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This Is Your Brain on Silence
One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making a remote and medium-sized country a world-famous tourist destination.
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One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making a remote and medium-sized country a world-famous tourist destination.
If you're like most men living and working in a techno-service economy, you probably spend a good deal of your day sitting down. You go from the kitchen table to your desk at work to your chair in front of the TV.
In Vogue's 1969 Christmas issue, Vladimir Nabokov offered some advice for teaching James Joyce's "Ulysses": "Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom's and Stephen's inter
This summer, a friend called in a state of unhappy perplexity. At age 47, after years of struggling to find security in academia, he had received tenure. Instead of feeling satisfied, however, he felt trapped. He fantasized about escape. His reaction had taken him by surprise. It made no sense.
DESPITE great strides in prevention and treatment, cancer rates remain stubbornly high and may soon surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States.
Shara Yurkiewicz is a med student. She's doing rounds now, moving from department to department. Much of what she sees, she's seeing for the first time. Not yet a doctor, there are moments, many moments when she has the eyes of a patient. She gets scared. She feels helpless. She's too involved.
Americans have become huge. Between the 1960s and the 2000s, Americans grew, on the average, an inch taller and 24 pounds heavier. The average American man today weights 194 pounds and the average woman 165 pounds.
There was a point in my life, back in 2005 and earlier, when I couldn't exercise regularly. I really wanted to, I knew I should, but I couldn't. Some of you might be in this boat today.
In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she explores the science behind why dieting not only doesn't work, but is likely to do more harm than good. She suggests ideas for how to live a less diet-obsessed life, intuitively.
Six million Americans have panic disorder. Forty million have an anxiety disorder. So, if you're struggling with anxiety, you're absolutely not alone. Knowing how others manage their anxiety can be helpful. Below are the biggest lessons individuals have learned over the years.
AS soon as the CT scan was done, I began reviewing the images. The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope.
There are a handful of junctures in life when a person's sense of purpose is prone to twinkle and fade. In unemployment or professional stagnation; in financial or romantic straits, or after the death of a loved one; and, predictably, in retirement.
We've been told over and over that eight hours constitutes a full night's rest. Our bodies tell a different story This article originally appeared on AlterNet. I've always been at odds with sleep. Starting around adolescence, morning became a special form of hell.
Why is there an obesity epidemic? It's not because we eat the wrong things or we lack exercise. Reported consumption increased by 268 calories for men and 143 calories for women between the two surveys.
Our cell phones and tablets have transformed the way we hold our bodies—and not for the better. Looking down at your device is like having a 60-pound weight on your neck, according to a spine surgeon.
Robynne Chutkan, MD, is an integrative gastroenterologist and founder of the Digestive Center for Women, just outside of Washington, D.C.
The activity of hundreds of genes was altered when people's sleep was cut to less than six hours a day for a week. Writing in the journal PNAS, the researchers said the results helped explain how poor sleep damaged health.
It was breakfast time and the people participating in a study of red meat and its consequences had hot, sizzling sirloin steaks plopped down in front of them. The researcher himself bought a George Foreman grill for the occasion, and the nurse assisting him did the cooking.
Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented sunscreen. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection—screw it up and you could get burned.
So asks Dr. David Perlmutter, in promotion of his PBS special Brain Change, coming soon to your regional affiliate. Three changes. Simple ones. Wouldn't you? The 90-minute special is a companion to Perlmutter's blockbuster book on how gluten and carbs are destroying our brains.
Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. This isn't meant as an insult, but you are physiologically lazy. So am I. So are we all.
So you want to keep an eye on the old waistline, but you hate diets. Join the club. Rather than give you recipes for yummy quinoa-kelp granola, we suggest following these simple rules, rituals, and metabolic sleights of hand.
It all started with a bet. People were naturally curious when they saw my new setup and started to bet that I wouldn't last at my new standing desk for more than three months. Trash-talking ensued and money and offers for dinner were promised.
Do you ever recount seeing them slouching or maintaining bad posture even once? Maintaining proper posture is more than just about spine or wrist health. It's a reflection of your inner feelings.
Now that the holidays are creeping around the corner, you may have to break up with your regularly scheduled sweat sessions, at least temporarily.
The brain is fundamentally a lazy piece of meat, according to neuroscientist Gregory Berns. But take the body attached to it on a brisk walk or jog and suddenly your meat-brain is lighting up like a Lite-Brite.
Exercise: most of us hate it and wish we did it more often. The key? Finding a routine that doesn't take too long but also doesn't try to pack two hours of work into four minutes, leaving you feel like you're lucky to be alive.
Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. In an eye-opening demonstration of nature's ingenuity, researchers at Princeton University recently discovered that exercise creates vibrant new brain cells — and then shuts them down when they shouldn't be in action.
Don't have an hour or even twenty minutes to exercise each day? You might not need it. This routine of 12 exercises is a complete workout based on the latest fitness research—and it only takes 7 minutes.


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Bath Borough Council will hold a workshop Oct. 28 to begin preparing the 1986 municipal budget. The session will not be public, but future sessions will be open.
During last night's council meeting, residents of Old Forge Estates voiced their concerns about a possible parking ban on Old Forge Drive.

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John Gross Jr., an often-investigated Niagara Falls, N.Y., plumbing contractor, who bought a $5,000 dog from the private kennel of Sheriff Richard Wille and his wife, testified Wednesday to the Palm Beach County grand jury hearing evidence in the Florida probe of Wille and his suspended K-9 unit leader.
Records and interviews show Gross made out the 1983 check to Wille. Wille did not disclose the sale of that dog or other dogs he sold for nearly $16,000 on constitutionally required financial disclosure forms.
Gross` wife, Phyllis, picked up the dog without meeting Wille and trained it with someone in a field near Jupiter, Gross has said. She also testified Wednesday.
The Grosses also own a home in Jupiter. Their attorney Douglas Willis of West Palm Beach said the Grosses had to pay their own way from New York because the Florida Department of Law Enforcement subpoenaed them in Palm Beach County.
Fort Pierce-based State Attorney Bruce Colton is leading the 16-month investigation of Wille and K-9 Sgt. Thomas McGinn.
Wednesday was the third and last day of the grand jury`s second session in the case. Twenty witnesses gave their secret testimony this week. In the first session March 3-7, 30 witnesses testified.
Colton said he scheduled a third session, which could last up to a week, to begin May 19. It may not be the last session, he said.
In 1976, Gross served 60 days in jail for billing taxpayers for a high-grade pipe after he installed a lower grade pipe in a Town of Niagara drainage project, according to reports in the Niagara Gazette.
Last August, he was jailed overnight for contempt of court when he refused to turn over personal documents sought by the New York state Commission of Investigation for its probe of corruption in the construction industry.


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On 22 August 2012, the Russian Federation formally joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), although the Russian WTO rules adaptation programme was not fully implemented. Russia's WTO membership drives the need for the efficient business advocacy mechanisms and vulnerable sectors protection policy. The business community should engage with the Russian Government on the vital issues of the WTO key agreements implementation affecting various sectors of the economy.
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The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH-Informatics) opened Postdoctoral Fellowships program for East African Citizens. Full fellowship details are as follows:
School: Indiana and Moi Universities/Kenya
Level:Postdoctoral Fellowships
Field(s): Health Information Technology
Deadline:15 October 2012
Funded by:The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH-Informatics)
Beneficiaries:Scholarship Open for East African citizen (Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Seychelles, or Tanzania)
A stipend will be provided for living expenses and travel to the United States and stays for 2 years.
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