You Might Not Notice When You Check In, But This Hotel Is Unlike Any Other. CBBC Newsround | TV FILM | How much is your Harry Potter book worth? Don't Date A Girl Who Travels Unless You Can Handle Letting Her Go. If anyone’s ever told you going for the well-traveled girl was the right move, they were setting you up for failure. The fact of the matter is, you should never date the girl who travels. Aside from the obvious fact that she’s seen more of the world than you have, and has experienced a lot more than you probably ever will, it’s important to remember why these types of women are no-fly zones. First off, guys, you won’t be able to keep up with her to save your life. She’s always going to be miles ahead of you — literally and figuratively.
Second, she could get up and leave you at any moment. Whenever the waves and breathtaking views of Sardinia whisper in her ear, she’s gone. Third, she’s way too comfortable with letting go. If you happen to fall in love with this rare, intriguing kind of girl, run the other way — fast. Hey, a girl’s gotta travel and nothing will get in the way of that. Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter. The news: Harry Potter's greatest feat might not have been defeating Voldemort, but teaching young people around the world to battle prejudice.
At least that's the finding of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, which claims reading the Harry Potter series significantly improved young peoples' perception of stigmatized groups like immigrants, homosexuals or refugees. The studies: The Pacific Standard broke down the three studies used in this paper. The first took 34 Italian fifth-graders and plunged them into a six-week course on Potter. The researchers began by having the students fill out a questionnaire on immigrants, and then split them into two groups which read selected passages from the series.
The students in the first group discussed prejudice and bigotry as themes in the books, while the others didn't, serving as a control group. The students in the first group showed "improved attitudes towards immigrants," but only if they identified with Potter. Tom McKay. Why Readers, Scientifically, Are The Best People To Fall In Love With. Ever finished a book? I mean, truly finished one? Cover to cover. Closed the spine with that slow awakening that comes with reentering consciousness?
You take a breath, deep from the bottom of your lungs and sit there. You’re grateful, thoughtful, pensive. Like falling in love with a stranger you will never see again, you ache with the yearning and sadness of an ended affair, but at the same time, feel satisfied. This type of reading, according to TIME magazine’s Annie Murphy Paul, is called “deep reading,” a practice that is soon to be extinct now that people are skimming more and reading less. Readers, like voicemail leavers and card writers, are now a dying breed, their numbers decreasing with every GIF list and online tabloid.
The worst part about this looming extinction is that readers are proven to be nicer and smarter than the average human, and maybe the only people worth falling in love with on this shallow hell on earth. Did you ever see your ex with a book? The Science Behind Fonts (And How They Make You Feel) I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online. The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read. Websites like Medium, Signal vs. Noise, and Zen Habits are like yoga studios for content.
Their presentation of content puts me at peace while reading, allowing me to fully focus on the stories without distraction. Just look at the difference between Medium and Cracked: Exhibit A) Medium.com Exhibit B) Cracked.com When you compare the two, it’s obvious which one makes you feel like crud. The Cracked layout is painful to look at. After experimenting with how we display content on the ooomf blog, I discovered there’s an element of science behind why we feel this way toward certain typefaces and layouts. How we read When we read, our eyes follow a natural pattern called a Scan Path. We break sentences up into scans (saccades) and pauses (fixations). 1. 2. 3. Why Traveling To The Places You've Never Heard Of Is The Only Way To Travel. Let everyone else have Paris. You have Bordeaux, Eze and Besançon. Sure, they’ve traversed the bustling streets of Madrid, but you’ve danced on tables in Albacete and eaten queso manchego in La Solana.
Yes, everyone who went abroad snuck a picture while smoking weed in a coffeeshop, but they’ve probably never been to the original Haarlem or fallen in love with the canals of Maastricht. Sure, some of your friends tried to recreate “The Hangover 2” in Bangkok, but you’ve swum through the Emerald Sea cave to find the hidden beach of Ko Mook. Traveling — anywhere — is absolutely one of the most rewarding, humbling and fantastic experiences you’ll ever have. These are the places I’ve never seen pictures of, never painted the scenes in my head as a child – these cities, towns and villages held no expectations and were all the more gorgeous for it.
