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Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking | Science | The Observer. For years self-help gurus have preached the same simple mantra: if you want to improve your life then you need to change how you think. Force yourself to have positive thoughts and you will become happier. Visualise your dream self and you will enjoy increased success. Think like a millionaire and you will magically grow rich. In principle, this idea sounds perfectly reasonable. Take visualisation. In one study led by Lien Pham at the University of California, students were asked to spend a few moments each day visualising themselves getting a high grade in an upcoming exam.

Why should this be so? However, when it comes to change, the message is not all gloom and doom. Towards the end of the 1880s, James turned his attention to the relationship between emotion and behaviour. James hypothesised that the relationship between emotion and behaviour was a two-way street, and that behaviour can cause emotion. Take, for example, willpower. The same applies to confidence. HAPPINESS: Smile.

You Must Watch These Spectacular Chemical Reactions Because... Because They Are Bloody Fun | Gizmodo UK. Who Needs a Pharmacy When You Can Just Print-Out Your Own Drugs at Home? Transport a Load of Laundry With One Hand, No Basket Required. I don't want to be 'that asshole,' but towels were in the article (in addition to why you shouldn't be throwing towels into the same load). No, please - feel free to be that guy. Someone has to remind people around here - even the starred commenters - to read the articles before commenting once in a while. :) Not an a—hole thing to note a real detail. I take no offense.

As to not drying towels with other clothes, I totally disagree. Here's another dubious tip—take slacks out while a little damp and hang upside down (by the cuffs)—greatly minimizes wrinkles, though you'll have to get creases, if you want 'em, some other way. There Isn't a Better Way to Watch Films Than on This Floating Cinema | Gizmodo UK. Speech Jamming Gun (video) 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-treated Meat Sold for School Lunches (odd) David Allen's Five Steps to Optimizing Your Focus and Resources. Top 10 Products You Don't Need to Buy (Because You Already Have Them In Your Home) Most the stuff you mention is far from cheap. White vinegar and baking soda are food products, you can buy cleaning products that are basically the same thing for much cheaper. Rubbing alcohol is way more expensive than equivalent detergent products. And why would you want to waste fresh produce like lemons for a tiny amount of liquid when you can buy a box of citric acid for a couple of bucks with the equivalent of hundreds of lemons?

I've been doing this a long time and, sorry, but your argument really doesn't hold. Because those things aren't really so expensive as you might think. It's not like you need them on a one-to-one comparison with the cleaning products. I guarantee you, just as one example, that I can make many times the window cleaning fluid with water and white vinegar for the same cost as prepurchased. Rubbing alcohol is not more expensive than other detergent products because you use so little of it. And citric acid? Seriously. Top 10 Clever Uses for Spare Thumb Drives. Heh... Whenever I see the term "thumb drive" used, I think the person using it is probably illiterate.

It's a flash drive. There's no real reason to use a "cute" term for it, especially when the "cute" term has the same number of letters and syllables; consonants and vowels and they're in the same places (CCVCC). So there's no point to the substitution, other than to convey the message "I don't know what this thing really is so I gave it this cute name, hee hee". (It's not even USB flash drive; there are eSATA flash drives now, I hear.) The best use I got out of my 8GB Corsair Flash Voyager was using it as an Xbox 360 memory unit. My gamertag (and my wife's) lives on the flash drive, as well as 99 or 101 (I forget) Rockband "objects".

There's a far easier way to do portable apps — PortableApps.com. Ninite's a good idea, but you can run portable apps on your home computer, too. The "portable arcade" trick is cool, but you can roll it into the PortableApps thing. Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did) Store your data on someone else's computer, hope they don't do anything bad with it or decide to shut down. Stallman calls it "Careless Computing". If you put personal data in-the-cloud like future plans., trips, your current GPS location, then you should expect that data to be shared all over the world with nice people, nice companies and criminals (looking for when to rob you).

Facebook connections and twitter followers provide information about you and your friends. If they assume you are similar to your friends, then the personal information those other people enter helps them build a profile of your likes/dislikes too. If you aren't paying for the services ( ea probably $15/month or more), then you and your data are probably the product being sold. It's good to have a paranoid person around, but citations please. * [lmgtfy.com] has at least 50 story references * [lmgtfy.com] | | and another ref - [articles.cnn.com] Top 10 Repair Projects You Should Never Pay For.

Top 10 Gadgets You Should Have In Your Go Bag. My opinion is that while most of these things can be useful, they are not the kind of things to carry around at all times, here's what I think.. 10. Cable shorteners, maybe I should give it a try. Not sure about the result though. 9. Money clip. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Anyways, I still think that this article is great, even if I don't agree with everything, these ideas are not stupid at all and I did learn some new things.

Top 10 Solutions to Real Life's Most Annoying Problems. Great post, but here are my 10 Annoying Life Problems 1. Too many people are poor and homeless 2. Technology is not being used sufficiently as it could be 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Top 10 Gaming Hacks and DIY Projects. Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Although the office is supposed to be a place for productive and efficient work, that isn't always the case.

In fact, sometimes your workplace can turn into one of the least effective locations for getting things done. Instead of succumbing to reduced productivity, here are ten ways to help you create a more focused work environment. P Photo remixed from an original by StockLite (Shutterstock).P 10. Use Unusual Items to Better-Organize Your WorkspaceP I organize a large portion of my home office with the help of kitchen objects. 9. Sometimes we don't work best in an office because we're more productive in a coffee shop. 8. Working in silence all day isn't necessarily the most productive option. 7.

