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Morning radar: Three things we're talking about this morning
France wants its beautiful, career-driven women to make lots of babies, so aside from free all-day nursery schools, monthly family allowances and tax deductions for each child, the French government also subsidizes one-on-one perineal therapy.
According to the Times story, "Weeks after giving birth, French women are offered a state-paid, extended course of vaginal gymnastics, complete with personal trainer, electric stimulation devices and computer games that reward particularly nimble squeezing." (More free sessions of tummy exercises follow that.)
And while the nimble women do have more babies than other mothers in Europe, they're also the biggest consumers of anti-depressants.
And no Kegel will fix that.
Can Monday stress make you ugly? Stress changes our physiology, affecting our skin, hair, fingernails, digestion and sleep patterns.
The extra adrenaline and cortisol produced during stress messes with skin, spiking oil production and acne. (The hormones also stimulate the growth of thicker hair follicles.) Stress slows cell renewal - quickening the aging process.
So relax!
Homer Simpson is a Catholic? The Vatican says so.
"Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic," insists the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Nevermind that the Duff beer-guzzling father inflicts " never-ending humiliation" on his very pious neighbour Ned Flanders - the family "recites prayers before meals and, in their own peculiar way, believes in the life thereafter."
D'oh!
Zosia Bielski