The ability to learn things quickly is a tremendous asset. People who can rapidly grasp new concepts, learn and apply new and effective skills, and process new information in a short amount of time have a distinct advantage over those who struggle to learn. Is speed learning reserved for a select mi...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 12:43
- By Anthony Frank
Netflix's incredibly niche, personalised subgenres have long captivated movie nerds, from "Steamy Crime Movies from the 1970s" to "Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life". The genres, based on a complicated algorithm that uses reams of data about users' viewing habits to recommend ...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:18
- By Alex Grey
The happiest and most motivated professionals are often those who have found meaning in their work, psychological research shows. But finding a sense of purpose is easier said than done. According to a national Gallup poll, only 30 percent of professionals feel engaged at work, which leaves 70 ...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 08:21
- By James Gill
When I think of a job, I think of a task that needs to be completed – now, today, this week. Taking a step back from any job you should immediately see a start, middle, and end that you can easily define. A career, on the other hand, is a different beast altogether, it has a start...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 07:42
- By James Gill
Communicating and dealing with people can be hard for everyone at one point or another. Whether it’s work related or if it’s pleasure, it’s important to learn these psychological tricks to make things run much more smoothly. These are not to be confused with ways to maliciously manipulate othe...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 07:27
- By Issac Avila
The average sex life appears to be dwindling - and it may reflect some troubling anxieties at the heart of modern society, says Simon Copland. We live in one of the most sexually liberated times of human history. Access to new technologies over the past 40 years, whether it is the contraceptive pill...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:37
- By Alex Grey
Researchers measured the activity of neurons in people’s brains as the drugs took hold. Photograph: Suresh Muthukumaraswamy Study records what appears to be the first evidence for mind-opening state experienced by users of LSD, ketamine and psilocybin Brain scans have revealed the fir...
- Wednesday, 10 May 2017 08:37
- By Patrick Moore
What would happen if the Antarctic ice sheets melted along with the rest of the ice on Earth? Regardless of your thoughts on climate change, the world's ice is measurably melting and at a rapid pace. Given recent trends in record warm years, it's likely that melting will continue at an unprecedente...
- Wednesday, 10 May 2017 07:51
- By Grace Irwin
It seems we're all going to die fairly soon, but before that happens, we need to kill all the deer. I'll get to the deer killing in a moment, but first let me expand on our impending and unfortunate demise. FROM OUR PARTNERS: Stephen Hawking Says He Fears He Would Not Be Welcome in the United State....
- Wednesday, 10 May 2017 05:31
- By Martin Grossner
Don't wait until after you've been hired to discover a bad boss - watch for these red flags during your job interview (Photo: Shutterstock) I’ve worked for some pretty bad bosses during my career (as I’m sure you have too). Some became my boss after I was already working in the job, ...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 07:48
- By James Gill
One of the revived tardigrades even managed to reproduce. Microscopic creatures kept frozen for more than three decades have been successfully brought back to life. The 1mm long tardigrades were collected from a frozen moss sample in Antarctica in 1983, according to a new paper published...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 06:41
- By Daniel K. Henry
The last time I bought an iPad was 2012. It was a good iPad. But increasingly — especially when the iPhone 6 came out with a bigger screen — I found that my iPad started gathering dust. The bigger iPhone could do all the same things as my iPad, and as my iPad's hardware got older — it still us...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 01:56
- By Anthony Frank
A man takes anti-depression and anxiety drugs to help deal with behavioral disorders. | Chris Hondros/Getty Images If you turn on the TV for even a short amount of time, odds are you’ll be bombarded with ads for prescription and over-the-counter medications. It seems there’s a pill for ever...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 00:37
- By Alex Grey
Remember the good old days when it seemed like every new iOS feature worth knowing about leaked in the months and weeks ahead of WWDC? These days, iOS leaks are few and far in between; apparently Tim Cook made good on his promise to double down on product secrecy, the avalanche of iPhone 8 rumo...
- Monday, 08 May 2017 14:57
- By Issac Avila
Eyes may be the ‘windows to the soul,’ but depending on who’s reading them, they might tell very different stories. A new study in the UK found that women tend to be more perceptive than men when determining another person’s emotion based only on their eyes and eyebrows, especially when it c...
- Monday, 08 May 2017 08:16
- By James Gill
Consumer-grade drones have been booming in popularity in recent years. Why? Maybe because people like piloting these unmanned aerial vehicles while they still can. You know, before the drones become self-aware and enslave humanity. Until then, however, you can purchase a decent drone ...
- Sunday, 07 May 2017 17:17
- By Corey Parker
Apple will hold its 28th annual Worldwide Developers Conference in California at the M CC on June 5. when the world will get to see the next operating system from the company, then the iOS 11 which will carry the next iPhones and iPads. According to Digital Trends, in a typical fashion, A...
- Sunday, 07 May 2017 08:31
- By Bridget Miller
It does seem to be a real flavor. “Viagra” is not a flavor. Though the little diamond-shaped blue pills have a distinct color and a much-discussed (and joked about) usage, they are pills that are meant to be swallowed. Any “flavor” they have is as appealing as imaging the flavor of T...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 08:22
- By Grace Irwin
I always hear a lot of talk about whether or not following your passion is the way to choose your career path. Well, several recent studies take a different approach by suggesting that understanding your personality traits and characteristics, rather than your passion, are what is key to career fulf...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 08:10
- By Jennifer Levin
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Neuralink – which is “developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers” – is probably a bad idea. If you understa...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 06:46
- By Edna Thomas
From how to get the best seats to disgusting airplane habits to avoid, get these insider secrets to a safer, cheaper flight. We dim cabin lights at night so your eyes are adjusted to the dark if you need to find a way out. We put up tray tables at takeoff and landing so passengers next to you can es...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 05:59
- By Anthony Frank
TED talks on psychology rank as some of the most-watched and highest-rated of all-time, most likely because people are endlessly fascinated with themselves. Some of the talks deal with happiness and success, and others with memory and motivation. But all of them provide an important window in...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 02:13
- By Corey Parker
We all dream about being able to take an extended, long-term vacation. But, as wonderful as this may sound, there are a lot of logistics to work out prior to traveling. Otherwise, the experience is not going to be nearly as awesome as one may think. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have an aweso...
- Friday, 05 May 2017 15:22
- By Alex Grey
Great bosses share similar traits -- they're clear communicators, good listeners and confident decision makers, for instance -- but as many of us can attest, each bad (or just difficult-to-work-with) boss is bad in his own way. Nonetheless, some boss personality types are so recognizable that they'v...
- Friday, 05 May 2017 03:49
- By Issac Avila
There's nothing quite like the feeling of pure, ice-cold hydration. Some of us get our water for free from the tap. The rest pay for it — at the cost of roughly $100 billion a year. At that steep a price tag, you might assume buying the bottled stuff would be worth ...
- Thursday, 04 May 2017 06:13
- By Jay Harris
