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Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain
The New York Times: This month, many Americans will take time off from work to go on vacation, catch up on household projects and simply be with family and friends. And many of us will feel
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Pump Up The Bass, Feel Like A Boss
NPR: Jump-up songs make us feel capable and powerful. Athletes know that intuitively — batters swagger out to raucous walk-up songs, stars like Serena Williams and Lebron James warm up with headphones on (except when
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Introspective or Narcissistic?
The New York Times: Some people like to keep a journal. Some people think it’s a bad idea. People who keep a journal often see it as part of the process of self-understanding and personal
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Trauma of War, Illusion of Growth
Back in 2009, the U.S. Army undertook a dramatic transformation of its own culture. The country had been at war for almost a decade, with many soldiers repeatedly deployed to the battlefields of Iraq and
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Why Just Reading About Bedbugs Is Making You All Itchy
New York Magazine: I have been itchy all damn day after reading this post by our Daily Intelligencer pals on the return of bedbugs, and I suspect I’m not the only one. As one commenter put it: “Welp
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Is One of the Most Popular Psychology Experiments Worthless?
The Atlantic: Harvard University justice professor Michael J. Sandel stood before a lecture hall filled with students recently and presented them with an age-old moral quandary: “Suppose you’re the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley
