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Your bedroom offers a space for you to relax and unwind. Even if the extra effort it takes to create a gorgeous space seems like too much, you’ll change your tune once you walk into a peaceful room filled with things that make you feel safe. But, instead of hiring an interior designer, there are plenty of cost-effective, easy ways […]
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Most people anticipate the coming of the Holiday Season. It’s the perfect time to be reunited with our family and spend our precious time building beautiful memories with them. It’s also the perfect time where we get to relax as the daylight savings time ends and we enter the cold Winter season. As our days get shorter and the nights […]
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Baking soda is actually some pretty amazing stuff. Sure, you hardly notice it most days, sitting back there in your pantry waiting to be called upon should you happen to be doing some baking. Or perhaps you keep a box in the fridge, since you’ve heard that it’s good for absorbing food odors like that leftover fish from last night’s dinner. […]
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Target has a way of getting us to spend our money on things we didn’t know we needed. Have you ever found yourself at the checkout at Target with way more items in your cart than you planned to pick up? Do you find that your self-control plummets every time you walk into the retailer, creating a dangerous situation for […]
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An international research consortium, which included faculty members from the University of Minnesota Medical School, was able to identify what is likely an optimal combination of chest compression frequency and depth when performing CPR. The investigation was led by Sue Duval, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics at the U of M Medical School, assisted by an international team […]
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Narcissism is a topic that is increasingly spoken about in today’s Instagram obsessed age of self-promotion and vanity. There has also been a significant increase in studies and investigations into narcissism, and that too has brought narcissism far more into the public domain. Any evidence of increasing self-awareness is to be welcomed. And yet, there is a danger here, because […]
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Researchers at Aalto University analysed how listeners immerse themselves in audiobooks by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and words that the story brings to mind. The study indicated that word lists resembling each other also predicted similarities in brain function. In the study, 16 people listened to an audiobook written by Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen inside an fMRI device. After […]
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This piece is adapted from the new book The Feminine Revolution: 21 Ways to Ignite the Power of Your Femininity for a Brighter Life and a Better World ($17, amazon.com). This may seem counterintuitive in a culture that celebrates the Kardashians and made 50 Shades of Grey a bestseller, but female sexual power has always been controversial. Women who own their erotic power have, […]
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With each passing day, we sleep. It’s such a mundane activity that hardly anyone takes the time to look into the dynamics at play during naptime. Most people make plans for the next day and set their alarms to wake them after a couple of hours so they can re-do the day again, albeit, in a better fashion. Such is […]
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(HealthDay)—Your risk of vision problems increases with age, but there are things you can do to protect your sight, eye doctors say. By age 65, one in three Americans will have a vision-impairing eye disease. But early treatment of many of these conditions can slow or halt vision loss, or even restore normal vision, according to the American Academy of […]
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