This week’s Press Release of the Week was released into the wild by Leiden University. Here are its headline and highlights: Reduced cognitive control in passionate lovers People who are in love are less able to focus and to perform tasks that require attention. Researcher Henk van Steenbergen [pictured here] concludes this, together with colleagues […]
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Nutting’s patent for the kiss
Anyone (the Harlequin romance book publisher, for one) who tries to patent a kiss must contend with US patent #3603029, issued on September 7, 1971 to William B. Nutting of New York, New York. Mr. Nutting’s invention, described as a “kiss throwing doll”, features (says Mr. Nutting) “a central shaft upon which I mount a […]