Day: May 1, 2015

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Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently

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Aly Song / Reuters Formalwear elicits feelings of power, which change some mental processes. by JOE PINSKER Some psychology research in recent years is making an old aphorism look like an incomplete thought: Clothes make the man… Yes? Go on? Clothes, it appears, make the man perceive the world differently. A new study looks specifically at how formal attire changes people’s thought processes. “Putting on formal clothes makes us feel powerful, and that changes the basic way we see the world,” says Abraham Rutchick, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at California State University, Northridge. Rutchick and … Continue reading Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently

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You’ve Been Counting Calories Wrong Your Whole Life

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SHUTTERSTOCK The surprising science that might be skewing your weight-loss results BY ZAHRA BARNES You know how important calories are when it comes to losing weight. No matter how much time you spend at the gym preparing for crop-top season, if you’re taking in way more than your body needs, it’ll be hard to see results. But what if you’re eating fewer calories than you thought? The nutrition industry might be overestimating calorie counts in some foods by up to 25 percent, says a New York Times piece on calorie miscounting. According to the article, that can translate into eating hundreds … Continue reading You’ve Been Counting Calories Wrong Your Whole Life

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Everyone Is Lying About How Much Sex They’re Having

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Illustration by Alyssa Recht Silly rabbits… BY STACEY GRENROCK WOODS Is everyone having more sex than me? It’s actually “more sex than I.” You see, when you ask if everyone’s having more sex than you, what you’re really saying is “Is everyone having more sex than I am, not me am; more sex than I, [insert your name] of [insert your address and any other relevant information], am having, have had, will ever have, right here, right now?” But it’s highly unlikely that everyone is having more sex than you are. Data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who uses big-data sets, like … Continue reading Everyone Is Lying About How Much Sex They’re Having

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8 science-based ways to reverse aging

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Is what you see in the mirror an older — or younger — version of how you feel? (Photo: Tomasso Lizzul/Shutterstock) BY STARRE VARTAN You can’t control aging entirely, but you can influence it with some smart choices. We are all born with the genes bequeathed to us by our parents, but there are an incredible variety and number of ways our life choices (and random events or exposures) can impact those genes — including some ways scientists don’t know yet. How “well” you age — and here I’m strictly referring to how young you look, though clearly there are other … Continue reading 8 science-based ways to reverse aging

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Low Sunlight Increases Pancreatic Cancer Risk; Why It’s Important To Get Enough Vitamin D

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Countries with low sunlight have the highest pancreatic cancer rates. -Reji, CC by 2.0 By Justin Caba We all know too much sun can increase our risk for skin cancer, but what do we have to worry about when we don’t get enough sun? A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine has revealed that rates of pancreatic cancer are highest in countries with the least amount of sunlight, due to a lack of vitamin D. This is the first study to associate a vitamin D deficiency with pancreatic cancer. “If you’re living … Continue reading Low Sunlight Increases Pancreatic Cancer Risk; Why It’s Important To Get Enough Vitamin D

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Are You a Mature Soul?

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by Frank M. Wanderer, Ph.D, Contributor, Waking Times What does it mean that the Soul is mature or immature? If, during your spiritual Journey, you ask yourself the question: “What do I expect from life?” and you give an honest answer, the quality of that answer contains the response to the question of the Soul’s maturity. The immature Soul is always full of desires, it has ambitions and objectives it intends to achieve, whether these ambitions are of the lowest order (money, power) or of the most sophisticated ones (religious devotion, spiritual self-implementation). Reaching these goals always requires time, so future … Continue reading Are You a Mature Soul?

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10 Mind Expanding Books To Read In A Lifetime Read

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BY DEAN BOKHARI Growing up as a child, I can remember every thing and every one around me reminding me that reading was not something to be done for fun — but rather — reading was instead something that “must” be done… not because it’s something that I want to do, or something that I choose to do, but rather because it’s something that I have to do. And I believe that’s an absolute shame. Because reading is fun. Reading is powerful. And reading has served me so well that I’d say it contributes to the majority of the successes I’ve experienced in my life — … Continue reading 10 Mind Expanding Books To Read In A Lifetime Read

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11 EXAMPLES OF HOW EVIL IS GROWING IN AMERICA LIKE A CANCEROUS TUMOR

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Have you heard of “arterial tapping”, “flakka” or “cyberextortion”? by MICHAEL SNYDER Have you heard of “arterial tapping”, “flakka” or “cyberextortion”?  In America today, just about every conceivable type of evil that you could possibly name is growing, and we are even inventing new kinds of evil that the world has never seen before.  It is very easy for us to point tothe looting and violence in Baltimore and call that evil, but there is far more to the social decay of America than just that.  The foundations of our society are rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways, … Continue reading 11 EXAMPLES OF HOW EVIL IS GROWING IN AMERICA LIKE A CANCEROUS TUMOR

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Australians rally against Aboriginal community closures

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Prime Minister Abbott inflamed tensions when he said it was a ‘lifestyle choice’ for Aboriginals to live in remote communities [EPA] Source: Al Jazeera Demonstrations held across country and globally in a bid to stop government plans to shutter remote outback communities. Thousands of people have converged on Melbourne’s central business district to protest against government plans to forcibly close remote Australian Aboriginal communities. It was the largest of dozens of rallies held around Australia and globally on Friday. The Western Australia state government announced last November that it planned to shutter up to 150 remote Aboriginal outback communities, saying it … Continue reading Australians rally against Aboriginal community closures

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New test can predict cancer up to 13 years before disease develops

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Telomeres sit at the end of chromosomes like the caps on shoelaces to prevent DNA from fraying  By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor People who develop cancer have shorter telomeres, the caps at the end of chromosomes which protect the DNA A new test which can predict with 100 per cent accuracy whether a person will develop cancer up to 13 years in the future, has been devised by scientists. Harvard and Northwestern University discovered that tiny but significant changes are already happening in the body more than a decade before cancer is diagnosed. They found that the protective caps on … Continue reading New test can predict cancer up to 13 years before disease develops