Cessna-Flying Granny for Governor | Fundamentalism on Rise in West Africa | Being Cheated On Can Do You Good

Maine’s entry for the Year of the Woman is Terry Hayes, who’s going her own way in the gubernatorial race.

When Terry Hayes meanders to the podium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the candidate for governor of Maine is surrounded by a curious assortment of men: a sitting governor from Alaska, a tech tycoon from Maryland, a businessman from Missouri and a best-selling author and Senate hopeful from Kansas. The odd assemblage is to be expected from politicos willing to color outside the lines of the two-party system.

Salafism is replacing traditional Sufi practices, sparking concern about the introduction of Islamic extremism in the region.

It began with a random friend request on Facebook that Ali accepted. He had recently started flooding his friends’ feeds with posts on the positive aspects of Islam, his religion. But the new “friend” had darker ideas. Soon, the stranger started sending Ali videos of fully veiled women and voice messages explaining verses of the Quran that Ali had supposedly misunderstood. Ali should advocate for jihad, the sometimes violent struggle against nonbelievers, the “friend” said.

“I told him, ‘You’re a terrorist!’” recalls Ali, in his 20s, sitting on a restaurant terrace in Bissau, the capital of the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.

Cheaters may never win, but those being cheated on might, according to new research.

Getting cheated on is one of the most devastating and damaging things that can happen in a person’s life. It can lead to emotional distress, anxiety, depression, an increase in risk-taking behavior and actual physical pain. A partner’s infidelity can even change our brain chemistry. In short, it hurts like hell, and the impact can be far-reaching.

But, as with so many aspects of human behavior, it turns out we are fairly adaptive creatures, especially over the long term, and even an experience as calamitous as being cheated on has a potentially large upside. In fact, new scientific research suggests that cheating may be neither as common nor as devastating as we imagine. And if you are worried that you are being cheated on, or are still recovering from the aftermath of infidelity, then science has some encouraging news for you.