Wednesday, January 23, 2008

7 Powerful Steps to Actually Getting Stuff Done

There are a slew of popular books and systems, from favorites of mine such as Getting Things Done to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to the Now Habit and more, all designed to get us more productive and effective.

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Can You Tell a Fake Smile From a Real One?

Courtesy of the BBC, this experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. Watch these 20 smiles (on video), and see if you can spot the fakes. You can only play each smile once.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Train Your Eyes to See Color, Again

There are many reasons why we don’t always get what we want. One of these reasons is because we focus on the opposite of what we want. Sometimes, we just can’t help it. But, if we are conscious of our thoughts, we can intercept these thoughts and shift our frame of mind towards our desired goals.

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The Science of Sleep (why scientists are still in the dark)

We spend a third of our lives asleep, yet no one really knows why. We do know that people simply don't perform as well when they don't sleep enough...

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Friday, January 18, 2008

U.S. to Study Bizarre Medical Condition

It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you.

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Top 100 Funny Quotes

100 Funny Quotes from great thinkers such as Voltaire, Plato, Einstein, Niche, and many more.

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The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success

How to experience the intense feeling of true happiness and success. Not just temporarily, but extensively for an uninterrupted period of several months.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold -- and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans.

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What are gravitational waves

A proffesional explantion about what are gravitational waves and what they have to do with us.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

NEWSWEEK.COM: "Mind Reading Is Now Possible" (78% accurate.)

(Using MRI technology.)"If what your brain does when it thinks about an igloo is almost identical to what mine does, that suggests the possibility of a universal mind-reading dictionary, in which brain-activity pattern x means thought y in most people. It is not clear if that will be true for things more complicated that pliers and igloos, however.

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In Japan ,1982 , on a Scholarship to study Comparative Industrial Relations

 
 
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How learning happens in the brains of sleeping babies

Dozing in a bassinet, a newborn wears a stretchy cap fitted with more than 100 soft electrodes. A low beep sounds, and she squints. Nearby, ...