Thankfully, a major level-up in the cooking department doesn’t require a complete kitchen overhaul. In fact, for many at-home cooks, a food processor is a one-appliance upgrade that takes your meals to new brag-worthy heights and cuts down on time spent on the more mundane kitchen tasks like chopping, mincing, slicing, and cleaning. Up to a certain point, a high-powered blender like a Vitamix is all you need, In addition to blending, it can grind, coarse-chop, and mix in a pinch....

Well, a large new meta-analysis of dozens of studies on the theory just called BS. The biggest factor that affected how much of a person’s brain got activated? The particular type of sexual content they viewed. The least predictive factor? Gender. “Following a thorough statistical review of all significant neuroimaging studies, we offer strong quantitative evidence that the neuronal response to visual sexual stimuli, contrary to the widely accepted view, is independent of biological sex,” the researchers write....

I thought I was adapting pretty well to “the new normal,” working from home, spending more time outside, and taking my social distancing seriously. My stress level could most accurately be described as occasionally irritated and socially frustrated, but my skin was telling a more dramatic story. I started to react to my products, burn easily in the sun, and overheat and flush quickly outside. After a few weeks of this heightened sensitivity, I resolved to slow down and treat my skin, and myself, a little more delicately....

Adults with Peter Pan syndrome, also sometimes called failure-to-launch syndrome, avoid the personal and professional responsibilities of adulthood. “They just are the individuals who really don’t want to grow up,” psychotherapist and relationship expert Babita Spinelli, L.P., tells mbg. “And they find adult responsibilities truly challenging.” Kiley may have focused on men in his research, but Peter Pan syndrome can apply to any gender. “In today’s day and age, we don’t have those kinds of gender stereotypes, so we really want to be more open in how we apply it,” confirms Spinelli....

“Unrefined coconut oil doesn’t go through extra processing steps like refined does. It’s extracted from coconut meat using a dry or wet method1,” says clinical and culinary dietitian Huma Chaudry, R.D. You may also see unrefined coconut oil labeled as cold-pressed. This means the coconut oil was extracted from coconut milk without any heat. To do so, the outer husk of a matured coconut, which can yield more oil2 than young coconuts, is removed and then pressed to slowly pull out the oil....

I think we’ve been going about it the wrong way for a very long time. Here’s what it means to have spiritual, sacred sex. If you are in the flow of expressive sex, then you know that God must have a hand in it. And creativity is about spiritual communion. Sex is a core function of humanity. It plays a huge role in the physical health and vitality of the body....

Here’s what to know about the astrological compatibility between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Scorpio is the eighth sign of the zodiac, and Sagittarius is the ninth, making this pairing a semisextile aspect that sits one sign apart. When thinking about semisextile couples, you do not get quite the positive impression you would as when thinking of a trine pair since they are so different on the surface. Scorpio is fixed, and Sagittarius is mutable....