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5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation. #2.

5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation

Creating the Idea that Entertainment Has No Monetary Value If I type the phrase, "piracy hurts the entertainment industry," several hundred people will, without reading the following words, skip down to the comments and carefully explain that pirates don't actually download music or movies or games unless they weren't going to buy it anyway. Then they'll pull out some studies showing that music downloaders also buy the most music. But the bottom line is the music industry lost more than half of its sales since downloading became a thing. And, by what I'm sure some of you will say is pure coincidence, PC game sales collapsed in that exact same time period.

Photos.comI guess that's not always a bad thing. How To Treat Others: 5 Lessons From an Unknown Author. Five Lessons About How To Treat People -- Author Unknown 1.

How To Treat Others: 5 Lessons From an Unknown Author

First Important Lesson - "Know The Cleaning Lady" During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? " Surely this was some kind of joke. 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. Overhaul Your Brain. While most exercise is focused on strengthening and improving your physical body and muscles, there is very little focus on keeping your brain sharp and healthy.

Overhaul Your Brain

This is interesting because the brain is obviously the most important organ in your body, not only controlling the muscles people spend hours working to build up, but also your memory, thought process, attitude, etc. Don’t get me wrong, abs are great, but the brain needs to be supplemented too. It is far more important to your overall well-being. Top 10 Lists - Listverse. Ly and All-Time Best & Worst Lists. The 13 Sassiest Brands on Twitter Friday, Feb. 07, 2014 We enlisted social media and marketing experts to help rank the brands that tweet the best quips, digs and smackdowns 10 Great Movie and TV Sherlocks Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the legendary sleuth is the most oft-portrayed character in cinema Women Behind the Camera in 2014 Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 A report found that women were underrepresented among 2013's filmmakers — but these offerings are a chance for change in 2014.

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Listal - List the stuff you love! Movies, TV, music, games and books. Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate. If you’re a professional who likes to be intellectually stimulated and you enjoy keeping up with the latest news and breaking trends, the internet provides you with an endless choice of carefully curated sites to visit.

Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate

List of common misconceptions. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive.

List of common misconceptions

This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. Arts and culture Food and cooking Roll-style Western sushi. Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Legislation and crime Literature. Top 10 Explanations for The Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle, as we call it today, was coined by the writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964 when he wrote a cover story for Argosy magazine about the strange disappearance of Flight 19.

Also known as ‘The Devil’s Triangle’ or the ‘Isle of Devils’, the Bermuda Triangle is popularly thought to be an area in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida to one small island in Bermuda to an island in Puerto Rico. From point to point the area spans into an imaginary triangle. According to many scientists today, however, the only boundaries it truly defines are the ones between fantasy and fiction. The Bermuda Triangle is inaccurately known as a place where more ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared than anywhere else in the world, but why? Here are the top ten reasons the Bermuda Triangle has received a reputation as a possible epicenter of alien abductions, ghost ships, sea monsters, time portals, and other madness and mayhem. 10. 9. Top 10 Lists - Top Ten Lists - TopTenz.net.

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely.

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human nature. This means two things. First, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are produced not only by our individual experiences and environment in our own lifetime but also by what happened to our ancestors millions of years ago. Second, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are shared, to a large extent, by all men or women, despite seemingly large cultural differences. Human behavior is a product both of our innate human nature and of our individual experience and environment. 12 bad excuses to skip running. 10 Ways to Get Yourself Out of a Funk and Have a Better Attitude. 10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less. It usually takes us much longer to change our moods than we’d like it to take.

10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less

Here are ten things you can do in ten minutes or less that will have a positive emotional effect on you and those you love.