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What do you do when you're stressed ? Reach for a half-pound bag of M&M's, like I do, or a couple glasses of merlot like my friends do?  Or maybe watch a Housewives Reunion where they all scream at and accuse each other of everything from copying their Jimmy Choo Belgravias to calling each other's kids spoiled? Well, the sad truth is that feeling stressed may prompt you to go to great lengths to satisfy an urge for a drink or sweets, but you're not likely to enjoy the indulgence any more than someone who is not stressed and has the same treat just for pleasure, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association, as reported by newswise.com.  "Most of us have experienced stress that increases our craving for rewarding experiences, such as eating a tasty bar of chocolate, and it can make us invest considerable effort in obtaining the object of our desire, such as running to a convenience store in the middle of the night,...

We've all known ways to make the bedroom sexy -- candles, maybe some rose petals scattered on the bed and floor, mood music (Barry White, for those of us who remember), a little bubbly.  But now an architect is designing rooms themselves that make you feel like having sex. In short, they’ve created places that make sex better, as Richard J. Williams says in Aeon magazine this week, notes C.C. Sullivan of smartplanet.com. Dubbed "the Lady Gaga of Architecture," Zaha Hadid  has been able "to cultivate an audience for her audacious, aphrodisiac forms," writes Sullivan at smartplanet.com. "Many critics have imagined Hadid’s elegant shapes moving, pulsating, unfolding and swelling." In Copenhagen this week, an exhibit of her work opens.  Sullivan describes it as a room where, inside, "an illuminated fabric ceiling stretches and contracts, as flickering arteries of light pulse like corpuscles. The room is dark — a 'borderless, scenic univer...