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Move aside hourglass, there's a new marshmallow in town. Lucky Charms has unveiled its first new marshmallow in 10 years - the magical unicorn! Earlier this month, General Mills announced it was retiring the hourglass marshmallow. Lucky Charms then asked social media users to vote on which marshmallow they would like to see next - by answering with an emoji... And, sure enough, the newest marshmallow is also an emoji - the unicorn.

The headline is “Hourglass Figures Affect Men’s Brains Like a Drug.” Researchers—that darling, catchall term—conducted a study examining men who were allowed to look at pictures of naked females (from behind) and found that these men liked what they saw. The joke circulating in commentary on this story is: Who knew? It’s the joke that’s interesting. One can chuckle in two ways. That any scientist would study such a thing is silly, therefore funny. I have an image of white-frocked geeks measuring the amount of drool from their porn-watching subjects. “An increase of 32.8% as she bends. Success!” But the...

Men lust for hourglass curves, say researchers By Roger Highfield Science Editor Last Updated: 11:14pm GMT 09/01/2007 The traditional theory of beauty says that for every man who chases the voluptuous type, such as Jordan or Marilyn Monroe, there is another who prefers to woo a waif such as Twiggy or Kate Moss. But this and the idea that beauty is subjective and ever-changing has been overturned by Prof Devendra Singh and his daughter Adrian Singh. The psychologists from the University of Texas today publish research showing lovestruck men have only one thing on their minds: a woman's WHR -...