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What are nurdles? The petrochemical product is infiltrating the environment. - Vox
Nurdles are the second-largest source of ocean microplastics. Nobody’s responsible for cleaning them up.
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The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future | Soil | The Guardian
Don’t dismiss soil: its unknowable wonders could ensure the survival of our species
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Why Americans Are Leaving Downtowns in Droves - The Atlantic
The rise of remote work has snipped the tether between home and office, allowing many white-collar workers to move out of high-cost cities.
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The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour - The Atlantic
Why a 9-to-10 is the new 9-to-5
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Please Don’t Put Your Suitcase on the Bed, Ever
The real reason there’s a luggage rack in your hotel room.
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Is Consciousness Everywhere?
Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself.
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Stop Tossing Your Banana Peel on the Trail
That "organic litter" you just threw? It'll still be around in a year.
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6 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Job
Number one: You’re no longer growing in your role.
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The US Refuses to Fall in Love With Electric Cars | WIRED
As China and Europe lead the race to make electric vehicles mainstream, America lags behind. This is a problem.
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Remember People’s Names Once and for All — by Using This Technique From Memory Champs
Take the strategy employed by memory athletes to memorize decks of cards and thousands of digits of pi, and adapt it to get over stranger-name forgetfulness.
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2021 was the year clean energy finally faced its mining problem - The Verge
Climate pledges are driving an enormous hunger for lithium, cobalt, and critical minerals that are used in everything from EV batteries to wind turbines. 2021 was a big year for the new clean energy mining boom.
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11 epic scientific mysteries researchers totally can’t solve - Vox
What is the universe made out of? When did the anus evolve? Can humans live to 150 years old? And more!
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The Future of Work: Shorter Hours, Longer Careers - The Atlantic
Humans may soon live to be 100, which likely means more years on the job. That could be a good thing, if we take the opportunity to redesign work.
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When the Myth of Voter Fraud Comes for You - The Atlantic
To support the Republican narrative that our elections are rife with misconduct, someone needs to take the fall.
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How Brains Seamlessly Switch between Languages - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is deeper than we thought, NASA Juno spacecraft finds : NPR
NASA's Juno spacecraft sweeps over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and makes a 3D map of the giant storm. The findings could shed light on gas giant exoplanets in distant solar systems.
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Have a Backup Plan for All Holiday Travel in 2021
That is, unless you don't mind being stuck at your in-laws'.
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Want to Retain Information Better? Try This Popular, 70-Year-Old Note-Taking Method
At a conference, in a conference room, or in a classroom, this method is proven and powerful.
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How American Billionaires Like Phil Knight Pass Wealth to Heirs Tax-Free
Phil Knight is one of many America billionaires giving fortunes to family while avoiding billions in U.S. taxes. Here’s how.
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The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies | Health & wellbeing |
Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman
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What is Mercury in Retrograde, and Why Do We Blame Things On It?
Yes, Mercury will appear to move backwards. No, that doesn’t mean your electronics or your relationships will fail.
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Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross - The Atlantic
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
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Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing | by Clive Thompson | Aug, 2021 | OneZero
Part of it is the sheer hassle of repeatedly identifying objects — traffic lights, staircases, palm trees and buses — just so I can finish a web search. I also don’t like being forced to donate free…
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What Is Consciousness? Is the Universe Conscious? - Theories
Some scientists believe the universe is conscious. Sounds like a bad trip ... but what if it's true?
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LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention (Inside Mental Health Podcast)
Did you to know that the risk of suicide among LGBTQ youth is almost 4 times higher than for non-LGTBQ youth? Listen to this podcast to learn more from the Trevor Project.
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Advice on Learning a New Language From People Who Speak Up to 16
Anyone can learn a new language, no matter their age. Simply follow this expert advice down the sweet-talking path to success.
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The Decoy Effect: How You Are Influenced to Choose Without Really Knowing It
Think you got a good deal? Look again.
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You Should Put a Bowl of Vinegar in Your Dishwasher—Here’s Why
It’s a terrific rinse-aid that combats water stains like no other.
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Physics Explains Why Time Passes Faster As You Age
Mind time cannot be measured on a watch.
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A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism
People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer.
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Your Brain Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
A conversation with neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on the counterintuitive ways your mind processes reality—and why understanding that might help you feel a little less anxious.
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Musings On Music: Seven Insights From Psychology – Research Digest
By Emma Young. New research is revealing all manner of psychological and neurological effects of music.
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Why Are Memories Attached to Emotions So Strong? | Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Multiple neurons in the brain must fire in synchrony to create persistent memories tied to intense emotions, new research from Columbia neuroscientists has found.
