background preloader

Diffusion: Unattached to the Unbeneficial and Course Corrections

Facebook Twitter

Guess What? Many Ladies Love Porn: 10 Interesting Facts About Women's Porn Habits. Photo Credit: Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock Nothing perplexes people quite like the combined topics of women and pornography.

Guess What? Many Ladies Love Porn: 10 Interesting Facts About Women's Porn Habits

Do ladies love porn or hate it? Do they hate it but still watch it? What kind of woman gets into porn? What kind of woman gets off to it? 10. This should be a resounding “doye,” or if you’re feeling emphatic, “Doyes ‘R’ Us” or “Doye Story III.” 9. According to the neuroscientists who wrote A Billion Wicked Thoughts,women do not often pay for porn. 8. Porn has been around since the Paleolithic period, and yes, it was conducted on cave walls. 7. The stereotype that all female porn stars are damaged goods, come from backgrounds of abuse, and have poor self-images is finally being put to bed. How Do I Improve My Memory? University Lecture on Verbal Judo: Diffusing Conflict Through Conversation from George Doc Thompson at Columbia - University Webinars: Higher Education Videos & Online Programs For How YOU Learn University Webinars: Higher Education Videos & Online Progra.

Be Aware of These 8 Signs Of A Manipulator. While we all are manipulative to some degree, manipulators engage in set behaviors on a regular basis.

Be Aware of These 8 Signs Of A Manipulator

Manipulators use deceptive and underhanded tactics by exploiting another person for power, control, and privileges at the other person’s expense. They play on your good intentions, vulnerabilities and weaknesses in order to get what they want. Don’t be surprised if a manipulator is someone you trust or even love. When someone is clearly wronging or hurting you and you are the one feeling bad and apologizing for their wrong doings, you are being manipulated. Manipulative behaviors are learned, most often in childhood. 1. Some manipulators are highly skilled and their tactics are so subtle that it can control you for a long time before you finally figure out what’s happening. Does your partner say or do things that make you feel like you must be crazy and then tell you you’re making something out of nothing?

2. 3. 4. 750 Words - Write every day. Journal Your Way to Stress Relief - Longevity Center. Keeping a journal or diary is more than just a way to document your experiences and record your thoughts.

Journal Your Way to Stress Relief - Longevity Center

Recent research shows that journaling is an effective stress relief exercise, and people who write in a diary or other notebook reap both physical and emotional benefits, potentially increasing their longevity. One recent study published in Psychotherapy Research found that psychotherapy patients who were told to let out their emotions through expressive writing experienced greater reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms and better progress in psychotherapy when compared to a control group.

Journaling may help you reduce the amount of worrying you do, too. Another study, published in Behavior Modification, showed that expressive writing was associated with significant decreases in generalized anxiety disorder symptoms, including worry and depression. Keeping Your Stress-Relief Diary How to Start a Stress-Relief Diary. Science Says Silence Is Much More Important To Our Brains Than We Think.

In 2011, the Finnish Tourist Board ran a campaign that used silence as a marketing ‘product’.

Science Says Silence Is Much More Important To Our Brains Than We Think

They sought to entice people to visit Finland and experience the beauty of this silent land. They released a series of photographs of single figures in the nature and used the slogan “Silence, Please”. A tag line was added by Simon Anholt, an international country branding consultant, “No talking, but action.”In 2011, the Finnish Tourist Board ran a campaign that used silence as a marketing ‘product’. They sought to entice people to visit Finland and experience the beauty of this silent land. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster: Rebecca Solnit: 9780143118077: Amazon.com: Books. Amazon. Robot Check. Robot Check. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses: Eric Ries: 9780307887894: Amazon.com: Books. Amazon. Head Spins: Gene De Souza. Monday, August 3, 2009 at 2 p.m.

Head Spins: Gene De Souza

It's a Sunday evening at the local studios of WDNA, one of the only true indie radio stations in all of America. It's raining outside, an unholy alliance of torrent and drizzle, but in here there's nothing but sunshine. Brazilian sunshine, that is. As if one were on the beaches of Rio during Carnival, or in the back alleys of a Sao Paolo favela, on any given day of the long, hot year. There's a beat to this sunshine, too, a heady mix of samba, bossa nova, jazz, forro, pop, rock, reggae and what's known as MPB -- that's musica popular brasileira. For seven years now, Miami-area listeners have been able to tune in to WDNA every Sunday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for de Souza's swinging audio cocktail called Café Brasil.

Most importantly, the music is all spun with a wonder and reverence befitting its history and place in the world. The story of Café Brasil begins like all good stories -- that is, organically. Head Spins: WDNA's Frank Consola. Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4 a.m.

Head Spins: WDNA's Frank Consola

Morning rush hour in Miami is seldom anything less than utterly maddening.