Mike Birbiglia – Sleepwalking (Podcast)
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How can you easily increase the money you get from eBay auctions?
a predictablyirrational.com: ...the Significant Objects Project, an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that “narrative transforms the insignificant into the significant.” Or, put differently, the goal was to determine whether you could take an object worth very little and make it worth much more by giving it a story, by endowing it with meaning. To that end, the project’s originators – NY Times columnist Rob Walker and author Josh Glenn – bought up 100 unremarkable garage sale knickknacks for no…
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How to easily improve your memory:
e gestures: Via blog.newsweek.com: So Cook divided third and fourth graders (none of whom could correctly solve an equivalence problem) into three groups. All the kids were taught to solve the problems. But one group was given a phrase to say aloud to help guide them. They were told to say, “I want to make one side equal to the other side." Cook didn't tell the second group of kids to say anything. Instead, she told the second group to make…
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How to easily improve your vision:
a brainmysteries.com Many skeptics agree that gamers are fast, but that they become less accurate as their speed of play increases. Dye and colleagues find the opposite: Gamers don't lose accuracy (in the game or in lab tests) as they get faster. The scientists believe that this is a result of the gamer's improved visual cognition. Playing video games enhances performance on mental rotation skills, visual and spatial memory, and tasks requiring divided attention. The scientists conclude that training with video games…
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Adam Gopnik learns the meaning of “LOL”:
e Moth Audience Favorites is available here. A few of my other favorite Moth performances are when Malcolm Gladwell talked about the "Perverse and Often Baffling", when Jerry Stahl dicsussed attempting to quit heroin by switching to crack, and when Mike Birbiglia talked about his sleepwalking problem. Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful…
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How to easily improve your math skills:
ose students who think aloud while solving a mathematical problem can solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution that those who do not do it. Likewise, drawing or making a pictorial representation relating to the also contributed to its solution. Those are the conclusions of a study carried out at the University of Granada (Spain), which has been recently published in the journal "Revista de investigación psicoeductiva" and the Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology.…
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Secrets to a Long Marriage:
y Concepts In the past few years psychologists have discovered that thriving couples accentuate the positive in life more than those who languish or split do. They not only cope well during hardship but also celebrate the happy moments and work to build more of these into their lives. How couples handle good news may matter even more to their relationship than their ability to support each other under difficult circumstances. Members of happy couples also individually experience a higher…
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Inside the Mind of a Savant:
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