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Handgun ownership is a 'major risk factor' for suicide
Owning a handgun is linked to a significantly higher risk of suicide, and particularly suicide by firearm, according to a large study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Planning for Life Post-Pandemic — Lemonade To Lace
Hey y’all. I hope you’re all staying safe and healthy during these times. In an effort to keep myself busy I’ve been sharing with you how I’m passing the time while self-quarantining - blogging is a great creative outlet! My favorite part of the d
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Hand-Mind Discoordination: Study Finds You Really Don't Know The Back Of Your Hand Very Well At All - Study Finds
The old saying goes if you know something well, you know it "like the back of your hand." But a new study finds that you likely don't know your hands very well at all.
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A brain glitch? A sign of quantum entanglement? What science says about déjà vu | Aeon Videos
Roughly two-thirds of people have had déjà vu, or the weird feeling that a new situation has been experienced before. Yet its prevalence belies just how mysterious the phenomenon remains to researchers, despite some extraordinary recent leaps in neurosc
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Honing What You Love to Do Will Give You a Chance to Succeed at Work
“People often succeed because they have a set of various skills that don’t normally go together.”
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How Much Does Our Language Determine Behavior? - David Shariatmadari - Behavioral Scientist
In his latest book, Don't Believe a Word, David Shariatmadari explores how the language we speak impacts the way we see the world, and our behavior in it.
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To Achieve Your Goals, Lump and Slice - By Lee Anne Fennell - Behavioral Scientist
Humans are remarkably sensitive to how we bundle and divide tasks and choices. We can use that quirk to help realize our aspirations.
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Ocean plastic pollution: why our clothes are part of the problem - Vox
How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea?
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Podcasts | Dr. Dyan
Podcasts on self hypnosis, the best sleep tips, favorite ways to help insomnia, alleviate anxiety, mind body healing, self care, and mindfulness
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A New Way of Tapping into Gratitude to Light Your Way
Gratitude benefits us and those around us. Read a simple, new way to connect with gratitude to lift you up and light your path forward.
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Clean Your Smart Phone! It's Covered in Germs
A new survey of 1,200 Americans and their cleaning habits finds that one in four (23%) have never cleaned their smartphone.
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Buying Less Makes People Happier than Just Buying Green
By Emily Reynolds. In contrast, people who "buy green" are not any happier.
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The Past, Present and Future Are Subjective
By Emma Young. When people see the future as coming sooner, they make more far-sighted choices, the study finds.
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Being Environmentally Conscious and Buying Less Linked to Happiness
By Emily Reynolds. In contrast, people who "buy green" are not any happier.
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Interesting Research into What the "Present" Means
By Emma Young. When people see the future as coming sooner, they make more far-sighted choices, the study finds.
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Maps of Water, Crops, and Coasts Reveal the Truth About Human and Earth Interactions
To our detriment, if we continue on current trajectories, and global modelling shows just how. Natalie Parletta reports.
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No, Evolution Is Not Always Dog-Eat-Dog
Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values,” wrote poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940. “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled…
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Here's Some Ways to Help the Planet and Your Wallet
An estimated one-third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste. Food waste is both a humanitarian concern and drives climate change. Here are some tips to prevent food waste.
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Scientists Find Different Thoughts Produce Different Sound Frequencies
Synchronised brainwaves may explain our ability to rapidly analyse information, allowing us to think through options before the right one is laid down as a memory
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Here's How Déjà Vu Works
Feelings of déjà vu and premonition seem spooky, but when we understand the common tricks our memory plays on us, there’s nothing unusual about these experiences.
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Your Brain Stops Time When You Blink – Research Digest
By Emma Young. The study raises all kinds of fascinating questions for future research to investigate.
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7 money mistakes millionaires like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates avoid
If you want to reach millionaire status, the most important thing you can do is to learn from the likes of the super wealthy, from Bill Gates to Eric Schmidt to Warren Buffett. Here are seven things you'll never find them doing, and how you can apply thei
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Must Have Travel Tools
I’m really looking forward to our travels abroad this summer, so several weeks ago I started the whole planning process. I got so many great sightseeing and restaurant tips from dear friends, which in turn got me really excited! I love the idea of trave
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These 10 Steve Jobs Quotes Will Inspire You to Follow Your Dreams
The Apple co-founder’s creativity, passion, and attention to detail might just ignite yours.
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Low Self-Control When for Online Sales Relates to High Risk For Cybercrime
If you've got low self-control, there's a good chance you'll fall victim to cybercrime, a recent study out of Michigan State University finds.
