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Finish Reading Financial. Finish Reading Random. Google will always do evil. Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in GDPR lawsuits. Gizmodo. Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI. Microsoft, IBM Facial Analyses Struggle With Race and Gender. How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us. Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions. Why South Asia’s majorities act like persecuted minorities - Banyan. Colorado Just Released Its Legal Marijuana Data - Guess Which Profession Attracts The Most Stoners? As legalization of marijuana – either completely or for medical use – spreads across the United States, the government is understandably trying to keep track of what impact it has on society, if any at all.

Colorado Just Released Its Legal Marijuana Data - Guess Which Profession Attracts The Most Stoners?

The state of Colorado, in which it is legal to smoke pot, has just released its latest survey results on smoking habits, including the most stoned occupation. It probably won’t come as too much of a surprise that those who work in the food industry are the biggest smokers, but the results do give an interesting breakdown into how legalizing the drug has impacted Colorado. Well, it probably doesn’t take a genius to work out that the heaviest weed smoking demographic in Colorado is young white men.

They found that of the 10,169 Coloradans who were employed, 14.6 percent reported having smoked in the last 30 days. Those between the ages of 18 to 25 were most likely to smoke (29.6 percent), as were men compared to women (17.2 percent and 11.3 percent respectively). Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown. For Many Facebook Users, a ‘Last Straw’ That Led Them to Quit. Founders of an Anti-Facebook Are Won Over. The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater.

In October 2017, Charlie Paton was driving across the parched plains of northwestern Somaliland when he passed a seemingly endless queue of rumbling trucks.

The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater

How to Attain Self-Realization (a Guide to Become a Better You) Chances are, you’re busy hustling between the 40 hours a week you need to work, the family you need to provide for, and the bills that need to be paid.

How to Attain Self-Realization (a Guide to Become a Better You)

As the years pass by, you’ve begun to feel the burnout from all the needs and expectations required of you. You don’t feel like you are in control over your own life. In fact, it feels like the circumstances in your life are controlling you. What if there was a way for you to be able to have better control of your life and create all the positive changes you’ve been aching for? This can be done through self-realization.

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Finish Mental Health. Finish Business/Career. Finish ADHD. "Ewan McGregor Learned How To Cook Heroin": 22 Actors Who Went To Extreme Lengths To Prepare For A Role. Repetition Compulsion: Why Do We Repeat the Past? The Fake-News Fallacy. What is Gamification. Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person. Executive Summary Executives tend to think of employee burnout as an individual issue rather than a broader organizational challenge.

Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person

That’s a mistake. The psychological and physical problems of burned-out employees, which cost an estimated $125 billion to $190 billion a year in healthcare spending in the US, are just the most obvious impacts. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover and the loss of the most capable talent. The Misadventures of Light-Skinned Lexi: A Story About Colorist Microaggressions - Everyday Feminism.

10 Heart-Wrenching Rent Crowdfunding Campaigns Brought To You By Gentrification - Everyday Feminism. 5 Microaggressions Muslim Women Face In Feminist Circles And How To Address Them - Everyday Feminism. 9 Renters Rights Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You To Know - Everyday Feminism. Tardigrades Survive Intense Dehydration By Coating Themselves in Glass. Canine Dimensions. Attention Seeking Cartoons and Comics - funny pictures from CartoonStock. If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This. ADHD is about having broken filters on your perception.

If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This.

Normal people have a sort of mental secretary that takes the 99% of irrelevant crap that crosses their mind, and simply deletes it before they become consciously aware of it. Mental Health in the Media: Psychological Television Shows. Exclusive: Cote de Pablo Talks About Her Decision to Leave NCIS. Cote de Pablo [Spoiler Alert: Don't read this story if you don't want to know Ziva's fate!]

Exclusive: Cote de Pablo Talks About Her Decision to Leave NCIS

NCIS fans have long memories. Could Gal Gadot become the biggest Israeli superstar ever? Try to think of the most famous Israelis in history.

Could Gal Gadot become the biggest Israeli superstar ever?

Not necessarily the most consequential or “important” ones — like any number of Nobel Prize winners or behind-the-scenes Middle East peace deal negotiators — but those who are most universally recognisable. Get The Jewish News's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Slideshow: 24 Makeup and Beauty Tips For Women Over 40, 50, 60 – Front Page Weekly. The Mossad's not-so-secret agent - Arts & Culture. Yes. It’s Not as Simple as Calories in Calories out but Calories Still Count. Here’s Why. Notes from Aadam: You can download this whole post for offline viewing as a PDF for free by clicking here.

Yes. It’s Not as Simple as Calories in Calories out but Calories Still Count. Here’s Why.

The Best Fat Loss Article on the Motherfuckin’ Internet. You can download this whole post for offline viewing as a PDF for free by clicking here.

The Best Fat Loss Article on the Motherfuckin’ Internet

I appreciate this is one of those things you’d want to share with your kids so they grow up smart and not have to resort to selling protein shakes on Instagram. So, to ensure the spreading of good information, the continuity of our species, and the well-being of your children: you can read the child-friendly version here. Hack Your Memory. Imagine a fire hydrant being lifted high into the air by a large helium balloon.

