WAAROM VROUWEN CHOCOLA LEKKERDER VINDEN DAN SEKS
The new Dutch mass market edition of Blondes (retitled, in loose translation, “Why Women Prefer Chocolate to Sex”)
View ArticleDo Flame Retardants Make Us Dimmer?
When I was in the second trimester of pregnancy, my husband and I bought a new king-sized mattress. Like all cotton mattresses sold in the U.S., ours had been treated with a flame retardant containing...
View ArticleDo Fish and Coconuts Reverse Prenatal Stress?
Is it any coincidence that the most laidback people I’ve ever met hail from Brazil, land of fish and coconuts? The mellowness of Brazilians came to mind when I read a study on prenatal stress to be...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly — First Review for Chocolate Lovers!
My first review for Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, from this week’s Publishers Weekly. —- Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies: Exploring the Surprising Science of Pregnancy Jena Pincott....
View ArticleAssorted Trifles (from the science of love, sex, and babies)
Research is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to find. An assortment of studies on love, sex, and babies — fresh from the lab. Scientists found that men whose ring fingers are...
View ArticleDo You Live Less if Your Mom Was Stressed?
Not long ago, a handful of scientists at the University of California at Irvine were curious about why some people live longer than others — even within groups that have similar ethnic and educational...
View ArticleDo Beautiful Babies Become the Most Beautiful Adults?
Forgive me, I believe my one-year-old is the cutest baby ever. Yes, yes, mothers are biased about their own children. As I detail in my new book, certain reward circuits “light up” in parental brains...
View ArticleIQ and Fish, the Whole Fish, and Nothing But the Fish
For the nine-plus months of pregnancy, I dutifully downed fish oil pills. I had heard all about the virtues of essential fatty acids (especially DHA, docosahexaenoic acid), known collectively as...
View ArticleA Kirkus Star!
Absolutely delighted that Kirkus gave “Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?” a starred review. Thank you, Kirkus! —- Popular-science writer Pincott (Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?, 2008, etc.)...
View ArticleWho’s Turned On By Pregnant Women?
Early one evening late in my second trimester of pregnancy, I was standing in the dairy aisle of the grocery store, with one hand on my back and the other over the kicking baby in my distended belly....
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