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10 Things You Can Do to Save the Ocean
Learn what you can do to help save the ocean with these 10 tips.
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Science around trauma and memory shifting how police respond to victims
Police are now learning to accommodate include fragmented memories, dissociation and a kind of involuntary paralysis known as “tonic immobility.”
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Banksy painting shreds itself moments after being sold for $1.4 million at London auction
The 'Girl with Balloon' painting by artist and prankster Banksy appeared to self-destruct after selling for $1.4 million at a Sotheby's auction in London.
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Heather Heying: Free Speech on Campus
Heather Heying at the US Department of Justice forum on Free Speech on College Campuses - 9/17/2018. Help support Heather's work on patreon: https://www.patr...
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Frightening Number Of Parents Text, Check Social Media While Driving - With Kids In Tow - Study Finds
Distracted driving causes about one in four traffic-related deaths and injuries. A statistic like that should make people, particularly parents, want to put that cell phone away while driving. But do they?
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Letters Of Recommendation May Actually Hurt Female Applicants' Job Prospects - Study Finds
As if landing an interview wasn't hard enough, women face another surprising challenge when they apply for jobs. The coveted letters of recommendation applicants hope will open interview doors may actually do more harm than good for female applicants, a r
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The Environment's New Clothes: Biodegradable Textiles Grown from Live Organisms
To combat the ill effects of “fast fashion,” designers look for more sustainable methods
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Meet the Rosehip Neuron: A Newly Discovered Cell in the Human Brain | Smart News | Smithsonian
The neuron is not found within lab mice, possibly explaining why mouse studies often do not translate to human brains
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Why Healing and Consciousness Is Truly the Secret Weapon to Social Change
“All meaningful and lasting change begins on the inside.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Why Do Mosquitos Bite Some People More Than Others?
Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes
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The Hiker’s Guide to Leaving No Trace . . . and in One Piece | NRDC
How to be responsible, pee responsibly, and handle animal encounters when you’re out in the wild, communing with nature.
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What to Do If You Get Sick on Vacation
A guide to getting well in another country, when you don’t have the comforts of home, don’t speak the language, and don’t know the local health-care system.
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The Unexpected Word That Shows Up on Every Hacked-Password List
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
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How Caring for Our Ocean Is a Form of Self-Care
How you can help care for our oceans.
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The 5 Most Impressive Questions to Ask a Job Interviewer
Here are the five best questions to ask a job interviewer — to both impress your potential employer, and help you know if it’s the right job for you.
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Flooding has flushed 43 billion plastic pieces out to sea
Study reveals how plastic pollution travels from the world’s cities to its oceans
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The Household Products That Cause Air Pollution
A new study finds that many household goods degrade air quality more than once thought.
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Where Do You Go When You Die? The Increasing Signs That Human Consciousness Remains After Death
"Our consciousness, it seems, does not become annihilated just because we've crossed the threshold of death; it appears to keep functioning and not dissipate."
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Free Podcast on Epigenetics with Rachel Yehuda
Great talk with Rachel Yehuda on epigenetics and how trauma impacts our bodies, brains, and how it gets passed on AND how we can heal it.
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Therapy for schizophrenia
Nick has been on the street due to schizophrenia; He is a very bright and loving 40 year old with whom I have been having lunch with, twice a week for the past 3 months. Nick’s Heart opened up and he is willing to receive professional help. Nick inher
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How Successful Business Leaders Unplug
Let’s all take a cue (or two) from them.
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives – Brain Pickings
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
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10 Psychological Concepts That People Don’t Get
Many aspects of human psychology that are consistently difficult for students to understand. Here is a list of 10 for starters.
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Learning by Hearing, Learning by Seeing
As a metaphor for learning, sound has a shadier reputation than sight.
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SoKind Registry - More fun, less stuff!
SoKind is a registry service that encourages the giving of homemade gifts, charitable donations, secondhand goods, experiences, time, day-of-event help, and more. Here's to more fun and less stuff!
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How To Be Resilient
How do we increase grit and persistence? Let's look at how survivors get through the most dangerous situations and learn lessons on how to be resilient.
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Loneliness Poses Greater Public Health Threat than Obesity
The loneliness epidemic is growing and becoming more costly by the day. But there is something you can do about it.
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The Best Way to Manage Your Social Anxiety Is to Accept It
Some studies are suggesting that a better way to deal with it is by exposing yourself to anxiety-inducing situations.
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#California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth
The maternal mortality rate in the state is a third of the American average. Here's why.
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Hilma af Klint: a painter possessed
Was Hilma af Klint Europe’s first abstract artist? As an exhibition of her extraordinary, occult-inspired works opens in London, we travel to Stockholm to find out…
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8 Things You Need To Know About Your Body's Energy Levels
Remember: The idea is to leave the gym energized, not exhausted.
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This $6,000 mistake taught me how to learn from failure
In my first job after college, I directed a product development department that created group weight loss curriculums. Turns out, I had misunderstood our agreement with this contractor. I thought we…
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To Make Better Decisions, Ask Yourself ‘What,’ Not ‘Why’ -- Science of Us
’What’ questions help us understand ourselves.
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CDC confirms lemon eucalyptus oil as effective as DEET
According to the CDC, lemon eucalyptus oil could be a much safer and more natural weapon than DEET.
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Change Your Roles, Change Your Life
In 1978, Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist performed an important study. She gave houseplants to two groups of nursing-home residents. One group was told they were responsible for keeping the…
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11 easy ways to reduce your plastic waste today
Maybe you’re not ready to breakup with plastic altogether, but here are some simple ways that can make a big difference in reducing the amount of disposable plastic in your life.
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Why Your Brain Has 2 Halves
Scientists have long known that the two halves of human brains perform different functions. Now, researchers look at why this is beneficial.
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How Self-Help Really Works
At the beginning of last year, I inadvertently found myself listening to an interview with self-help guru Tony Robbins. That interview made me curious, and pretty soon I had listened to several…
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You Need Clarity of Purpose to Succeed
Your direction defines what you do every day. Clarifying not only your purpose but your direction reinforces your ultimate life purpose. You should have a clear understanding of what you want next…
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The Case Against Reality
A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.
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25 great questions to ask your future boss
It’s time for my twice-a-year update of the best questions for you to ask in an interview. This year, I’ve asked my classmates from Harvard Business School, class of 1998, to weigh in with *their…
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The Science Backed Ways Music Affects Your Brain and #Productivity
There you sit again: browser open in front of you, the hum of your office in the background, your to-do list sprawled out on your notepad. You try working offline. You try the pomodoro method. You…
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Are You Normalizing Abusive Behavior? 5 Signs that You Are
It’s a sad truth reflected by the title of Dorothy Nolte’s popular inspirational poem that “Children Learn What They Live.” Daughters (and sons, for that
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A New Way To Understand And Treat Depression
It can pull you out of the hustle of daily life — and into meaning-making.
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10 Things Truly Confident People Do Differently
True confidence -- as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their insecurities -- has a look all its own. One thing is certain: truly co...
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Eating Ice Cream For Breakfast May Improve Mental Performance
Study participants were also found to have increased brain function after drinking cold water immediately after waking up, but levels were much higher for those who had ice cream.
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Feedback Loops: How to Master the Invisible Hand That Shapes Our Lives
We should spend less time letting feedback loops shape our lives in invisible ways and more time designing the feedback loops we want and need.
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To Truly Learn Something, Study Way More Than You Need
The advantages of “overlearning.”
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What It Means When Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes
New research on the psychology of near-death experiences.
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10 Simple Postures That Boost Performance
Psychological research suggests simple actions can project power, persuade others, increase empathy, boost cognitive performance and more...
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How to Change Your Personality
A big new study promises you are (probably) not stuck with yourself.
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Kahneman: Your Cognitive Biases Act Like Optical Illusions
Blind spots are more than visual.
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Want Synesthesia? Try Learning a New Language
People who became bilingual later in life are more likely to experience the mysterious blurring of the senses.
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3 Ways to Make Your Diet More Sustainable
Sustainability is a very hot topic in the food and nutrition world these days and for good reason. Every year, we have about 80 million more people to feed than we did the year before.
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How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language
Fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language
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Use a ‘Fake’ Location to Get Cheaper Plane Tickets
Most people don’t know there is a simple trick to get a cheaper flight on an airline’s website
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To Change Your Life, Learn How to Trust Your Future Self
How to change for the better, for good.
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Resource Furniture: Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture - YouTube
Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture (www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers), demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-s...
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INFOGRAPHIC: The Science of Happy Families
Just because you're an adult now doesn't mean your relationships with Mom, Dad, and your siblings have gotten any less complex. There's fascinating research on our adult relationships, and we share it all, here.
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Success Depends on Your Personality More Than IQ
The power of “non-cognitive” skills.
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The 1 Simple Trick To Totally Slash My Food Waste
Bonus: It also vastly reduced my weekly grocery bill.
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Eye Contact Can Be Really Intense For Your Brain
No, it's not just you.
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There May Be More Eyes on You Than You Think
New studies find evidence of an “invisibility cloak illusion.”
