All posts tagged: tunnel

Sexual arousal creates “tunnel vision” that makes ambiguous dating cues look like interest

Sexual arousal creates “tunnel vision” that makes ambiguous dating cues look like interest

Published by José Betancourt

Why do people cling to hope when signals of romantic interest are mixed? Our new research suggests that sexual arousal may make signs of disinterest harder to recognize. “You’re attractive and smart, but I’m looking for something else.” I used to think this was a clear, kind way to reject someone. I was wrong. In one pilot study, I tested different rejection messages to see which ones would make people clearly understand that a potential partner was not interested. At first, I softened the rejection with compliments because I did not want participants to feel unnecessarily hurt. But after several rounds of testing, I realized something important: when rejection is mixed with warmth or flattery, people often do not fully register it as rejection. They ignore the “no” and cling to the part they want to hear. By trying to be “nice,” I was actually providing the fuel for their fantasies. That pattern will feel familiar to anyone who has watched He’s Just Not That Into You or spent time in the modern dating world. …

49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old | Life and style

49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old | Life and style

Published by Sam Flores

Cartwheel. On the day we scattered my father’s ashes, we lightened the mood with some competitive gymnastics. I don’t know how it started, but in attempting a cartwheel, I was shocked at my own creeping decrepitude. Over the last year, I’ve been watching online tutorials and practising – and I can do a passable cartwheel now. For that joyful split-second, upside down and wheeling, I’m reconnected with my eight-year-old self. Emine Saner ‘For one joyful split-second, I’m reconnected with my eight-year-old self.’ Photograph: Posed by model; lzf/Getty Images Have a kitchen disco. Never underestimate the fun ready to burst out of your kitchen. The crucial ingredient? Good music, played loudly. Parcels are my new favourite – the whole family have become superfans since last summer’s awesome Glastonbury set. Tieduprightnow, Gamesofluck, IknowhowIfeel, Hideout, Safeandsound – so many danceable, joyful tracks. Patrick Barkham ‘Quite a grand way to start the day.’ Photograph: Posed by model; RossHelen/Getty Images/iStockphoto Make pancakes. I don’t do it every morning – probably four times a week, though. Pancakes are quite a grand …

‘Niall’s in a tunnel of self-loathing’

‘Niall’s in a tunnel of self-loathing’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add Half Man to your watchlist How did you get involved in Half Man? Baby Reindeer had just hit, so when this arrived on my doorstep my interest was piqued because Richard had this genuinely unique, fresh voice – it was television that you hadn’t really seen or felt before. I only read episode six, an incredibly heightened spiral, but his writing balanced intensely dark subjects with a sense of humour that is especially Scottish. That levity helped us through. Richard wrote Niall with me in mind, which was flattering, and we had a lovely conversation about the show’s themes and our personal experiences with them. Could you talk about that? I have a painful amount of self-loathing. I can’t watch anything I do and I’ve been that way for 10 years. It’s the act of finality I dislike because there’s nothing I can do to fix it. If I’m in something, I’ve ruined it, which is a self-centred, destructive way of thinking. Even when I was a dancer as a child, if I couldn’t …

What Tunnel Entrances Reveal About a Key Iranian Nuclear Site

What Tunnel Entrances Reveal About a Key Iranian Nuclear Site

Published by Sam Flores

new video loaded: What Tunnel Entrances Reveal About a Key Iranian Nuclear Site transcript Back transcript What Tunnel Entrances Reveal About a Key Iranian Nuclear Site Satellite images show how Iran has tried to bolster its defenses at parts of the Isfahan nuclear facility. What you’re seeing here are buried tunnel entrances at a nuclear facility in Iran. It’s one of the most important sites in the country for U.S. and Israeli forces. U.N. inspectors think that roughly half of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is buried here. And these three entrances are the only known ways to access it. If you think about nuclear sites in Iran, three main sites come to mind. They’re pretty well known: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. Natanz and Fordo, They were largely taken out in U.S. strikes last year. So I’ve been focusing on Isfahan. The uranium here is still relatively accessible. It’s actually a pretty large complex. This area here was very important for uranium processing, but it was heavily hit by the U.S. and Israel last June. If …

Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway

Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway

Published by skeptic

Nashville’s Metro Council voted 20-15 to formally oppose the Boring Company’s Music City Loop, a proposed 13-mile underground tunnel system that would shuttle passengers in Tesla vehicles between downtown Nashville and the airport. The non-binding resolution signals growing resistance to a project that the state of Tennessee is pushing forward anyway, with bills in the legislature to strip Nashville of oversight authority over the tunnel. Nashville doesn’t want it, Tennessee is forcing it The Metro Council resolution, introduced by Councilmember Delishia Porterfield, cited the Boring Company’s “lack of transparency, inadequate community and Metropolitan Council engagement, and troubling labor and safety practices.” The vote was 20-15, with two abstentions. 🔥 “IT’S A TRAIN.” Since even Boring’s own estimates show the Elon tunnel will only handle a tiny fraction of NASHVILLE traffic, Joe Lee suggest tying some Tesla cars together and putting them on a track for a real solution 🚂 (The anti-tunnel resolution passed) pic.twitter.com/v7MXMpKWh6 — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 4, 2026 The resolution can’t actually stop the project. Gov. Bill Lee’s administration already secured …

Elon Musk’s Proposed Tesla Tunnel Loop Met With Opposition by Nashville Metro Council

Elon Musk’s Proposed Tesla Tunnel Loop Met With Opposition by Nashville Metro Council

Published by Sam Flores

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Elon Musk’s proposed Tesla tunnel loop under the streets of Nashville was met with opposition Tuesday by the metro council, which passed a resolution to put their concerns about safety, transparency and a lack of local input on the record. The resolution, with 20 members voting for and 15 against with two abstaining, can’t force one of Musk’s companies to stop, stall or change their plans for the Music City Loop. But Nashville officials want to register their grievances after the politically connected tech billionaire’s company, The Boring Company, teamed up with willing state government partners to bypass local authority. In July, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and The Boring Company announced plans for the Music City Loop, featuring an initial 13-mile (21-kilometer) stretch that would include connecting the airport and downtown, which was later expanded to about 25 miles to include a second leg west of downtown. They promised a project that would come at no cost to taxpayers, albeit with free use of some state land near the Capitol. …

Trump releases overdue funds for NY-NJ Gateway tunnel: Hochul

Trump releases overdue funds for NY-NJ Gateway tunnel: Hochul

Published by Sam Flores

The Gateway Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in Hudson Yards, Manhattan on Oct. 23, 2025. Barry Williams | New York Daily News | Getty Images The Trump administration on Wednesday released the rest of the funds it had been withholding for the construction of a major rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday. The federal government freed up the remaining $98 million due for the Gateway project that is increasing passenger rail capacity into Manhattan, as well as an additional $30 million in reimbursements for work that had been completed in January, Hochul said in a statement. The frozen funds were released in tranches over nearly two weeks after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from withholding the money for the project that began construction in 2023. In compliance with that Feb. 6 order, the administration released $30 million on Feb. 13, followed by an additional $77 million earlier this week. The funding suspension, initiated on the eve of the Oct. 1 government …

Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More

Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More

Published by José Betancourt

Apart from a few bridges that still work, the infra­struc­tur­al achieve­ments of the Roman Empire exist, for us, most­ly as ruins. With a lit­tle imag­i­na­tion, those his­toric sites give us a clear enough sense of the empire’s sheer might, but if we want to go deep­er, we should then look into the numer­ous Roman con­struc­tions that haven’t sur­vived at all. In the video below from his chan­nel Told in Stone, ancient-his­to­ry YouTu­ber Gar­rett Ryan gives his per­son­al top sev­en “lost Roman won­ders,” begin­ning with Trajan’s Bridge, whose length of more than a kilo­me­ter across the Danube made it the longest bridge ever built at that time: a project of ambi­tions befit­ting a man that his­to­ry remem­bers as one of the “Five Good Emper­ors.” No such sta­tus for Nero, though he did com­mis­sion the Subi­a­co Dams. Nec­es­sary to cre­ate a series of arti­fi­cial lakes beneath the infa­mous ruler’s vil­la, they were the high­est dams in exis­tence until the Mid­dle Ages. Hadri­an’s more pub­lic-mind­ed white-mar­ble tem­ple at Cyz­i­cus in mod­ern-day Turkey was known as unusu­al­ly splen­did even by …

The tunnel runway at the Super Bowl – and the rise of the ‘unicorn bag’ | Fashion

The tunnel runway at the Super Bowl – and the rise of the ‘unicorn bag’ | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

On Sunday night the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, Bad Bunny put on a spectacular half-time show, and multiple players all walked down the tunnel from the car park to the dressing rooms carrying the same logo’d bag. The bag in question, by luxury French brand Goyard, isn’t part of any official uniform – and isn’t really known outside of its 0.1% customer base. But it has become as ubiquitous a status symbol among American football players as their AirPods Max headphones and Richard Mille watches – and is part of a brave new world of tunnel fits. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Most primetime NFL games’ coverage start hours before kick-off, as photographers, fans and pundits alike pore over players’ sartorial choices just as they would their missed tackles and spectacular catches. Iconic looks range from Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow in a tailored tiger-print suit to eccentric Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins turning …