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A palliative nurse has recorded the top five regrets of the dying. Photograph: Montgomery Martin/Alamy
Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style
Forget the puzzles, games, and mental exercises. There's an easier way to boost your brain power.
Boost Your Brain Power: A Simple Exercise
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Couples and housework: The ironing lady
Editor’s note: Dick Talens is one of the founders of Fitocracy and an amateur competitive bodybuilder.
How I Got Ripped At 500 Startups
by Oliver Segovia | 12:05 PM January 13, 2012 Several years ago, a friend decided she wanted to follow her passion. She loved the liberal arts and academe.
To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver Segovia
Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
Mar 18th 2012 2:47PM I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.”
A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?
There’s a history here, and it’s a surprisingly political one. Friendship between the sexes was more or less unknown in traditional society. Men and women occupied different spheres, and women were regarded as inferior in any case.
On Wednesday, Dr Leanne ten Brinke, who led the study, said the findings suggested attempts to mask our emotions are likely to fail when engaging in a "consequential act of deception”.
How to spot a liar: the hint of a smile and raised eyebrows
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino. Macau sits on a horn of rocky coastline, where the Pearl River washes into the South China Sea. It’s about a third the size of Manhattan, covering a tropical peninsula and a pair of islands that look, on a map, like crumbs flaking off the mainland.
How Casinos in Macau, China Made Siu Yun Ping Rich
90+ Incredibly Useful Windows 7 Apps & Tips
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The Art Of Showing Off (Subtly)
What's the first thing you do when you get to your computer in the morning? Check your favorite Intertainment?