Entries Tagged as 'selfhelp'

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Fasting – the ultimate diet?

Stuart and Flemming published data from the longest fast, 382 days, on an obese man in Dundee, making it into the Guinness Book of Records, after reaching a 75% WL via onlinelibrary.wiley.com “Conclusions: We can conclude that fasting is a ‘quick fix’ to achieve a substantial WL (up to 5% loss in 6 days). There is, [...]

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Jackie Evancho “Pie Jesu” ~ America’s Got Talent TOP 10

via youtube.com Holy crap!

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Quality v. Quantity « The Practice of Practice

Some research shows that the amount of time doesn’t really matter, although it does matter a little since if you spend zero hours doing something, you’re not going to get better at all. But it turns out that the number of hours practiced doesn’t really matter, it’s all about the quality of your practice. What [...]

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Passion Vs. Comfort: Do You Have to Have Fireworks to Have a Successful Relationship?

It’s not impossible to have ANY passion with comfort or ANY comfort with passion. It’s that the two don’t coexist easily. The very thing that ignites passion is friction and instability. Once again, look at your past. Passion is usually brief, intense and rocky. Comfort, on the other hand, tends to be softer and more [...]

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Sucks to be a short dude

prefer taller men, but they’re willing to relax their standards for the Ron Perelmans of the world, as revealed in a study of more than 20,000 online daters by Gunter Hitsch and Ali Hortacsu of the University of Chicago and Dan Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They found that a 5-foot-8 man was [...]

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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

How the city hurts your brain

Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced [...]

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Saturday, January 15th, 2011

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change

via slideshare.net Just learned that Stanford has a lab devoted to the study of persuasion and behavior change: http://captology.stanford.edu/ Be sure to check out some of there other stuff: http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/journal/archive/summer-2009/features/new-rul…

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Monday, December 20th, 2010

Lasting love

For unlike romance, which the stories tells us happens by chance, lasting love is something we can practice. It is an art that can be learnt. That does not leave us as victims of Cupid’s bow. If falling in love is found, the love that makes up most of your life is made. via markvernon.com

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Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Habits of Mind

Here’s the current version of the mathematical habits of mind I think are important.  I hope to explore (in varying depths) every one of these and have already shared the list with my 6th graders. via mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

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Friday, September 10th, 2010

Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree

College is overrated, he says: In most cases, what you get out of it is not worth the money, and there are cheaper and better ways to get an education. Altucher says he’s not planning to send his two daughters to college. via washingtonpost.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

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