Top 10 Products You Don't Need to Buy (Because You Already Have Them In Your Home) Most the stuff you mention is far from cheap. White vinegar and baking soda are food products, you can buy cleaning products that are basically the same thing for much cheaper. Rubbing alcohol is way more expensive than equivalent detergent products. And why would you want to waste fresh produce like lemons for a tiny amount of liquid when you can buy a box of citric acid for a couple of bucks with the equivalent of hundreds of lemons? I've been doing this a long time and, sorry, but your argument really doesn't hold.
Because those things aren't really so expensive as you might think. It's not like you need them on a one-to-one comparison with the cleaning products. I guarantee you, just as one example, that I can make many times the window cleaning fluid with water and white vinegar for the same cost as prepurchased. Rubbing alcohol is not more expensive than other detergent products because you use so little of it. And citric acid? Seriously. Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands | The Lookout. Seasteading Institute city design (Anthony Ling) Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons. " Another tech titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in June that he would be funding the "Clock of the Long Now. " Addiction a brain disorder, not just bad behavior. WASHINGTON (AP) — Addiction isn't just about willpower. It's a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it.
"Addiction is about a lot more than people behaving badly," says Dr. Michael M. Miller of the American Society for Addiction Medicine. That's true whether it involves drugs and alcohol or gambling and compulsive eating, the doctors group said Monday. Addiction generally is described by its behavioral symptoms — the highs, the cravings, and the things people will do to achieve one and avoid the other. But two decades of neuroscience have uncovered how addiction hijacks different parts of the brain, to explain what prompts those behaviors and why they can be so hard to overcome. "The behavioral problem is a result of brain dysfunction," agrees Dr. Then there's the frustration of relapses, which doctors and families alike need to know are common for a chronic disease, Volkow says. Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity | zen habits.
By Leo Babauta This is something I’ve been wanting to write for some time — a Handbook for Life. Now, is there any handbook that can be a guide to every single person? Of course not. This is just a list of tips that I think will help many people in life — some of them common-sense tips that we often forget about. Consider this guide a reminder. It’ll also become apparent from the links in this handbook that I’ve written about this stuff before. In essence, this site is a bigger version of this handbook. How to use this handbook This handbook is not meant to be a step-by-step guide, nor should you adopt all the tips below.
Pick and choose the tips that will be most useful to you. 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity Try rising early. Vegan & vegetarian. Vegetarian. How To Find A Therapist.