Your workspace isn't the only thing that requires organization. 6. Searching for items in your desk drawers obviously isn't productive if you're disorganized, but having everything in its place isn't necessarily the most efficient way to access your items. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. We may control a lot of what our body does, but sometimes it rebels—whether its with brain freeze, a gag reflex, or just plain bad vision. Here are our top 10 body hacks that give the power back to you. P 10. Easily Swallow Stubborn PillsP If you aren't very good at swallowing pills, you can try this trick to get them down: tilt your head forward instead of backward once its in your mouth. 9.

SExpand Being able to dilate your pupils at will can help you see the world differently, and there are a number of ways you can go about it—from tensing your stomach in different ways to just focusing on objects that are far away. 8. We all know that tingling feeling you get when your hand or foot goes to sleep, and how annoying it is. 7. When your body feels like its going to overheat from the scorching summer sun, you can lower your body temperature quickly using one of your body's quick cooling spots, like your wrist or the back of your knee. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. I'm usually not an insomniac, in fact, I can take naps in the afternoon/evening without affecting my sleep pattern. In my experience, pillow and mattress has very little to do with your ability to fall asleep, although it is nice to be in your own bed.

Although it's not always recommended, I would say the biggest help is that I don't have a regular sleep schedule. I have to get up at 7AM every weekday, but I sleep when I'm tired, it might be 6PM, it might be 4AM, sometimes I'll take an afternoon nap when I get home. Also, night workouts didn't seem to make a difference. While I'm sure it's better to work out earlier in the day, I used to belong to a 24-hour gym and I would go at 11PM, work out for an hour, shower, then bed, slept like a rock. Far as #6 goes. Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Six key lessons for game developers from the creator of Whale Trail.

Mills (the crazy guy with pink hair in the video above) is the founder of a mobile developer called ustwo, which you may know from familiar iOS titles such as Paper Cut and Nursery Rhymes, although it gained most of its notoriety from a little smash hit known as Whale Trail. Released back in 2011, Whale Trail became Mills’ first attempt at creating and releasing a full length game for the iOS platform, and he and his team did one hell of a job. The game was extremely well received prior to and after its launch.

It saw over 100,000 downloads in its first 25 days, and received thousands of shining reviews from its customers in the App Store. However, this story has an all too familiar end for games that rocket up through the ranks of the Top 100: like a shooting star, its sudden brilliance is beautiful yet brief, and will fade into obscurity as quickly as it arrived. The game steadily slid back down the Top 100, and landed near the 180 mark in the UK App Store. Climbing Wall House Makes You Earn a Relaxing Moment On Its Rooftop Patio | Gizmodo UK. Clothing Store Body Scanners Know Your Every Curve | Gizmodo UK. Travelling in Modern Day China Requires Cold War Era Secret Agent Skills | Gizmodo UK.

When Anti-Theft Concept Devices Were More Brutal | Gizmodo UK. Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them | Gizmodo UK. Working at Apple Is Brutally Insane and Awful | Gizmodo UK. How to Make a Bunch of Roses Using Duct Tape | Gizmodo UK. Dual SIM Holder Simore, Dual SIM Adapter 3G HSPDA CDMA. 2Phone Dual Standby SIM adapter case for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S New Version Quad Band: GSM 850 MHz - GSM 900 MHz - GSM 1800 MHz - GSM 1900 MHz Having two SIM Cards active simultaneously on your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S is no longer a dream! The 2Phone dual SIM card adapter is the only device in the world which allows to simultaneously use a micro-SIM and SIM (standard format) in the iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S users can now separate private life and professional life without having to carry two mobile phones.

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Features: Simultaneous connection. 10% of the Brain Myth. Let me state this very clearly: There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains. Let's look at the possible origins of this "10% brain use" statement and the evidence that we use all of our brain. Where Did the 10% Myth Begin? The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" (from The Energies of Men, p. 12). Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920s and 1930s that started it. The Evidence (or lack of it) Perhaps when people use the 10% brain statement, they mean that only one out of every ten nerve cells is essential or used at any one time?

Furthermore, from an evolutionary point of view, it is unlikely that larger brains would have developed if there was not an advantage. "We use 100% of our brains. " Fan death. Electric fans sold in South Korea are equipped with a "timer knob" switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes. This is perceived as a life-saving function, particularly essential for bedtime use. Fan death is death supposedly caused by sleeping in a closed room containing a running electric fan. There are no verified cases of the alleged phenomenon, but it remains a widely believed urban legend in South Korea. Origins of belief[edit] The genesis of the misconception is unclear, but fears about electric fans date almost to their introduction to Korea, with stories dating to the 1920s and 1930s warning of the risks of nausea, asphyxiation, and facial paralysis from this "new technology".[1][2] Proposed causes[edit] There are several purported explanations of how fan death happens: Hypothermia[edit] Hypothermia is abnormally low body temperature caused by inadequate thermoregulation.

Asphyxiation[edit] Actual hazard[edit] Media coverage[edit] South Korean government[edit] Dr. Dr. Freaky—This Simple Trick Lets You See the Blood Vessels In Your Eye | Gizmodo UK.

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