Is social media really damaging relationships?

Social media is becoming a source of stress and tension in relationships, according to experts. Dr Scott Bea, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic, says that when social media and social lives intertwine, it creates jealousy.

“Imagine starting a dating relationship and you find out the guy that you’re involved with has 350 female friends,” Fox News quoted Dr Bea as saying.
“I mean, it creates a whole new kind of stress. You have all of this competition that you might not have known about before.

It might not have existed before,” he said.
A new study ranks the ways in which social media can cause stress in relationships. The most cited cause of stress was sharing too much information on your profile page. The second was tagging an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend in a photo.
Getting a friend request from an ex or finding incriminating information on partner’s walls or in their photos can also cause fights between couples. 

In the past, it was much easier to keep secrets from a significant other but now couples have to get accustomed to a little less privacy, Bea said.
“We weren’t built to think about the person we’re dating having so many other social contacts and friends that might compete with us," he said. "We like that feeling of exclusivity, that we’re the one that matters first and foremost,” he added.

Einstein may have been 'world's worst husband'

Albert Einstein may be regarded as one of the world's most important scientists but despite his innumerable professional successes, he found it hard to sustain a thriving personal life, according to a new book.n his book, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson has described how Einstein found maintaining a harmonious love life a battle he would never win.

In fact, so pragmatic was Einstein's approach to love, that when he found his 11-year marriage to fellow scientist Mileva Maric was floundering, he issued a list of outrageous rules that he believed would allow the two to remain together for the sake of the children, the Daily Mail reported.

Shockingly the list demanded Maric continue to act as maid to her erstwhile husband - yet should expect no affection or attention in return.

Einstein was prompted to write the list when, in 1914,he realised that after 11 years, his marriage to first wife Maric - one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe - was destined for failure.

The scientist ordered that she keep his rooms tidy, bring him three meals a day (to be eaten in his room), keep his clothes and laundry in good order, and keep his bedroom and study neat (she should not use his desk, of course).

There would apparently be no benefits to Maric in return. In fact, Einstein specified in his list of conditions, printed in Isaacson's book (via website listsofnote.com), that she must not expect Einstein to either sit with her, or accompany her outside of the house - and she must stop talking when he requests.

She must 'renounce all personal relations' not strictly necessary for social reasons - which should not include expecting to be accompanied on social engagements. Also, Einstein stipulated that his wife should not expect any intimacy from him, should not reproach him in any way; should stop talking to him if he requested it; should leave his bedroom or study immediately without protest if requested, and should refrain from belittling him in front of the children, either through words or behaviour.

However, just a few months after he issued his misogynistic manifesto, she left Einstein in Berlin and moved with their sons, Hans Albert and Eduard (their daughter, Lieserl, born in 1902, was given up for adoption), to Zurich. 


After five years she filed for divorce and in 1919, it was granted.

Isaacson also divulged how as a young man, Einstein predicted in a letter to the mother of his first girlfriend that the 'joys of science' would be a refuge from 'painful personal emotions'.

As a testimony to that fact, the father of the theory of relativity is known to have had many liaisons throughout his marriage to Maric. In fact, he became involved with Elsa, a first cousin who would become his second wife, in 1912, when he was still married to his first wife.

Although Einstein married Elsa in 1919, within four years he was already involved with Bette Neumann, his secretary and the niece of one of his friends.

"His conquest of general relativity proved easier than finding the formulas for the forces swirling within his family," Isaacson said.

Now, seat to wrap kids in bubble during car crash

British engineers have unveiled a car seat that cocoons a baby in a protective shell in the event of an accident.

The rear-facing Carkoon is also fireproof, providing the child with up to 20 minutes of air and insulating it from a blaze.

And for easy release in an accident - or during an everyday trip to the supermarket or nursery - the seat can be swivelled round to face the door, so the child can be easily unbuckled and lifted out.

The Carkoon could be on sale as early as next year but, at around 499 pounds, will be considerably more expensive than a standard child seat.

Its main feature is an airbag that folds out on impact, enveloping the child in the seat. The youngster is protected from head to toe but has plenty of breathing space.

Unlike traditional airbags that cushion passengers by deflating when hit, the Carkoon's airbag stays inflated and rigid enough to withstand bombardment by any objects dislodged by the crash.

Inventor Jullian Preston-Powers said this is vital, as a stray water bottle or satnav can kill in a 30mph crash. We have even bounced a brick off it," the Daily Mail quoted Preston-Powers as saying.

He came up with the idea after speaking to a Sussex fireman whose hands were badly burned when he tried to rescue a baby from a burning car.

Sadly, the fireman was unsuccessful and the baby died.

As well as the swivelling base and airbag, some Carkoon models will have a device that transmit a signal to the emergency services, letting them know there has been an accident with a baby involved.

In Britain, car seats for babies usually face backwards while those for toddlers face forwards.

With studies showing rear-facing seats provide vital added protection to the head and neck in a crash, Preston-Powers is campaigning for them to be made compulsory for all children under four.