There’s just something about having no expectations. Yes. It’s about feeling like a traveler welcomed by a place’s indifference to you. Travel. The European Debt Crisis Visualized: Video. 6 Things No One Ever Tells You About Living Abroad. My senior year of college, I decided I wasn’t ready to “grow up”, “settle down”, or take part in the “real world.”
I wanted to see what else the world had to offer before I settled into a 9-5 routine and became a boring old adult. At the ripe age of 21, bachelor degree in hand, I moved from suburban Connecticut to Ireland to work as an au pair for a year. It’s been six months now since I took that leap, and I’ve learned more than I could ever condense into one article. Moving to another country alone allows you to see new parts of this amazing planet, meet interesting people from all over, immerse yourself in new cultures, try new things, gain new skills, and overall better yourself as a human being. You know that, though, because there are approximately eight million online articles outlining the benefits of travel. What they always fail to mention, however, is that not every moment of your journey will be awe inspiring, life changing, Instagram-worthy magic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Google Reveals What People Really Think About Europe And Asia. Google knows what's in our souls because we ask Google the questions we're too afraid to ask anyone else. Questions like: "Why is Spain empty? " and "Why is Kazakhstan so big? " These are questions that surprisingly large numbers of people ask, apparently, about Spain and Kazakhstan, according to Google autocomplete, which reveals stereotypes about those and other countries in Europe and Asia. For the uninitiated, here's how it works: Google keeps tabs on the questions asked most often about various topics. Now here are the strange, sometimes offensive, questions people are asking about other countries. On the map below are the top questions that come up when you start to ask Google: "Why is [country name]" about Asian countries.
In Europe, as in Asia, Googlers most often want to know why some countries are poor and some are rich: I've Been Single For My Entire Life | Katie Heaney. I would like to tell you about a theory I've developed, in the past two years or so, about a certain brand of people I like to call "lighthouses. " This theory was developed after years spent in the company of one such member of the species, carefully observed in her natural habitat.
She was the prototype, basically. Her name is Rylee and she's my best friend. You might as well know that now because she's going to come up a lot. Rylee, since the time I met her seven years ago, has dated nine people. This is what I like to call being "a lighthouse. " Lighthouse people are beacons that call all the sailors in ships back to land, beckoning them in toward the light. Now, I've had it pointed out to me (by a bunch of boys who couldn't possibly understand the metaphor) that this is not how lighthouses actually "work. " I am not a lighthouse. The first time I told Rylee that she was a lighthouse, she asked me what that made me. I know that sounds like an exaggeration. Women’s cravings for chocolate begin in the womb, study suggests. New research may explain why some women would choose chocolate over sex: A woman’s passion for chocolate appears to begin before she is even born.
Italian researchers who set out to test whether female and male fetuses respond differently when their mothers eat chocolate found that female fetuses react much more strongly than males to chocolate. Cuckoo for real stuff: Benefits of cocoa for the heart are backed by history & research, just mind the milk chocolate Is chocolate actually good for you? You might have heard that dark chocolate isn’t so bad, but is it possible that eating chocolate could actually improve your health? The chocolate debate was resurrected last week when a new randomized, placebo-controlled study, published in the June edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that theobromine, the active compound in chocolate, might raise HDL (“good”) cholesterol.
Read more… The new study involved 100 pregnant women who were close to delivery. Herman and Candelaria Zapp: Couple who have been traveling the world for 13 years with their four multinational children show no signs of stopping. By Rachel Quigley Updated: 22:15 GMT, 27 March 2013 After driving their way through Africa, the Zapp family have another continent on their to do list - Europe.
For the last 13 years, Herman and Candelaria Zapp have traversed the coasts of South and North America, Asia, Australia and Africa in their 85-year-old vehicle which has also been their home. Along the way they have covered almost 200,000 miles and visited more than 40 countries. Oh and they've also had four kids - all born in different countries.
Pampa, ten, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tehue, seven, was born in Argentina, Paloma, four, is a native of Vancouver Island, Canada, and little Wallaby, three, is - obviously - from Australia. Scroll down for video Long way round: The Zapp family has grown on the journey. In Argentina: The Zapp family have covered almost 200,000 miles and visited more than 40 countries - and they've also had four kids In South America: Another one for the photo album Watch the full documentary. The Flashnificents. 37 Regrets That You Should Always Avoid. Everyone goes through life experiencing enough mistakes and resulting damage that, by the time they are old enough, they have regrets. They say hindsight is 20/20 and when you look back at your life you will know what moments you should have changed.
