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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
Sites like Facebook have made it easier than ever to share mundane details of our lives with our entire networks. And yet, to the chagrin of marketing and PR agents everywhere, people are pretty reluctant to share their favourite products on Facebook. So what gives? Well, according to a new … Read More
So, you’re playing GTA V. You get to that torture scene. You torture the snot out of that guy. It’s violent, gratuitous, and makes you wonder why people didn’t complain about that scene instead of the game’s depiction of women. It also makes you wonder if you’re a bad person. … Read More
Obviously you want both a high income and good job stability, but when outside pressure hits—the economy slows down, the industry is in flux, the government is tearing up and rewriting regulations—it’s better to have job stability than a stable income in terms of preserving your workplace happiness. In a … Read More
You’re probably familiar with mob mentality—people in groups do bad things. A couple of reasons for this are well-explored: people in groups feel more anonymous, and people in groups feel a diminished sense of responsibility for what the group does. Now it’s time for a third reason: people in groups … Read More
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