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  • NewsJasmine Jones

    Why Old Friends Will Never Get Old

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  • NewsMarie-Claire Dorking

    Half Your Friends Probably Don’t Consider You As One Of Their Friends. Time For A Friend Cull?

    The research, published in PLoS One, gave a survey to 84 college students in the same class, asking each one to rate every other person on a friendship scale of zero (“I do not know this person”) to five (“One of my best friends”).

  • NewsMarie-Claire Dorking

    Sorry Taylor, Science Says You Can Only Have 5 BFFs At Once

    If it’s anything like Taylor Swift’s you may have to do an edit as according to science we can only really have five besties at any one time. A study by the MIT Technology Review looked at a theory by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar in the 90s, who spotted that there was a relationship between the size of people’s brains and how many friends they have. The science bod went on to test his theory by analysing six billion phone calls made by 35 million people from 2007 (way back when we all s

  • NewsNoël Duan

    OG #SquadGoals: From ‘The Golden Girls’ to ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’

    2015 was the year of the celebrity Girl Squad. We’ve gawked as Taylor Swift and her gang of supermodels strut in combat lingerie in “Bad Blood,” admired Tavi Gevinson and her precocious and talented group of young feminists, envied Lena Dunham and her real life Girls, and Instagram-stalked Man Repeller Leandra Medine and her #GirlBoss clique. It appears that female friendships — and finding a sisterhood of your own — has never had a stronger or more media-hungry moment, but even before hashtags