However, we want to help you out. Forget hindsight. We’ve compiled a list of the 37 things you must not do or else you will definitely regret them at the end of your life. Just read through these and trust us. 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) Flickr / rocketboom 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) 16.) 17.) 18.) 19.) 20.) 21.) 22.) 23.) 24.) 25.) 26.) 27.) 28.) 29.) 30.) 31.) 32.) 33.) 34.) 35.) 36.) 37.) It’s never too late to change your life, so start by avoiding these things. You won’t regret it. This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me. The Most Important Key To Getting Views Has Nothing To Do With Your Content I write headlines for a living—and I love it. I love nimble phrasing and trying to understand what will emotionally resonate with readers. I’m a firm believer that in today’s digital world of abundant content and curated feeds, headlines are the single most powerful tool for the modern publisher.
(Insert Spiderman quote here.) But I’m worried that in a culture where the headline is often the sole determinant of whether something is worth our time, people like me are abusing this power. Let me show you how. This Event in 2006 Made Headlines Matter More Than Ever (See what I did there. In the last few decades, the quantity of content being produced for the web has far outpaced our capacity to consume it. Please, Tell Me What to Feel Now, as we scroll through our feeds, we are looking for signals to be inspired, for emotion, for an itch that needs to be scratched. Tl;Dr Why All This Matters So, where’s the rub? 8 | The Top 11 Crowdfunding Stories Of 2013. The crowdfunding movement continued to grow in 2013, with the sector projected to have generated $5.1 billion globally worldwide over the past year.
As crowdfunding has become more popular, the ambition of projects raising money on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo has also grown. Health and wellness products in particular have become popular on crowdfunding sites. We've seen everything from a calorie-counting food scanner to a real-life tricorder. Of course, it's difficult to gauge how well these products work until they're available, but that hasn't stopped crowdfunders from pouring money into them. Biking was another hot crowdfunding category this year, with a smart bike wheel, a series of bamboo bikes, and a cardboard bike all raising cash from interested cyclists. Here's the full list of our top crowdfunding stories for 2013: 1: Point This Magical Scanner At Your Food And It Will Count The Calories 3: A Real-Life Tricorder Is Now Available For You To Buy And Scan Yourself. The Story Behind The Famous FedEx Logo, And Why It Works. The following is an excerpt from The Laws of Subtraction by Matthew May (McGraw-Hill).
My ten-year-old daughter points out the logo on a FedEx truck every time she sees one. She’s done that without fail ever since she learned to sound out letters. But she doesn’t do that with any other logo. What’s special about the FedEx logo isn’t the vibrant colors or the bold lettering. “There’s the white arrow that no one on my gymnastics team knows about,” she’ll say.
The FedEx logo is legendary among designers. We spoke at length about visual impact, his creative process, and his story of the FedEx logo development. “It’s those kinds of stories that are the most gratifying for me, most rewarding,” he says. When Lindon graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, his very first job was with Saul Bass, the iconic Los Angeles designer perhaps best known for creating the AT&T logo. Lindon begins a design project in a fairly typical way, generating a long string of designs. How Your “Someday” List Reveals Who You Really Are And What You Really Want To Do. Once upon a time, to-do lists were simply scrawled on scraps of paper. These days, the exploding number of productivity apps means that not only can people upgrade their lists--we’re also discovering new information about the way people actually work. For instance, what happens when somebody puts an item on a “someday” list? What happens to it?
Recently, the team at Any.do, a productivity app that lets you assign tasks to Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, and Someday lists, decided to find out. They analyzed a select group of highly productive folks who logged in daily, entered action-oriented tasks, and got at least 75% of their tasks done each day. (That’s a much higher completion rate than the average person, Any.do reports). The “Someday” list items, says founder Omer Perchik, ran the gamut from planning a trip to Japan to fixing the kitchen sink. What’s so special about six weeks? We think six weeks is the window where people are the most enthusiastic about doing something. 23 Things To Do Instead Of Getting Engaged Before You’re 23 | Wander Onwards. How Netflix Reinvented HR. Why smart women go for jerks. 75 Years In The Making: Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life.
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