Hack Your Memory

It goes higher and higher, but suddenly gas starts to leak out of the nozzle, which makes it sound like it’s trying to talk… but with a distinct lisp. Aesthetic Chills as a Universal Marker of Openness to Experience. What the Hell Is Synesthesia and Why Does Every Musician Seem to Have It? For Duke Ellington, a D note looked like dark blue burlap while a G was light blue satin. When Pharrell Williams listened to Earth, Wind & Fire as a kid, he saw burgundy or baby blue. For Kanye West, pianos are blue, snares are white, and basslines are dark brown and purple. Orange is a big one for Frank Ocean.

All of these artists—along with Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Mary J. Lorde Opens Up About How Synesthesia Helps Her Make Music. When Lorde first hit the music scene in 2013, it was obvious she wasn't your average pop star. With her edgy aesthetic and unique sound, she proved an instant hit among the masses — selling more than a million copies of her first album, "Pure Heroine," in five months — a feat only Adele had managed before her. Now she's back with her hit single "Green Light" and a new album, Melodrama, due to release in June. And considering we had the aforementioned tune on repeat for weeks, we can't wait to see what else she has in store for us. So how does she do it?

How exactly does the 20-year-old singer songwriter achieve the unique sound that's earned her legions of loyal listeners? What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t. An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an apologetic appendix, in order to explain exactly what he means by “Buddhism” and exactly what he means by “true,” while the totality of his book is an investigation into why we think there are “whys” in the world, and whether or not anything really “is.” Wright sets out to provide an unabashedly American answer to all these questions. LGBT Webcomics' disability/mental disorder - needs preview image links. Mental Illness Webcomics. A subcategory of Webcomics that explores mental illness from a personal and at times humorous perspective.

Thus giving a unique visual representation of one of the most misunderstood human maladies. Tropes in this genre include therapy, depression and various mental disorders. 21 Comics That Capture The Frustrations Of Depression. Comics and mental illness: Marbles, Swallow Me Whole, and Hyperbole and a Half. My Six Discoveries - Paul Ekman Group, LLC.

A silent protest parade in 1917 set the stage for civil rights marches. The only sounds were those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20,000 onlookers. The women and children wore all white. What Is The Silent Parade Of 1917 Google Doodle. Google Doodle Commemorates 100 Anniversary of Silent Parade. Today's Google Doodle is commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Silent Parade, a demonstration on July 28, 1917, where nearly 10,000 people marched in silence down New York's Fifth Avenue to Madison Square protesting about African-American rights in the U.S.. The demonstration was one of America's first mass protests of lynching and other anti-black violence and was led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), including leaders James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B Du Bois.

The protesters, who carried banners with slogans reading "Thou Shalt Not Kill” and “Your Hands Are Full of Blood", were demanding then-President Woodrow Wilson take legislative action to protect the civil rights of African Americans, which he had spoken about during his presidential campaign. Silent Parade: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Library of Congress. Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and Why Blacks Are the Second Amendment's Second-Class Citizens - The Atlantic. How A Police Officer Shot A Sleeping 7-Year-Old To Death. A Detroit police officer accused of manslaughter in the death of a 7-year-old girl will go on trial this week, as national attention remains focused on the militarization of U.S. law enforcement and police violence perpetrated against people of color.

Aiyana Stanley-Jones was sleeping in her home on the east side of Detroit on the night of May 16, 2010, when officers barged into the house. They were conducting a police raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address -- and being filmed for a reality TV show in the process -- when Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally fired his gun. Alternate Nostril Breathing (Nadi Shodhana Pranayama) Five Finger Exercise - Student Wellness. Touch your thumb to your index finger. Use Eastern Medicine To Trick Your Body Into Relaxing Instantly. Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation - Ageless Arts. I Faked Being Engaged for the Discounts. Here’s What Happened When Woman Faked Engagement for Discounts.

Thepennyhoarder. How to Earn $12/Hour as a Search Engine Evaluator. The Senate Health-Care Vote Is A Travesty. The Adventures of Business Cat. 24 Funny Comics Guaranteed To Brighten Your Day. Murphy's Cabin: May 2012. Time to Meet Your Grownup Man: Step 1. Sell My Car - Schedule an Appraisal Online. The 6 top questions we hear from customers about how to sell your car. Condo vs. Townhouse vs. House: Which Is Right for You? 9 Important Questions to Ask When Buying a Condo. Pros & Cons of Buying a Condo - Is It Worth It? Trulia’s Home Buying Checklist - Trulia's Blog - Real Estate 101. What is a Nervous Breakdown? Bring Back the Nervous Breakdown! Ten Things I Have Learned About Mental Illness from Jenny Lawson - Women Write About Comics.

Goodbye to MBTI, the Fad That Won't Die. Goodbye to MBTI, the Fad That Won't Die. The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bunk But I Don't Care. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. Making a Replica Discovery Combadge. Skeptability. - INFP, Introvert - personality. What avengers represent the ponies - Sugarcube Corner - MLP Forums. Leverage Your Personality Type. 11 Fun MBTI Charts: Personalty Types for Geeks.

MLP FIM MBTI Chart by MBTI-Characters on DeviantArt. MBTI, Thoughts and Apple jacks. Your Favorite Celebrities’ Personality Types, In One Helpful Chart. Elephant Robot: Marvel® Meets Myers-Briggs® Pinterest. Pinterest.