How To Be Happy
The bilious oil hemorrhaging from the bowels of the Earth, coupled with the usual stressors of life, makes me feel sad and pessimistic of late. And while Iâm still pretty sure that ignorance,...
View ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association 2010 (Vol. 303 No. 24)
The objective of this article is to examine the relationship between adiposity, changes in adiposity, and risk of incident type 2 diabetes in adults 65 years of age and older. An NHS Athens password is...
View ArticleA Summer Reading List: 10 of My Favorite Personal Development Books
This article contains affiliate links so I do get a small, small cut if you decide to buy one of these books via Amazon.com. 1. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. For 20 years Napoleon Hill traveled...
View ArticleWhat Confucius Can Teach You About Living a Happier Life
Image by Ivan Walsh (license). Share || âIt is better to play than do nothing.â âMen’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.â âOnly the wisest and stupidest of men never...
View ArticleA Not-So-Random Act of Kindness
“Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” – Anne Herbert Penn Station, New York City, noon, the beginning of summer. Eighty degrees: A perfect day. Everyone who can be outside is...
View ArticleBest Post of January '10: Eight states still do not mandate reporting of CJD...
The next in our series of "Best Posts of the Month" is from January 8, 2010:Neuropathologists are obligated to keep generally up to date on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) research as they are called...
View ArticleWhy We Like to Keep Busy
Do people like to keep busy for no reason? Or is being idle okay with most of us? Psychological researchers (Ysee et al., 2010) set to find out. In two experiments with college students, researchers...
View ArticleAldous Huxley's final trip
This month's edition of the cancer medicine journal Lancet Oncology discusses some ongoing trials of psychedelic drug assisted psychotherapy for people dying of cancer but notes that author Aldous...
View ArticleFeeling Low or Down? Online Research Study
This study is conducted entirely online. It will involve you either joining an online support group or completing an expressive writing activity (minimum 5 minutes every two weeks) as well as filling...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Envy: 5 Effective Tips
Share âEnvy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander,...
View ArticleThe blessed neuroscientist
Neurosurgery has an article on the 17th Century neuroanatomist Niels Stensen who not only made major contributions to our understanding of the brain but was beatified - the first step to becoming a...
View ArticleTwitter Used To Gauge The Nationâs Mood
A team from Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School has been analyzing words used in tweets by American users in an attempt to gauge the public mood around the country. What they discovered...
View ArticleThe experiment requires that you continue
Spanish daily El PaÃs recently published an article on psychologist Stanley Milgram which had this amazing photo of the young conformity researcher where he looks surprisingly beatnick. Sadly the...
View ArticleLiving Subjectively
The objective world “problem” here is a solvable one. There are many workable solutions, such as using a different auction platform or finding another way to list the auction that would satisfy eBay’s...
View ArticleSubjective Relationships
“What is the primary goal?” “You should know, Professor. You programmed me.” – War GamesWell… this 30-day trial of inspiration is absolutely amazing. I’m so far down the rabbit hole of subjective...
View ArticleSome Realizations, Part I
It occurred to me this morning that I've been diagnosed as aspie for almost ten years, give or take a few months. In that time, I've learned a lot about Asperger's Syndrome, autism, and me. Some of the...
View ArticleBeing Beautiful Doesnât Always Help
We often hear of how beautiful people seem to get all the breaks — first through the door at nightclubs, being chosen to be on a team or as a friend based upon looks alone, even getting a date just...
View ArticleAesopâs Short and Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life
Share âAdventure is worthwhile.â About 2500 years ago a slave called Aesop lived on the Greek island of Samos. He is known for the fables that he wrote down. Many of them were even older that Aesop...
View ArticleConfessions of a Social Networking Butterfly.
I have a confession to make: I’m not very good at socializing in large groups. I know, right? On Saturday night, I told Lee Ann and Karen that I was not a very social person and they laughed at me....
View ArticleIntroducing Guideposts to Happiness
I’m pleased to introduce Guideposts to Happiness, our new blog about helping you find tidbits of wisdom and happiness in your life, with Will Meecham. Will Meecham, MD, MA comes to us by way of his...
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