlier in the week with another beauty queen, one Sara Beverley Jones (Miss Manchester).

As someone who has thrown a punch (or two) back in the day, I'm no one to judge, so I shall refrain. Did you get into physical fights with other girls when you were younger, or have you ever gotten into a brawl with another woman?

Grab Bag: The Teaches of Dolly Parton

TresSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0800

"Lessons I learned from Dolly Parton." - Double X
"Why I stole my best friend's guy." - Lemondrop
One woman explains why gay marriage matters. - The Frisky
What they don't tell you about moving in together. - Your Tango
Hooking up is fun - hooking up in a foreign land can be really fun! - Glamour
Is it OK to have children fronting pro-life ads? - Jezebel
Confessions of an expert sexter. - Em & Lo

Bad Relationship, Great Sex?

TresSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Is it possible to have great sex with someone you hate? That was the hot and heavy debate on last night's Parks and Recreation, when mustachioed Ron reunites with his ex-wife Tammy. The toxic couple can't talk without fighting - and the fighting inevitably leads to sex. Sex that Ron compares to "doing peyote and sneezing slowly for six hours."

Ron eventually learns that hooking up with a toxic ex can be a very bad idea: "It took years of intense, focused hatred to get over her, and now I've undone all that great work." Have you ever had amazing sex with someone you couldn't stand? Or hooked up with an ex only to discover it was a terrible idea?