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Wondering how to increase your attractiveness when you meet someone you like? Use these 13 easy physical attraction tips to impress the one you like. When it comes to impressing someone you like, your personality always trumps over physical attraction. But that doesn’t mean we should overlook appearances. Presents always look better gift wrapped, and the odds of someone giving you a second glance also increases when you look better on the outside. Physical attraction and sex appeal Physical attraction is a person’s ability to create a sexual desire in someone else. If you’re physically attractive, you’d find it easier to attract someone you like, at least for the first conversation. But by no means does it mean that physically attractive people have better relationships or are better lovers. Everyone has their own expectations when it comes to physical attraction. And what you have to remember about physical attraction is that you can’t please everyo...

Do Calories Count? The resounding answer...YES. And anyone who tells you they don’t is trying to sell you something. And while yes, I have made a very good living over the years with this advice, I find the truth delivers results and results are worth paying for. Now it’s true, the quantity of calories you consume isn’t all there is to it. The quality of your food will affect your metabolism over time, so it’s important to avoid fake overly processed chemical laden foods as often as you can. Ultimately, your metabolism is your biochemistry. How many calories you burn in a day is just one function of metabolism. And yes, the foods we eat will affect our biochemistry for better and for worse. However, it happens over time for these bad “Frankenfoods” to manifest into a slowed overall metabolic rate, and cancer, and heart disease and so on– it doesn’t happen overnight. The bottom line is that eating too much of any food, no matter how healthy, will make you fat. I have often hear...

A Group of Chinese Archers, Fujian Province. Circa 1900. Source: USC Digital Collections. Old Friends One of the more rewarding things that I have been able to do with this blog has been to showcase previously unseen, or rare, images of Chinese martial arts.  I have tried to keep these photos, engravings, paintings and other visual representations  within a single series for ease of future study and reference .  And a number of these images are worthy of further thought and meditation.  Some reveal interesting information about the practice of the martial arts, while all of them speak to the ways that these practices have been framed and understood within the global system. Yet contextualizing these photographs has been a problem.  While ephemera (postcards, newspaper engravings, etc…) reach a wide audience, they do so at the expense of any depth of descriptions.  Images of specific individuals, each with their own practices and ideology, are inevita...

Ip Man and his best known student, Bruce Lee. The Master Said: “I transmit, I do not create. I trust and love the ancients…” -Confucius,  The Analects  7.1 I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. -Bruce Lee (Quoting Fritz Perls) Introduction When describing a cultural practice anthropologists sometimes differentiate between “emic” and “etic” accounts. To oversimplify, an emic account is one that comes from inside the group. It is a subjective description of how something functions from an insider’s perspective. An etic account is usually produced from an outsider’s point of view. It often poses as an objective description of why something “really” happens. Thus an anthropologist and her key interlocutors may give two very different accounts of the same phenomenon. Perspective matters. One does not have to be committed to cultural relativism to understand why some actors might view the same process differ...