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30 Year Study – Happy People Socialize, Unhappy People Watch TV
A University of Maryland study of 30 years worth of national data confirmed that watching television may provide temporary pleasure, but lead to long-term depression while socializing with friends and reading lead to longer term happiness. The study also found a direct correlation between watching TV and times of economic crisis (e.g. now), with many people [...]
Continue reading...Handling Self Doubt and Battling Inactivity
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
About a month ago I wrote a piece about “Chronic Underachievement” and yesterday the CEO of OpenRain wrote an article about “Handling Self Doubt” that touched on 3 excellent points I skipped over completely and still struggle with today, more specifically: Criticism is a good thing (it means people care) Self-Doubt can cause you to freeze in [...]
Continue reading...Are You a Chronic Almost-Achiever or a 95% Kind of Person?
Friday, July 18, 2008
Introduction The purpose of this post is to take a look at a phenomenon I saw in my life and I think some of you might see in yours: chronic almost-achievement. The ability to give every task 95%, but avoid giving anything 100% like the plague for fear of failure and self-disappointment. Outline What’s a 95%-er? Why is 95% Bad? Why [...]
Continue reading...Sweden Processing Sewage Into (Methane) Biogas
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sweden is currently leading the charge in processing sewage, using bacteria, into methane gas that is captured from sewage processing facilities and delivered into the natural-gas grid to filling stations that biogas-enabled cars can use to fill. While other European countries are also on the biogas bandwagon, there are huge commercial backers to the ethanol [...]
Continue reading...Playing Games (for 10mins) at Work Increases Productivity
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Caught the results of a new report (issued by PopCap) that taking breaks and playing games for 10mins at work increases productivity (and no, World of Warcraft doesn’t count): A new report published today reveals that the current trend towards banning personal internet use in the workplace could be costing British businesses up to £4 billion [...]
Continue reading...Diet Coke Drops DNA-Damaging Additive
Monday, May 26, 2008
Coca-Cola has announced that it will be discontinuing the use of Sodium benzoate (AKA E211) in it’s Diet Coke drink. Sodium benzoate has been used to to stop carbonated drinks from moulding but research has also linked it to DNA-damage (leading to cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson’s disease) and hyperactivity (A.D.D.) in young children. It seems [...]
Continue reading...McDonald’s Dumps Trans-Fat Oil
Saturday, May 24, 2008
I shouldn’t be so happy about this, but loving McDonald’s fries, along with 2/3rds of the world, it was nice to see that McD’s has finally decided to drop the trans-fat induced oil they were using to make fries. I seriously think that just extended the American lifespan by 5 years collective across our entire population. I [...]
Continue reading...Neoplastic Tumors: 1 More Reason to Set Fire to Yourself
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Continuing with our trend of posting “something disgusting Jens Eckels sent us” here’s a shot of today’s goodies… Neoplastic Tumors. Neoplastic Tumors are an excellent reason to fucking stuff your hands in acid… they are also a great reason to cover your hands in sterno and set them the fuck on fire… I’ve also decided that [...]
Continue reading...Completed Antidepressant Study Suggests No Benefit
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The PLoS Medicine Journal has published a piece of work that suggests when all of the study data from antidepressants is considered and not just the positive material that was submitted to the FDA for approval, the real-world benefits of antidepressants are no better than a placebo, showing a barely measurable change of 1 or [...]
Continue reading...I Eat Good
Sunday, February 17, 2008
So… I ate this today for lunch: I’m on a new training plan… I’m upping my carbs… boosting my amino acids… tweaking with my reps… keeping those sets strong… got my intake manifold carbureted… you know, all that exercise stuff that weight lifters do. I’m doing it… pretty much got it all tied up now. I’m up [...]
Continue reading...Aspartame Rat Experiment Prooves Dangers
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Grant Gochnauer, more or less the obsessive pinnacle of health, sent over a link to a site that represents Victoria Inness-Brown personal experiment with 108 rats over a 2 year and 8 month period, studying the effects of aspartame in them. The photo above was one of the rats in the study that had a [...]
Continue reading...JobVent: Vent About Your Employer
Friday, February 15, 2008
I ran across this site by way of one of our users. A while ago I made a post about how Progressive Auto Insurance offered to plant a tree in my name if I chose to go paperless with them. Well s2tigger replied to that post with a link over to the Venting page for Progressive [...]
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