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How to think faster, better on your feet - CNN.com
( Real Simple ) -- Life coach Gail Blanke went to acting school to learn to improvise in any situation. Turns out the tricks that actors use on stage can help you score a date, land a job -- or just make any conversation more engaging If you repeat what someone else says and then start next phrase with 'and' that comment can become conversation.
how to be interesting - Russel Davies
While I was at the U of O I kept going on about how the core skill of any future creative business person will be 'being interesting'. People will employ and want to work with (and want to be with) interesting people. And since I’d spent quite a lot of time telling them all the things they should stop doing I’d thought I’d try and teach something useful. Since I don't actually know anything useful I had to make something up. Which is below.
ReBoot is for sale on Amazon.com I posted a blog on my biggest life mistakes on July 20, 2008. That blog, entitled: My Five Life-Changing Mistakes and How I Moved On, has been read by over 100,000 people in over 156 countries. I have personally received over 300 emails asking me for more information. Those emails, the posts under the blog and the surprising healing power of the blog prompted me to expand the blog substantially into a book.
The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past
Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.
10 virtually instant ways to improve your life - lifehack.org
By gluing radio chips to the backs of 800 honeybees, researchers proved that Neonicotinoid pesticides interfere with their behavior. Greg Laden reports that bees exposed to the common aphid-killer "forage abnormally, have 'olfactory memory' problems, are easily disoriented and become poor learners." Fewer of them ever return to the colony. Laden observes, "One thing that strikes me as especially interesting here is that many bees don't make it back over a fairly long period of time even under normal conditions, and that some bees stay out overnight!" Another likely contributor to Colony Collapse Disorder is a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs inside a living bee.
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Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
Live Deep-Sea Exploration with the E/V Nautilus Follow along with expedition leader Bob Ballard and his crew on the exploration vessel Nautilus as they search for hydrothermal vents, underwater volcanoes, and ancient shipwrecks. Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter