This Is The Best Time To Do Anything: 6 Powerful Secrets From Research
In 2007 the World Health Organization declared shift work a probable carcinogen. Yeah, you read that right: working at the wrong time can kill you. And cancer isn't the only problem it causes. If horror movies don't give you nightmares, the list of health problems associated with shift work will. So what's the…
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This Is How To Have A Long Awesome Life: 5 Secrets From Research
Daniel Lieberman decided to do an informal -- and very sneaky -- study. While at an academic conference, he counted how many people took the escalator vs the stairs. In ten minutes, 151 people walked past him and only 11 used the stairs. That's just 7 percent. Thing was, this was…
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How to Be Happier Without Really Trying
The voice in his head kept telling him his career was over. That he would never create anything good again. The voice actually got so bad that back in 1979 he started typing up what it was saying to him: Am I kidding myself that I’m able to write a script…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
None of them had died thus far. The raptors and trolls of the jungles of Zul’Gurub were simply no match for the group. And now the 20 elite Warlocks and Hunters descended into the dungeon. But their greatest enemy was ready for them… Hakkar the Soulflayer, a winged serpent, stood over…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time (Pandemic Edition)
e autopsies would show they had coughed so hard their abdominal muscles had been torn apart. And some of the bodies had actually turned blue. From The Great Influenza: Cyanosis occurs when a victim turns blue because the lungs cannot transfer oxygen into the blood. In 1918 cyanosis was so extreme, turning some victims so dark—the entire body could take on color resembling that of the veins on one’s wrists—it sparked rumors that the disease was not influenza at all,…
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3 Things The Most Resilient People Do Every Day
us far, 2020 seems to have been some sort of cosmic clerical error. All around the world people are falling ill, everyone's afraid, and the economy, well... Let's just say I've never heard the word "trillion" used so often and it certainly has not been in a good way. In the United States, some bad actors are exploiting peaceful protests of noble intent to loot and cause mayhem. Times are tough so, of course, people will become cruel and selfish...…
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This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day (Pandemic Edition)
re than five hundred people had died in just five days. All in one small neighborhood. A disproportionate number of them children. It was 1854 and this was one of the worst cholera epidemics London had ever seen. The cause was a mystery and until it was found, children would keep dying. The bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine and basically squeezes the water from your body until your organs fail. How does it get from one person's intestine to…
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How To Be Resilient: 5 Secrets To Mental Toughness (Pandemic Edition)
u don’t get a name like “The Black Death” for nothing. "The Foster scale" is the Richter scale for historical catastrophes. On its list of high scorers, The Black Death comes in at #2. Throughout all of recorded history, only World War 2 produced more death and suffering than the plague did. From The Great Mortality: According to the Foster scale, a kind of Richter scale of human disaster, the medieval plague is the second greatest catastrophe in the human record.…
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