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Watch more than three hours of TV a day? If so, we have two questions: how the hell do you have that much time? And do you know you might die sooner than the rest of us? Grim tidings come courtesy of a study published in the Journal of the … Read More
Stress is killing you—so how do you reduce it, quickly? According to a study published in Psychoneuroendocinology, you may need as little as twenty-five minutes of mindfulness meditation a day to reduce stress—which is handy, because it also improves your decision making and cures wandering attention. Researchers had sixty-six healthy … Read More
Burning the midnight oil again? Well, here’s the thing: you might actually be mortgaging your future. That torturously mixed metaphor comes courtesy of my poor sleep, which a new study in PLOS One suggests may cause problems with dementia down the road. The many negative results of poor sleep are … Read More
Want to extend your golden years? Find a sense of purpose. That decidedly self help sounding advice comes courtesy of a study done at Carleton, published in Psychological Science. How the hell would they measure something like that? Well, researchers looked at data from over 6,000 participants of the Midlife … Read More
Add screwballs to the big list of things we wish baseball still had—and for the record, that list is topped by stealing home. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWE9sLkSLY[/youtube]
