Death By Drama: A new Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

Josiah is ready for romance, but she doesn’t want to fall in love with a cheater . . . and possibly a murderer!
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A new Potting Shed Mystery and interview: The Best-Laid Plants by Marty Wingate

USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate’s Potting Shed series continues   A trip to the English countryside turns into a brush with death for Pru Parke, the only gardener whose holiday wouldn’t be complete without a murder to solve. Pru and her husband, former Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Pearse, are long overdue for a getaway. […]
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Don’t touch me there: The Body Map of Acceptable Social Touching

 Who is allowed to touch whom, where, and under what circumstances? Thanks to a cross-cultural study, we now know:

The greater the pleasure caused by touching a specific area of the body, the more selectively we allow others to touch it.

Few major differences were seen in the types of social touching allowed between the different cultures.

The closer the relationship, the fewer places were off-limits.

The study was published in the journal PNAS (Suvilehto et al., 2015).

» Continue reading: The Body Map of Acceptable Social Touching

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