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PsyBlog

How To Make Your Brain Think Faster Under Stress - How to get your brain to run more efficiently under stress. • Try one of PsyBlog's ebooks, all written by Dr Jeremy Dean: - Activate: How To Find Joy ...
5 minutes ago
Gizmodo

Man In a Vegetative State for 15 Years Stirs After Brain Stimulation—But He's Not Awake Yet - Reviving unresponsive patients has long been a dream of humanity, and an oft-talked about part of the human condition. Maybe you’ve cried along with the ...
19 minutes ago
RealClearMarkets - Articles

NFL Players Have Seemingly Forgotten That Injustice Is a Relative Concept - The number is thankfully in decline, but as of 2010 over 2 billion of the worlds inhabitants had never flipped on a light switch. In the U.S. we understand...
26 minutes ago
Slate Magazine

What’s Behind Dan Rather’s Wild Popularity? - Dan Rather was the folksy face of *CBS Evening News* for 24 years famous for his arresting turns of phrase and affability. He left the network in 2006 in...
51 minutes ago
NYT > Home Page

Coaches at Major N.C.A.A. Basketball Programs Face Bribery Charges - A criminal complaint filed in Manhattan charged that several coaches used their positions to solicit and obtain bribes from a financial adviser and busines...
1 hour ago
Jalopnik

Could Evaporating Water Be the Next Big Thing in Renewable Energy? - Each day, our Sun pours its energy down onto the Earth’s surface, turning vast expanses of open water into vapor. New research shows the surprising degre...
1 hour ago
Wired Top Stories

The 10 Best Comedies You Can Stream Right Now, From 'Spinal Tap' to 'Superbad' - Fire up the Roku.
2 hours ago
Talking Points Memo

Germany's Election Results are Troubling -- and It's not just the Rise of the Right - The German election, like the earlier election in the United Kingdom, leaves the country without a clear direction or mandate. Most of the post-election ...
2 hours ago
NYT > Paul Krugman

Trapped by Their Own Lies - Why Republicans can win, but can’t govern.
1 day ago
New Scientist - Online News

The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name - Spanish speakers use the word “grima” to describe the feeling when a knife scratches a plate. Now it seems English-speakers react in the same way
6 months ago
Retro Thing

Turn Your Old Tube Television Into A Smart TV - The Toshiba Childcrusher 100 XL I'd like you to meet my new bedroom TV. It's not fancy and it's not a flat screen, but I'm ecstatically pleased to save it ...
10 months ago
Gawker

How Things Work - Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an ...
1 year ago
The Onion

Mom Has Stacked Dinner Party Roster - GOLDEN, CO—Their eyes widening in amazement as the 43-year-old rattled off the names of heavy hitter after heavy hitter, impressed members of the Dreesh...
1 year ago
Bits

Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India - In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief ha...
1 year ago
Boston.com -- Red Sox News

Rusney Castillo call-up could jump-start struggling Red Sox offense - Rusney Castillo alone won’t be the answer, but the highly-touted Cuban phenom could be a part of the solution.
2 years ago
The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

A Kick to the Nuts of My Feet - Oh no, there's a hole in my socks. And not just a hole in any socks, but in my good orange and black "LIVE FREE OR DIE" socks that I kind of think give me ...
6 years ago
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