According to a study by Laura Koutsky, PhD published in the American Journal of Medicine, more than half of all people will have an STI at some point in their life. However, despite the alarming number of STIs in the population, there are still many myths. The first, and one of the most common, is…
According to Major Waste Disposal, the average American throws away 4.5 pounds of trash every day. To visualize how much trash that is, you would need a 100-mile-deep hole the size of a football field to store just one year of trash thrown away in the United States. The world is in general consensus that…
From Dallas, Texas to New York City, from 5-star hotels to private celebrity yachts there lies a traveler, a visionary and, most importantly, a chef. Tracey Altomari has been cooking since she was 12 years old and traveling around the world for decades. The Johnson and Wales culinary school graduate has been cooking for celebrities,…
Women aren’t the only ones with g-spots, behind the pubic bone lies a chestnut sized gland that is sometimes commonly referred to as the ‘male g-spot.’ The prostate is a very important part of the male reproductive system. It is heavily involved with producing fluids that will eventually become semen. Not only is it involved…
On the first floor of the library a new technological space is blossoming. _Space.URI is a reserved space for students and faculty to take their love of innovation and actually produce their ideas. This room is called the _Space.URI Makerspace. The Makerspace is fully equipt with high technology machines designed to push the limits of…
We’ve all heard about the “g-spot” — the female erogenous zone that some claim can induce intense pleasure. But what even is it? Ancient texts from thousands of years ago describe a mysterious area that when stimulated would produce euphoric pleasure and trigger female ejaculation. That area was first described in Indian texts dating back…
On March 22, 2017 Hydrologist and Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Jay Famiglietti, gave a lecture on the growing concern around freshwater security and communicating concerns around it. “It can be a challenge to explain why we do what we do and [I] think we should embrace that,” said Dr….
Condoms are messy, clunky and not well known for being fun to work with. We all have that moment, when you’re waiting in line at the drugstore trying to hide the box of condoms in your hand, praying you will get the young cashier not the 65-year-old grandmother who will give you that “look of…
“Bang bang!” yelled junior cadet Michelle Runge, as a mixed group of soldiers move around her while their M4 Carbines rise into the brisk, dark night air in the fields behind Mackal. The University of Rhode Island’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) performed an intensive weekend long field training exercise at URI’s Alton Jones campus….
After much discrepancy about the “legitimacy” of the female orgasm, it’s time to set the record straight. Around 10 to 15 percent of women never experience an orgasm in their life. Now all the men out there are saying, “not my woman!” Well, according to the University of Central Lancashire about 25 percent of women…