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Gaslighting: How A Flicker Of Self-Doubt Warps Our Response To Sexual Harassment
NPR - Kat Chow
When I was 16, I was sitting with my best friend in a park by the Connecticut River on a tumble of rocks. We hadn't seen anyone in the hour we'd been there. We were midconversation when my friend whispered,
How the Truly Successful Make Time for Constant Learning
Inc Magazine - By Quora
If you read just 30 pages of a book every day, you'll finish a 300 page book in 10 days. How do successful people find time to learn so much everyday? originally appeared on Quora -- the place to gain
Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious Case Of Phineas Gage
NPR - Jon Hamilton
It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of neuroscience. In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new rail line
When scientists saw the mouse heads glowing, they knew the discovery was big
The Washington Post - By David Kohn
Kari Alitalo had studied lymphatic vessels for more than two decades. So he knew that this network, which carries immune cells throughout the body and removes waste and toxins, didn’t extend into the This
18 Reasons You Should Travel Solo in Your 20s
Cosmopolitan - By Dusty Baxter-Wright
Nos.13 and 14 go hand in hand. If you're toying with the idea of traveling solo, these 18 points might be able to convince you. 1. There's no time like the present. Before the serious adulting kicks in
Dublin pub decorates urinal with Donald Trump's portrait
The Telegraph - By Chiara Palazzo
A pub in Dublin has decorated its urinal with a portrait of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Staff at the newly-opened Adelphi pub said that they hadn't received any complaints yet about the urinal's
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Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights
The Daily Beast - Jay Michaelson
While Congress remains stymied by Republican opposition to any gun regulations, there are four reasons to think that the court system, and the …
Stressed? Science Says Do These 3 Things Immediately
Inc Magazine - By Tom Popomaronis
Need to chill out and calm down? These lifestyle changes are scientifically proven to help. Advice for dealing with stress often boils down to clichés like, "Don't worry, be happy!" or, "Just stay positive."
This Mental Trick of Olympic Athletes Can Radically Increase Your Productivity
Inc Magazine - By Jessica Stillman
Top athletes use this simple but powerful technique to perform at their best. So can you. This summer in Rio de Janeiro, we're likely to see awe-inspiring displays of physical prowess. What we're unlikely
Tour Greece’s Abandoned Ghost Town Before it Slides Down a Mountain
Travel + Leisure - Melissa Locker
In 2012, a landslide swept through the Greek city of Ropoto. While some of the buildings still stood, the foundations were destroyed, leaving the entire town at risk of sinking down a mountainside slope.
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A Navy SEAL Explains 8 Secrets to Grit and Resilience
TIME - Eric Barker
IDEAS Barker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree Sometimes you just want to quit. You know you shouldn’t but nothing seems better than crawling back into bed and hiding under the covers. (I am right
Plant-based gel can stop traumatic bleeding in seconds
CNET - by Anthony Domanico
Biotech startup Suneris has developed a plant-based polymer it says functions like "Lego building blocks for the body," drastically reducing the amount of time it takes to stop a wound from bleeding.
Email templates for 27 of your toughest work tasks
Mashable - The Daily Muse
Communication is hard work. A 2012 survey by McKinsey found that highly skilled desk workers spent an average of 28% of their work weeks dealing with email — a number that is surely rising. And that doesn't
Colorful Pipes In The Dalles
Forbes
These pipes carry water in and out of Google's The Dalles, Ore., data center. The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.
funded Brain Atlas Offers Clues to Psychiatric Disorders
nih.gov
A comprehensive three-dimensional atlas of the developing human brain that incorporates gene activity along with anatomical reference atlases and …
Study: Depression Increases Risk of Heart Failure by 40 Percent
slate.com - Daniel Politi
So it turns out depression can really break your heart. In a study of nearly 63,000 people in Norway researchers found that those with mild …
Setting Boundaries & Saying No… Nicely
99u.com - By Elizabeth Grace Saunders Sep 13, 2011
It feels good to be the go-to guy or girl: the one that everyone comes to for solutions to their problems. When people smile at you and tell you, …
10 Photography Hacks that will Dramatically Improve Your Photos
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48 epic dream hotels to visit before you die
matadornetwork.com - Alex Scola
A GOOD HOTEL CAN MAKE or break a trip. The worst hotel in the best place is still going to make retiring after a long day an unfortunate experience. …
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I Followed My Own Productivity Advice for a Week. Here's What Happened
Lifehacker - Drake Baer
When you write about the way people work for a living, it affects the way you work. Having written hundreds of posts about productivity, it's started …
August secures $8M for its Yves Behar-designed smart lock
VentureBeat - Ricardo Bilton
Your front door is about to get a lot smarter, prettier, and more-connected. Back in May, home automation startup August announced the August smart lock, an inconspicuous but well-designed device developed
Paper meet Pencil: FiftyThree launches smart stylus for its iPad app
The Guardian - Stuart Dredge
What did some of the industrial design team behind Microsoft's Xbox console, Kinect controller, Zune media player and the never-launched Courier tablet do next? They founded a startup called FiftyThree
This is the goofiest face you will see all day
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This is the goofiest face you will see all day. Photo taken by Mark Amirault at the Service Dog Project, home of our Great Dane Puppy Cam.
Made for Walking: The World's Most Aesthetic Footbridges (Photos)
The Daily Beast
Don't Look Down Made for Walking: The World's Most Aesthetic Footbridges (Photos) From a bridge high above the Malaysian forest to a modern drawbridge, …
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Women war workers - in pictures
The Guardian
How 'plucky' heroines of 1914-18 conflict seized chance to advance women's freedoms
Saudi Arabia Passes Domestic Abuse Ban For First Time
HuffPost - The Huffington Post
In a historic move, Saudi Arabia banned domestic abuse this week, outlawing any form of abuse at home or in the workplace. The Council of Ministers' approval of the law Monday marks the first time the