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It’s Actually Pretty Weird That We Think in Words
“When you talk to yourself, you step out of yourself for a moment and get some perspective on what you are doing.”
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How Your Brain Controls the Speed of Time
Why does reality seem to slow down in moments of extreme peril? Can the mind really bend time? Here’s the neuroscience behind the phenomenon.
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Here’s the Most Effective Way to Say No to People
All it takes is a slight wording tweak.
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There’s Another Big Window for Learning After Childhood
Your brain keeps changing.
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Personality trait or mental disorder? same genes?
You don’t need fancy genome-sequencing or brain-imaging equipment to know that some of the people we know and love are just a little, well, out there.
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10 Things That Don't Make Sense To Super Sensitive People
What's this "no crying" thing you speak of?
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Understanding Codependency
Codependency is associated with providing care for and rescuing others in order to quell feelings of inadequacy and shame and gain external approval and validation.
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How Left-Handed People Think And Feel Differently
Being a leftie is far from a disadvantage.
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Give Thanks: Adult Siblings Can Make Us Healthier And Happier
Sibling relationships are usually the longest-lived family ties, and most adults say they're close to their siblings. That closeness can shelter and sustain us through life's perils and joys.
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A Meditation on Lovingkindness
It's important that we learn to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness towards ourselves and others. This meditation works to plant the seeds of...
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You Can Save on Airfare (If You Know the Tricks)
Want to save on airfare? Pick your travel days wisely, don’t shop too far in advance and know when tickets will be offered at a sale price.
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5 Simple Secrets Fulfilled People Practice Every Day
Only you can control the amount of satisfaction you get out of life.
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6 Ways Katie Ledecky Thinks Differently: The Psychology of Success
She doesn't just win--she crushes. How? It all starts with how she thinks -- just like your success will start with how you think.
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3 Things Failure Can Teach You About #Success, According To These #Athletes
Failure is an opportunity, not the end of the road.
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10 Things That Make Successful People Different From The Rest
They might just be one in the crowd. The successful person might be the woman sitting casually in a coffee shop while sipping her coffee quietly or the man who
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Recollections from 75 years of Human Development
My time spent at the University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development continues to inform my research and work in the field of interdisciplinary psychology. I am so grateful for the time I spent in this unique and rich program. Read about my experiences there and get to know this phenomenal program that was so creatively rich and still forms a foundation for how I think and work.
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You are surprisingly likely to have a living #doppelganger
What are the chances of finding your exact lookalike? BBC Future investigates.
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The #Science Behind #Nature's #Patterns
A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world
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The Remembrance of Things Past: How #Memory Works
How much do you remember from your childhood? Why is it that some very specific memories are so clear and fresh and that so much is forgotten?
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Talking To Yourself Is One Simple Way To Get Better At A New Skill
Positive self-talk could be the key to improvement.
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This Magical #App Lets You Skip Through #Airport #Customs For #Free
No Global Entry needed. How did we never know about this?!
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It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
by Mark Wolynn Traumas Lost and Found The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to...
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Keeping Your Hair in Chemo - The New York Times
A growing number of breast cancer patients are freezing their scalps as a way to preserve their hair during chemotherapy.
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9 Scientifically Proven Ways to Get the Most Out of Study Time
For anyone in the thick of study, or about to be, science has been working hard and has found ways to help you get the most out of your study time, all backed by hefty research. Here’s how to study smarter, supercharge your learning and store the in
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What Makes an Original: Paradox of Achievement & How Motivated Dissatisfaction Fuels Creativity
"The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists."
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The cofounder of Square says you should be wary of advice from successful people — here's why
Practical takeaways from one of America's top entrepreneurs.
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The Best Way To Boost Your Memory Is Already In Your Hand
Behold the power of writing.
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17 Great Apps That'll Make Your Life Easier
Always looking for new ways to get more done at work, and quickly? Check at these 17 apps to boost your productivity throughout the work week.
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4 Expert Tips For Getting Over Your Fear Of Public Speaking
Number 2: Do something physical beforehand.
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3 Tiny Tweaks That'll Double Your Productivity + Optimize Your Life
When it comes to conquering your demons and reaching for your dreams, here are the three simplest changes to make for the highest impact.
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15 Credit Card Do's and Don'ts
Let this be your credit card user manual
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The done list is a productivity hack that’s the opposite of a to-do list.
I have a complicated relationship with to-do lists. They are undeniably useful for plotting out your day or week ahead of time, and they can be a great ...
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Here Is The Memory Trick Backed By Science
A technique that everyone can benefit from, whatever their artistic talent.
