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This week, on NPR, neurologist Frances Jensen (author of The Teenage Brain) gave us a phrase we suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more of: dementia of the preoccupied. It’s not a real disorder, but it’s what Jensen calls the frazzled confusion most of us feel day-to-day as a result … Read More
The Benefits of a Six-Day Water Fast – GQ “On my second day of fasting, I wake up at 4 A.M. in an unforgiving mood. Rise and do not shine. Rise and moan. It’s dark and cold. Once you take digestion out of the equation, you save tremendous energy, which … Read More
Enter The Quiet Zone: Where Cell Service, Wi-Fi Are Banned – NPR “There are no physical signs you’ve entered the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square-mile area that covers the eastern half of West Virginia. But the silence gives you a signal. Somewhere around the Virginia-West Virginia state line, the periodic … Read More
Mila Kunis, Jennifer Lawrence, and the Delicate Formula For Becoming America’s Best Friend – Vulture We love Mila Kunis when she talks to an awkward British guy, and Jennifer Lawrence when she kicks ass at the Oscars, but why? What Happened When Humans Met an Alien Intelligence? Sex Happened. – … Read More
Trying to hide income? Maybe just pay the taxman. The US wants it’s income tax, and it’ll attack every bank in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Barbados, the Bahamas and Singapore until they get it. [The pain tax havens are feeling, from NPR]
