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Who's the most powerful person in your world?  Your boss?  Your spouse?  Your mother? If you picked any one of these, relax.  When powerful people are faced with ambiguous circumstances, they're often at a loss, according to newswise.com.  Faced with ambivalence, powerful people are less decisive. Say what?  The web site reports that, although powerful people often tend to decide and act quickly, they become more indecisive than others when the decisions are toughest to make, a new study suggests, suggests a new study   published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers found that when people who feel powerful also feel ambivalent about a decision – torn between two equally good or bad choices – they actually have a harder time taking action than people who feel less powerful. That’s different than when powerful people are confronted by a simpler decision in which most evidenc...

This may be hard for you to read.  It was a little hard for me to watch.  But once I got over the initial awkwardness, it was truly beautiful. I'm talking about a piece a Connecticut College student did on vaginas. She asked a series of men her age what they thought about vaginas, and the answers ranged from sheer embarrassed silence to "they're very strong" to "cosy" to "they run the world," to "spent some time in a vagina back in '92 and it was homey," to "you don't have the vagina for it," in place of what people usually say, referring to men's genitals. In the beginning the answers were a little stiff, a little embarrassed, but once the young men got going, you could tell they really were thinking hard and taking it seriously.  Quite a few commented that they wouldn't be here if it weren't for a vagina. Newswise.com notes that BuzzFeed says the “endearing and uplifting” video “forces us to think o...