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Science is meant to make people uncomfortable. " It is hard to know how our future descendants will regard the little sliver of history that we live in. It is hard to know what events will seem important to them, what the narrative of now will look like to the twenty-fifth century mind. The end of capitalism has begun. The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above.
For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism. The force would be applied by the working class, either at the ballot box or on the barricades. The lever would be the state. When Upward Mobility Becomes a Health Hazard. Denying instant gratification in deference to long-term goals is virtuous, people tell me.
Those people might be right. Psychologists call it self-regulation or self-control. And together with conscientiousness, it’s at least a trait (or a coping mechanism) that’s reasonably good at predicting a young person’s future. People with less self-control are more likely to end up where the world tells them to go. Kafka’s Metamorphosis: 100 thoughts for 100 years. 1.
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It was based on the cost of food in 1963, mostly because the Department of Agriculture had some idea of what a basic grocery budget should look like, whereas there wasn't any real agreement on what families needed to spend on other essentials. Since then, it's mostly just been adjusted for inflation. Our Measures of the Economy Don’t Work. American economic productivity is stagnating, or even falling—unless, that is, you’re in Silicon Valley.
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Silicon Valley’s rejection of conventional wisdom about a productivity crisis: Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who studies differences in productivity across companies and countries, says the idea of a productivity slowdown seems ridiculous to technologists [in Silicon Valley.] “You can’t be in the Valley without thinking we’re in the middle of a productivity explosion,” Mr. Bloom says. […]In fact, Silicon Valley seems the exception to the larger U.S. economy.
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Spreading out across an island at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, it’s a town of close to 1.7 million people in which Old World elegance and New World dynamism, French and English, and art and commerce (Air Canada and Bombardier are among the companies based here) exist side-by-side, sometimes blending into something entirely new. The city that has given the world an eclectic sound track that includes Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire and the Wainwright family hums with creative energy.
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There are reasons we have these affections for machines, even fictional ones. The Teen Brain “Shuts Down” When It Hears Mom’s Criticism. We all know that teen-parent relations can be a tricky business. Now neuroscientists from several leading US universities think they’ve found some new brain evidence that helps explain why.
The group from the Universities of Pittsburgh, California-Berkeley and Harvard, and led by Kyung Hwa Lee, invited 32 healthy pre-teens and teens – average age 14 and including 22 girls – into their brain imaging lab. The adolescents lay in the scanner as they listened to two 30-second clips of their own mother criticizing them. Here’s a sample: 5 Amazing Health Benefits of Cinnamon. Cinnamon is one of my feel-good foods. The scent reminds me of fall, my favorite time of year, and brings back memories of making apple pies with my mom, and celebrating the holidays.
While I’ve always been a fan of its flavor and aroma, as a nutritionist, I’m also thrilled to spread the news about cinnamon’s health benefits. For example, one teaspoon of cinnamon packs as much antioxidant potency as a half cup of blueberries, and cinnamon’s natural antimicrobial properties have been shown to fight strains of E. coli, as well as Candida yeast. Also, while technically not sweet, “sweet spices” like cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger have been shown to boost satiety and mimic sweetness, which allows you to cut back on sugar in nearly anything, from your morning cup of joe to a batch of homemade muffins.
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